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Read 20 book from Modern Library's List of 100 Best Books of the 20th Century

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In rank order from http://www.modernlibrary.com/top-100/100-best-novels/

Those books I've read prior to committing to this goal are preceded by (x) = 23;
I'll mark the next 27 read with (!)

ULYSSES, by James Joyce
(x) THE GREAT GATSBY, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN, by James Joyce
LOLITA, by Vladimir Nabokov
BRAVE NEW WORLD, by Aldous Huxley
THE SOUND AND THE FURY, by William Faulkner
(x) CATCH-22, by Joseph Heller
DARKNESS AT NOON, by Arthur Koestler
(x) SONS AND LOVERS, by D.H. Lawrence
(x) THE GRAPES OF WRATH, by John Steinbeck
UNDER THE VOLCANO, by Malcolm Lowry
THE WAY OF ALL FLESH, by Samuel Butler
(x) 1984, by George Orwell
I, CLAUDIUS, by Robert Graves
TO THE LIGHTHOUSE, by Virginia Woolf
AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY, by Theodore Dreiser
THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER, by Carson McCullers
(x) SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE, by Kurt Vonnegut
(x) INVISIBLE MAN, by Ralph Ellison
NATIVE SON. by Richard Wright
HENDERSON THE RAIN KING, by Saul Bellow
APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA, by John O’Hara
U.S.A.(trilogy), by John Dos Passos
WINESBURG, OHIO, by Sherwood Anderson
A PASSAGE TO INDIA, by E.M. Forster
THE WINGS OF THE DOVE, by Henry James
THE AMBASSADORS, by Henry James
(x) TENDER IS THE NIGHT, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
THE STUDS LONIGAN TRILOGY, by James T. Farrell
THE GOOD SOLDIER, by Ford Madox Ford
ANIMAL FARM, by George Orwell
THE GOLDEN BOWL, by Henry James
(x) SISTER CARRIE, by Theodore Dreiser
A HANDFUL OF DUST, by Evelyn Waugh
AS I LAY DYING, by William Faulkner
(x) ALL THE KING’S MEN, by Robert Penn Warren
THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY, by Thornton Wilder
HOWARDS END, by E.M. Forster
GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN, by James Baldwin
THE HEART OF THE MATTER, by Graham Greene
(x) LORD OF THE FLIES, by William Golding
DELIVERANCE, by James Dickey
A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME (series), by Anthony Powell
POINT COUNTER POINT, by Aldous Huxley
(x) THE SUN ALSO RISES, by Ernest Hemingway
THE SECRET AGENT, by Joseph Conrad
NOSTROMO, by Joseph Conrad
THE RAINBOW, by D.H. Lawrence
(x) WOMEN IN LOVE, by D.H. Lawrence
TROPIC OF CANCER, by Henry Miller
THE NAKED AND THE DEAD, by Norman Mailer
(x) PORTNOY’S COMPLAINT, by Philip Roth
PALE FIRE, by Vladimir Nabokov
LIGHT IN AUGUST, by William Faulkner
ON THE ROAD, by Jack Kerouac
(x) THE MALTESE FALCON, by Dashiell Hammett
PARADE’S END, by Ford Madox Ford
(x) THE AGE OF INNOCENCE, by Edith Wharton
ZULEIKA DOBSON, by Max Beerbohm
THE MOVIEGOER, by Walker Percy
DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP, by Willa Cather
FROM HERE TO ETERNITY, by James Jones
THE WAPSHOT CHRONICLES, by John Cheever
THE CATCHER IN THE RYE, by J.D. Salinger
(x) A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, by Anthony Burgess
OF HUMAN BONDAGE, by W. Somerset Maugham
HEART OF DARKNESS, by Joseph Conrad
MAIN STREET, by Sinclair Lewis
THE HOUSE OF MIRTH, by Edith Wharton
THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTET, by Lawrence Durrell
A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA, by Richard Hughes
A HOUSE FOR MR BISWAS, by V.S. Naipaul
THE DAY OF THE LOCUST, by Nathanael West
(x) A FAREWELL TO ARMS, by Ernest Hemingway
SCOOP, by Evelyn Waugh
THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE, by Muriel Spark
FINNEGANS WAKE, by James Joyce
(x) KIM, by Rudyard Kipling
A ROOM WITH A VIEW, by E.M. Forster
BRIDESHEAD REVISITED, by Evelyn Waugh
THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH, by Saul Bellow
ANGLE OF REPOSE, by Wallace Stegner
A BEND IN THE RIVER, by V.S. Naipaul
THE DEATH OF THE HEART, by Elizabeth Bowen
(x) LORD JIM, by Joseph Conrad
RAGTIME, by E.L. Doctorow
THE OLD WIVES’ TALE, by Arnold Bennett
(x) THE CALL OF THE WILD, by Jack London
LOVING, by Henry Green
MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN, by Salman Rushdie
TOBACCO ROAD, by Erskine Caldwell
IRONWEED, by William Kennedy
THE MAGUS, by John Fowles
(x) WIDE SARGASSO SEA, by Jean Rhys
UNDER THE NET, by Iris Murdoch
SOPHIE’S CHOICE, by William Styron
THE SHELTERING SKY, by Paul Bowles
THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE, by James M. Cain
THE GINGER MAN, by J.P. Donleavy
THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS, by Booth Tarkington
ULYSSES

