Now THIS is a List I Can Get On Board With...
Created by the lovely antiqrule1 , here's what I've read from The Shayne List of a Well-Read Person's Top 100 Books:
- Remembrance of Things Past - Marcel Proust
- Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
- Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
- Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
- The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
- The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
- The Age of Reason - Jean-Paul Sartre
- A Room of One's Own - Virginia Woolf
- The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
- Maus - Art Spiegelman
- Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
- The Stranger - Albert Camus
- One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- A Passage to India - E.M. Forester
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
- The Razor's Edge - Somerset Maughm
- Corelli's Mandolin - Louis de Bernieres
- I, Claudius - Robert Graves
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - Michael Chabon
- Dubliners - James Joyce
- Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
- Amerika - Franz Kafka
- Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
- Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre
- The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas - Gertrude Stein
- Anecdotes of Destiny and Ehrengard - Isak Dinesen
- Old School - Tobias Wolff
- The Plague - Albert Camus
- The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
- The Once and Future King - E.B. White
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - Edward Albee
- Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
- Shogun - James Clavell
- The End of the Affair - Graham Greene
- Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
- Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
- The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
- The Quiet American - Graham Greene
- Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
- Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
- You Shall Know Our Velocity - Dave Eggars
- Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi
- Faust - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Lost in the Fun House - John Barth
- Goodbye, Columbus - Philip Roth
- Scoop - Evelyn Waugh
- The Magnificent Ambersons - Booth Tarkington
- The Postman Always Rings Twice - James M. Cain
- Spring Snow - Yukio Mishima
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
- Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
- The Human Comedy - William Saroyan
- The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain
- Good Morning, Midnight - Jean Rhys
- A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
- Fugitive Pieces - Anne Michaels
- The Insanity Defense - Woody Allen
- Ellis Island - Mark Helprin
- Zorba the Greek - Nikos Kazantzakis
- Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress - Dai Sijie
- In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
- Ragtime - E.L. Doctorow
- Love in the Time of Cholera - Garbriel Garcia Marquez
- When We Were Orphans - Kazuo Ishiguro
- The Stories of John Cheever - John Cheever
- Contempt - Alberto Moravia
- Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
- Invisible Man - Ralph Elison
- To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
- Siddhartha - Herman Hesse
- Ulysses - James Joyce
- Finnegan's Wake - James Joyce
- Atonement - Ian McEwan
- The Secret History - Donna Tartt
- The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon - Sei Shonagon
- Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
- Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie
- Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
- Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov
- White Teeth - Zadie Smith
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X - Malcolm X
- The Wasteland - T.S. Eliot
- How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York - Jacob Riis
- Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
- The Birth of Tragedy - Fredrich Nietzche
- On the Road - Jack Kerouac
- Survival in Auschwitz - Primo Levi
- The Mahabharata - R.K. Narayan
- The Beautiful and the Damned - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
- The Hero with a Thousand Faces - Joseph Campbell
- Tales From Ovid - Ted Hughes
- The Metamorphosis and Other Stories - Franz Kafka
- Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac
- Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
- To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
- A Room with a View - E.M. Forester