Via Dave:
\nIn 2005, Time magazine picked the 100 best English-language novels (1923-present). Mark the selections you have read in bold. If you liked it, add a star (*) in front of the title, if you didn\u2019t, give it a minus (-). Then, put the total number of books you\u2019ve read in the subject line.<\/i><\/p>\n
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\nThe Adventures of Augie March – Saul Bellow
\nAll the King’s Men – Robert Penn Warren
\nAmerican Pastoral – Philip Roth
\nAn American Tragedy – Theodore Dreiser
\nAnimal Farm – George Orwell
\nAppointment in Samarra – John O’Hara
\nAre You There God? It’s Me, Margaret – Judy Blume
\nThe Assistant – Bernard Malamud
\nAt Swim-Two-Birds – Flann O’Brien
\nAtonement – Ian McEwan
\nBeloved – Toni Morrison
\nThe Berlin Stories – Christopher Isherwood
\n* The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler<\/strong>
\n– The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood<\/strong>
\nBlood Meridian – Cormac McCarthy
\nBrideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
\nThe Bridge of San Luis Rey – Thornton Wilder
\nCall It Sleep – Henry Roth
\n * Catch-22 – Joseph Heller <\/strong> (Possibly the only book my dad and I have both read and talked about, and precious to me for that reason.)
\n* The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger<\/strong>
\n– A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess<\/strong> (I admire what it was doing, but I didn’t *like* it.)
\nThe Confessions of Nat Turner – William Styron
\nThe Corrections – Jonathan Franzen
\nThe Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon
\nA Dance to the Music of Time – Anthony Powell
\nThe Day of the Locust – Nathanael West
\nDeath Comes for the Archbishop – Willa Cather
\nA Death in the Family – James Agee
\nThe Death of the Heart – Elizabeth Bowen
\nDeliverance – James Dickey
\nDog Soldiers – Robert Stone
\nFalconer – John Cheever
\nThe French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles
\nThe Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing
\nGo Tell it on the Mountain – James Baldwin
\nGone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
\nThe Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
\nGravity’s Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon
\nThe Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
\nA Handful of Dust – Evelyn Waugh
\nThe Heart Is A Lonely Hunter – Carson McCullers
\nThe Heart of the Matter – Graham Greene
\nHerzog – Saul Bellow
\nHousekeeping – Marilynne Robinson
\nA House for Mr. Biswas – V.S. Naipaul
\n* I, Claudius – Robert Graves<\/strong>
\nInfinite Jest – David Foster Wallace
\nInvisible Man – Ralph Ellison
\nLight in August – William Faulkner
\n* The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe – C.S. Lewis<\/strong> (I adored all these books, even after I got to the last one and realized it was all just a religious… thing.)
\nLolita – Vladimir Nabokov
\nLord of the Flies – William Golding
\n* The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien<\/strong>
\nLoving – Henry Green
\nLucky Jim – Kingsley Amis
\nThe Man Who Loved Children – Christina Stead
\nMidnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
\nMoney – Martin Amis
\nThe Moviegoer – Walker Percy
\nMrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
\nNaked Lunch – William Burroughs
\nNative Son – Richard Wright
\n* Neuromancer – William Gibson<\/strong>
\nNever Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
\n* 1984 – George Orwell<\/strong>
\nOn the Road – Jack Kerouac
\nOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
\nThe Painted Bird – Jerzy Kosinski
\nPale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov
\nA Passage to India – E.M. Forster
\nPlay It As It Lays – Joan Didion
\nPortnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth
\nPossession – A.S. Byatt
\nThe Power and the Glory – Graham Greene
\nThe Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark
\n– Rabbit, Run – John Updike<\/strong> (It hated too strong a word? Updike is my Stephen R. Donaldson of lit fiction, for me… automatic rejection by association… entirely due to this book.)
\nRagtime – E.L. Doctorow
\nThe Recognitions – William Gaddis
\n* Red Harvest – Dashiell Hammett<\/strong>
\nRevolutionary Road – Richard Yates
\nThe Sheltering Sky – Paul Bowles
\n* Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut<\/strong>
\n* Snow Crash – Neal Stephenson<\/strong>
\nThe Sot-Weed Factor – John Barth
\nThe Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
\nThe Sportswriter – Richard Ford
\nThe Spy Who Came in From the Cold – John le Carr\u00e9
\nThe Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
\nTheir Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
\nThings Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
\nTo Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
\nTo the Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
\nTropic of Cancer – Henry Miller
\nUbik – Philip K. Dick
\nUnder the Net – Iris Murdoch
\nUnder the Volcano – Malcolm Lowry
\n– Watchmen – Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons<\/strong> (I lose geek-cred for this, but man I didn’t like that book at all<\/i>.)
\nWhite Noise – Don DeLillo
\nWhite Teeth – Zadie Smith
\nWide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys<\/p><\/blockquote>\nI think it’s telling how many of these classics I read in my pre-20 years, both as an indicator of my willingness to ready ANYTHING (not much to do in the midwest, otherwise) and how little reading I actually get done today. :P<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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