by James Joyce

THE GREAT GATSBY

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN

by James Joyce

LOLITA

by Vladimir Nabokov

BRAVE NEW WORLD

by Aldous Huxley

THE SOUND AND THE FURY

by William Faulkner

CATCH-22

by Joseph Heller

DARKNESS AT NOON

by Arthur Koestler

SONS AND LOVERS

by D.H. Lawrence

THE GRAPES OF WRATH

by John Steinbeck

UNDER THE VOLCANO

by Malcolm Lowry

THE WAY OF ALL FLESH

by Samuel Butler

1984

by George Orwell

I, CLAUDIUS

by Robert Graves

TO THE LIGHTHOUSE

by Virginia Woolf

AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY

by Theodore Dreiser

THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER

by Carson McCullers

SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE

by Kurt Vonnegut

INVISIBLE MAN

by Ralph Ellison

NATIVE SON

by Richard Wright
http://www.modernlibrary.com/top-100/100-best-novels/
The list actually has 2 parts, those chosen by The Board, and those by The Readers. I've comboned the list which actually gives 168 unique books to choose from, I've managed 15 so far. Can I read another 5 in 3 months? I'll certainly give it a go!



1984 by George Orwell

A BEND IN THE RIVER by V.S. Naipaul

A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess X

A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME (series) by Anthony Powell

