Newsweek says they crunched all the other lists together to make this master list. What do ya'll think? I didn't do so well on it, only 13.
I couldn't find that anyone else on my blog list has taken the time to type them all in, so I went ahead and did it for you. You're welcome. I marked the ones I'd read with a star instead of highlighting or bolding or anything funky that would be hard for you to remove on your own blog, should you want to repost it. I can never make other people's formatting go away.
- War and Peace by Tolstoy
- 1984 by Orwell
- Ulysses by Joyce
- Lolita by Nabokov
- The Sound and The Fury by Faulkner
- Invisible Man by Ellison
- To The Lighthouse by Woolf
- The Illiad and the Odyssey by Homer*
- Pride and Prejudice by Austen*
- Divine Comedy by Alighieri
- Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
- Gulliver's Travels by Swift
- Middlemarch by Eliot
- Things Fall Abart by Achebe*
- The Catcher in the Rye by Salinger*
- Gone with the Wind by Mitchell*
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Marquez
- The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald
- Catch-22 by Heller
- Beloved by Morrison
- The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck
- Midnight's Children by Rushdie
- Brave New World by Huxley*
- Mrs. Dalloway by Woolf
- Native Son by Wright
- Democracy in America by Tocqueville
- On the Origin of Species by Darwin
- The Histories by Herodotus
- The Social Contract by Rousseau
- Das Kapital by Marx
- The Prince by Machiavelli
- Confessions by St. Augustine
- Leviathan by Hobbes
- The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
- The Lord of the Rings by Tolkien*
- Winnie-the-Pooh by Milne
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by Lewis*
- A Passage to India by Forster
- On the Road by Kerouac
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Lee*
- The Holy Bible, Revised Standard Version
- A Clockwork Orange by Burgess
- Light in August by Faulkner
- The Souls of Black Folk by Du Bois
- Wide Sargasso Sea by Rhys
- Madame Bovary by Flaubert
- Paradise Lost by Milton
- Anna Karenina by Tolstoy
- Hamlet by Shakespeare
- King Lear by Shakespeare
- Othello by Shakespeare
- Sonnets by Shakespeare
- Leaves of Grass by Whitman
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Twain
- Kim by Kipling
- Frankenstein by Shelley
- Song of Soloman by Morrison
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Kesey
- For Whom the Bell Tolls by Hemingway
- Slaugherhouse-Five by Vonnegut
- Animal Farm by Orwell
- Lord of the Flies by Golding
- In Cold Blood by Capote
- The Golden Notebook by Lessing
- Remembrance of Things Past by Proust
- The Big Sleep by Chandler
- As I Lay Dying by Faulkner
- The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway
- I, Claudius by Graves
- The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by McCullers
- Sons and Lovers by Lawrence
- All the King's Men by Warren
- Go Tell it on the Mountain by Warren
- Charlotte's Web by White*
- Heart of Darkness by Conrad*
- Night by Wiesel*
- Rabbit, Run by Updike
- The Age of Innocence by Wharton
- Portney's Complaint by Roth
- An American Tragedy by Dreiser
- The Day of the Locust by West
- Tropic of Cancer by Miller
- The Maltese Falcon by Hammett
- His Dark Materials by Pullman
- Death Comes for the Archbishop by Cather
- The Interpretation of Dreams by Freud
- The Education of Henry Adams by Adams
- Quotations from Chairman Mao by Mao Zedong
- The Varieties of Religious Experience by James
- Brideshead Revisted by Waugh
- Silent Spring by Carson
- The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money by Keynes
- Lord Jim by Conrad
- Goodbye to All That by Graves
- The Affluent Society by Galbraith
- The Wind in the Willows by Grahame*
- The Autobiograhy of Malcom X
- Eminent Victorians by Strachey
- The Color Purple by Walker*
- The Second World War by Churchill
Hi - I finally figured out that I should be reading this blog :)
ReplyDeleteThank you for posting this list. There are two books on here that I think are absolute musts for reading: Democracy in America by de Tocqueville (you don't have to read the whole thing at once) and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. I really can't believe that you haven't read Winnie the Pooh or Wind in the Willows. I'm guessing you have and didn't realize... :)
Thanks for doing the heavy lifting on this one! I wasn't ambitious enough to type the whole thing out! :-)
ReplyDeleteLezlie
I think I counted 26 1/2 in all, but I did it quickly so I could be off by one. The 1/2 is for Homer's Odyessy, which I read. I haven't read The Iliad.
ReplyDeletePackrat, you're right, I have read Wind in the Willows. I counted it when I first read the list but forgot to star it. I have NOT to my knowledge read Winnie the Pooh. I really dislike Winnie the Pooh. Perhaps it was read to me as a child, but I don't recall it.
ReplyDeleteAs a rough count, I've read 31 of these--mostly for college courses. These always make me wonder what the criteria is for a book being on the list. Where are all the modern books? I see some from the 80s but not much more recent than that.
ReplyDeleteOh, I guess I'm with Wendy on the 1/2 for The Odyessy. :P
I have not read many of these either LOL! And also, I have a small gift for you over here http://journeyof1000stitches.blogspot.com/2009/07/so-blessed.html
ReplyDeleteAnd also, you asked me about Sew U ... I like what I've read - it all makes a lot of sense. But I haven't put any of it to the test yet LOL!
I've read 19 - but I know I'll never be able to say I read them all - there are too many on the list I have no interest in whatsoever. Plus, I've read some selections from Leaves of Grass, and I can't stand Walt Whitman, so no way would I slog through the whole thing!
ReplyDeleteYou did better than me.... wow what a list.
ReplyDeleteI love your blog header! That is so cute!
That's quite teh serious list of books. I've read 24. And started maybe another 4-5 but never finished.
ReplyDeleteOH my God, where is Dostoevsky? How can be 100 top books without fyodor? this is big bullshit and no top 100 books... how can be vonnegut higher than dostoevsky?
ReplyDeleteThanks for posting this.
ReplyDeleteI count 25 that I've read:
1984 by Orwell
The Sound and The Fury by Faulkner
The Catcher in the Rye by Salinger*
The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald
Catch-22 by Heller
The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck
Brave New World by Huxley*
Native Son by Wright
The Lord of the Rings by Tolkien*
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by Lewis*
On the Road by Kerouac
To Kill a Mockingbird by Lee*
The Holy Bible, Revised Standard Version
A Clockwork Orange by Burgess
Hamlet by Shakespeare
King Lear by Shakespeare
Frankenstein by Shelley
Song of Solomon by Morrison
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Kesey
Slaugherhouse-Five by Vonnegut
Animal Farm by Orwell
Lord of the Flies by Golding
The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway
Heart of Darkness by Conrad*
The Maltese Falcon by Hammett
You should read Animal Farm. It's a great book that you can finish off in a sitting or two.
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