We are reading the Time list in the following order:
1 A Passage to India (1924)
E.M. Forster
2 An American Tragedy (1925)
Theodore Dreiser
3 Mrs. Dalloway (1925)
Virginia Woolf
4 The Great Gatsby (1925)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
5 The Sun Also Rises (1926)
Ernest Hemingway
6 Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927)
Willa Cather
7 The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927)
Thornton Wilder
8 To the Lighthouse (1927)
Virginia Woolf
9 Red Harvest (1929)
Dashiell Hammett
10 The Sound and the Fury (1929)
William Faulkner
11 Light in August (1932)
William Faulkner
12 A Handful of Dust (1934)
Evelyn Waugh
13 I, Claudius (1934)
Robert Graves
14 Tropic of Cancer (1934)
Henry Miller
15 Appointment in Samarra(1934)
John O'Hara
16 Call It Sleep (1935)
Henry Roth
17 Gone With the Wind (1936)
Margaret Mitchell
18 Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)
Zora Neale Hurston
19 At Swim-Two-Birds (1938)
Flann O'Brien
20 The Death of the Heart (1938)
Elizabeth Bowen
21 The Big Sleep (1939)
Raymond Chandler
22 The Day of the Locust (1939)
Nathanael West
23 The Power and the Glory (1939)
Graham Greene
24 The Grapes of Wrath (1939)
John Steinbeck
25 The Man Who Loved Children (1940)
Christina Stead
26 Native Son (1940)
Richard Wright
27 The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter (1940)
Carson McCullers
28 Loving (1945)
Henry Green
29 All the King's Men (1946)
Robert Penn Warren
30 Animal Farm (1946)
George Orwell
31 The Berlin Stories (1946)
Christopher Isherwood
32 Brideshead Revisited (1946)
Evelyn Waugh
33 Under the Volcano (1947)
Malcolm Lowry
34 1984 (1948)
George Orwell
35 The Heart of the Matter (1948)
Graham Greene
36 The Sheltering Sky (1949)
Paul Bowles
37 The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (1950)
C.S. Lewis
38 The Catcher in the Rye (1951)
J.D. Salinger
39 A Dance to the Music of Time (1951)
Anthony Powell
40 Invisible Man (1952)
Ralph Ellison
41 Go Tell it on the Mountain (1953)
James Baldwin
42 The Adventures of Augie March (1953)
Saul Bellow
43 The Lord of the Rings (1954)
J.R.R. Tolkien
44 Lucky Jim (1954)
Kingsley Amis
45 Under the Net (1954)
Iris Murdoch
46 The Recognitions (1955)
William Gaddis
47 Lord of the Flies (1955)
William Golding
48 Lolita (1955)
Vladimir Nabokov
49 The Assistant (1957)
Bernard Malamud
50 On the Road (1957)
Jack Kerouac
51 A Death in the Family (1958)
James Agee
52 Things Fall Apart (1959)
Chinua Achebe
53 Naked Lunch (1959)
William Burroughs
54 The Sot-Weed Factor (1960)
John Barth
55 Rabbit, Run (1960)
John Updike
56 To Kill a Mockingbird (1960)
Harper Lee
57 Revolutionary Road (1961)
Richard Yates
58 Catch-22 (1961)
Joseph Heller
59 The Moviegoer (1961)
Walker Percy
60 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961)
Muriel Spark
61 Pale Fire (1962)
Vladimir Nabokov
62 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962)
Ken Kesey
63 The Golden Notebook (1962)
Doris Lessing
64 A House for Mr. Biswas (1962)
V.S. Naipaul
65 A Clockwork Orange (1963)
Anthony Burgess
66 The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (1964)
John le Carre
67 Herzog (1964)
Saul Bellow
68 The Painted Bird (1965)
Jerzy Kosinski
69 Wide Sargasso Sea (1966)
Jean Rhys
70 The Crying of Lot 49 (1966)
Thomas Pynchon
71 The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967)
William Styron
72 Portnoy's Complaint (1969)
Philip Roth
73 The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969)
John Fowles
74 Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)
Kurt Vonnegut
75 Ubik (1969)
Philip K. Dick
76 Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret (1970)
Judy Blume
77 Play It As It Lays (1970)
Joan Didion
78 Deliverance (1970)
James Dickey
79 Gravity's Rainbow (1973)
Thomas Pynchon
80 Dog Soldiers (1974)
Robert Stone
81 Ragtime (1975)
E.L. Doctorow
82 Falconer (1977)
John Cheever
83 Midnight's Children (1981)
Salman Rushdie
84 Housekeeping (1981)
Marilynne Robinson
85 Money (1984)
Martin Amis
86 Neuromancer (1984)
William Gibson
87 White Noise (1985)
Don DeLillo
88 Blood Meridian (1986)
Cormac McCarthy
89 The Sportswriter (1986)
Richard Ford
90 Watchmen (1986)
Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
91 Beloved (1987)
Toni Morrison
92 Possession (1990)
A.S. Byatt
93 Snow Crash (1992)
Neal Stephenson
94 Infinite Jest (1996)
David Foster Wallace
95 American Pastoral (1997)
Philip Roth
96 White Teeth (2000)
Zadie Smith
97 The Blind Assassin (2000)
Margaret Atwood
98 The Corrections (2001)
Jonathan Franzen
99 Atonement (2002)
Ian McEwan
100 Never Let Me Go (2005)
Kazuo Ishiguro
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
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i'm a loser, i've only read like 5 of them. :P
ReplyDeleteLOL, Kati! We know how you feel. We used to teach English at Boston University, and we've read fewer than 30%. But hence the reading and the feeling smarter and the woot . . .
ReplyDeletelol, maybe after i move i'll join you from the sidelines!
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