Friday, December 18, 2009

The List


Books I've Read Are Highlighted!  = 27
Current Throw-Down = ???
  1. Achebe, Chinua - Things Fall Apart
  2. Agee, James - A Death in the Family
  3. Amis, Kingsley - Lucky Jim
  4. Amis, Martin - Money
  5. Atwood, Margaret - The Blind Assassin
  6. Baldwin, James - Go Tell It on the Mountain
  7. Barth, John - The Sot-Weed Factor
  8. Bellow, Saul - The Adventures of Augie March
  9. Bellow, Saul - Herzog
  10. Blume, Judy - Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
  11. Bowen, Elizabeth - The Death of the Heart
  12. Bowles, Paul - The Sheltering Sky
  13. Burgess, Anthony - A Clockwork Orange
  14. Burroughs, William - Naked Lunch
  15. Byatt, A.S. - Possession
  16. Cather, Willa - Death Comes for the Archbishop
  17. Chandler, Raymond - The Big Sleep
  18. Cheever, John - Falconer
  19. DeLillo, Don - White Noise
  20. Dick, Philip K. - Ubik
  21. Dickey, James - Deliverance
  22. Didion, Joan - Play It As It Lays
  23. Doctorow, E.L. - Ragtime
  24. Dreiser, Theodore - An American Tragedy
  25. Ellison, Ralph - Invisible Man
  26. Faulkner, William - The Sound and the Fury
  27. Faulkner, William - Light in August
  28. Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Great Gatsby
  29. Ford, Richard - The Sportswriter
  30. Forster, E.M. - A Passage to India
  31. Fowles, John - The French Lieutenant's Woman
  32. Franzen, Jonathan - The Corrections
  33. Gaddis, William - The Recognitions
  34. Gibson, William - Neuromancer
  35. Golding, William - Lord of the Flies
  36. Graves, Robert- I, Claudius
  37. Green, Henry - Loving
  38. Greene, Graham - The Heart of the Matter
  39. Greene, Graham - The Power and the Glory
  40. Hammett, Dashiell - Red Harvest
  41. Heller, Joseph - Catch-22
  42. Hemingway, Ernest - The Sun Also Rises
  43. Hurston, Zora Neale - Their Eyes Were Watching God
  44. Isherwood, Christopher - The Berlin Stories
  45. Ishiguro, Kazuo - Never Let Me Go
  46. Kerouac, Jack - On the Road
  47. Kesey, Ken - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  48. Kosinski, Jerzy - The Painted Bird
  49. le Carre, John - The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
  50. Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird
  51. Lessing, Doris - The Golden Notebook
  52. Lewis, C.S. - The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
  53. Lowry, Malcolm - Under the Volcano
  54. Malamud, Bernard - The Assistant
  55. McCarthy, Cormac - Blood Meridian
  56. McCullers, Carson - The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
  57. McEwan, Ian - Atonement
  58. Miller, Henry - Tropic of Cancer
  59. Mitchell, Margaret - Gone With the Wind
  60. Moore, Alan & Gibbons, Dave - Watchmen
  61. Morrison, Toni - Beloved
  62. Murdoch, Iris - Under the Net
  63. Nabokov, Vladimir - Lolita
  64. Nabokov, Vladimir - Pale Fire
  65. Naipaul, V.S. - A House for Mr. Biswas
  66. O'Brien, Flann - At Swim - Two Birds
  67. O'Hara, John - Appointment in Samarra
  68. Orwell, George - 1984
  69. Orwell, George - Animal Farm
  70. Percy, Walker - The Moviegoer
  71. Powell, Anthony - A Dance to the Music of Time
  72. Pynchon, Thomas - The Crying of Lot 49
  73. Pynchon, Thomas - Gravity's Rainbow
  74. Rhys, Jean - Wide Sargasso Sea
  75. Robinson, Marilynne - Housekeeping
  76. Roth, Henry - Call It Sleep
  77. Roth, Philip - American Pastoral
  78. Roth, Philip - Portnoy's Complaint
  79. Rushdie, Salman - Midnight's Children
  80. Salinger, J.D. - The Catcher in the Rye
  81. Smith, Zadie - White Teeth
  82. Spark, Muriel - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
  83. Stead, Christian - The Man Who Loved Children
  84. Steinbeck, John - The Grapes of Wrath
  85. Stephenson, Neal - Snow Crash
  86. Stone, Robert - Dog Soldiers
  87. Styron, William - The Confessions of Nat Turner
  88. Tolkien, J.R.R. - The Lord of the Rings
  89. Updike, John - Rabbit, Run
  90. Vonnegut, Kurt - Slaughterhouse-Five
  91. Wallace, David Foster - Infinite Jest
  92. Warren, Robert Penn - All the King's Men
  93. Waugh, Evelyn - Brideshead Revisited
  94. Waugh, Evelyn - A Handful of Dust
  95. West, Nathanael - The Day of the Locust
  96. Wilder, Thorton - The Bridge of San Luis Rey
  97. Woolf, Virginia - To the Lighthouse
  98. Woolf, Virginia - Mrs. Dalloway
  99. Wright, Richard - Native Son
  100. Yates, Richard - Revolutionary Road

2 comments:

  1. 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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