3 Lists of 10 Novels...

The Times Online has just posted three rather good lists of Novels. I offer the bare lists for your consideration...there is a bit of supporting theory at TO. 

10 Literary one-hit wonders

1. Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird
   
2. Margaret Mitchell - Gone With the Wind
   
3. Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights
   
4. J.D.Salinger - Catcher in the Rye
   
5. Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray
   
6. John Kennedy Toole - A Confederacy of Dunces
   
7. Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar
   
8. Anna Sewell - Black Beauty
   
9. Boris Pasternak - Dr Zhivago
   
10. Arundhati Roy - The God of Small Things
    

10 Cursed second novels

1. Something Happened- Joseph Heller
   
2. The Almost Moon- Alice Sebold
   
3. Barbary Shore- Norman Mailer
   
4. The Little Friend- Donna Tartt
   
5. Marabou Stork Nightmares - Irvine Welsh
   
6. Thirteen Moons - Charles Frazier
   
7. Shirley- Charlotte Bronte
   
8. Valperga- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
   
9. Walking on Glass- Iain Banks
   
10. Dead Babies by Martin Amis and That Uncertain Feeling by Kingsley Amis
    

10 Spectacular second novels

1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
   
2. Ulysses - James Joyce
   
3. Midnight's Children- Salman Rushdie
   
4. Vile Bodies - Evelyn Waugh
   
5. Oliver Twist -Charles Dickens
   
6. Girl With a Pearl Earring -Tracy Chevalier
   
7. The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing
   
8. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
   
9. The Beautiful and Damned - F.Scott Fitzgerald
   
10. The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
    

Additions? Subtractions? What the hell are they thinkings?