Monday, April 6, 2009

Megan's List

Thanks for coordinating this! It's great to have us all in one place. I'll be reviewing these books and various others I have to in the meantime over here.

My list contains old classics, some young adult, a few from the LOST book club (as though I'm not already enough of a dork), some that have been on my shelves for years and have found impossible get through the first chapter, a few new ones I think I want to read but don't want to buy for one reason or another, and leftovers of favorite authors.

1. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
2. Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
3. Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
4. Watership Down - Richard Adams
5. Three Men in a Boat - Jerome K. Jerome
6. Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco
7. This is Your Brain on Music - Daniel J. Levitin
8. Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
9. White Teeth - Zadie Smith
10. After Many a Summer Dies the Swan - Aldous Huxley
11. Wonder Boys - Michael Chabon
12. The Art of War - Sun Tzu
13. Girlfriend in a Coma - Douglas Coupland
14. Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
15. Down and Out in Paris and London - George Orwell
16. The Curtain - Milan Kundera
17. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
18. The Wordy Shipmates - Sarah Vowell
19. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
20. The Brothers Karamazov - Fyoder Dostoevsky
21. White Noise - Don DeLillo
22. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test - Tom Wolfe
23. The Trial - Franz Kafka
24. The Razor's Edge - Somerset Maugham
25. The Monkey Wrench Gang - Edward Abbey
26. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
27. Travelling Mercies - Anne Lamott
28. The Lake of Dead Languages - Carol Goodman
29. Naked Lunch - William S. Burroughs
30. The Professor and the Madman - Simon Winchester
31. Misfortune - Wesley Stace
32. The Divine Comedy - Dante
33. Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman
34. The Areas of My Expertise - John Hodgman
35. Blink - Malcolm Gladwell
36. The Iliad - Homer
37. The Odyssey - Homer
38. The World is Flat - Thomas L. Friedman
39. Think - Michael R. LeGault
40. How Language Works - David Crystal
41. The Mother Tongue - Bill Bryson
42. The Partly Cloudy Patriot - Sarah Vowell
43. The Fortress of Solitude - Jonathan Lethem
44. Going After Cacciato - Tim O'Brien
45. Survivor - Chuck Palahniuk
46. Cat's Eye - Margaret Atwood
47. The Immoralist - Andre Gide
48. On Beauty - Zadie Smith
49. The Plague - Albert Camus
50. Ulysses - James Joyce
51. Dark Tower - Stephen King
52. Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
53. The Rainbow - D.H. Lawrence
54. The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
55. The Corner of Bitter and Sweet - Jamie Ford
56. Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller
57. The Chronicles of Narnia (whole series) - C.S. Lewis
58. The Stuff of Thought - Steven Pinker
59. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
60. The Adventures of Augie March - Saul Bellow
61. The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tokien
62. A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
63. Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
64. Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
65. Rabbit, Run - John Updike
66. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
67. Special Topics in Calamity Physics - Marisha Pessl
68. Suite Francaise - Irene Nemirovsky and Sandra Smith
69. Paris to the Moon - Adam Gopnik
70. Three Lives - Gertrude Stein
71. The Giver - Lois Lowry
72. The Collected Works of Lewis Carroll
73. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
74. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - Jean-Dominique Bauby
75. Nation - Terry Pratchett
76. To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
77. Wise Blood - Flannery O'Connor
78. Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
79. The Sheltering Sky - Paul Bowles
80. Tobacco Road - Erskine Caldwell
81. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
82. Wrinkle in Time series (I've only read the first two) - Madeline L'Engle
83. Portnoy's Complaint - Philip Roth
84. Fool - Christopher Moore
85. A Spot of Bother - Mark Haddon
86. The Elegance of the Hedgehog - Muriel Barbery
87. Bel Canto - Ann Patchett
88. Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen
89. Man Walks into a Room - Nicole Krauss
90. A Room with a View - E.M. Forster
91. The Naked and the Dead - Norman Mailer
92. Black Boy - Richard Wright
93. Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates - Tom Robbins
94. The Women - T.C. Boyle
95. World War Z - Max Brooks
96. Unaccustomed Earch - Jhumpa Lahiri
97. Netherland - Joseph O'Neill
98. Firmin - Sam Savage
99. The Ghost in Love - Jonathan Carroll
100. Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov

2 comments:

Jen A said...

Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates is one of my top 3 Tom Robbins novels - I've heard a lot of criticism of it from his fans, but I really liked it. Hope you do too!

hifidel said...

I used some of the titles from your list when fleshing out mine. Great choices!