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I'm trying to read (/reread) all of these as an adult. So far: 20/100

  • The Adventures of Augie March [Saul Bellow]
  • All the King's Men [Robert Penn Warren]
  • American Pastoral [Philip Roth]
  • An American Tragedy [Theodore Dreiser]
  • Animal Farm [George Orwell]
  • Appointment in Samarra [John O'Hara]
  • Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret [Judy Blume]
  • The Assistant [Bernard Malamud]
  • At Swim-Two-Birds [Flann O'Brien]
  • Atonement [Ian McEwan]
  • Beloved [Toni Morrison]
  • The Berlin Stories [Christopher Isherwood]
  • The Big Sleep [Raymond Chandler]
  • The Blind Assassin [Margaret Atwood]
  • Blood Meridian [Cormac McCarthy]
  • Brideshead Revisited [Evelyn Waugh]
  • The Bridge of San Luis Rey [Thornton Wilder]
  • Call It Sleep [Henry Roth]
  • Catch-22 [Joseph Heller]
  • The Catcher in the Rye [J.D. Salinger]
  • A Clockwork Orange [Anthony Burgess]
  • The Confessions of Nat Turner [William Styron]
  • The Corrections [Jonathan Franzen]
  • The Crying of Lot 49 [Thomas Pynchon]
  • A Dance to the Music of Time [Anthony Powell]
  • The Day of the Locust [Nathanael West]
  • Death Comes for the Archbishop [Willa Cather]
  • A Death in the Family [James Agee]
  • The Death of the Heart [Elizabeth Bowen]
  • Deliverance [James Dickey]
  • Dog Soldiers [Robert Stone]
  • Falconer [John Cheever]
  • The French Lieutenant's Woman [John Fowles]
  • The Golden Notebook [Doris Lessing]
  • Go Tell it on the Mountain [James Baldwin]
  • Gone With the Wind [Margaret Mitchell]
  • The Grapes of Wrath [John Steinbeck]
  • Gravity's Rainbow [Thomas Pynchon]
  • The Great Gatsby [F. Scott Fitzgerald]
  • A Handful of Dust [Evelyn Waugh]
  • The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter [Carson McCullers]
  • The Heart of the Matter [Graham Greene]
  • Herzog [Saul Bellow]
  • Housekeeping [Marilynne Robinson]
  • A House for Mr. Biswas [V.S. Naipaul]
  • I, Claudius [Robert Graves]
  • Infinite Jest [David Foster Wallace]
  • Invisible Man [Ralph Ellison]
  • Light in August [William Faulkner]
  • The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe [C.S. Lewis]
  • Lolita [Vladimir Nabokov]
  • Lord of the Flies [William Golding]
  • The Lord of the Rings [J.R.R. Tolkien]
  • Loving [Henry Green]
  • Lucky Jim [Kingsley Amis]
  • The Man Who Loved Children [Christina Stead]*Midnight's Children [Salman Rushdie]
  • Money [Martin Amis]
  • The Moviegoer [Walker Percy]
  • Mrs. Dalloway [Virginia Woolf]
  • Naked Lunch [William Burroughs]
  • Native Son [Richard Wright]
  • Neuromancer [William Gibson]
  • Never Let Me Go [Kazuo Ishiguro]
  • 1984 [George Orwell]
  • On the Road [Jack Kerouac]
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest [Ken Kesey]
  • The Painted Bird [Jerzy Kosinski]
  • Pale Fire [Vladimir Nabokov]
  • A Passage to India [E.M. Forster]
  • Play It As It Lays [Joan Didion]
  • Portnoy's Complaint [Philip Roth]
  • Possession [A.S. Byatt]
  • The Power and the Glory [Graham Greene]
  • The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie [Muriel Spark]
  • Rabbit, Run [John Updike]
  • Ragtime [E.L. Doctorow]
  • The Recognitions [William Gaddis]
  • Red Harvest [Dashiell Hammett]
  • Revolutionary Road [Richard Yates]
  • The Sheltering Sky [Paul Bowles]
  • Slaughterhouse-Five [Kurt Vonnegut]
  • Snow Crash [Neal Stephenson]
  • The Sot-Weed Factor [John Barth]
  • The Sound and the Fury [William Faulkner]
  • The Sportswriter [Richard Ford]
  • The Spy Who Came in From the Cold [John le Carre]
  • The Sun Also Rises [Ernest Hemingway]
  • Their Eyes Were Watching God [Zora Neale Hurston]
  • Things Fall Apart [Chinua Achebe]
  • To Kill a Mockingbird [Harper Lee]
  • To the Lighthouse [Virginia Woolf]
  • Tropic of Cancer [Henry Miller]
  • Ubik [Philip K. Dick]
  • Under the Net [Iris Murdoch]
  • Under the Volcano [Malcolm Lowry]
  • Watchmen [Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons]
  • White Noise [Don DeLillo]
  • White Teeth [Zadie Smith]
  • Wide Sargasso Sea [Jean Rhys]
mar 6 2009 ∞
may 20 2016 +