Time Magazine's 100 best English-language novels published since 1923: See the article here. I've read 15, marked with an X. The Adventures of Augie March All the King's Men American Pastoral An American Tragedy X Animal Farm Appointment in Samarra X Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret The Assistant At Swim-Two-Birds Atonement Beloved The Berlin Stories The Big Sleep The Blind Assassin Blood Meridian Brideshead Revisited The Bridge of San Luis Rey Call It Sleep X Catch-22 X The Catcher in the Rye A Clockwork Orange The Confessions of Nat Turner The Corrections The Crying of Lot 49 A Dance to the Music of Time The Day of the Locust Death Comes for the Archbishop A Death in the Family The Death of the Heart Deliverance Dog Soldiers Falconer The French Lieutenant's Woman The Golden Notebook Go Tell it on the Mountain Gone With the Wind X The Grapes of Wrath Gravity's Rainbow The Great Gatsby A Handful of Dust The Heart is A Lonely Hunter The Heart of the Matter Herzog Housekeeping A House for Mr. Biswas I, Claudius Infinite Jest Invisible Man Light in August X The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe Lolita Lord of the Flies The Lord of the Rings Loving The Moviegoer Lucky Jim The Man Who Loved Children Midnight's Children Money Mrs. Dalloway Naked Lunch X Native Son Neuromancer Never Let Me Go X 1984 X On the Road One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest The Painted Bird Pale Fire A Passage to India Play It As It Lays Portnoy's Complaint Possession The Power and the Glory The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie X Rabbit, Run Ragtime The Recognitions Red Harvest Revolutionary Road The Sheltering Sky Slaughterhouse Five Snow Crash The Sot-Weed Factor The Sound and the Fury The Sportswriter X The Spy Who Came in From the Cold X The Sun Also Rises X Their Eyes Were Watching God Things Fall Apart X To Kill a Mockingbird To the Lighthouse X Tropic of Cancer Ubik Under the Net Under the Volcano Watchmen White Noise White Teeth Wide Sargasso Sea
New York Times' top 100 Modern Library's Choices: They have a ranked list here. I have read 12, marked with an X. X 1984, George Orwell A Bend in the River, V. S. Naipaul A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess A Dance to the Music of Time (series), Anthony Powell X A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway A Handful of Dust, Evelyn Waugh A High Wind in Jamaica, Richard Hughes A House for Ms. Biswas, V. S. Naipaul A Passage to India, E. M. Forster A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce A Room With a View, E. M. Forster All the King's Men, Robert Penn Warren An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner X Animal Farm, George Orwell Appointment in Samarra, John O' Hara As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner Brave New World, Aldous Huxley Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh X Catch-22, Joseph Heller Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler Death Comes to the Archbishop, Willa Cather Deliverance, James Dickey Finnegans Wake, James Joyce From Here to Eternity, James Jones Go Tell It on the Mountain, James Baldwin Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad Henderson the Rain King, Saul Bellow Howards End, E. M. Forster I, Claudius, Robert Graves Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison Ironweed, William Kennedy Kim, Rudyard Kipling Light in August, William Faulkner Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov Lord Jim, Joseph Conrad Lord of the Flies, William Golding Loving, Henry Green Main Street, Sinclair Lewis Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie X Native Son, Richard Wright Nostromo, Joseph Conrad Of Human Bondage, W. Somerset Maugham X On the Road, Jack Kerouac Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov Parade's End, Ford Madox Ford Point Counter Point, Aldous Huxley Portnoy's Complaint, Philip Roth Ragtime, E. L. Doctorow Scoop, Evelyn Waugh Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut Sons and Lovers, D. H. Lawrence Sophie's Choice, William Styron Tender Is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald The Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow X The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton The Alexandria Quartet, Lawrence Durrell The Ambassadors, Henry James The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder X The Call of the Wild, Jack London X The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger The Day of the Locust, Nathaniel West The Death of the Heart, Elizabeth Bowen The Ginger Man, J. P. Donleavy The Golden Bowl, Henry James The Good Soldier, Ford Madox Ford X The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers The Heart of the Matter, Graham Greene The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton The Magnificent Ambersons, Booth Tarkington The Magus, John Fowles The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett The Moviegoer, Walker Percy The Naked and the Dead, Norman Mailer The Old Wives' Tale, Arnold Bennett The Postman Always Rings Twice, James M. Cain The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark The Rainbow, D. H. Lawrence The Secret Agent, Joseph Conrad The Sheltering Sky, Paul Bowles The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner The Studs Lonigan Trilogy, James T. Farrell X The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway The Wapshot Chronicles, John Cheever The Way of All Flesh, Samuel Butler The Wings of the Dove, Henry James To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf Tobacco Road, Erskine Caldwell X Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller U.S.A. (trilogy), John Dos Passos Ulysses, James Joyce Under the Net, Iris Murdoch Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys Winesburg, Ohio, Sherwood Anderson Women in Love, D. H. Lawrence Zuleika Dobson, Max Beerbohm
A- how many of the books that you have read would you recommend?
