Quick disclaimer: eight of the books on my list are things I've read before, but I read them so long ago and I only read them once; I keep meaning to re-read them but keep putting them off for other, less intense books, as with the rest of the list that I've never read. I marked the ones I've read before with "(R)" in front of the titles. And I'm co-blogging some of the reviews and such over at my blog, Corrodentia Weekly.
- Watership Down, Richard Adams
- The Man with the Golden Arm, Nelson Algren
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
- The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
- Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen
- (R) Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
- Go Tell It on the Mountain, James Baldwin
- Continental Drift, Russell Banks
Peter Pan, J M Barrie*12/1/2009- The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir
- The Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow
- Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
- (R) Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
- The Good Earth, Pearl S Buck
- Pilgrim's Progress, John Bunyan
Running with Scissors, Augusten Burroughs*5/7/2009- Possession, A S Byatt
- The Plague, Albert Camus
- In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
- My Antonia, Willa Cather
The Awakening, Kate Chopin*4/8/2009- Agatha Christie: An Autobiography, Agatha Christie
- The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins
- The Man in the High Castle, Philip K Dick
- David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
- Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
- Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- The Barrytown Trilogy, Roddy Doyle
- Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser
- The House of Sand and Fog, Andre Dubus III
Middlemarch, George Eliot*12/21/2009- Spartacus, Howard Fast
- Absalom, Absalom!, William Faulkner
- As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner
- This Side of Paradise, F Scott Fitzgerald
- A Room with a View, E M Forster
- Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier
- Return of the Native, Thomas Hardy
- Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
- The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
- A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway
- (R) The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
- Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
(R) Brave New World, Aldous Huxley*2/7/2010- A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving
- The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
- The Lottery, Shirley Jackson
- We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson
- Daisy Miller, Henry James
- One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
- The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
- The Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling
- Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri
- The Road to Lichfield, Penelope Lively
- At the Mountains of Madness, H P Lovecraft
- Of Human Bondage, Somerset Maugham
- Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
- The Road, Cormac McCarth
The Member of the Wedding, Carson McCullers*4/17/2009- Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller
- Promethea, Alan Moore
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles, Haruki Murakami
- Invitation to a Beheading, Vladimir Nabokov
- Everything that Rises Must Converge, Flannery O'Connor
- Animal Farm, George Orwell
- (R) Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
- Cry, the Beloved Country, Alan Paton
- The Moviegoer, Walker Percy
- Six Characters in Search of an Author, Luigi Pirandello
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig
- The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
- The Wanderers, Richard Price
- The Shipping News, E Annie Proulx
- (R) The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon
- The Human Stain, Philip Roth
- The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie
- Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith
Fair and Tender Ladies, Lee Smith*1/22/2010Maus, Art Spiegelman*6/1/2009- Tristram Shandy, Laurence Sterne
- Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe
- The Secret History, Donna Tartt
- Short Stories of Mark Twain, Mark Twain
- The Accidental Tourist, Anne Tyler
- Burr, Gore Vidal
- Myra Breckenridge/Myron, Gore Vidal
- Candide, Voltaire
- Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
- Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
- All the King's Men, Robert Penn Warren
- (R) A Handful of Dust, Evelyn Waugh
- (R) A Curtain of Green, Eudora Welty
- The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton
- The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
- Look Homeward, Angel, Thomas Wolfe
- The Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe
- Orlando, Virginia Woolf
- Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates
- The Book Thief, Mark Zusak
5 comments:
Oh i could make a whole new list of [r] 100 books at this point lol. great list!! i highly recommend the book thief, one of the best books ive ever read
I've got a couple rereads on my list, too. There are two in particular that I know I read but can't remember a thing about.
That was my trouble, too, with some of them...and with Pride and Prejudice, I've just seen so many movies and mini-series of it since I read it that I can't remember what's book and what's screen adaptation any more. I'm loving reading everybody's lists - I keep going, "OH! I should have had that one!" But I'll just add them five years from now when I make the next list of 100 :)
I think having re-reads is a good idea.
Watership Down is a great choice. I have an illustrated edition I bought in England back in the late 1970's.
It holds a special place in my heart and on my shelf.
I hope you like it.
Good list! You're going to have fun over the next 5 years.
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