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1: Sons & Lovers - D. H. Lawrence
2: Under the Volcano - Malcolm Lowry
3: Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
4: Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugham
5: The Rainbow - D. H. Lawrence
6. The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
7. Point Counter Point - Aldous Huxley
2: Under the Volcano - Malcolm Lowry
3: Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
4: Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugham
5: The Rainbow - D. H. Lawrence
6. The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
7. Point Counter Point - Aldous Huxley
Catch-22
To the Lighthouse
An American Tragedy
Invisible Man - Ellison
Animal Farm
Slaughterhouse Five
Tender is the Night
As I Lay Dying
Beloved
Lord of the Flies
Deliverance - Dickey
The Sun Also Rises
On the Road
The Handmaid's Tale
A Clockwork Orange
The Haunting of Hill House
Sophie's Choice
Brideshead Revisited
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
My Antonia - Cather
To the Lighthouse
An American Tragedy
Invisible Man - Ellison
Animal Farm
Slaughterhouse Five
Tender is the Night
As I Lay Dying
Beloved
Lord of the Flies
Deliverance - Dickey
The Sun Also Rises
On the Road
The Handmaid's Tale
A Clockwork Orange
The Haunting of Hill House
Sophie's Choice
Brideshead Revisited
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
My Antonia - Cather
1. Ulysses by James Joyce
2. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald - Already read
3. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Signet Classics) by James Joyce
4. Lolita, 50th Anniversary Edition by Vladimir Nabokov
5. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley - Already read
6. The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text by William Faulkner
7. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller - Already read
8. Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
9. Sons and Lovers (Modern Library Classics) by D.H. Lawrence - Already read
10. The Grapes of Wrath (20th Century Classics) by John Steinbeck - Already read
11. Under the Volcano: A Novel (Perennial Classics) by Malcolm Lowry
12. The Way of All Flesh (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) by Samuel Butler
13. 1984 (Signet Classics) by George Orwell
14. I, Claudius From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius Born 10 B.C. Murdered and Deified
A.D. 54 (Vintage International) by Robert Graves
15. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
16. An American Tragedy (Signet Classics) by Theodore Dreiser
17. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
18. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
19. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
20. Native Son by Richard Wright
21. Henderson the Rain King (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) by Saul Bellow
22. Appointment in Samarra (Vintage Open Market) by John O'Hara
23. U.S.A.: The 42nd Parallel / 1919 / The Big Money (Library of America) by John Dos Passos
24. Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
25. A Passage to India by E. M. Forster - Already read
26. The Wings of the Dove (Everymans Library, 230) by Henry James
27. The Ambassadors (Penguin Classics) by Henry James - Read for goal
28. Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
29. Studs Lonigan (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by James T. Farrell
30. The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion (Oxford World's Classics) by Ford Madox Ford
31. Animal Farm by George Orwell
32. The Golden Bowl (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics) by Henry James
33. Sister Carrie (Signet Classics) by Theodore Dreiser
34. A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
35. As I Lay Dying: The Corrected Text by William Faulkner
36. All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
37. The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Perennial Classics) by Thornton Wilder
38. Howards End (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by E. M. Forster
39. Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
40. The Heart of the Matter (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) by Graham Greene
41. Lord of the Flies by William Golding - Already read
42. Deliverance by James Dickey
43. A Dance to the Music of Time (series) by Anthony Powell
44. Point Counter Point (British Literature) by Aldous Huxley
45. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
46. The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (Oxford World's Classics) by Joseph Conrad
47. Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard (Penguin Classics) by Joseph Conrad
48. The Rainbow (Modern Library Classics) by D.H. Lawrence
49. Women in Love (Modern Library Classics)
50. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
51. The Naked and the Dead: 50th Anniversary Edition by Norman Mailer
52. Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
53. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
54. Light in August (The Corrected Text) by William Faulkner
55. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
56. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
57. Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford
58. The Age of Innocence (Modern Library Classics) by Edith Wharton
59. Zuleika Dobson (Modern Library Paperbacks) by Max Beerbohm
60. The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
61. Death Comes for the Archbishop (Vintage Classics) by Willa Cather
62. From Here to Eternity by James Jones
63. The Wapshot Chronicle (Perennial Classics) by John Cheever
64. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
65. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess - Already read
66. Of Human Bondage (Bantam Classics) by W. Somerset Maugham
67. Heart of Darkness (Hesperus Classics) by Joseph Conrad - Already read
68. Main Street (Signet Classics) by Sinclair Lewis
69. The House of Mirth (Signet Classics) by Edith Wharton
70. The Alexandria Quartet Boxed Set: Justine; Balthazar; Mountolive; Clea by Lawrence Durrell
71. A High Wind in Jamaica (New York Review Books Classics) by Richard Hughes
72. A House for Mr. Biswas by V.S. Naipaul - Already read
73. The Day of the Locust (Signet Classic) by Nathanael West
74. A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway
75. Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
76. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
77. Finnegans Wake (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) by James Joyce
78. Kim (Penguin Classics) by Rudyard Kipling - Read for goal
79. A Room with a View (Classic) by E.M. Forster - Already read
80. Brideshead Revisited (Everyman's Library) by Evelyn Waugh
81. The Adventures of Augie March (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) by Saul Bellow
82. Angle of Repose (Contemporary American Fiction) by Wallace Stegner
83. A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul
84. The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen
85. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
86. Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow
87. The Old Wives' Tale (Modern Library Classics) by Arnold Bennett
88. The Call Of The Wild (Scholastic Classics) by Jack London
89. Loving (A novel by Henry Green) by Henry Green
90. Midnight's Children (Everyman's Library) by Salman Rushdie - Already read
91. Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell
92. Ironweed: A Novel by William J. Kennedy
93. The Magus by JOHN FOWLES
94. Wide Sargasso Sea (Norton Paperback Fiction) by Jean Rhys - Already read
95. Under the Net by Iris Murdoch
96. Sophie's Choice by WILLIAM STYRON
97. The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
98. The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
99. The Ginger Man by J. P. Donleavy
100. The Magnificent Ambersons (Modern Library Classics) by Booth Tarkington
2. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald - Already read
3. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Signet Classics) by James Joyce
4. Lolita, 50th Anniversary Edition by Vladimir Nabokov
5. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley - Already read
6. The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text by William Faulkner
7. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller - Already read
8. Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
9. Sons and Lovers (Modern Library Classics) by D.H. Lawrence - Already read
10. The Grapes of Wrath (20th Century Classics) by John Steinbeck - Already read
11. Under the Volcano: A Novel (Perennial Classics) by Malcolm Lowry
12. The Way of All Flesh (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) by Samuel Butler
13. 1984 (Signet Classics) by George Orwell
14. I, Claudius From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius Born 10 B.C. Murdered and Deified
A.D. 54 (Vintage International) by Robert Graves
15. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
16. An American Tragedy (Signet Classics) by Theodore Dreiser
17. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
18. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
19. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
20. Native Son by Richard Wright
21. Henderson the Rain King (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) by Saul Bellow
22. Appointment in Samarra (Vintage Open Market) by John O'Hara
23. U.S.A.: The 42nd Parallel / 1919 / The Big Money (Library of America) by John Dos Passos
24. Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
25. A Passage to India by E. M. Forster - Already read
26. The Wings of the Dove (Everymans Library, 230) by Henry James
27. The Ambassadors (Penguin Classics) by Henry James - Read for goal
28. Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
29. Studs Lonigan (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by James T. Farrell
30. The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion (Oxford World's Classics) by Ford Madox Ford
31. Animal Farm by George Orwell
32. The Golden Bowl (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics) by Henry James
33. Sister Carrie (Signet Classics) by Theodore Dreiser
34. A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
35. As I Lay Dying: The Corrected Text by William Faulkner
36. All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
37. The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Perennial Classics) by Thornton Wilder