Of Time's books, I've read: Adventures of Augie March (not recommended) Animal Farm (don't really remember it, but don't think I liked it) The Blind Assassin (recommended) Catch-22 (fricky-fricking book) A Death in the Family (not recommended) Gone with the Wind (I have a parody book called The Wind Done Gone that I can't wait to read) The Great Gasby (recommended to me by KEN of all people!) Invisible Man (recommended) The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (I recommend the whole series and the movies were pretty good too) Lord of the Flies (awful book-not recommended) Lord of the Rings (why not The Hobbit and Fellowship of the Ring? I thought this series was okay) Midnight's Children (recommended) Native Son Slaughterhouse Five (not recommended) The Spy Who Came in from the Cold Things Fall Apart (half-heartedly recommended) To Kill a Mockingbird (whole-heartedly recommended)
The Art of Manliness 100 must-read books: The Essential Man’s Library Article with pics & brief descriptions here. I have read 26, marked with an X. X 1984, George Orwell A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole X A Farewell To Arms, Ernest Hemingway A River Runs Through It, Norman F. Maclean X A Separate Peace, John Knowles A Strenuous Life, Theodore Roosevelt X Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain X All Quiet on The Western Front, Erich Maria Remarq American Boys’ Handy Book X Animal Farm, George Orwell Another Roadside Attraction, Tom Robbins Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand Beyond Good and Evil, Freidrich Nietzsche Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West, Cormac McCarthy Bluebeard, Kurt Vonnegut Brave New World, Aldous Huxley Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky X Call of the Wild, Jack London Cannery Row, John Steinbeck X Catch-22, Joseph Heller Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky Cyrano de Bergerac, Edmond Rostand X Dharma Bums, Jack Kerouac X Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra East of Eden, John Steinbeck Essential Manners for Men, Peter Post Fear and Trembling, Soren Kierkegaard First Edition of the The Boy Scout Handbook X For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco X Frankenstein, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly From Here to Eternity, James Jones X Hamlet, Shakespeare X Hatchet, Gary Paulsen How To Win Friends And Influence People, Dale Carnegie Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer King Solomon’s Mines, H. Rider Haggard Leviathan, Thomas Hobbe Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, Plutarch Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry Lord of the Flies, William Golding X Moby Dick, Herman Melville X On the Road, Jack Kerouac Paradise Lost, John Milton X Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Dafoe Seek: Reports from the Edges of America & Beyond, Denis Johnson Self Reliance, Ralph Waldo Emerson Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut Steppenwolf, Herman Hesse Swiss Family Robinson, Johann David Wyss Tarzan of the Apes, Edgar Rice Burroughs The Art of Warfare, Sun Tzu The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin The Autobiography of Malcolm X X The Bible The Book of Deeds of Arms and of Chivalry, Christine De Pizan The Boys of Summer, Roger Kahn X The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas The Crisis, Winston Churchill The Dangerous Book for Boys, Conn and Hal Iggulden The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri The Federalist Papers The Frontier in American History, Frederick Jackson Turner X The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Railway Bazaar, Paul Theroux The Histories, Herodotus The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoevs X The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer The Island of Dr. Moreau, H.G. Wells The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara The Long Goodbye, Raymond Chandler The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett The Master and Margarita,, Mikhail Bulgakov The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka The Naked and The Dead, Norman Mailer X The Pearl, John Steinbeck X The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde The Politics, Aristotle The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli X The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane X The Republic, Plato The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, Edmund Morris The Rough Riders, Theodore Roosevelt The Stranger, Albert Camus The Thin Red Line, James Jones The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith The Young Man’s Guide, William Alcott Theodore Rex, Edmund Morris Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson X Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller Ulysses, James Joyce Undaunted Courage, Stephen Ambrose Walden, Henry David Thoreau White Noise, Don Delillo Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig
Good question M, I was thinking of that myself when reading Time's list -- I didn't think it was a very good one.
