Sunday, January 02, 2011

Top novels

This is a LONG list! Like with my movie list - I took two top 100 lists and combined them, so there are 178 on here. Since the list of ones I've read is short, I put that list first. I'm going to attempt to read one a month from now on. It'll take me 14 years, but hey, no problem! I just read Rebecca and have Heart of Darkness ready to start this week. (Obviously these lists were created by someone who doesn't alphabetize titles properly - I'll resort those eventually!)

I've read these:

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Dune by Frank Herbert
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969), by John Fowles
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Stand by Stephen King

Books I still need to read:


1984 by George Orwell
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
A Dance to the Music of Time (1951), by Anthony Powell
A Death in the Family (1958), by James Agee
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
A Handful of Dust (1934), by Evelyn Waugh
A House for Mr. Biswas (1962), by V.S. Naipaul
A Passage to India (1924), by E.M. Forster
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
All the King's Men (1946), by Robert Penn Warren
American Pastoral (1997), by Philip Roth
An American Tragedy (1925), by Theodore Dreiser
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
Appointment in Samarra (1934), by John O'Hara
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret (1970), by Judy Blume
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
At Swim-Two-Birds (1938), by Flann O'Brien
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Brideshead Revisited (1946), by Evelyn Waugh
Call It Sleep (1935), by Henry Roth
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927), by Willa Cather
Deliverance (1970), by James Dickey
Dog Soldiers (1974), by Robert Stone
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Emma by Jane Austen
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Falconer (1977), by John Cheever
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
Go Tell it on the Mountain (1953), by James Baldwin
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Herzog (1964), by Saul Bellow
His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman
Housekeeping (1981), by Marilynne Robinson
I, Claudius (1934), by Robert Graves
Infinite Jest (1996), by David Foster Wallace
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Light in August (1932), by William Faulkner
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Loving (1945), by Henry Green
Lucky Jim (1954), by Kingsley Amis
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Midnight's Children (1981), by Salman Rushdie
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Money (1984), by Martin Amis
Mrs. Dalloway (1925), by Virginia Woolf
Naked Lunch (1959), by William Burroughs
Native Son (1940), by Richard Wright
Neuromancer (1984), by William Gibson
Never Let Me Go (2005), by Kazuo Ishiguro
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Pale Fire (1962), by Vladimir Nabokov
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Play It As It Lays (1970), by Joan Didion
Portnoy's Complaint (1969), by Philip Roth
Possession (1990), by A.S. Byatt
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Rabbit, Run (1960), by John Updike
Ragtime (1975), by E.L. Doctorow
Red Harvest (1929), by Dashiell Hammett
Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust
Revolutionary Road (1961), by Richard Yates
Siddharta by Hermann Hesse
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Snow Crash (1992), by Neal Stephenson
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
The Adventures of Augie March (1953), by Saul Bellow
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The Assistant (1957), by Bernard Malamud
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Berlin Stories (1946), by Christopher Isherwood
The Big Sleep (1939), by Raymond Chandler
The Blind Assassin (2000), by Margaret Atwood
The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927), by Thornton Wilder
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967), by William Styron
The Corrections (2001), by Jonathan Franzen
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
The Crying of Lot 49 (1966), by Thomas Pynchon
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
The Day of the Locust (1939), by Nathanael West
The Death of the Heart (1958), by Elizabeth Bowen
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
The Golden Notebook (1962), by Doris Lessing
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Heart is A Lonely Hunter (1940), by Carson McCullers
The Heart of the Matter (1948), by Graham Greene
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (1950), by C.S. Lewis
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Man Who Loved Children (1940), by Christina Stead
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
The Moviegoer (1961), by Walker Percy
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Painted Bird (1965), by Jerzy Kosinski
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
The Power and the Glory (1939), by Graham Greene
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961), by Muriel Spark
The Recognitions (1955), by William Gaddis
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Sheltering Sky (1949), by Paul Bowles
The Sot-Weed Factor (1960), by John Barth
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
The Sportswriter (1986), by Richard Ford
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (1964), by John le Carre
The Stranger by Albert Camus
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
The Trial by Franz Kafka
The Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), by Zora Neale Hurston
Things Fall Apart (1959), by Chinua Achebe
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Tropic of Cancer (1934), by Henry Miller
Ubik (1969), by Philip K. Dick
Ulysses by James Joyce
Under the Net (1954), by Iris Murdoch
Under the Volcano (1947), by Malcolm Lowry
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Watchmen (1986), by Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
Watership Down by Richard Adams
White Noise (1985), by Don DeLillo
White Teeth (2000), by Zadie Smith
Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), by Jean Rhys
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

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