38. Howards End (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by E. M. Forster
39. Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
40. The Heart of the Matter (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) by Graham Greene
41. Lord of the Flies by William Golding - Already read
42. Deliverance by James Dickey
43. A Dance to the Music of Time (series) by Anthony Powell
44. Point Counter Point (British Literature) by Aldous Huxley
45. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
46. The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (Oxford World's Classics) by Joseph Conrad
47. Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard (Penguin Classics) by Joseph Conrad
48. The Rainbow (Modern Library Classics) by D.H. Lawrence
49. Women in Love (Modern Library Classics)
50. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
51. The Naked and the Dead: 50th Anniversary Edition by Norman Mailer
52. Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
53. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
54. Light in August (The Corrected Text) by William Faulkner
55. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
56. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
57. Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford
58. The Age of Innocence (Modern Library Classics) by Edith Wharton
59. Zuleika Dobson (Modern Library Paperbacks) by Max Beerbohm
60. The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
61. Death Comes for the Archbishop (Vintage Classics) by Willa Cather
62. From Here to Eternity by James Jones
63. The Wapshot Chronicle (Perennial Classics) by John Cheever
64. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
65. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess - Already read
66. Of Human Bondage (Bantam Classics) by W. Somerset Maugham
67. Heart of Darkness (Hesperus Classics) by Joseph Conrad - Already read
68. Main Street (Signet Classics) by Sinclair Lewis
69. The House of Mirth (Signet Classics) by Edith Wharton
70. The Alexandria Quartet Boxed Set: Justine; Balthazar; Mountolive; Clea by Lawrence Durrell
71. A High Wind in Jamaica (New York Review Books Classics) by Richard Hughes
72. A House for Mr. Biswas by V.S. Naipaul - Already read
73. The Day of the Locust (Signet Classic) by Nathanael West
74. A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway
75. Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
76. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
77. Finnegans Wake (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) by James Joyce
78. Kim (Penguin Classics) by Rudyard Kipling - Read for goal
79. A Room with a View (Classic) by E.M. Forster - Already read
80. Brideshead Revisited (Everyman's Library) by Evelyn Waugh
81. The Adventures of Augie March (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) by Saul Bellow
82. Angle of Repose (Contemporary American Fiction) by Wallace Stegner
83. A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul
84. The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen
85. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
86. Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow
87. The Old Wives' Tale (Modern Library Classics) by Arnold Bennett
88. The Call Of The Wild (Scholastic Classics) by Jack London
89. Loving (A novel by Henry Green) by Henry Green
90. Midnight's Children (Everyman's Library) by Salman Rushdie - Already read
91. Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell
92. Ironweed: A Novel by William J. Kennedy
93. The Magus by JOHN FOWLES
94. Wide Sargasso Sea (Norton Paperback Fiction) by Jean Rhys - Already read
95. Under the Net by Iris Murdoch
96. Sophie's Choice by WILLIAM STYRON
97. The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
98. The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
99. The Ginger Man by J. P. Donleavy
100. The Magnificent Ambersons (Modern Library Classics) by Booth Tarkington
http://www.modernlibrary.com/top-100/100-best-novels/
Done:
1. Catcher in the Rye
Done:
1. Catcher in the Rye
I've already read:
1) 1984
2) Animal Farm
3) Lord of the Flies
4) Light in August
5) Catcher in the Rye
6) A Room with a View
Want to read:
- As I Lay Dying (Faulkner)
- A Farewell to Arms (Hemingway)
- Catch 22
- Great Gatsby
- To the Lighthouse
- Slaughter House Five
- Sophie's Choice
- Brave New World
- The Grapes of Wrath
1) 1984
2) Animal Farm
3) Lord of the Flies
4) Light in August
5) Catcher in the Rye
6) A Room with a View
Want to read:
- As I Lay Dying (Faulkner)
- A Farewell to Arms (Hemingway)
- Catch 22
- Great Gatsby
- To the Lighthouse
- Slaughter House Five
- Sophie's Choice
- Brave New World
- The Grapes of Wrath
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1. ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell
2. LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding
2. LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding
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Will also read Catch-22, 1984, The Sun Also Rises, A Clockwork Orange, A Farewell to Arms, Finnegan's Wake, Pale Fire (I'm really interested in the structure. Nerd.), Brave New World, The Way of All Flesh, and The Grapes of Wrath.