Here are my thoughts on the ones I've read: 1984, George Orwell, Highly A Farewell To Arms, Ernest Hemingway, Mediumly A Separate Peace, John Knowles, Mediumly Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain, Highly All Quiet on The Western Front, Erich Maria Remarq, Mediumly Animal Farm, George Orwell, Mediumly Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret, Highly Call of the Wild, Jack London, Highly Catch-22, Joseph Heller, Read Sparknotes Dharma Bums, Jack Kerouac, Mediumly Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Highly For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway, Mediumly Frankenstein, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly, Highly Hamlet, Shakespeare, Mediumly Hatchet, Gary Paulsen, Mediumly Moby Dick, Herman Melville, Read Sparknotes Native Son, Richard Wright, Read Sparknotes On the Road, Jack Kerouac, Highly Rabbit, Run, Read Sparknotes Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Dafoe, Mediumly The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton, Mediumly The Bible, Mediumly The Call of the Wild, Jack London, Highly The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger, Mediumly The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck, Mediumly The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, Read Sparknotes The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, Highly The Pearl, John Steinbeck, Highly The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde, Mediumly The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane, Mediumly The Republic, Plato, Read Sparknotes The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, Mediumly The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway, Mediumly Their Eyes Were Watching God, Highly To Kill a Mockingbird, Mediumly Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller, Read Sparknotes
More Magazine's Top 100 Books for Women includes poetry, short stories, non-fiction, classics. Article here. I've read 14 A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You, Amy Bloom A Day, A Night, Another Day, Summer, Christine Schutt A Round-Heeled Woman: My Late-Life Adventures in Sex and Romance, Jane Juska X A Vindication of the Rights of Women, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Amy Hempel: The Collected Stories Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy Annie John, Jamaica Kincaid Anton Chekhov: Stories Ariel, Sylvia Plath Beloved, Toni Morrison Birds of America, Lorrie Moore Brooklyn, Colm Toibin Ceremony, Leslie Marmon Silko Cry, The Beloved Country, Alan Paton Disgrace, J.M. Coetzee Dubliners, James Joyce X E.E. Cummings: Complete Poems 1904-1962 Elephant Rocks, Kay Ryan Elizabeth Bishop: The Complete Poems 1927-1979 Enormous Changes at the last minute, Grace Paley Fear of Flying, Erica Jong Flannery O’Connor: The Complete Stories X Frankenstein, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Friendly Fire, Kathryn Chetkovich Georgia O’Keeffe, Roxana Robinson Given Sugar, Given Salt, Jane Hirshfield Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell Guest of Honour, Nadine Gordimer Her Last Death, Susannah Sonnenberg Household Words, Joan Silber Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou Ida: A Sword Among Lions, Paula J. Giddings Isak Dinesen, Judith Thurman X Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte Little Women, Louisa May Alcott Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov Love in the Driest Season, Neely Tucker X Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert Manhattan, When I Was Young, Mary Cantwell Mary Oliver: New and Selected Poems Middlemarch, George Eliot Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir, Joyce Johnson Miracle Fair, Wislawa Szymborska Moon Tiger, Penelope Lively Mother Love, Rita Dove My Life in France, Julia Child My Poems, Marina Tsvetaeva New Collected Poems, Eavan Boland Nightwood, Djuna Barnes No Ordinary Time, Doris Kearns Goodwin Normal People Don’t Live Like This, Dylan Landis Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout Personal History, Katharine Graham Play it as it Lays, Joan Didion X Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen Property, Valerie Martin Romancer Erector, Diane Williams Runaway, Alice Munro X Selected Stories, Katherine Mansfield X Shakespeare’s Sonnets She Had Some Horses, Joy Harjo Some Fun: Stories and a Novella, Antonya Nelson Tell Me a Riddle, Tillie Olsen The Amateur Marriage, Anne Tyler X The Arabian Nights X The Awakening, Kate Chopin The Beauty of the Husband, Anne Carson The Coast of Chicago, Stuart Dybek The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova X The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson X The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank The Dream of the Unified Field, Jorie Graham The Dream Songs, John Berryman The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friendan The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing The Good Mother, Sue Miller The Group, Mary McCarthy The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood The Hemingses of Monticello, Annette Gordon-reed The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros The Liar’s Club, Mary Karr The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera The Wild Iris, Louise Gluck The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston X Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston X To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf Trailer Girl, Terese Svoboda Trapeze, Deborah Digges Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe West with the Night, Beryl Markham Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?, Joyce Carol Oates Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys Women in Love, D.H. Lawrence Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
Okay, of New York Times' list (duplicates not listed):
A Room With a View-recommended Howards End-recommended The Age of Innocence- slightly recommended The Call of the Wild-recommended The House of Mirth- not recommended
I actually haven't even heard of many of these books. Interesting.
