Time's List of 10０ Books to Read Before You Die
I feel like I haven't been reading anything intellectual since I came here. Let's see how long it will take to get through this list.
As of 02/01/2010: 8/10０ Read
1. The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
2. All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren
3. American Pastoral by Philip Roth
4. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
5. Animal Farm by George Orwell
6. Appointment in Samarra by John O’Hara
7. Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume Read
8. The Assistant by Bernard Malamud
9. At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O’Brien
10. Atonement by Ian McEwan
11. Beloved by Toni Morrison
12. Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood
13. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
14. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
15. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
16. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
17. The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
18. Call It Sleep by Henry Roth
19. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
20. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
21. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
22. The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
23. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
24. The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
25. A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell
26. The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
27. Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
28. A Death in the Family by James Agee
29. The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen
30. Deliverance by James Dickey
31. Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone
32. Falconer by John Cheever
33. The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles
34. The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
35. Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin
36. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
37. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
38. Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
39. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Read
40. A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
41. The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
42. The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
43. Herzog by Saul Bellow
44. Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
45. House for Mr. Biswas by V.S. Naipaul
46. I, Claudius by Robert Graves
47. Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
48. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
49. Light in August by William Faulkner
50. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis Read
51. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
52. Lord of the Flies by William Golding Read
53. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien Read
54. Loving by Henry Green
55. Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
56. The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead
57. Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
58. Money by Martin Amis
59. The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
60. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
61. Naked Lunch by William Burroughs
62. Native Son by Richard Wright
63. Neuromancer by William Gibson
64. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
65. 1984 by George Orwell Read
66. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
67. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
68. The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski
69. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
70. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
71. Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
72. Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth
73. Possession by A.S. Byatt
74. The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
75. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
76. Rabbit, Run by John Updike
77. Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow
78. The Recognitions by William Gaddis
79. Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
80. Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
81. The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
82. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
83. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
84. The Sot-Weed Factor by John Barth
85. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
86. The Sportswriter by Richard Ford
87. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John le Carre
88. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
89. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
90. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe Read
91. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Read
92. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
93. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
94. Ubik by Philip K. Dick
95. Under the Net by Iris Murdoch
96. Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
97. Watchmen by Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
98. White Noise by Don DeLillo
99. White Teeth by Zadie Smith
100. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
As of 02/01/2010: 8/10０ Read
1. The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
2. All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren
3. American Pastoral by Philip Roth
4. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
5. Animal Farm by George Orwell
6. Appointment in Samarra by John O’Hara
7. Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume Read
8. The Assistant by Bernard Malamud
9. At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O’Brien
10. Atonement by Ian McEwan
11. Beloved by Toni Morrison
12. Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood
13. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
14. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
15. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
16. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
17. The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
18. Call It Sleep by Henry Roth
19. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
20. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
21. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
22. The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
23. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
24. The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
25. A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell
26. The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
27. Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
28. A Death in the Family by James Agee
29. The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen
30. Deliverance by James Dickey
31. Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone
32. Falconer by John Cheever
33. The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles
34. The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
35. Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin
36. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
37. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
38. Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
39. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Read
40. A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
41. The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
42. The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
43. Herzog by Saul Bellow
44. Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
45. House for Mr. Biswas by V.S. Naipaul
46. I, Claudius by Robert Graves
47. Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
48. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
49. Light in August by William Faulkner
50. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis Read
51. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
52. Lord of the Flies by William Golding Read
53. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien Read
54. Loving by Henry Green
55. Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
56. The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead
57. Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
58. Money by Martin Amis
59. The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
60. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
61. Naked Lunch by William Burroughs
62. Native Son by Richard Wright
63. Neuromancer by William Gibson
64. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
65. 1984 by George Orwell Read
66. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
67. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
68. The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski
69. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
70. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
71. Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
72. Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth
73. Possession by A.S. Byatt
74. The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
75. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
76. Rabbit, Run by John Updike
77. Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow
78. The Recognitions by William Gaddis
79. Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
80. Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
81. The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
82. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
83. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
84. The Sot-Weed Factor by John Barth
85. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
86. The Sportswriter by Richard Ford
87. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John le Carre
88. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
89. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
90. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe Read
91. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Read
92. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
93. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
94. Ubik by Philip K. Dick
95. Under the Net by Iris Murdoch
96. Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
97. Watchmen by Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
98. White Noise by Don DeLillo
99. White Teeth by Zadie Smith
100. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys