Who am I?

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Thursday, April 15, 2010

Books, Bores, and Must Reads

So this is Newsweek's top 100 books list from 2009, so I decided that I would put it here, and undertake reading all of them. I guess I can X them when I read them...or something like that... or bold and purple... Apparently I have a lot of reading to do... 11/100, not a whole lot there...

  1. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy 1869
  2. 1984 - George Orwell 1949
  3. Ulysses - James Joyce 1922
  4. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov 1955
  5. The Sound and the Fury The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner 1929
  6. Invisible Man Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison 1952
  7. To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf 1927
  8. The Illiad and The Odyssey - Homer 8th century B.C.
  9. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 1813
  10. Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri 1321
  11. Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer 15th century
  12. Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift 1726
  13. Middlemarch - George Eliot 1874
  14. Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe 1958
  15. The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger 1951
  16. Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell 1936
  17. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 1967
  18. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald 1925
  19. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller 1961
  20. Beloved - Toni Morrison 1987
  21. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck 1939
  22. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie 1981
  23. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley 1932
  24. Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf 1925
  25. Native Son - Richard Wright 1940
  26. Democracy in America - Alexis de Tocqueville 1835
  27. Origin of Species - Charles Darwin 1859
  28. The Histories - Herodotus 440 B.C.
  29. The Social Contract - Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1762
  30. Das Kapital Karl Marx 1867
  31. The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli 1532
  32. Confessions - St. Augustine 4th century
  33. Leviathan - Thomas Hobbes 1651
  34. The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 431 B.C.
  35. The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien 1954
  36. Winnie-the-Pooh - A. A. Milne 1926
  37. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C. S. Lewis 1950
  38. A Passage to India - E. M. Forster 1924
  39. On the Road - Jack Kerouac 1957
  40. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 1960
  41. The Holy Bible. Revised Standard Version. NA
  42. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess 1962
  43. Light in August Light in August - William Faulkner 1932
  44. The Souls of Black Folk - W. E. B. Du Bois 1903
  45. Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys 1966
  46. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert 1857
  47. Paradise Lost - John Milton 1667
  48. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy 1877
  49. Hamlet - William Shakespeare 1603
  50. King Lear - William Shakespeare 1608
  51. Othello - William Shakespeare 1622
  52. Sonnets - William Shakespeare 1609
  53. Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman 1855
  54. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain 1885
  55. Kim - Rudyard Kipling 1901
  56. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley 1818
  57. Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison 1977
  58. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey 1962
  59. For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway 1940
  60. Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut 1969
  61. Animal Farm - George Orwell 1945
  62. Lord of the Flies - William Golding 1954
  63. In Cold Blood - Truman Capote 1965Ž
  64. The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing 1962
  65. Remembrance of Things Past - Marcel Proust 1913
  66. The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler 1939
  67. As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner 1930
  68. The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway 1926
  69. I, Claudius - Robert Graves 1934
  70. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers 1940
  71. Sons and Lovers - D. H. Lawrence 1913
  72. All the King's Men - Robert Penn Warren 1946
  73. Go Tell It on the Mountain - James Baldwin 1953
  74. Charlotte's Web - E. B. White 1952
  75. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad 1902
  76. Night - Elie Wiesel 1958
  77. Rabbit, Run - John Updike 1960
  78. The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton 1920
  79. Portnoy's Complaint - Philip Roth 1969
  80. An American Tragedy - Theodore Dreiser 1925
  81. The Day of the Locust - Nathanael West 1939
  82. Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller 1934
  83. The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett 1930
  84. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman 1995
  85. Death Comes for the Archbishop - Willa Cather 1927
  86. The Interpretation of Dreams - Sigmund Freud 1900
  87. The Education of Henry Adams - Henry Adams 1918
  88. Quotations from Chairman Mao - Mao Zedong 1964
  89. The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature - William James 1902
  90. Brideshead Revisited Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh 1945
  91. Silent Spring - Rachel Carson 1962
  92. The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money - John Maynard Keynes 1936
  93. Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad 1900
  94. Goodbye to All That - Robert Graves 1929
  95. The Affluent Society - John Kenneth Galbraith 1958
  96. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame 1908
  97. The Autobiography of Malcolm X - Alex Haley and Malcolm X 1965
  98. Eminent Victorians - Lytton Strachey 1918
  99. The Color Purple - Alice Walker 1982
  100. The Second World War (The Gathering Storm; Their Finest Hour; The Grand Alliance; The Hinge of Fate; - Winston Churchill 1948
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