The Art of Manliness (interesting list...) My recommendations: A Separate Peace-recommended Adventures of Huckleberry Finn-highly recommended All Quiet on The Western Front-slightly/not recommended Frankenstein-highly recommended Hamlet-recommended Leviathan-recommended Moby Dick- not recommended Paradise Lost-slightly recommended Swiss Family Robinson-recommended The Bible-recommended :-) The Count of Monte Cristo-recommended The Federalist Papers-recommended The Hobbit- I recommend starting with this book if reading the series... The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer-recommended The Metamorphosis-slightly recommended The Pearl-recommended The Picture of Dorian Gray-recommended The Politics-recommended The Prince-recommended The Republic-highly recommended The Wealth of Nations- not recommended unless you are an economist or political scientist Walden- recommended
Okay, this list had to be written by a philosopher or political scientist. Smith? Plato? Macchiaveli?
More Magazine's Top 100 Books for Women (I am going to guess maybe I've read more of these than the Manliness list?): A Vindication of the Rights of Women- slightly recommended Ceremony-recommended I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings-highly recommended Jane Eyre-highly recommended Little Women-highly recommended Madame Bovary- not recommended Pride and Prejudice-highly recommended Shakespeare’s Sonnets-recommended The Arabian Nights- not recommended The Awakening-mediumly recommended The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson-highly recommended The Diary of a Young Girl-highly recommended The Feminine Mystique-slightly recommended The Handmaid’s Tale-recommended The Things They Carried- not recommended The Unbearable Lightness of Being- not recommended Wuthering Heights-slightly recommended.
If you were a fan of The Gilmore Girls, you might like this list of books that Rory was shown reading or talked about reading on the show.
Looks like quite a good list, actually. Here are the ones I've read: 1984 by George Orwell A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf A Separate Peace by John Knowles Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney Catch-22 by Joseph Heller Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White Don Quijote by Cervantes Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems by Edgar Allan Poe Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective by Donald J. Sobol Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Hamlet by William Shakespeare Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë Life of Pi by Yann Martel Macbeth by William Shakespeare Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides Moby Dick by Herman Melville My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult New Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck On the Road by Jack Kerouac One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Rapunzel by Grimm Brothers Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen Snow White and Rose Red by Grimm Brothers Sonnets from the Portuegese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning Stuart Little by E. B. White Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain The Awakening by Kate Chopin The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger The Crucible by Arthur Miller The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende The Iliad by Homer The Jumping Frog by Mark Twain The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe The Red Tent by Anita Diamant The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson
I LOVE that show. Thanks so much for putting this list up. The comments on the blog were also pretty funny. :-) I've read:
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank The Awakening by Kate Chopin Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney Candide by Voltaire The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer Catch-22 by Joseph Heller Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens A Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas The Crucible by Arthur Miller The Da Vinci -Code by Dan Brown Deenie by Judy Blume Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems by Edgar Allan Poe Emma by Jane Austen Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton The Fellowship of the Ring: Book 1 of The Lord of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand Frankenstein by Mary Shelley The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Hamlet by William Shakespeare Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling Henry IV, part I by William Shakespeare Henry IV, part II by William Shakespeare Henry V by William Shakespeare How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo The Iliad by Homer Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare Lady Chatterleys’ Lover by D. H. Lawrence Life of Pi by Yann Martel The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen Little Women by Louisa May Alcott Lord of the Flies by William Golding Macbeth by William Shakespeare Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris The Merry Wives of Windsro by William Shakespeare The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides Moby Dick by Herman Melville Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin New Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich Night by Elie Wiesel Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck Othello by Shakespeare The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Rapunzel by Grimm Brothers The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin The Return of the King: The Lord of the Rings Book 3 by J. R. R. Tolkien R Is for Ricochet by Sue Grafton Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf A Room with a View by E. M. Forster The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen A Separate Peace by John Knowles S Is for Silence by Sue Grafton Snow White and Rose Red by Grimm Brothers Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World by Barrington Moore The Sonnets by William Shakespeare Stuart Little by E. B. White A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee The Tragedy of Richard III by William Shakespeare A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett Walden by Henry David Thoreau Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire – started and not finished Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
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Time Magazine's 100 best English-language novels published since 1923:
See the article here.
