2021 Rankings

These are the rankings of the JNG students of 2017-2021

Top 20 2021

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1. William GoldingLord of the Flies (21)

1. F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Great Gatsby (21)

3. George Orwell1984 (18)

3. Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray (18)

5. Mary ShelleyFrankenstein (13)

6. J.D. SallingerThe Catcher in the Rye (11)

6. Emily BrontëWuthering Heights (11)

8. Julian BarnesThe Sense of an Ending (10)

8. Margaret AtwoodThe Handmaid’s Tale (10)

9. Ray BradburyFahrenheit 451 (9)

9. Yann MartelLife of Pi (9)

9. Daniel DefoeRobinson Crusoe (9)

10. George OrwellAnimal farm [½] (7)

10. Sally RooneyNormal People (7)

10. Graeme SimsionThe Rosie Project (7)

16. Jim CraceHarvest (6)

17. John LanchesterThe Wall (6)

18. Anthony BurgessA Clockwork Orange (5)

18. Jonathan Safran FoerExtremely Loud and Incredibly Close (5)

18. Chuck PalahniukFight Club (5)

18. Joanne GreenbergI never promised you a rose garden (5)

18. Kazuo IshiguroNever let me go (5)

18. John FowlesThe Collector (5)

18. Alice WalkerThe Color Purple (5)

18. Ernest HeminwayThe Old Man and the Sea [½] (5)

18. Paul BeattyThe Sellout (5)

18. Pat BarkerThe Silence of the Girls (5)

18. Robert Louis StevensonThe Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (5)

18. Harper LeeTo Kill a Mockingbird (5)

 

Top 25 All Times

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1. William GoldingLord of the Flies (109)

2. George Orwell1984 (107)

3. Cormac McCarthyThe Road (69)

4. F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Great Gatsby (60)

5. J.D. SallingerThe Catcher in the Rye (56)

6. Harper LeeTo Kill a Mockingbird (55)

7. John FowlesThe Collector (51)

7. Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray (51)

9. Emma Donoghue Room (50)

10. Yann MartelLife of Pi (44)

11. Jonathan Safran FoerExtremely Loud and Incredibly Close (42)

12. Mary ShelleyFrankenstein (39)

12. Khaled HosseiniThe Kite Runner (39)

14. Julian BarnesThe Sense of an Ending (37)

15. Aldous HuxleyBrave New World (28)

15. Jane AustenPride and Prejudice (28)

17. Ira LevinThe Boys form Brazil (27)

18. Anthony DoerrAll the Light we Cannot See (26)

18. Alice WalkerThe Color Purple (26)

18. Daniel DefoeRobinson Crusoe (26)

19. George OrwellAnimal farm [½] (25)

20. Jim CraceHarvest (24)

21. Emily BrontëWuthering Heights (22)

22. Kazuo IshiguroNever let me go (21)

22. Graeme SimsionThe Rosie Project (21)

23. Henry Rider HaggardKing Solomon’s Mines (19)

24. Ian McEwanAmsterdam (18)

25. Jonathan SwiftGulliver’s Travels (17)

 


Pre-modern Top 10 2021

 

1. Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray (18)

2. Mary ShelleyFrankenstein (13)

3. Emily BrontëWuthering Heights (11)

4. Robert Louis StevensonThe Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (5)

5. Jonathan SwiftGulliver’s Travels (4)

6. Daniel DefoeRobinson Crusoe (3)

7. Louisa May Alcott – Little women (3)

 

 

Pre-modern Top 15 All Times

1. Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray (51)

2. Mary ShelleyFrankenstein (39)

3. Jane AustenPride and Prejudice (28)

4. Emily BrontëWuthering Heights (22)

5. Daniel DefoeRobinson Crusoe (20)

6. Henry Rider HaggardKing Solomon’s Mines (19)

7. Jonathan SwiftGulliver’s Travels (17)

8. Bram StokerDracula (12)

8. Jane AustenEmma (12)

9. Charlotte BrontëJane Eyre (11)

9. Robert Louis StevensonThe Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (11)

10. Charles DickensOliver Twist (10)

11. Wilkie Collins The Moonstone (7)

12. Lewis Carroll – Alice in Wonderland [½] (5)

12. Joseph Conrad – Heart of Darkness (5)

13. Charles DickensGreat Expectations (4)

 


Modern Classic Top 10 2021

 

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1. William GoldingLord of the Flies (21)

