If any of you have been waiting to see all the lists before placing your bets, your time has come! There’s an uneven lot of us, so here are the final three DGLM-ers and the books they really think you ought to be reading. Check out 1, 2, 3, and 4, read the below, and then tell us who said what, where our taste is impeccable, and where we’ve gone horribly astray. We’ll give you the answers later this week, so get your guesses in!

DGLM-er #9:

C.S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia

W. Somerset Maugham’s Of Human Bondage

Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials

John Fowles’s The French Lieutenant’s Woman

Margaret Atwood’s The Robber Bride

Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway

William Makepeace Thackeray’s Vanity Fair

Ian McEwan’s Atonement

Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed

Michel Faber’s The Crimson Petal & the White

Ian Pears’s An Instance of the Fingerpost

Haruki Murakami’s The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Karen Armstrong’s The Battle for God

Lawrence Durrell’s The Alexandria Quartet

Lorrie Moore’s Self Help

DGLM-er #10:

Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies

Tom Wolfe’s The Bonfire of the Vanities

Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games

Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary

J. G. Ballard’s Cocaine Nights

Francesca Lia Block’s Weetzie Bat

Michel Faber’s The Crimson Petal and the White

Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon

Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun

Margaret Atwood’s The Blind Assassin

Sam Lipsyte’s Home Land

Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger

Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities

DGLM-er #11:

Tom Perrotta’s Little Children
Elizabeth McCracken’s The Giant’s House
Annie Proulx’s The Shipping News
Frank McCourt’s Angela’s Ashes
Koren Zailckas’s Smashed
Arthur Golden’s Memoirs of a Geisha
Donna Tartt’s The Secret History
Cormac McCarthy’s The Road
Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking
John Irving’s A Prayer for Owen Meany
Ruth Reichl’s Tender at the Bone
Alice Munro’s Open Secrets
Judy Blume’s Blubber
Torey Haden’s Somebody Else’s Kids
Sloane Crosely’s I Was Told There’d Be Cake

Just in time for the weekend, here are more amazing books that we here at DGLM (well, at least one of us for each list below) stand by. Why not pick one up to read before Monday?

And if you haven’t already, don’t forget to check out Part 1 and Part 2!

DGLM-er #5:

Graham Greene’s The Quiet American
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones’s Diary
Edith Wharton’s Ethan Frome
Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince
James Frey’s A Million Little Pieces
Alice McDermott’s Child of My Heart
J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye
Mitch Albom’s The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Garth Stein’s The Art of Racing in the Rain
Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray
Tracy Chevalier’s Girl with a Pearl Earring
Jodi Picoult’s My Sister’s Keeper
Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations

DGLM-er #6:

George Orwell’s 1984
Colum McCann’s Everything in This Country Must
Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway
Evelyn Waugh’s The Loved One
Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children
Paul Muldoon’s Quoof
Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s 100 Years of Solitude
Julian Barnes’s A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters
Knut Hamsun’s Hunger
John Milton’s Paradise Lost
Philip Gourevitch’s We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
Patrick McCabe’s The Butcher Boy
Judith Guest’s Ordinary People

It’s time for great books challenge part 2! You can read all about part 1 here. As a reminder, we’ll tell you the answers at the end, so feel free to keep guessing on the first two lists as well.

So tell us, who do you think we’ve got today and which books do you love and hate from these lists? Be sure to give us your lists in the comments!

DGLM-er #3:

Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead
Leon Uris’s Exodus
James Michener’s Hawaii
George Eliot’s Silas Marner
Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women
Ernest Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls
Philip Roth’s Portnoy’s Complaint
Anita Diamant’s The Red Tent
Sue Miller’s The Good Mother
Anne Rivers Siddons’s Outer Banks
Susan Isaacs’s After All These Years
Dominick Dunne’s People Like Us
Herman Wouk’s The Winds of War


DGLM-er #4:

Lorrie Moore’s Birds of America
Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre
André Breton’s Nadja
Raymond Carver’s What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Charles Baudelaire’s Paris Spleen
Frank O’Hara’s Lunch Poems
Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five
George Orwell’s Animal Farm
Art Spiegelman’s Maus
Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited
Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series
Cintra Wilson’s Colors Insulting to Nature
Alan Moore’s The Watchmen

Around the DGLM office, great book lists generally occasion complaints that however talented so-and-so might be, surely no one enjoys reading their work. And so we’ve decided to challenge ourselves–and you–with some DGLM-generated lists of books that are truly great, but also truly lovable. We decided there’d be no picking a 500 page tome we had to slog through, but begrudgingly admit is a seminal work. We’ve got to stand by both their quality and their enjoyability.

So over the next little while we’ll be anonymously posting batches of lists generated by individuals here at DGLM, and we’re challenging you, dear readers, to guess who created those lists. So in the comments tell us who you think posted each list, which of these books you love, and which you’re amazed to discover anyone does! If you want to play along yourself, give us your own list in the comments.

Your choices are: Jane, Miriam, Michael, Stacey, Jim, Lauren, Chasya, Jessica, Alex, and–just to make things more challenging–our summer interns Stephanie and Zach. We’ll tell you the answers once we’ve posted them all.

DGLM-er #1:

Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five
Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones
Joseph Heller’s Catch-22
Joshua Ferris’s Then We Came to the End
Nicole Krauss’s The History of Love
John Irving’s A Prayer for Owen Meany
Philip Roth’s American Pastoral
Nathan Englander’s The Ministry of Special Cases
Charlotte Lennox’s The Female Quixote
Wally Lamb’s I Know This Much Is True
Art Spiegelman’s Maus
Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman’s Good Omens
Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything Is Illuminated
Audrey Niffenegger’s The Time Traveler’s Wife

DGLM-er #2:

Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried
Roald Dahl’s James and the Giant Peach
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Alan Hollinghurst’s The Line of Beauty
Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises
Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre
Joseph Heller’s Catch-22
Kurt Vonnegut’s God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
Cormac McCarthy’s The Road
Donna Tartt’s The Secret History
John Knowles’s A Separate Peace
Robert Graysmith’s Zodiac
C.S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
George Selden’s The Cricket in Times Square