I've read 15, marked with an X.
The Adventures of Augie March
All the King's Men
American Pastoral
An American Tragedy
X Animal Farm
Appointment in Samarra
X Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
The Assistant
At Swim-Two-Birds
Atonement
Beloved
The Berlin Stories
The Big Sleep
The Blind Assassin
Blood Meridian
Brideshead Revisited
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Call It Sleep
X Catch-22
X The Catcher in the Rye
A Clockwork Orange
The Confessions of Nat Turner
The Corrections
The Crying of Lot 49
A Dance to the Music of Time
The Day of the Locust
Death Comes for the Archbishop
A Death in the Family
The Death of the Heart
Deliverance
Dog Soldiers
Falconer
The French Lieutenant's Woman
The Golden Notebook
Go Tell it on the Mountain
Gone With the Wind
X The Grapes of Wrath
Gravity's Rainbow
The Great Gatsby
A Handful of Dust
The Heart is A Lonely Hunter
The Heart of the Matter
Herzog
Housekeeping
A House for Mr. Biswas
I, Claudius
Infinite Jest
Invisible Man
Light in August
X The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
Lolita
Lord of the Flies
The Lord of the Rings
Loving
The Moviegoer
Lucky Jim
The Man Who Loved Children
Midnight's Children
Money
Mrs. Dalloway
Naked Lunch
X Native Son
Neuromancer
Never Let Me Go
X 1984
X On the Road
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Painted Bird
Pale Fire
A Passage to India
Play It As It Lays
Portnoy's Complaint
Possession
The Power and the Glory
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
X Rabbit, Run
Ragtime
The Recognitions
Red Harvest
Revolutionary Road
The Sheltering Sky
Slaughterhouse Five
Snow Crash
The Sot-Weed Factor
The Sound and the Fury
The Sportswriter
X The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
X The Sun Also Rises
X Their Eyes Were Watching God
Things Fall Apart
X To Kill a Mockingbird
To the Lighthouse
X Tropic of Cancer
Ubik
Under the Net
Under the Volcano
Watchmen
White Noise
White Teeth
Wide Sargasso Sea
New York Times' top 100 Modern Library's Choices:
They have a ranked list here.
I have read 12, marked with an X.
X 1984, George Orwell
A Bend in the River, V. S. Naipaul
A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
A Dance to the Music of Time (series), Anthony Powell
X A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
A Handful of Dust, Evelyn Waugh
A High Wind in Jamaica, Richard Hughes
A House for Ms. Biswas, V. S. Naipaul
A Passage to India, E. M. Forster
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce
A Room With a View, E. M. Forster
All the King's Men, Robert Penn Warren
An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser
Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner
X Animal Farm, George Orwell
Appointment in Samarra, John O' Hara
As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
X Catch-22, Joseph Heller
Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler
Death Comes to the Archbishop, Willa Cather
Deliverance, James Dickey
Finnegans Wake, James Joyce
From Here to Eternity, James Jones
Go Tell It on the Mountain, James Baldwin
Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
Henderson the Rain King, Saul Bellow
Howards End, E. M. Forster
I, Claudius, Robert Graves
Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
Ironweed, William Kennedy
Kim, Rudyard Kipling
Light in August, William Faulkner
Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
Lord Jim, Joseph Conrad
Lord of the Flies, William Golding
Loving, Henry Green
Main Street, Sinclair Lewis
Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
X Native Son, Richard Wright
Nostromo, Joseph Conrad
Of Human Bondage, W. Somerset Maugham
X On the Road, Jack Kerouac
Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov
Parade's End, Ford Madox Ford
Point Counter Point, Aldous Huxley
Portnoy's Complaint, Philip Roth
Ragtime, E. L. Doctorow
Scoop, Evelyn Waugh
Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser
Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut
Sons and Lovers, D. H. Lawrence
Sophie's Choice, William Styron
Tender Is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow
X The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton
The Alexandria Quartet, Lawrence Durrell
The Ambassadors, Henry James
The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder
X The Call of the Wild, Jack London
X The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger
The Day of the Locust, Nathaniel West
The Death of the Heart, Elizabeth Bowen
The Ginger Man, J. P. Donleavy
The Golden Bowl, Henry James
The Good Soldier, Ford Madox Ford
X The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers
The Heart of the Matter, Graham Greene
The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton
The Magnificent Ambersons, Booth Tarkington
The Magus, John Fowles
The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett
The Moviegoer, Walker Percy
The Naked and the Dead, Norman Mailer
The Old Wives' Tale, Arnold Bennett
The Postman Always Rings Twice, James M. Cain
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark
The Rainbow, D. H. Lawrence
The Secret Agent, Joseph Conrad
The Sheltering Sky, Paul Bowles
The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner
The Studs Lonigan Trilogy, James T. Farrell
X The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
The Wapshot Chronicles, John Cheever
The Way of All Flesh, Samuel Butler
The Wings of the Dove, Henry James
To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
Tobacco Road, Erskine Caldwell
X Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller
U.S.A. (trilogy), John Dos Passos
Ulysses, James Joyce
Under the Net, Iris Murdoch
Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry
Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
Winesburg, Ohio, Sherwood Anderson
Women in Love, D. H. Lawrence
Zuleika Dobson, Max Beerbohm
A- how many of the books that you have read would you recommend?