A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway

A HANDFUL OF DUST by Evelyn Waugh

A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA by Richard Hughes

A HOUSE FOR MR BISWAS by V.S. Naipaul

A PASSAGE TO INDIA by E.M. Forster

A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce

A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY by John Irving

A ROOM WITH A VIEW by E.M. Forster

A TOWN LIKE ALICE by Nevil Shute

ABSALOM, ABSALOM! by William Faulkner

ALL THE KING’S MEN by Robert Penn Warren

AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY by Theodore Dreiser

ANGLE OF REPOSE by Wallace Stegner

ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell X

ANTHEM by Ayn Rand

APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA by John O’Hara

ARROWSMITH by Sinclair Lewis

AS I LAY DYING by William Faulkner

AT SWIM-TWO-BIRDS by Flann O’Brien

AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS by H.P. Lovecraft

ATLAS SHRUGGED by Ayn Rand

BATTLEFIELD EARTH by L. Ron Hubbard

BELOVED by Toni Morrison

BLOOD MERIDIAN by Cormac McCarthy

BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley X

BRIDESHEAD REVISITED by Evelyn Waugh

CATCH-22 by Joseph Heller X

CITIZEN OF THE GALAXY by Robert Heinlein

DARKNESS AT NOON by Arthur Koestler

DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP by Willa Cather

DELIVERANCE by James Dickey

DOUBLE STAR by Robert Heinlein

DUNE by Frank Herbert X

ENDER’S GAME by Orson Scott Card

FARENHEIT 451 by Ray Bradbury X

FEAR by L. Ron Hubbard

FIFTH BUSINESS by Robertson Davies

FINNEGANS WAKE by James Joyce

FROM HERE TO ETERNITY by James Jones

GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN by James Baldwin

GONE WITH THE WIND by Margaret Mitchell

GRAVITY’S RAINBOW by Thomas Pynchon

GREENMANTLE by Charles de Lint

GUILTY PLEASURES by Laurell K. Hamilton

HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad

HENDERSON THE RAIN KING by Saul Bellow

HOWARDS END by E.M. Forster

I, CLAUDIUS by Robert Graves

ILLUSIONS by Richard Bach

INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison

IRONWEED by William Kennedy

IT by Stephen King

KIM by Rudyard Kipling

LIGHT IN AUGUST by William Faulkner

LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov X

LORD JIM by Joseph Conrad

LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding

LOVING by Henry Green

MAIN STREET by Sinclair Lewis

MEMORY AND DREAM by Charles de Lint

MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN by Salman Rushdie

MISSION EARTH by L. Ron Hubbard

MOONHEART by Charles de Lint

MULENGRO by Charles de Lint

MY ANTONIA by Willa Cather

MYTHAGO WOOD by Robert Holdstock

NAKED LUNCH by William S. Burroughs X

NATIVE SON by Richard Wright

NOSTROMO by Joseph Conrad

OF HUMAN BONDAGE by W. Somerset Maugham

ON THE BEACH by Nevil Shute

ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac X

ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST by Ken Kesey X

ONE LONELY NIGHT by Mickey Spillane

PALE FIRE by Vladimir Nabokov

PARADE’S END by Ford Madox Ford

POINT COUNTER POINT by Aldous Huxley

PORTNOY’S COMPLAINT by Philip Roth

RAGTIME by E.L. Doctorow

SCOOP by Evelyn Waugh

SHANE by Jack Schaefer

SISTER CARRIE by Theodore Dreiser

SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut X

SOMEPLACE TO BE FLYING by Charles de Lint

SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES by Ray Bradbury

SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION by Ken Kesey

SONS AND LOVERS by D.H. Lawrence

SOPHIE’S CHOICE by William Styron

STARSHIP TROOPERS by Robert Heinlein

STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND by Robert Heinlein

SUTTREE by Cormac McCarthy

TENDER IS THE NIGHT by F. Scott Fitzgerald

THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH by Saul Bellow

THE AGE OF INNOCENCE by Edith Wharton

THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTET by Lawrence Durell

THE AMBASSADORS by Henry James

THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY by Thornton Wilder

THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London

THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger X

THE CUNNING MAN by Robertson Davies

THE DAY OF THE LOCUST by Nathanael West

THE DEATH OF THE HEART by Elizabeth Bowen

THE DOOR INTO SUMMER by Robert Heinlein

THE FOUNTAINHEAD by Ayn Rand

THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT’S WOMAN by John Fowles

THE GINGER MAN by J.P. Donleavy

THE GOLDEN BOWL by Henry James

THE GOOD SOLDIER by Ford Madox Ford

THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck

THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald X

THE HANDMAID’S TALE by Margaret Atwood

THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE by Shirley Jackson

THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by Carson McCullers

THE HEART OF THE MATTER by Graham Greene

