Sunday, August 25, 2013

Half-Way!

We finally made it to the half-way marker on our list of 100 novels! The books read so far are as follows:

1. A Passage to India (E.M. Forster)
2. An American Tragedy (Theodore Dreiser)
3. Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
4. The Great Gatsby (Scott Fitzgerald)
5. The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)
6. Death Comes for the Archbishop (Willa Cather)
7. The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Thornton Wilder)
8. To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf)
9. Red Harvest (Dashiell Hammett)
10. The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)
11. Light in August (William Faulkner)
12. A Handful of Dust (Evelyn Waugh)
13. I, Claudius (Robert Graves)
14. Tropic of Cancer (Henry Miller)
15. Appointment in Samarra (John O'Hara)
16. Call It Sleep (Henry Roth)
17. Gone with the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
18. Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston)
19. At Swim-Two-Birds (Flann O'Brien)
20. The Death of the Heart (Elizabeth Bowen)
21. The Big Sleep (Raymond Chandler)
22. The Day of the Locust (Nathanael West)
23. The Power and the Glory (Graham Greene)
24. The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
25. The Man Who Loved Children (Christina Stead)
26. Native Son (Richard Wright)
27. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Carson McCullers)
28. Loving (Henry Green)
29. All the King's Men (Robert Penn Warren)
30. Animal Farm (George Orwell)
31. The Berlin Stories (Christopher Isherwood)
32. Brideshead Revisited (Evelyn Waugh)
33. Under the Volcano (Malcolm Lowry)
34. 1984 (George Orwell)
35. The Heart of the Matter (Graham Greene)
36. The Sheltering Sky (Paul Bowles)
37. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (C.S. Lewis)
38. The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
39. A Dance to the Music of Time (Books 1-4) (Anthony Powell)
40. Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
41. Go Tell It on the Mountain (James Baldwin)
42. The Adventures of Augie March (Saul Bellow)
43. The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien)
44. Lucky Jim (Kingsley Amis)
45. Under the Net (Iris Murdoch)
46. The Recognitions (William Gaddis)
47. Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
48. Lolita (Vladimir Nabakov)
49. The Assistant (Bernard Malamud)
50. On the Road (Jack Kerouac)

Whew!  Only 50 more novels and probably 3.5 years to go!  If you want to jump in, I'm diving into James Agee's A Death in the Family next!

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