Of Time's books, I've read: Adventures of Augie March (not recommended)
Animal Farm (don't really remember it, but don't think I liked it)
The Blind Assassin (recommended)
Catch-22 (fricky-fricking book)
A Death in the Family (not recommended)
Gone with the Wind (I have a parody book called The Wind Done Gone that I can't wait to read)
The Great Gasby (recommended to me by KEN of all people!)
Invisible Man (recommended)
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (I recommend the whole series and the movies were pretty good too)
Lord of the Flies (awful book-not recommended)
Lord of the Rings (why not The Hobbit and Fellowship of the Ring? I thought this series was okay)
Midnight's Children (recommended)
Native Son
Slaughterhouse Five (not recommended)
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
Things Fall Apart (half-heartedly recommended)
To Kill a Mockingbird (whole-heartedly recommended)
The Art of Manliness
100 must-read books: The Essential Man’s Library
Article with pics & brief descriptions here.
I have read 26, marked with an X.
X 1984, George Orwell
A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
X A Farewell To Arms, Ernest Hemingway
A River Runs Through It, Norman F. Maclean
X A Separate Peace, John Knowles
A Strenuous Life, Theodore Roosevelt
X Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
X All Quiet on The Western Front, Erich Maria Remarq
American Boys’ Handy Book
X Animal Farm, George Orwell
Another Roadside Attraction, Tom Robbins
Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
Beyond Good and Evil, Freidrich Nietzsche
Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West, Cormac McCarthy
Bluebeard, Kurt Vonnegut
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky
X Call of the Wild, Jack London
Cannery Row, John Steinbeck
X Catch-22, Joseph Heller
Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky
Cyrano de Bergerac, Edmond Rostand
X Dharma Bums, Jack Kerouac
X Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
East of Eden, John Steinbeck
Essential Manners for Men, Peter Post
Fear and Trembling, Soren Kierkegaard
First Edition of the The Boy Scout Handbook
X For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway
Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco
X Frankenstein, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly
From Here to Eternity, James Jones
X Hamlet, Shakespeare
X Hatchet, Gary Paulsen
How To Win Friends And Influence People, Dale Carnegie
Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer
Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer
King Solomon’s Mines, H. Rider Haggard
Leviathan, Thomas Hobbe
Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, Plutarch
Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry
Lord of the Flies, William Golding
X Moby Dick, Herman Melville
X On the Road, Jack Kerouac
Paradise Lost, John Milton
X Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Dafoe
Seek: Reports from the Edges of America & Beyond, Denis Johnson
Self Reliance, Ralph Waldo Emerson
Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
Steppenwolf, Herman Hesse
Swiss Family Robinson, Johann David Wyss
Tarzan of the Apes, Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Art of Warfare, Sun Tzu
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
X The Bible
The Book of Deeds of Arms and of Chivalry, Christine De Pizan
The Boys of Summer, Roger Kahn
X The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
The Crisis, Winston Churchill
The Dangerous Book for Boys, Conn and Hal Iggulden
The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri
The Federalist Papers
The Frontier in American History, Frederick Jackson Turner
X The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Railway Bazaar, Paul Theroux
The Histories, Herodotus
The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoevs
X The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer
The Island of Dr. Moreau, H.G. Wells
The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara
The Long Goodbye, Raymond Chandler
The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett
The Master and Margarita,, Mikhail Bulgakov
The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
The Naked and The Dead, Norman Mailer
X The Pearl, John Steinbeck
X The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
The Politics, Aristotle
The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli
X The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane
X The Republic, Plato
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, Edmund Morris
The Rough Riders, Theodore Roosevelt
The Stranger, Albert Camus
The Thin Red Line, James Jones
The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith
The Young Man’s Guide, William Alcott
Theodore Rex, Edmund Morris
Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
X Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller
Ulysses, James Joyce
Undaunted Courage, Stephen Ambrose
Walden, Henry David Thoreau
White Noise, Don Delillo
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig
Good question M, I was thinking of that myself when reading Time's list -- I didn't think it was a very good one.
