bold read, asterisked i really need to read/i am ashamed i've not yet gotten around to reading / um, maurice sendak! ha.
1. ULYSSES - James Joyce
2. THE GREAT GATSBY - F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN - James Joyce
4. LOLITA - Vladimir Nabokov
5. BRAVE NEW WORLD - Aldous Huxley
6. THE SOUND AND THE FURY - William Faulkner
7. CATCH-22 - Joseph Heller
8. DARKNESS AT NOON - Arthur Koestler*
9. SONS AND LOVERS - D.H. Lawrence (i know this is bythebook feminist, but lawrence is on my shit list...one of the only ones really. and for more than "just that")
10. THE GRAPES OF WRATH - John Steinbeck
11. UNDER THE VOLCANO - Malcolm Lowry
12. THE WAY OF ALL FLESH - Samuel Butler
13. 1984 - George Orwell
14. I, CLAUDIUS - Robert Graves
15. TO THE LIGHTHOUSE - Virginia Woolf
16. AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY - Theodore Dreiser*
17. THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER - Carson McCullers
18. SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE - Kurt Vonnegut
19. INVISIBLE MAN - Ralph Ellison
20. NATIVE SON - Richard Wright
21. HENDERSON THE RAIN KING - Saul Bellow
22. APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA - John O'Hara
23. U.S.A. (trilogy) - John Dos Passos*
24. WINESBURG, OHIO - Sherwood Anderson*
25. A PASSAGE TO INDIA - E.M. Forster (my sister loves forster...)
26. THE WINGS OF THE DOVE - Henry James (...and i love james)
27. THE AMBASSADORS - Henry James
28. TENDER IS THE NIGHT - F. Scott Fitzgerald
29. THE STUDS LONIGAN TRILOGY - James T. Farrell*
30. THE GOOD SOLDIER - Ford Madox Ford*
31. ANIMAL FARM - George Orwell
32. THE GOLDEN BOWL - Henry James
33. SISTER CARRIE - Theodore Dreiser*
34. A HANDFUL OF DUST - Evelyn Waugh*
35. AS I LAY DYING - William Faulkner
36. ALL THE KING'S MEN - Robert Penn Warren
37. THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY - Thornton Wilder
38. HOWARDS END - E.M. Forster
39. GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN - James Baldwin
40. THE HEART OF THE MATTER - Graham Greene
41. LORD OF THE FLIES - William Golding
42. DELIVERANCE - James Dickey
43. A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME (series) - Anthony Powell
44. POINT COUNTER POINT - Aldous Huxley
45. THE SUN ALSO RISES - Ernest Hemingway
46. THE SECRET AGENT - Joseph Conrad
47. NOSTROMO - Joseph Conrad
48. THE RAINBOW - D.H. Lawrence
49. WOMEN IN LOVE - D.H. Lawrence
50. TROPIC OF CANCER - Henry Miller
51. THE NAKED AND THE DEAD - Norman Mailer (i also dislike mailer, but more because he's boring as hell in his mundane selfobsession...it's not even epic, but also not humble)
52. PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT - Philip Roth (roth pisses me off quite often, but i don't mind at all--really, you'd understand--and he wrote sabbath's theater so hell, enough said. figures though they now make a movie from his crappiest work in ages...)
53. PALE FIRE - Vladimir Nabokov
54. LIGHT IN AUGUST - William Faulkner (faulkner is one of those whose babies i wouldn't have minded having...yeah)
55. ON THE ROAD - Jack Kerouac (soooo overrated. tristessa will always be the one, as i say all the time. boring me i know :)
56. THE MALTESE FALCON - Dashiell Hammett*
57. PARADE'S END - Ford Madox Ford*
58. THE AGE OF INNOCENCE - Edith Wharton
59. ZULEIKA DOBSON - Max Beerbohm
60. THE MOVIEGOER - Walker Percy
61. DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP - Willa Cather
62. FROM HERE TO ETERNITY - James Jones
63. THE WAPSHOT CHRONICLES - John Cheever (yuck, john cheever...bo-ring...yes, i am so very articulate! :b s'why i didn't major in this, the reaction.)