THE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY by Douglas Adams X

THE HOUSE OF MIRTH by Edith Wharton

THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER by Tom Clancy

THE LITTLE COUNTRY by Charles de Lint

THE LORD OF THE RINGS by J.R.R. Tolkien

THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS by Booth Tarkington

THE MAGUS by John Fowles

THE MALTESE FALCON by Dashiell Hammett

THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS by Robert Heinlein

THE MOVIEGOER by Walker Percy

THE NAKED AND THE DEAD by Norman Mailer

THE OLD WIVES’ TALE by Arnold Bennett

THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE by James M. Cain

THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE by Muriel Spark

THE PUPPET MASTERS by Robert Heinlein

THE RAINBOW by D.H. Lawrence

THE RECOGNITIONS by William Gaddis

THE SATANIC VERSES by Salman Rushdie

THE SECRET AGENT by Joseph Conrad

THE SHELTERING SKY by Paul Bowles

THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner

THE STAND by Stephen King

THE STUDS LONIGAN TRILOGY by James T. Farrell

THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway

THE WAPSHOT CHRONICLES by John Cheever

THE WAY OF ALL FLESH by Samuel Butler

THE WINGS OF THE DOVE by Henry James

THE WOOD WIFE by Terri Windling

THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP by John Irving

THE WORM OUROBOROS by E.R. Eddison

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee X

TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf

TOBACCO ROAD by Erskine Caldwell

TRADER by Charles de Lint

TROPIC OF CANCER by Henry Miller

TRUSTEE FROM THE TOOLROOM by Nevil Shute

U.S.A.(trilogy) by John Dos Passos

ULYSSES by James Joyce

UNDER THE NET by Iris Murdoch

UNDER THE VOLCANO by Malcolm Lowry

V. by Thomas Pynchon

WATERSHIP DOWN by Richard Adams

WE THE LIVING by Ayn Rand

WIDE SARGASSO SEA by Jean Rhys

WINESBURG, OHIO by Sherwood Anderson

WISE BLOOD by Flannery O’Connor

WOMEN IN LOVE by D.H. Lawrence

YARROW by Charles de Lint

ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE by Robert Pirsig

ZULEIKA DOBSON by Max Beerbohm

1. Ulysses - James Joyce

2. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

3. The sound and the fury - William Faulkner

4. Darkness at noon - Arthur koestler

5. Battlefield earth - L. Ron Hubbard

6. Sons and lovers - d.h. Lawrence

7. To the lighthouse - Virginia wolfe

8. The heart is a lonely hunter - Carson McCullers

9. Gravitys rainbow - Thomas Pynchon

10. All the Kings men - Robert pen warren

11. Nostromo- Joseph Conrad

12. A room with a view - e.m. Forester

13. The stand - Stephen king

14. Point counter point - aldous Huxley

15. The sun also rises - earnest hemmingway

16. The Maltese falcon - dashiell hammet

17. The world according to garp - John Irving

18. Something wicked comes this way - Ray bradbury

19. The door into summer - Robert heinlein

20. The hunt for red October - Tom Clancy
http://www.modernlibrary.com/top-100/100-best-novels/
http://www.modernlibrary.com/top-100/100-best-novels/
1: Sons & Lovers - D. H. Lawrence

2: Under the Volcano - Malcolm Lowry

3: Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald

4: Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugham

5: The Rainbow - D. H. Lawrence

6: The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner

7: Point Counter Point - Aldous Huxley

8: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers

9: The Call of the Wild - Jack London

10: The Magnificent Ambersons - Booth Tarkington

11: Day of the Locust - Nathaniel West

12: Sister Carrie - Theodore Dreiser

13: Women in Love - D. H. Lawrence

14: Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut

15: Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller

16: Sophie's Choice - William Styron

17: A Room With a View - E. M. Forster

18: Howard's End - E. M. Forster

19: The Heart of the Matter - Graham Greene
1: Sons & Lovers - D. H. Lawrence

2: Under the Volcano - Malcolm Lowry

3: Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald

4: Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugham

5: The Rainbow - D. H. Lawrence

6: The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner

7: Point Counter Point - Aldous Huxley

8: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers

9: The Call of the Wild - Jack London

10: The Magnificent Ambersons - Booth Tarkington

11: Day of the Locust - Nathaniel West

12: Sister Carrie - Theodore Dreiser
Books to Read:



Sophie's Choice

The Postman Always Rings Twice

Midnight's Children

The Catcher in the Rye

Tropic of Cancer

Pale Fire

Lord of the Flies

Slaughterhouse Five

Catch 22
Books to Read:



Sophie's Choice

The Postman Always Rings Twice

Midnight's Children

The Catcher in the Rye

Tropic of Cancer

Pale Fire

Lord of the Flies

Slaughterhouse Five

Catch 22
http://www.modernlibrary.com/top-100/100-best-novels/
1. The sound and the fury

