Ideally I'd like to read all of these before I die.

• "Ulysses," James Joyce
• "The Great Gatsby," F. Scott Fitzgerald
• "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man," James Joyce
• "Lolita," Vladimir Nabokov
• "Brave New World," Aldous Huxley
• "The Sound and the Fury," William Faulkner
• "Catch-22," Joseph Heller
• "Darkness at Noon," Arthur Koestler
• "Sons and Lovers," D. H. Lawrence
• "The Grapes of Wrath," John Steinbeck
• "Under the Volcano," Malcolm Lowry
• "The Way of All Flesh," Samuel Butler
• "1984," George Orwell
• "I, Claudius," Robert Graves
• "To the Lighthouse," Virginia Woolf
• "An American Tragedy," Theodore Dreiser
• "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter," Carson McCullers
• "Slaughterhouse Five," Kurt Vonnegut
• "Invisible Man," Ralph Ellison
• "Native Son," Richard Wright
• "Henderson the Rain King," Saul Bellow
• "Appointment in Samarra," John O' Hara
• "U.S.A." (trilogy), John Dos Passos
• "Winesburg, Ohio," Sherwood Anderson
• "A Passage to India," E. M. Forster
• "The Wings of the Dove," Henry James
• "The Ambassadors," Henry James
• "Tender Is the Night," F. Scott Fitzgerald
• "The Studs Lonigan Trilogy," James T. Farrell
• "The Good Soldier," Ford Madox Ford
• "Animal Farm," George Orwell
• "The Golden Bowl," Henry James
• "Sister Carrie," Theodore Dreiser
• "A Handful of Dust," Evelyn Waugh
• "As I Lay Dying," William Faulkner
• "All the King's Men," Robert Penn Warren
• "The Bridge of San Luis Rey," Thornton Wilder
• "Howards End," E. M. Forster
• "Go Tell It on the Mountain," James Baldwin
• "The Heart of the Matter," Graham Greene
• "Lord of the Flies," William Golding
• "Deliverance," James Dickey
• "A Dance to the Music of Time" (series), Anthony Powell
• "Point Counter Point," Aldous Huxley
• "The Sun Also Rises," Ernest Hemingway
• "The Secret Agent," Joseph Conrad
• "Nostromo," Joseph Conrad
• "The Rainbow," D. H. Lawrence
• "Women in Love," D. H. Lawrence
• "Tropic of Cancer," Henry Miller
• "The Naked and the Dead," Norman Mailer
• "Portnoy's Complaint," Philip Roth
• "Pale Fire," Vladimir Nabokov
• "Light in August," William Faulkner
• "On the Road," Jack Kerouac
• "The Maltese Falcon," Dashiell Hammett
• "Parade's End," Ford Madox Ford
• "The Age of Innocence," Edith Wharton
• "Zuleika Dobson," Max Beerbohm
• "The Moviegoer," Walker Percy
• "Death Comes to the Archbishop," Willa Cather
• "From Here to Eternity," James Jones
• "The Wapshot Chronicles," John Cheever
• "The Catcher in the Rye," J. D. Salinger
• "A Clockwork Orange," Anthony Burgess
• "Of Human Bondage," W. Somerset Maugham
• "Heart of Darkness," Joseph Conrad
• "Main Street," Sinclair Lewis
• "The House of Mirth," Edith Wharton
• "The Alexandria Quartet," Lawrence Durrell
• "A High Wind in Jamaica," Richard Hughes
• "A House for Ms. Biswas," V. S. Naipaul
• "The Day of the Locust," Nathaniel West
• "A Farewell to Arms," Ernest Hemingway
• "Scoop," Evelyn Waugh
• "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie," Muriel Spark
• "Finnegans Wake," James Joyce
• "Kim," Rudyard Kipling
• "A Room With a View," E. M. Forster
• "Brideshead Revisited," Evelyn Waugh
• "The Adventures of Augie March," Saul Bellow
• "Angle of Repose," Wallace Stegner
• "A Bend in the River," V. S. Naipaul
• "The Death of the Heart," Elizabeth Bowen
• "Lord Jim," Joseph Conrad
• "Ragtime," E. L. Doctorow
• "The Old Wives' Tale," Arnold Bennett
• "The Call of the Wild," Jack London
• "Loving," Henry Green
• "Midnight's Children," Salman Rushdie
• "Tobacco Road," Erskine Caldwell
• "Ironweed," William Kennedy
• "The Magus," John Fowles
• "Wide Sargasso Sea," Jean Rhys
• "Under the Net," Iris Murdoch
• "Sophie's Choice," William Styron
• "The Sheltering Sky," Paul Bowles
• "The Postman Always Rings Twice," James M. Cain
• "The Ginger Man," J. P. Donleavy
• "The Magnificent Ambersons," Booth Tarkington