The List

I love to read. My problem is that there's so much out there I want to read, I just can't keep track. I've read most of the classics, all of Shakespeare and most of the major series. The Time 100 list not only gives me a nice solid list of great works to read, but it's a list, so I can easily keep track. I'm going down the list in alphabetical order, posting each time I've started and finished a book, as well as while I'm reading it. Monday we begin!

The List

1. The Adventures of Augie Marsh-Saul Bellow

2. All the King's Men-Robert Penn Warren

3. American Pastoral-Philip Roth

4. An American Tragedy-Theodore Dreiser

5. Animal Farm- George Orwell

6. Appointment in Samarra- John O'Hara

7. Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret- Judy Blume

8. The Assistant- Bernard Malamud

9. At Swim-Two-Birds- Flann O'Brien

10. Atonement- Ian McEwan

11. Beloved- Toni Morrison

12. The Berlin Stories- Christopher Isherwood

13. The Big Sleep- Raymond Chandler

14. The Blind Assassin- Margaret Atwood

15. Blood Meridian- Cormac McCarthy

16. Brideshead Revisited- Evelyn Waugh

17. The Bridge of San Luis Rey- Thornton Wilder

18. Call It Sleep- Henry Roth

19. Catch-22- Joseph Heller

20. The Catcher in the Rye- J.D. Salinger

21. A Clockwork Orange- Anthony Burgess

22. The Confessions of Nat Turner- William Styron

23. The Corrections- Jonathan Franzen

24. The Crying of Lot 49- Thomas Pynchon

25. A Dance to the Music of Time- Anthony Powell

26. The Day of the Locust- Nathanael West

27. Death Comes for the Archbishop- Willa Cather

28. A Death in the Family- James Agee

29. A Death of the Heart- Elizabeth Bowen

30. Deliverance- James Dickey

31. Dog Soldiers- Robert Stone

32. Flaconer- John Ceever

33. The French Lieutenant's Woman- John Fowles

34. The Golden Notebook- Doris Lessing

35. Go Tell it on the Mountain- James Baldwin

36. Gone With the Wind- Margaret Mitchell

37. The Grapes of Wrath- John Steinbeck

38. Gravity's Rainbow- Thomas Pynchon

39. The Great Gatsby- F. Scott Fitzgerald

40. A Handful of Dust- Evelyn Waugh

41. The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter- Carson McCullers

42. The Heart of the Matter- Graham Greene

43. Herzog- Saul Bellow

44. Housekeeping- Marilynne Robinson

45. A House for Mr. Biswas- V.S. Naipaul

46. I, Claudius- Robert Graves

47. Infinite Jest- David Foster Wallace

48. Invisible Man- Ralph Ellison

49. Light in August- WIlliam Faulkner

50. The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe- C.S. Lewis

51. Lolita- Vladimir Nabokov

52. Lord of the Flies- William Golding

53. The Lord of the Rings- J.R.R. Tolkien

54. Loving- Henry Green

55. Lucky Jim- Kingsley Amis

56. The Man Who Loved Children- Christina Stead

57. Midnight's Children- Salman Rushdie

58. Money- Martin Amis

59. The Moviegoer- Walker Percy

60. Mrs. Dalloway- Virginia Woolf

61. Naked Lunch- William Burroughs

62. Native Son- Richard Wright

63. Neuromancer- William Gibson

64. Never Let Me Go- Kazuo Ishiguro

65. 1984- George Orwell

66. On the Road- Jack Kerouac

67. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest- Ken Kesey

68. The Painted Bird- Jerzy Kosinski

69. Pale Fire- Vladimir Nabokov

70. A Passage to India- E.M. Forster

71. Play It As It Lays- Joan Didion

72. Portnoy's Complaint- Philip Roth

73. Possession- A.S. Byatt

74. The Power and the Glory- Graham Greene

75. The Prime of MIss Jean Brodie- Muriel Spark

76. Rabbit, Run- John Updike

77. Ragtime- E.L. Doctorow

78. The Recognitions- William Gaddis

79. Red Harvest- Dashiell Hammett

80. Revolutionary Road- Richard Yates

81. The Sheltering Sky- Paul Bowles

82. Slaughterhouse-Five- Kurt Vonnegut

83. Snow Crash- Neal Stephenson

84. The Sot-Weed Factor- John Barth

85. The Sound and the Fury- William Faulkner

86. The Sportswriter- Richard Ford

87. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold- John le Carre

88. The Sun Also Rises- Ernest Hemingway

89. Their Eyes Were Watching God- Zora Neale Hurston

90. Things Fall Apart- Chinua Achebe

91. To Kill A Mockingbird- Harper Lee

92. To the Lighthouse- Virginia Woolf

93. Tropic of Cancer- Henry Miller

94. Ubik- Philip K. Dick

95. Under the Net- Iris Murdoch

96. Under the Volcano- Malcolm Lowry

97. Watchmen- Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons

98. White Noise- Don DeLillo

99. White Teeth- Zadie Smith

100. Wide Sargasso Sea- Jean Rhys

So there it is! Time's 100 best novels. I've certainly got my work cut out for me...wish me luck.