1. The Great Gatsby
2. Animal Farm
3. As I Lay Dying
4. Lord of the Flies
5. On The Road
6. The Catcher in the Rye
Will ideally read Lolita, Heart of Darkness, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and Slaughterhouse-Five.
2. Animal Farm
3. As I Lay Dying
4. Lord of the Flies
5. On The Road
6. The Catcher in the Rye
Will ideally read Lolita, Heart of Darkness, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and Slaughterhouse-Five.
1. Sons and Lovers (not done)
2. Deliverance--Dickey (not done)
3. Point Counterpoint--Huxley (not done)
4. The Naked and the Dead--Mailer (not done)
5. Sophie's Choice--Styron (DONE)
6. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man--Joyce (not done)
7. Invisible Man--Ellison (not done)
8. A Handful of Dust--Waugh (DONE)
9. Pale Fire--Nabokov (not done)
10. On the Road--Kerouac (not done)
11. The Moviegoer--Percy (not done)
12. The Age of Innocence--Wharton (not done)
13. Death Comes for the Archbishop--Cather (not done)
14. The Day of the Locust--West (DONE)
15. Kim--Kipling (not done)
16. Angle of Repose--Stegner (not done)
17. Midnight's Children--Rushdie (not done)
18. The Postman Always Rings Twice--Cain (DONE)
19. The Ginger Man--Donleavy (not done)
20. The Death of the Heart--Bowen (not done)
2. Deliverance--Dickey (not done)
3. Point Counterpoint--Huxley (not done)
4. The Naked and the Dead--Mailer (not done)
5. Sophie's Choice--Styron (DONE)
6. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man--Joyce (not done)
7. Invisible Man--Ellison (not done)
8. A Handful of Dust--Waugh (DONE)
9. Pale Fire--Nabokov (not done)
10. On the Road--Kerouac (not done)
11. The Moviegoer--Percy (not done)
12. The Age of Innocence--Wharton (not done)
13. Death Comes for the Archbishop--Cather (not done)
14. The Day of the Locust--West (DONE)
15. Kim--Kipling (not done)
16. Angle of Repose--Stegner (not done)
17. Midnight's Children--Rushdie (not done)
18. The Postman Always Rings Twice--Cain (DONE)
19. The Ginger Man--Donleavy (not done)
20. The Death of the Heart--Bowen (not done)
Brave New World - done
1984 - done
Lord of the Flies - done
Starship Troopers
Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy - done
Stranger in a Strange land
V.
The Catcher in the Rye
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Handmaids Tale
1984 - done
Lord of the Flies - done
Starship Troopers
Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy - done
Stranger in a Strange land
V.
The Catcher in the Rye
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Handmaids Tale
1.George Orwell '1984'
2.Kurt Vonnegut 'Slaughterhouse-five'
3.J.D.Salinger 'The Catcher in the Rye'
4.Anthony Burgess 'A Clockwork Orange'
2.Kurt Vonnegut 'Slaughterhouse-five'
3.J.D.Salinger 'The Catcher in the Rye'
4.Anthony Burgess 'A Clockwork Orange'
I decided since it's my list and I can pretty much do whatever I want, I'll read 10 from the board's list and 10 from the reader's list. And no cheating. All of them for this task will be books I haven't read until I started this list.