64. THE CATCHER IN THE RYE - J.D. Salinger (anything besides this by salinger is ace. funny how things work, turn out)
65. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE - Anthony Burgess
66. OF HUMAN BONDAGE - W. Somerset Maugham (lovelovelovelove maugham. and one of the movie versions, i forget how to note which)
67. HEART OF DARKNESS - Joseph Conrad
68. MAIN STREET - Sinclair Lewis*
69. THE HOUSE OF MIRTH - Edith Wharton
70. THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTET - Lawrence Durell*
71. A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA - Richard Hughes
72. A HOUSE FOR MR BISWAS - V.S. Naipaul (oh yes i am fond of naipaul. he was my hospital bedside pal, among others. was very happy he won the nobel.)
73. THE DAY OF THE LOCUST - Nathanael West*
74. A FAREWELL TO ARMS - Ernest Hemingway (what do you make of that movie?)
75. SCOOP - Evelyn Waugh
76. THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE - Muriel Spark
77. FINNEGANS WAKE - James Joyce
78. KIM - Rudyard Kipling
79. A ROOM WITH A VIEW - E.M. Forster
80. BRIDESHEAD REVISITED - Evelyn Waugh
81. THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH - Saul Bellow
82. ANGLE OF REPOSE - Wallace Stegner (whoa, good. both my old history teacher and uh, sleater-kinney recommended this one summer. ha.)
83. A BEND IN THE RIVER - V.S. Naipaul
84. THE DEATH OF THE HEART - Elizabeth Bowen (found only last year, pretty neat)
85. LORD JIM - Joseph Conrad
86. RAGTIME - E.L. Doctorow*
87. THE OLD WIVES' TALE - Arnold Bennett
88. THE CALL OF THE WILD - Jack London (dirty secret: i LOVE jack london. seriously. fell into it the same time i fell into steinbeck. which is to say at 12, and i haven't budged from those first strong impressions. the world seemed more severe for viewing afterward, with both. no really, gah.)
89. LOVING - Henry Green
90. MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN - Salman Rushdie (i tend to agree with f. rushdie is overrated.)
91. TOBACCO ROAD - Erskine Caldwell
92. IRONWEED - William Kennedy
93. THE MAGUS - John Fowles*
94. WIDE SARGASSO SEA - Jean Rhys
95. UNDER THE NET - Iris Murdoch
96. SOPHIE'S CHOICE - William Styron*
97. THE SHELTERING SKY - Paul Bowles*
98. THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE - James M. Cain*
99. THE GINGER MAN - J.P. Donleavy
100. THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS - Booth Tarkington*
wait, did i miss vanity fair? where is it? that's another i need to read at some point. (duck)
2. THE GREAT GATSBY - F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN - James Joyce
4. LOLITA - Vladimir Nabokov
5. BRAVE NEW WORLD - Aldous Huxley
6. THE SOUND AND THE FURY - William Faulkner
7. CATCH-22 - Joseph Heller
8. DARKNESS AT NOON - Arthur Koestler*
9. SONS AND LOVERS - D.H. Lawrence (i know this is bythebook feminist, but lawrence is on my shit list...one of the only ones really. and for more than "just that")
10. THE GRAPES OF WRATH - John Steinbeck
11. UNDER THE VOLCANO - Malcolm Lowry
12. THE WAY OF ALL FLESH - Samuel Butler
13. 1984 - George Orwell
14. I, CLAUDIUS - Robert Graves
15. TO THE LIGHTHOUSE - Virginia Woolf
16. AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY - Theodore Dreiser*
17. THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER - Carson McCullers
18. SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE - Kurt Vonnegut
19. INVISIBLE MAN - Ralph Ellison
20. NATIVE SON - Richard Wright
21. HENDERSON THE RAIN KING - Saul Bellow
22. APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA - John O'Hara
23. U.S.A. (trilogy) - John Dos Passos*
24. WINESBURG, OHIO - Sherwood Anderson*
25. A PASSAGE TO INDIA - E.M. Forster (my sister loves forster...)
26. THE WINGS OF THE DOVE - Henry James (...and i love james)
27. THE AMBASSADORS - Henry James
28. TENDER IS THE NIGHT - F. Scott Fitzgerald
29. THE STUDS LONIGAN TRILOGY - James T. Farrell*
30. THE GOOD SOLDIER - Ford Madox Ford*
31. ANIMAL FARM - George Orwell
32. THE GOLDEN BOWL - Henry James
33. SISTER CARRIE - Theodore Dreiser*
34. A HANDFUL OF DUST - Evelyn Waugh*
35. AS I LAY DYING - William Faulkner
36. ALL THE KING'S MEN - Robert Penn Warren
37. THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY - Thornton Wilder
38. HOWARDS END - E.M. Forster
39. GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN - James Baldwin
40. THE HEART OF THE MATTER - Graham Greene
41. LORD OF THE FLIES - William Golding
42. DELIVERANCE - James Dickey
43. A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME (series) - Anthony Powell
44. POINT COUNTER POINT - Aldous Huxley
45. THE SUN ALSO RISES - Ernest Hemingway
46. THE SECRET AGENT - Joseph Conrad
47. NOSTROMO - Joseph Conrad
48. THE RAINBOW - D.H. Lawrence
49. WOMEN IN LOVE - D.H. Lawrence
50. TROPIC OF CANCER - Henry Miller
51. THE NAKED AND THE DEAD - Norman Mailer (i also dislike mailer, but more because he's boring as hell in his mundane selfobsession...it's not even epic, but also not humble)
52. PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT - Philip Roth (roth pisses me off quite often, but i don't mind at all--really, you'd understand--and he wrote sabbath's theater so hell, enough said. figures though they now make a movie from his crappiest work in ages...)
53. PALE FIRE - Vladimir Nabokov
54. LIGHT IN AUGUST - William Faulkner (faulkner is one of those whose babies i wouldn't have minded having...yeah)
55. ON THE ROAD - Jack Kerouac (soooo overrated. tristessa will always be the one, as i say all the time. boring me i know :)
56. THE MALTESE FALCON - Dashiell Hammett*
57. PARADE'S END - Ford Madox Ford*
58. THE AGE OF INNOCENCE - Edith Wharton
59. ZULEIKA DOBSON - Max Beerbohm
60. THE MOVIEGOER - Walker Percy
61. DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP - Willa Cather
62. FROM HERE TO ETERNITY - James Jones
63. THE WAPSHOT CHRONICLES - John Cheever (yuck, john cheever...bo-ring...yes, i am so very articulate! :b s'why i didn't major in this, the reaction.)
64. THE CATCHER IN THE RYE - J.D. Salinger (anything besides this by salinger is ace. funny how things work, turn out)
65. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE - Anthony Burgess
66. OF HUMAN BONDAGE - W. Somerset Maugham (lovelovelovelove maugham. and one of the movie versions, i forget how to note which)
67. HEART OF DARKNESS - Joseph Conrad
68. MAIN STREET - Sinclair Lewis*
69. THE HOUSE OF MIRTH - Edith Wharton
70. THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTET - Lawrence Durell*
71. A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA - Richard Hughes
72. A HOUSE FOR MR BISWAS - V.S. Naipaul (oh yes i am fond of naipaul. he was my hospital bedside pal, among others. was very happy he won the nobel.)
73. THE DAY OF THE LOCUST - Nathanael West*
74. A FAREWELL TO ARMS - Ernest Hemingway (what do you make of that movie?)
75. SCOOP - Evelyn Waugh
76. THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE - Muriel Spark
77. FINNEGANS WAKE - James Joyce
78. KIM - Rudyard Kipling
79. A ROOM WITH A VIEW - E.M. Forster
80. BRIDESHEAD REVISITED - Evelyn Waugh
81. THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH - Saul Bellow
82. ANGLE OF REPOSE - Wallace Stegner (whoa, good. both my old history teacher and uh, sleater-kinney recommended this one summer. ha.)
83. A BEND IN THE RIVER - V.S. Naipaul
84. THE DEATH OF THE HEART - Elizabeth Bowen (found only last year, pretty neat)
85. LORD JIM - Joseph Conrad
86. RAGTIME - E.L. Doctorow*
87. THE OLD WIVES' TALE - Arnold Bennett
88. THE CALL OF THE WILD - Jack London (dirty secret: i LOVE jack london. seriously. fell into it the same time i fell into steinbeck. which is to say at 12, and i haven't budged from those first strong impressions. the world seemed more severe for viewing afterward, with both. no really, gah.)
89. LOVING - Henry Green
90. MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN - Salman Rushdie (i tend to agree with f. rushdie is overrated.)
91. TOBACCO ROAD - Erskine Caldwell
92. IRONWEED - William Kennedy
93. THE MAGUS - John Fowles*
94. WIDE SARGASSO SEA - Jean Rhys
95. UNDER THE NET - Iris Murdoch
96. SOPHIE'S CHOICE - William Styron*
97. THE SHELTERING SKY - Paul Bowles*
98. THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE - James M. Cain*
99. THE GINGER MAN - J.P. Donleavy
100. THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS - Booth Tarkington*
wait, did i miss vanity fair? where is it? that's another i need to read at some point. (duck)