Tuesday, September 26, 2006

I have marked those that I have read. I have read only 30 out of this 100. How many have you read?

Time Magazines 100 best English Language Novel from 1923 to the present

The Adventures of Augie March
Saul Bellow

All the King's Men
Robert Penn Warren

American Pastoral
Philip Roth

An American Tragedy
Theodore Dreiser

Animal Farm (Read)
George Orwell

Appointment in Samarra
John O'Hara

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
Judy Blume

The Assistant
Bernard Malamud

At Swim-Two-Birds
Flann O'Brien

Atonement
Ian McEwan

Beloved
Toni Morrison

The Berlin Stories (Read)
Christopher Isherwood

The Big Sleep
Raymond Chandler

The Blind Assassin (Read)
Margaret Atwood

Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy

Brideshead Revisited (Read)
Evelyn Waugh

The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Thornton Wilder

C - D
Call It Sleep
Henry Roth

Catch-22 (Read)
Joseph Heller

The Catcher in the Rye (Read)
J.D. Salinger

A Clockwork Orange (Read)
Anthony Burgess

The Confessions of Nat Turner
William Styron

The Corrections
Jonathan Franzen

The Crying of Lot 49
Thomas Pynchon

A Dance to the Music of Time
Anthony Powell

The Day of the Locust
Nathanael West

Death Comes for the Archbishop
Willa Cather

A Death in the Family
James Agee

The Death of the Heart
Elizabeth Bowen

Deliverance
James Dickey

Dog Soldiers
Robert Stone

F - G
Falconer
John Cheever

The French Lieutenant's Woman (Read)
John Fowles

The Golden Notebook
Doris Lessing

Go Tell it on the Mountain
James Baldwin

Gone With the Wind (Read)
Margaret Mitchell

The Grapes of Wrath (Read)
John Steinbeck

Gravity's Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon

The Great Gatsby (Read)
F. Scott Fitzgerald

H - I
A Handful of Dust
Evelyn Waugh

The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter
Carson McCullers

The Heart of the Matter
Graham Greene

Herzog
Saul Bellow

Housekeeping
Marilynne Robinson

A House for Mr. Biswas (Read)
V.S. Naipaul

I, Claudius (Read)
Robert Graves

Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace

Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison

   L - N
Light in August
William Faulkner

The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (Read)
C.S. Lewis

Lolita (Read)
Vladimir Nabokov

Lord of the Flies (Read)
William Golding

The Lord of the Rings (Read)
J.R.R. Tolkien

Loving
Henry Green

Lucky Jim (Read)
Kingsley Amis

The Man Who Loved Children
Christina Stead

Midnight's Children (Read)
Salman Rushdie

Money
Martin Amis

The Moviegoer
Walker Percy

Mrs. Dalloway (Read)
Virginia Woolf

Naked Lunch
William Burroughs

Native Son
Richard Wright

Neuromancer (Read)
William Gibson

Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro

1984 (Read)
George Orwell

O - R
On the Road (Read)
Jack Kerouac

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Read)
Ken Kesey

The Painted Bird
Jerzy Kosinski

Pale Fire
Vladimir Nabokov

A Passage to India (Read)
E.M. Forster

Play It As It Lays
Joan Didion

Portnoy's Complaint
Philip Roth

Possession
A.S. Byatt

The Power and the Glory
Graham Greene

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Muriel Spark

Rabbit, Run
John Updike

Ragtime (Read)
E.L. Doctorow

The Recognitions
William Gaddis

Red Harvest
Dashiell Hammett

Revolutionary Road
Richard Yates

S - T
The Sheltering Sky
Paul Bowles

Slaughterhouse-Five (Read)
Kurt Vonnegut

Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson

The Sot-Weed Factor
John Barth

The Sound and the Fury (Read)
William Faulkner

The Sportswriter
Richard Ford

The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (Read)
John le Carre

The Sun Also Rises (Read)
Ernest Hemingway

Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston

2 comments:

  1. ummm....only 8 of them....Sigh....

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  2. Heh, 9.

    Haven't even heard of some of the authors.

    And any list without Frank Herbert, Isaac Asimov, Arthur Clarke, Douglas Adams, Neil Gaiman, David Zindell, Philip K. Dick, Robert Heinlein, Ursula Le Guin, Roger Zelazny, James Joyce or any of the other many fantastic authors out there is just totally incomplete.

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