1. F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Great Gatsby (21)

3. George Orwell1984 (18)

4. J.D. SallingerThe Catcher in the Rye (11)

5. Harper LeeTo Kill a Mockingbird (5)

5. John FowlesThe Collector (5)

5. Anthony BurgessA Clockwork Orange (5)

5. Alice WalkerThe Color Purple (5)

9. Ken KeseyOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

10. Aldous HuxleyBrave New World (3

 

Modern Classic Top 15 All Times

 

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1. William GoldingLord of the Flies (109)

2. George Orwell1984 (107)

3. F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Great Gatsby (60)

4. J.D. SallingerThe Catcher in the Rye (56)

5. Harper LeeTo Kill a Mockingbird (55)

6. John FowlesThe Collector (51)

7. Aldous HuxleyBrave New World (28)

8. Ira LevinThe Boys form Brazil (27)

9. Alice WalkerThe Color Purple (26)

10. Anthony BurgessA Clockwork Orange (16)

11. Ian McEwanThe Cement Garden (14)

12. Vladimir NabokovLolita (12)

13. Chaim PotokThe Chosen (11)

14. Ken KeseyOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (8)

15. Sylvia PlathThe Bell Jar (6)

15. Brian MooreLies of Silence (6)

15. Jack Kerouac – On the Road (6)

 


 

Recent Prize Winner Top 10 2019

Novels older than ten years are crossed-out and get no more additions. A new active entry is put into the “Open Option” section in the next year.

1. Julian BarnesThe Sense of an Ending (2011) (10)

2. Jim CraceHarvest (2013) (6)

2. John Lanchester- The Wall (2019) (6)

4. Paul BeattyThe Sellout (2015) (5)

4. Pat BarkerThe Silence of the Girls (2018) (5)

6. Emma DonoghueRoom (2010) (4)

7. Anthony DoerrAll the Light we Cannot See (2015) (3)

7. Ali SmithHow to be Both (2014) (3)

8. Jon McGregor Reservoir 13 (2017) (2)

 

Recent Prize Winner Top 15 All Times

Novels older than ten years (2008 and below) are crossed-out and get no more additions. An new active entry is put into the “Open Option” section in the next year.

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2. Julian BarnesThe Sense of an Ending (2011) (37)

3. Anthony DoerrAll the Light we Cannot See (2015) (26)

4. Jim CraceHarvest (2013) (24)

5. Ali SmithHow to be Both (2014) (14)

5. Paul BeattyThe Sellout (2016) (14)

7. Nathan FilerThe Shock of the Fall (2013) (10)

7. Colson WhiteheadThe Underground Railroad (2017) (10)

8. Richard FlanaganThe Narrow Road to the Deep North (2014) (8)

9. Hanya YanagiharaA Little Life (2015) (7)

10. John Lanchester- The Wall (2019) (6)

11. Pat BarkerThe Silence of the Girls (2018) (5)

12. Kate AtkinsonA God in Ruins (2015) (4)

13. Kate AtkinsonLife after Life (2013) (3)

 


 

Open Option Top 10 2021

This list contains all the novels not being part of the previous lists (modern classic, recent prize winner and pre-modern). Outdated prize winners will be put in this category.

1. Margaret AtwoodThe Handmaid’s Tale (10)

2. Yann MartelLife of Pi (9)

2. Ray BradburyFahrenheit 451 (9)

4. George OrwellAnimal farm [½] (7)

4. Graeme SimsionThe Rosie Project (7)

6. Jonathan Safran FoerExtremely Loud and Incredibly Close (5)

6. Chuck PalahniukFight Club (5)

6. Joanne GreenbergI never promised you a rose garden (5)

6. Kazuo IshiguroNever let me go (2005) (5)

6. Ernest HeminwayThe Old Man and the Sea [½] (5)

 

 

Open Option Top 15 All Times

1. Cormac McCarthyThe Road (69) (former prize winner)

2. Yann MartelLife of Pi (44)

3. Jonathan Safran FoerExtremely Loud and Incredibly Close (42)

4. Khaled HosseiniThe Kite Runner (39)

5. George OrwellAnimal farm [½] (25)

6. Kazuo IshiguroNever let me go (21)

6. Graeme SimsionThe Rosie Project (21)

8. Ian McEwanAmsterdam (18)

9. Khaled HosseiniA Thousand Splendid Suns (16)

9. Ray BradburyFahrenheit 451 (16)

11. Ernest HeminwayThe Old Man and the Sea (15)

12. Margaret AtwoodThe Handmaid’s Tale (14)

13. Joanne GreenbergI never promised you a rose garden (13)

14. J.M. CoetzeeWaiting for the Barbarians (13)

15. John SteinbeckOf Mice and Men (9)

15. Kurt VonnegutSlaughterhouse-Five (9)

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