2. Native son

3. Animal farm

4. As I lay dying

5. Lord of the flies

6. The catcher in the rye

7. Heart of darkness

8. Beloved

9. Ender’s game

10. Fahrenheit 451

11. The age of innocence (currently reading)

Catch-22

To the Lighthouse

An American Tragedy

Invisible Man - Ellison

Animal Farm

Slaughterhouse Five

Tender is the Night

As I Lay Dying

Beloved

Lord of the Flies

Deliverance - Dickey

The Sun Also Rises

On the Road

The Handmaid's Tale

A Clockwork Orange

The Haunting of Hill House

Sophie's Choice

Brideshead Revisited

One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest

My Antonia - Cather


1. Ulysses by James Joyce



2. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald - Already read



3. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Signet Classics) by James Joyce



4. Lolita, 50th Anniversary Edition by Vladimir Nabokov



5. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley - Already read



6. The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text by William Faulkner



7. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller - Already read



8. Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler



9. Sons and Lovers (Modern Library Classics) by D.H. Lawrence - Already read



10. The Grapes of Wrath (20th Century Classics) by John Steinbeck - Already read



11. Under the Volcano: A Novel (Perennial Classics) by Malcolm Lowry



12. The Way of All Flesh (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) by Samuel Butler



13. 1984 (Signet Classics) by George Orwell



14. I, Claudius From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius Born 10 B.C. Murdered and Deified

A.D. 54 (Vintage International) by Robert Graves



15. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf



16. An American Tragedy (Signet Classics) by Theodore Dreiser



17. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers



18. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut



19. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison



20. Native Son by Richard Wright



21. Henderson the Rain King (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) by Saul Bellow



22. Appointment in Samarra (Vintage Open Market) by John O'Hara



23. U.S.A.: The 42nd Parallel / 1919 / The Big Money (Library of America) by John Dos Passos



24. Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson



25. A Passage to India by E. M. Forster - Already read



26. The Wings of the Dove (Everymans Library, 230) by Henry James



27. The Ambassadors (Penguin Classics) by Henry James - Read for goal



28. Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald



29. Studs Lonigan (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by James T. Farrell



30. The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion (Oxford World's Classics) by Ford Madox Ford



31. Animal Farm by George Orwell



32. The Golden Bowl (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics) by Henry James



33. Sister Carrie (Signet Classics) by Theodore Dreiser



34. A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh



35. As I Lay Dying: The Corrected Text by William Faulkner



36. All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren



37. The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Perennial Classics) by Thornton Wilder



38. Howards End (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by E. M. Forster



39. Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin



40. The Heart of the Matter (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) by Graham Greene



41. Lord of the Flies by William Golding - Already read



42. Deliverance by James Dickey



43. A Dance to the Music of Time (series) by Anthony Powell



44. Point Counter Point (British Literature) by Aldous Huxley



45. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway



46. The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (Oxford World's Classics) by Joseph Conrad



47. Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard (Penguin Classics) by Joseph Conrad