Here are my thoughts on the ones I've read:
1984, George Orwell, Highly
A Farewell To Arms, Ernest Hemingway, Mediumly
A Separate Peace, John Knowles, Mediumly
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain, Highly
All Quiet on The Western Front, Erich Maria Remarq, Mediumly
Animal Farm, George Orwell, Mediumly
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret, Highly
Call of the Wild, Jack London, Highly
Catch-22, Joseph Heller, Read Sparknotes
Dharma Bums, Jack Kerouac, Mediumly
Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Highly
For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway, Mediumly
Frankenstein, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly, Highly
Hamlet, Shakespeare, Mediumly
Hatchet, Gary Paulsen, Mediumly
Moby Dick, Herman Melville, Read Sparknotes
Native Son, Richard Wright, Read Sparknotes
On the Road, Jack Kerouac, Highly
Rabbit, Run, Read Sparknotes
Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Dafoe, Mediumly
The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton, Mediumly
The Bible, Mediumly
The Call of the Wild, Jack London, Highly
The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger, Mediumly
The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck, Mediumly
The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, Read Sparknotes
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, Highly
The Pearl, John Steinbeck, Highly
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde, Mediumly
The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane, Mediumly
The Republic, Plato, Read Sparknotes
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, Mediumly
The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway, Mediumly
Their Eyes Were Watching God, Highly
To Kill a Mockingbird, Mediumly
Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller, Read Sparknotes
More Magazine's Top 100 Books for Women includes poetry, short stories, non-fiction, classics.
Article here.
I've read 14
A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You, Amy Bloom
A Day, A Night, Another Day, Summer, Christine Schutt
A Round-Heeled Woman: My Late-Life Adventures in Sex and Romance, Jane Juska
X A Vindication of the Rights of Women, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Amy Hempel: The Collected Stories
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
Annie John, Jamaica Kincaid
Anton Chekhov: Stories
Ariel, Sylvia Plath
Beloved, Toni Morrison
Birds of America, Lorrie Moore
Brooklyn, Colm Toibin
Ceremony, Leslie Marmon Silko
Cry, The Beloved Country, Alan Paton
Disgrace, J.M. Coetzee
Dubliners, James Joyce
X E.E. Cummings: Complete Poems 1904-1962
Elephant Rocks, Kay Ryan
Elizabeth Bishop: The Complete Poems 1927-1979
Enormous Changes at the last minute, Grace Paley
Fear of Flying, Erica Jong
Flannery O’Connor: The Complete Stories
X Frankenstein, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Friendly Fire, Kathryn Chetkovich
Georgia O’Keeffe, Roxana Robinson
Given Sugar, Given Salt, Jane Hirshfield
Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
Guest of Honour, Nadine Gordimer
Her Last Death, Susannah Sonnenberg
Household Words, Joan Silber
Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
Ida: A Sword Among Lions, Paula J. Giddings
Isak Dinesen, Judith Thurman
X Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
Love in the Driest Season, Neely Tucker
X Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
Manhattan, When I Was Young, Mary Cantwell
Mary Oliver: New and Selected Poems
Middlemarch, George Eliot
Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir, Joyce Johnson
Miracle Fair, Wislawa Szymborska
Moon Tiger, Penelope Lively
Mother Love, Rita Dove
My Life in France, Julia Child
My Poems, Marina Tsvetaeva
New Collected Poems, Eavan Boland
Nightwood, Djuna Barnes
No Ordinary Time, Doris Kearns Goodwin
Normal People Don’t Live Like This, Dylan Landis
Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout
Personal History, Katharine Graham
Play it as it Lays, Joan Didion
X Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
Property, Valerie Martin
Romancer Erector, Diane Williams
Runaway, Alice Munro
X Selected Stories, Katherine Mansfield
X Shakespeare’s Sonnets
She Had Some Horses, Joy Harjo
Some Fun: Stories and a Novella, Antonya Nelson
Tell Me a Riddle, Tillie Olsen
The Amateur Marriage, Anne Tyler
X The Arabian Nights
X The Awakening, Kate Chopin
The Beauty of the Husband, Anne Carson
The Coast of Chicago, Stuart Dybek
The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde
The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
X The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
X The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank
The Dream of the Unified Field, Jorie Graham
The Dream Songs, John Berryman
The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friendan
The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls
The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing
The Good Mother, Sue Miller
The Group, Mary McCarthy
The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
The Hemingses of Monticello, Annette Gordon-reed
The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton
The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros
The Liar’s Club, Mary Karr
The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
The Wild Iris, Louise Gluck
The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston
X Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
X To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee
To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
Trailer Girl, Terese Svoboda
Trapeze, Deborah Digges
Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe
West with the Night, Beryl Markham
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?, Joyce Carol Oates
Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
Women in Love, D.H. Lawrence
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
Okay, of New York Times' list (duplicates not listed):
A Room With a View-recommended
Howards End-recommended
The Age of Innocence- slightly recommended
The Call of the Wild-recommended
The House of Mirth- not recommended
I actually haven't even heard of many of these books. Interesting.
