Books I've Read Are Highlighted! = 27
Current Throw-Down = ???
- Achebe, Chinua - Things Fall Apart
- Agee, James - A Death in the Family
- Amis, Kingsley - Lucky Jim
- Amis, Martin - Money
- Atwood, Margaret - The Blind Assassin
- Baldwin, James - Go Tell It on the Mountain
- Barth, John - The Sot-Weed Factor
- Bellow, Saul - The Adventures of Augie March
- Bellow, Saul - Herzog
- Blume, Judy - Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
- Bowen, Elizabeth - The Death of the Heart
- Bowles, Paul - The Sheltering Sky
- Burgess, Anthony - A Clockwork Orange
- Burroughs, William - Naked Lunch
- Byatt, A.S. - Possession
- Cather, Willa - Death Comes for the Archbishop
- Chandler, Raymond - The Big Sleep
- Cheever, John - Falconer
- DeLillo, Don - White Noise
- Dick, Philip K. - Ubik
- Dickey, James - Deliverance
- Didion, Joan - Play It As It Lays
- Doctorow, E.L. - Ragtime
- Dreiser, Theodore - An American Tragedy
- Ellison, Ralph - Invisible Man
- Faulkner, William - The Sound and the Fury
- Faulkner, William - Light in August
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Great Gatsby
- Ford, Richard - The Sportswriter
- Forster, E.M. - A Passage to India
- Fowles, John - The French Lieutenant's Woman
- Franzen, Jonathan - The Corrections
- Gaddis, William - The Recognitions
- Gibson, William - Neuromancer
- Golding, William - Lord of the Flies
- Graves, Robert- I, Claudius
- Green, Henry - Loving
- Greene, Graham - The Heart of the Matter
- Greene, Graham - The Power and the Glory
- Hammett, Dashiell - Red Harvest
- Heller, Joseph - Catch-22
- Hemingway, Ernest - The Sun Also Rises
- Hurston, Zora Neale - Their Eyes Were Watching God
- Isherwood, Christopher - The Berlin Stories
- Ishiguro, Kazuo - Never Let Me Go
- Kerouac, Jack - On the Road
- Kesey, Ken - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Kosinski, Jerzy - The Painted Bird
- le Carre, John - The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
- Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird
- Lessing, Doris - The Golden Notebook
- Lewis, C.S. - The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
- Lowry, Malcolm - Under the Volcano
- Malamud, Bernard - The Assistant
- McCarthy, Cormac - Blood Meridian
- McCullers, Carson - The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
- McEwan, Ian - Atonement
- Miller, Henry - Tropic of Cancer
- Mitchell, Margaret - Gone With the Wind
- Moore, Alan & Gibbons, Dave - Watchmen
- Morrison, Toni - Beloved
- Murdoch, Iris - Under the Net
- Nabokov, Vladimir - Lolita
- Nabokov, Vladimir - Pale Fire
- Naipaul, V.S. - A House for Mr. Biswas
- O'Brien, Flann - At Swim - Two Birds
- O'Hara, John - Appointment in Samarra
- Orwell, George - 1984
- Orwell, George - Animal Farm
- Percy, Walker - The Moviegoer
- Powell, Anthony - A Dance to the Music of Time
- Pynchon, Thomas - The Crying of Lot 49
- Pynchon, Thomas - Gravity's Rainbow
- Rhys, Jean - Wide Sargasso Sea
- Robinson, Marilynne - Housekeeping
- Roth, Henry - Call It Sleep
- Roth, Philip - American Pastoral
- Roth, Philip - Portnoy's Complaint
- Rushdie, Salman - Midnight's Children
- Salinger, J.D. - The Catcher in the Rye
- Smith, Zadie - White Teeth
- Spark, Muriel - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
- Stead, Christian - The Man Who Loved Children
- Steinbeck, John - The Grapes of Wrath
- Stephenson, Neal - Snow Crash
- Stone, Robert - Dog Soldiers
- Styron, William - The Confessions of Nat Turner
- Tolkien, J.R.R. - The Lord of the Rings
- Updike, John - Rabbit, Run
- Vonnegut, Kurt - Slaughterhouse-Five
- Wallace, David Foster - Infinite Jest
- Warren, Robert Penn - All the King's Men
- Waugh, Evelyn - Brideshead Revisited
- Waugh, Evelyn - A Handful of Dust
- West, Nathanael - The Day of the Locust
- Wilder, Thorton - The Bridge of San Luis Rey
- Woolf, Virginia - To the Lighthouse
- Woolf, Virginia - Mrs. Dalloway
- Wright, Richard - Native Son
- Yates, Richard - Revolutionary Road
Interesting list -- not enough classics for my taste, but then you know how I love my classics! But even the classics can disappoint. For example, if anyone ever tells you that they actually liked Moby Dick, they're lying. Either they read it and hated it, but are too pretentious to admit it, or they never read it and are too pretentious to admit that. If you somehow find someone who did read it and did actually like it, you should immediately run screaming from the room.
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