48. The Rainbow (Modern Library Classics) by D.H. Lawrence



49. Women in Love (Modern Library Classics)



50. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller



51. The Naked and the Dead: 50th Anniversary Edition by Norman Mailer



52. Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth



53. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov



54. Light in August (The Corrected Text) by William Faulkner



55. On the Road by Jack Kerouac



56. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett



57. Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford



58. The Age of Innocence (Modern Library Classics) by Edith Wharton



59. Zuleika Dobson (Modern Library Paperbacks) by Max Beerbohm



60. The Moviegoer by Walker Percy



61. Death Comes for the Archbishop (Vintage Classics) by Willa Cather



62. From Here to Eternity by James Jones



63. The Wapshot Chronicle (Perennial Classics) by John Cheever



64. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger



65. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess - Already read



66. Of Human Bondage (Bantam Classics) by W. Somerset Maugham



67. Heart of Darkness (Hesperus Classics) by Joseph Conrad - Already read



68. Main Street (Signet Classics) by Sinclair Lewis



69. The House of Mirth (Signet Classics) by Edith Wharton



70. The Alexandria Quartet Boxed Set: Justine; Balthazar; Mountolive; Clea by Lawrence Durrell



71. A High Wind in Jamaica (New York Review Books Classics) by Richard Hughes



72. A House for Mr. Biswas by V.S. Naipaul - Already read



73. The Day of the Locust (Signet Classic) by Nathanael West



74. A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway



75. Scoop by Evelyn Waugh



76. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark



77. Finnegans Wake (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) by James Joyce



78. Kim (Penguin Classics) by Rudyard Kipling - Read for goal



79. A Room with a View (Classic) by E.M. Forster - Already read



80. Brideshead Revisited (Everyman's Library) by Evelyn Waugh



81. The Adventures of Augie March (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) by Saul Bellow



82. Angle of Repose (Contemporary American Fiction) by Wallace Stegner



83. A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul



84. The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen



85. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad



86. Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow



87. The Old Wives' Tale (Modern Library Classics) by Arnold Bennett



88. The Call Of The Wild (Scholastic Classics) by Jack London



89. Loving (A novel by Henry Green) by Henry Green



90. Midnight's Children (Everyman's Library) by Salman Rushdie - Already read



91. Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell



92. Ironweed: A Novel by William J. Kennedy



93. The Magus by JOHN FOWLES



94. Wide Sargasso Sea (Norton Paperback Fiction) by Jean Rhys - Already read



95. Under the Net by Iris Murdoch



96. Sophie's Choice by WILLIAM STYRON



97. The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles



98. The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain



99. The Ginger Man by J. P. Donleavy



100. The Magnificent Ambersons (Modern Library Classics) by Booth Tarkington

http://www.modernlibrary.com/top-100/100-best-novels/



Done:

1. Catcher in the Rye
I've already read:
1) 1984
2) Animal Farm
3) Lord of the Flies
4) Light in August
5) Catcher in the Rye
6) A Room with a View

Want to read:
- As I Lay Dying (Faulkner)
- A Farewell to Arms (Hemingway)
- Catch 22
- Great Gatsby
- To the Lighthouse
- Slaughter House Five
- Sophie's Choice
- Brave New World
- The Grapes of Wrath
http://www.modernlibrary.com/top-100/100-best-novels/
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1. Sons and Lovers (not done)
2. Deliverance--Dickey (not done)
3. Point Counterpoint--Huxley (not done)
4. The Naked and the Dead--Mailer (not done)
5. Sophie's Choice--Styron (DONE)
6. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man--Joyce (not done)
7. Invisible Man--Ellison (not done)
8. A Handful of Dust--Waugh (DONE)
9. Pale Fire--Nabokov (not done)
10. On the Road--Kerouac (not done)
11. The Moviegoer--Percy (not done)
12. The Age of Innocence--Wharton (not done)
13. Death Comes for the Archbishop--Cather (not done)
14. The Day of the Locust--West (DONE)
15. Kim--Kipling (not done)
16. Angle of Repose--Stegner (not done)
17. Midnight's Children--Rushdie (not done)
18. The Postman Always Rings Twice--Cain (DONE)
19. The Ginger Man--Donleavy (not done)
20. The Death of the Heart--Bowen (not done)
1.George Orwell '1984'
2.Kurt Vonnegut 'Slaughterhouse-five'
3.J.D.Salinger 'The Catcher in the Rye'
4.Anthony Burgess 'A Clockwork Orange'
I decided since it's my list and I can pretty much do whatever I want, I'll read 10 from the board's list and 10 from the reader's list. And no cheating. All of them for this task will be books I haven't read until I started this list.
Will also read Catch-22, 1984, The Sun Also Rises, A Clockwork Orange, A Farewell to Arms, Finnegan's Wake, Pale Fire (I'm really interested in the structure. Nerd.), Brave New World, The Way of All Flesh, and The Grapes of Wrath.
1. The Great Gatsby
2. Animal Farm
3. As I Lay Dying
4. Lord of the Flies
5. On The Road
6. The Catcher in the Rye

Will ideally read Lolita, Heart of Darkness, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and Slaughterhouse-Five.
people also added