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When the list came out in 1998, I was a senior in high school and was embarrassed because I had only read two of the books (Catcher in the Rye and The Moviegoer). I wanted to finish the list by the time I turned 30. I'm now 32 and still not finished, but I don't work on it constantly, just a book every couple of months. I'm hoping this group gives me a bit of push to finish the list before I turn 40.
I finished #89 Loving by Henry Green today - the first List book I've read in AGES. It was a short read (203 pages), but I took my time going through it. I enjoyed Green's writing style - it reminded me a lot of a play because he had few descriptions, mostly movement in and out of rooms and dialogue. It also reminded me a lot of Downton Abbey. 18 books left to go!
I wish I knew how to copy this on s kindle so I could use it as s checklist
2.THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald3.A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce
4.LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov5.BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley6.THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner7.CATCH-22 by Joseph Heller8.DARKNESS AT NOON by Arthur Koestler9.SONS AND LOVERS by D.H. Lawrence10.THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck11.UNDER THE VOLCANO by Malcolm Lowry12.THE WAY OF ALL FLESH by Samuel Butler13.1984 by George Orwell14.I, CLAUDIUS by Robert Graves15.TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf16.AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY by Theodore Dreiser17.THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by Carson McCullers18.SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut19.INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison20.NATIVE SON by Richard Wright21.HENDERSON THE RAIN KING by Saul Bellow22.APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA by John O’Hara23.U.S.A.(trilogy) by John Dos Passos24.WINESBURG, OHIO by Sherwood Anderson25.A PASSAGE TO INDIA by E.M. Forster26.THE WINGS OF THE DOVE by Henry James27.THE AMBASSADORS by Henry James
28.TENDER IS THE NIGHT by F. Scott Fitzgerald29.THE STUDS LONIGAN TRILOGY by James T. Farrell30.THE GOOD SOLDIER by Ford Madox Ford
31.ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell32.THE GOLDEN BOWL by Henry James
33.SISTER CARRIE by Theodore Dreiser34.A HANDFUL OF DUST by Evelyn Waugh35.AS I LAY DYING by William Faulkner36.ALL THE KING’S MEN by Robert Penn Warren37.THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY by Thornton Wilder38.HOWARDS END by E.M. Forster39.GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN by James Baldwin40.THE HEART OF THE MATTER by Graham Greene41.LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding42.DELIVERANCE by James Dickey43.A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME (series) by Anthony Powell
44.POINT COUNTER POINT by Aldous Huxley
45.THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway46.THE SECRET AGENT by Joseph Conrad
47.NOSTROMO by Joseph Conrad48.THE RAINBOW by D.H. Lawrence49.WOMEN IN LOVE by D.H. Lawrence
50.TROPIC OF CANCER by Henry Miller
51.THE NAKED AND THE DEAD by Norman Mailer
52.PORTNOY’S COMPLAINT by Philip Roth53.PALE FIRE by Vladimir Nabokov54.LIGHT IN AUGUST by William Faulkner55.ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac56.THE MALTESE FALCON by Dashiell Hammett57.PARADE’S END by Ford Madox Ford58.THE AGE OF INNOCENCE by Edith Wharton59.ZULEIKA DOBSON by Max Beerbohm
60.THE MOVIEGOER by Walker Percy61.DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP by Willa Cather62.FROM HERE TO ETERNITY by James Jones63.THE WAPSHOT CHRONICLES by John Cheever64.THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger65.A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess66.OF HUMAN BONDAGE by W. Somerset Maugham67.HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad68.MAIN STREET by Sinclair Lewis
69.THE HOUSE OF MIRTH by Edith Wharton70.THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTET by Lawrence Durell71.A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA by Richard Hughes72.A HOUSE FOR MR BISWAS by V.S. Naipaul73.THE DAY OF THE LOCUST by Nathanael West74.A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway75.SCOOP by Evelyn Waugh76.THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE by Muriel Spark77.FINNEGANS WAKE by James Joyce
78.KIM by Rudyard Kipling
79.A ROOM WITH A VIEW by E.M. Forster80.BRIDESHEAD REVISITED by Evelyn Waugh81.THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH by Saul Bellow
82.ANGLE OF REPOSE by Wallace Stegner83.A BEND IN THE RIVER by V.S. Naipaul
84.THE DEATH OF THE HEART by Elizabeth Bowen85.LORD JIM by Joseph Conrad86.RAGTIME by E.L. Doctorow87.THE OLD WIVES’ TALE by Arnold Bennett88.THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London89.LOVING by Henry Green90.MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN by Salman Rushdie
91.TOBACCO ROAD by Erskine Caldwell92.IRONWEED by William Kennedy93.THE MAGUS by John Fowles94.WIDE SARGASSO SEA by Jean Rhys95.UNDER THE NET by Iris Murdoch96.SOPHIE’S CHOICE by William Styron97.THE SHELTERING SKY by Paul Bowles98.THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE by James M. Cain99.THE GINGER MAN by J.P. Donleavy100.THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS by Booth Tarkington