The Art of Manliness (interesting list...)
My recommendations:
A Separate Peace-recommended
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn-highly recommended
All Quiet on The Western Front-slightly/not recommended
Frankenstein-highly recommended
Hamlet-recommended
Leviathan-recommended
Moby Dick- not recommended
Paradise Lost-slightly recommended
Swiss Family Robinson-recommended
The Bible-recommended :-)
The Count of Monte Cristo-recommended
The Federalist Papers-recommended
The Hobbit- I recommend starting with this book if reading the series...
The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer-recommended
The Metamorphosis-slightly recommended
The Pearl-recommended
The Picture of Dorian Gray-recommended
The Politics-recommended
The Prince-recommended
The Republic-highly recommended
The Wealth of Nations- not recommended unless you are an economist or political scientist
Walden- recommended
Okay, this list had to be written by a philosopher or political scientist. Smith? Plato? Macchiaveli?
More Magazine's Top 100 Books for Women (I am going to guess maybe I've read more of these than the Manliness list?):
A Vindication of the Rights of Women- slightly recommended
Ceremony-recommended
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings-highly recommended
Jane Eyre-highly recommended
Little Women-highly recommended
Madame Bovary- not recommended
Pride and Prejudice-highly recommended
Shakespeare’s Sonnets-recommended
The Arabian Nights- not recommended
The Awakening-mediumly recommended
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson-highly recommended
The Diary of a Young Girl-highly recommended
The Feminine Mystique-slightly recommended
The Handmaid’s Tale-recommended
The Things They Carried- not recommended
The Unbearable Lightness of Being- not recommended
Wuthering Heights-slightly recommended.
If you were a fan of The Gilmore Girls, you might like this list of books that Rory was shown reading or talked about reading on the show.
Looks like quite a good list, actually. Here are the ones I've read:
1984 by George Orwell
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White
Don Quijote by Cervantes
Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective by Donald J. Sobol
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling
How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss
Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
New Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Rapunzel by Grimm Brothers
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Snow White and Rose Red by Grimm Brothers
Sonnets from the Portuegese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Stuart Little by E. B. White
Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
The Iliad by Homer
The Jumping Frog by Mark Twain
The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson
I LOVE that show. Thanks so much for putting this list up. The comments on the blog were also pretty funny. :-) I've read:
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney
Candide by Voltaire
The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
A Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
The Da Vinci -Code by Dan Brown
Deenie by Judy Blume
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
Emma by Jane Austen
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
The Fellowship of the Ring: Book 1 of The Lord of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling
Henry IV, part I by William Shakespeare
Henry IV, part II by William Shakespeare
Henry V by William Shakespeare
How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
The Iliad by Homer
Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
Lady Chatterleys’ Lover by D. H. Lawrence
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
The Merry Wives of Windsro by William Shakespeare
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall
My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin
New Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
Night by Elie Wiesel
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Othello by Shakespeare
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Rapunzel by Grimm Brothers
The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin
The Return of the King: The Lord of the Rings Book 3 by J. R. R. Tolkien
R Is for Ricochet by Sue Grafton
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
A Room with a View by E. M. Forster
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
S Is for Silence by Sue Grafton
Snow White and Rose Red by Grimm Brothers
Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World by Barrington Moore
The Sonnets by William Shakespeare
Stuart Little by E. B. White
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Tragedy of Richard III by William Shakespeare
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire – started and not finished
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
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