another booklist meme
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truepennyI'm a complete sucker for these things, no matter how badly I think the list is flawed.
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oursin
1. Ulysses, James Joyce [M.A. exam]
2. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald [high school English class]
3. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce [high school English class]
4. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov [read on my own]
5. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley [read on my own]
6. The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner [M.A. exam]
7. Catch-22, Joseph Heller [read on my own]
8. Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler
9. Sons and Lovers, D. H. Lawrence
10. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck [high school English class]
11. Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry
12. The Way of All Flesh, Samuel Butler
13. 1984, George Orwell [read on my own]
14. I, Claudius, Robert Graves
15. To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf [college English class: 20th century women writers]
16. An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser
17. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers
18. Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut
19. Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
20. Native Son, Richard Wright
21. Henderson the Rain King, Saul Bellow
22. Appointment in Samarra, John O' Hara
23. U.S.A. (trilogy), John Dos Passos
24. Winesburg, Ohio, Sherwood Anderson
25. A Passage to India, E. M. Forster
26. The Wings of the Dove, Henry James
27. The Ambassadors, Henry James
28. Tender Is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald [high school English class]
29. The Studs Lonigan Trilogy, James T. Farrell
30. The good soldier by Ford Madox Ford
31. Animal Farm, George Orwell [read on my own]
32. The Golden Bowl, Henry James
33. Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser
34. A Handful of Dust, Evelyn Waugh
35. As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner
36. All the King's Men, Robert Penn Warren
37. The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder
38. Howards End, E. M. Forster
39. Go Tell It on the Mountain, James Baldwin
40. The Heart of the Matter, Graham Greene [college English class, can't remember which one]
41. Lord of the Flies, William Golding [read on my own]
42. Deliverance, James Dickey [read on my own]
43. A Dance to the Music of Time (series), Anthony Powell
44. Point Counter Point, Aldous Huxley
45. The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
46. The Secret Agent, Joseph Conrad
47. Nostromo, Joseph Conrad
48. The Rainbow, D. H. Lawrence
49. Women in Love, D. H. Lawrence [M.A. exam]
50. Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller
51. The Naked and the Dead, Norman Mailer
52. Portnoy's Complaint, Philip Roth
53. Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov [read on my own]
54. Light in August, William Faulkner
55. On the Road, Jack Kerouac
56. The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett
57. Parade's End, Ford Madox Ford
58. The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton
59. Zuleika Dobson, Max Beerbohm
60. The Moviegoer, Walker Percy
61. Death Comes to the Archbishop, Willa Cather
62. From Here to Eternity, James Jones
63. The Wapshot Chronicles, John Cheever
64. The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger
65. A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess [read on my own]
66. Of Human Bondage, W. Somerset Maugham
67. Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad [both high school and college English classes; also I taught it one of the semesters I was teaching creative writing--not my brightest move ever]
68. Main Street, Sinclair Lewis
69. The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton [college English class, can't remember which one]
70. The Alexandria Quartet, Lawrence Durrell
71. A High Wind in Jamaica, Richard Hughes
72. A House for Ms. Biswas, V. S. Naipaul
73. The Day of the Locust, Nathaniel West
74. A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway [high school English class, and oh sweet Jesus how I hated this book]
75. Scoop, Evelyn Waugh
76. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark [undergrad class on 20th c. women writers again]
77. Finnegans Wake, James Joyce
78. Kim, Rudyard Kipling
79. A Room With a View, E. M. Forster
80. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
81. The Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow
82. Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner
83. A Bend in the River, V. S. Naipaul
84. The Death of the Heart, Elizabeth Bowen [undergrad class on 20th c. women writers. That was a really good class]
85. Lord Jim, Joseph Conrad
86. Ragtime, E. L. Doctorow
87. The Old Wives' Tale, Arnold Bennett
88. The Call of the Wild, Jack London [I read this in third grade, an elective reading sort of thing, and I was just too stubborn to give in and admit how much I hated it]
89. Loving, Henry Green
90. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
91. Tobacco Road, Erskine Caldwell
92. Ironweed, William Kennedy
93. The Magus, John Fowles [read on my own]
94. Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys [read on my own]
95. Under the Net, Iris Murdoch
96. Sophie's Choice, William Styron
97. The Sheltering Sky, Paul Bowles
98. The Postman Always Rings Twice, James M. Cain
99. The Ginger Man, J. P. Donleavy
100. The Magnificent Ambersons, Booth Tarkington
As I said in my comment tooursin, I think this is a very weird list. Eight women, one of whom gets listed twice. Token African-Americans only. (Their Eyes Were Watching God, hello?) Lots of those mid-century two-handed gunfighters of machismo whom I so very deeply dislike. And just some very strange choices.
