22 Books Meme

[ltmurnau]

Yoinked from infanttyrone.

In 2005, Time Magazine picked the 100 best English language novels. How many have you read? Copy this list and mark the selections you have read in bold. If you liked it, add a star (*) in front of the title, if you didn't, give it a minus (-). Then, put the total number of books you've read in the subject line and pass it on!



The Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow
All the King's Men, Robert Penn Warren
American Pastoral, Philip Roth
An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser
* Animal Farm, George Orwell
Appointment in Samarra, John O'Hara
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret, Judy Blume
The Assistant, Bernard Malamud
At SwimTwoBirds, Flann O'Brien
Atonement, Ian McEwan
Beloved, Toni Morrison
The Berlin Stories, Christopher Isherwood
The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler
The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood
Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy
Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder
Call It Sleep, Henry Roth
Catch-22, Joseph Heller
- The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger What's all the fuss about? This was boring.
* A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
The Confessions of Nat Turner, William Styron
The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen
* The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon Intorduced me to lots of ideas.
A Dance to the Music of Time, Anthony Powell
The Day of the Locust, Nathanael West
Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather
A Death in the Family, James Agee
The Death of the Heart, Elizabeth Bowen
Deliverance, James Dickey
Dog Soldiers, Robert Stone
Falconer, John Cheever
The French Lieutenant's Woman, John Fowles
The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing
Go Tell it on the Mountain, James Baldwin
Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
* The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
* Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon Read it three times.
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Handful of Dust, Evelyn Waugh
The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers
The Heart of the Matter, Graham Greene
Herzog, Saul Bellow
Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson
A House for Mr. Biswas, V.S. Naipaul
I, Claudius, Robert Graves
Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
Light in August, William Faulkner
*The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis
Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
* Lord of the Flies, William Golding
Loving, Henry Green
** Lucky Jim, Kingsley Amis This is the funniest book I have ever read.
The Man Who Loved Children, Christina Stead
Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
Money, Martin Amis
The Moviegoer, Walker Percy
Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
Naked Lunch, William Burroughs
Native Son, Richard Wright
*Neuromancer, William Gibson Great.
Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
** 1984, George Orwell Brilliant encapsulation of his ideas, not that much of an actual novel - common fault in SF.
On the Road, Jack Kerouac
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
The Painted Bird, Jerzy Kosinski
Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov
A Passage to India, E.M. Forster
Play It As It Lays, Joan Didion
Portnoy's Complaint, Philip Roth
Possession, A.S. Byatt
The Power and the Glory, Graham Greene
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark
Rabbit, Run, John Updike
Ragtime, E.L. Doctorow
The Recognitions, William Gaddis
Red Harvest, Dashiell Hammett
Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates
The Sheltering Sky, Paul Bowles
* Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut I read a lot of Vonnegut at one time. Not any more.
Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson
The SotWeed Factor, John Barth
The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner
The Sportswriter, Richard Ford
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, John le Carre
The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee Read it in school.
To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller
* Ubik, Philip K. Dick
Under the Net, Iris Murdoch
Watchmen, Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
- White Noise, Don DeLillo
White Teeth, Zadie Smith
Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys



Apparently I'm not as well read as I thought, at least according to people who read TIME.