This is the Time Magazine Best Books of All Time list (top 100 from 1923 - 2005, when the list was published). My goal is to read every book on this list. I don't know why, I just know I want to. Books in bold I've already read. Underlined books I've started. Feel free to recommend ones you like. I plan to read at least 12 of these this year. (This is actually something I've been trying to do for a while, but I sort of forgot about it for a while. Whoops.) I've only read 23 so far. Pathetic. I was an English major, how is that possible?! I've got two started, although one is packed in a box. If you want a recommendation about any I've read let me know. Some I liked, some not so much.
The Adventures of Augie March
All the King's Men
American Pastoral
An American Tragedy
Animal Farm
Appointment in Samarra
Are you There God? It's Me, Margaret
The Assistant
At Swim-Two-Birds
Atonement
Beloved
The Berlin Stories
The Big Sleep
The Blind Assassin
Blood Meridian
Brideshead Revisited
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Call It Sleep
Catch-22
The Cather in the Rye
A Clockwork Orange
The Confessions of Nat Turner
The Corrections
The Crying of Lot 49
A Dance to the Music of Time
The Day of the Locus
Death Comes for the Archbishop
A Death in the Family
The Death of the Heart
Deliverance
Dog Soldiers
Falconer
The French Lieutenant's Woman
The Golden Notebook
Got Tell it on the Mountain
Gone with the Wind
The Grapes of Wrath
Gravity's Rainbow
The Great Gatsby
A Handful of Dust
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
The Heart of the Matter
Herzong
Housekeeping
A House for Mr. Biswas
I, Cluadius
Infinte Jest
Invisible Man
Light in August
The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
Lolita
Lord of the Flies
Lord of the Rings
Loving
Lucky Jim
The Man Who Loved children
Midnight's Children
Money
The Movie Goer
Mrs. Dalloway
Naked Lunch
Native Son
Neromancer
Never Let Me Go
1984
On the Road
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Painted Bird
Pale Fire
A Passage to India
Play it as it Lays
Portnoy's Complaint
Possession
The Power and the Glory
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Rabbit, Run
Ragtime
The Recognitions
Red Harvest
Revolutionary Road
The Sheltering Sky
Slaughterhouse Five
Snow Crash
The Sot-Weed Factor
The Sound and the Fury
The Sportswriter
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
The Sun Also Rises
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Things Fall Apart
To Kill a Mockinbird
To the Lighthouse
Tropic of Cancer
Ubik
Under the Net
Under the Volcano
Watchmen
White Noise
White Teeth
Wide Sargasso Sea
Snow Crash made this list? Good book, but I'm surprised. All the King's Men is one of my favorite books ever, so I'd definitely recommend that one. Wide Sargasso Sea is more interesting if you've read (and hopefully enjoyed Jan Eyre), but it's okay either way.
ReplyDeleteI haven't actually read any more of these than you have, but I'll use the fact that I was a physics major as an excuse!
I can believe I've read at least 3 of them (about 25years ago) and I've seen a couple of movies... But I didn't major in anything, I went to work, and in my spare time I run!
ReplyDeleteGood luck with the books, I should take the list to my Dad he reads... to much!