The lemming ahead of me in line is
oursin1. Ulysses, James Joyce [M.A. exam]
2. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald [high school English class]
3. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce [high school English class]
4. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov [read on my own]
5. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley [read on my own]
6. The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner [M.A. exam]
7. Catch-22, Joseph Heller [read on my own]
8. Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler
9. Sons and Lovers, D. H. Lawrence
10. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck [high school English class]
11. Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry
12. The Way of All Flesh, Samuel Butler
13. 1984, George Orwell [read on my own]
14. I, Claudius, Robert Graves
15. To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf [college English class: 20th century women writers]
16. An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser
17. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers
18. Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut
19. Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
20. Native Son, Richard Wright
21. Henderson the Rain King, Saul Bellow
22. Appointment in Samarra, John O' Hara
23. U.S.A. (trilogy), John Dos Passos
24. Winesburg, Ohio, Sherwood Anderson
25. A Passage to India, E. M. Forster
26. The Wings of the Dove, Henry James
27. The Ambassadors, Henry James
28. Tender Is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald [high school English class]
29. The Studs Lonigan Trilogy, James T. Farrell
30. The good soldier by Ford Madox Ford
31. Animal Farm, George Orwell [read on my own]
32. The Golden Bowl, Henry James
33. Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser
34. A Handful of Dust, Evelyn Waugh
35. As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner
36. All the King's Men, Robert Penn Warren
37. The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder
38. Howards End, E. M. Forster
39. Go Tell It on the Mountain, James Baldwin
40. The Heart of the Matter, Graham Greene [college English class, can't remember which one]
41. Lord of the Flies, William Golding [read on my own]
42. Deliverance, James Dickey [read on my own]
43. A Dance to the Music of Time (series), Anthony Powell
44. Point Counter Point, Aldous Huxley
45. The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
46. The Secret Agent, Joseph Conrad
47. Nostromo, Joseph Conrad
48. The Rainbow, D. H. Lawrence
49. Women in Love, D. H. Lawrence [M.A. exam]
50. Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller
51. The Naked and the Dead, Norman Mailer
52. Portnoy's Complaint, Philip Roth
53. Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov [read on my own]
54. Light in August, William Faulkner
55. On the Road, Jack Kerouac
56. The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett
57. Parade's End, Ford Madox Ford
58. The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton
59. Zuleika Dobson, Max Beerbohm
60. The Moviegoer, Walker Percy
61. Death Comes to the Archbishop, Willa Cather
62. From Here to Eternity, James Jones
63. The Wapshot Chronicles, John Cheever
64. The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger
65. A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess [read on my own]
66. Of Human Bondage, W. Somerset Maugham
67. Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad [both high school and college English classes; also I taught it one of the semesters I was teaching creative writing--not my brightest move ever]
68. Main Street, Sinclair Lewis
69. The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton [college English class, can't remember which one]
70. The Alexandria Quartet, Lawrence Durrell
71. A High Wind in Jamaica, Richard Hughes
72. A House for Ms. Biswas, V. S. Naipaul
73. The Day of the Locust, Nathaniel West
74. A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway [high school English class, and oh sweet Jesus how I hated this book]
75. Scoop, Evelyn Waugh
76. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark [undergrad class on 20th c. women writers again]
77. Finnegans Wake, James Joyce
78. Kim, Rudyard Kipling
79. A Room With a View, E. M. Forster
80. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
81. The Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow
82. Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner
83. A Bend in the River, V. S. Naipaul
84. The Death of the Heart, Elizabeth Bowen [undergrad class on 20th c. women writers. That was a really good class]
85. Lord Jim, Joseph Conrad
86. Ragtime, E. L. Doctorow
87. The Old Wives' Tale, Arnold Bennett
88. The Call of the Wild, Jack London [I read this in third grade, an elective reading sort of thing, and I was just too stubborn to give in and admit how much I hated it]
89. Loving, Henry Green
90. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
91. Tobacco Road, Erskine Caldwell
92. Ironweed, William Kennedy
93. The Magus, John Fowles [read on my own]
94. Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys [read on my own]
95. Under the Net, Iris Murdoch
96. Sophie's Choice, William Styron
97. The Sheltering Sky, Paul Bowles
98. The Postman Always Rings Twice, James M. Cain
99. The Ginger Man, J. P. Donleavy
100. The Magnificent Ambersons, Booth Tarkington
As I said in my comment to
oursin, I think this is a very weird list. Eight women, one of whom gets listed twice. Token African-Americans only. (Their Eyes Were Watching God, hello?) Lots of those mid-century two-handed gunfighters of machismo whom I so very deeply dislike. And just some very strange choices.
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