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Okay, kids, here it is: my list of classics that I want to read before I die. And don't even think of doing the goggling "OMG you haven't read that?!?" thing. I read plenty, but music and movies also take up a lot of my time. *g* P.S. My definition of "classic" might be a little dodgy and, um, modern.
1) The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde (recently purchased)
2) All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
3) The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo
4) 1919, John Dos Passos
5) Ulysses, James Joyce (which I actually own but have not made my way through yet...)
6) Ward No. Six and Other Stories, Anton Chekhov (also recently purchased)
7) The Jungle Books, Rudyard Kipling (also also recently purchased)
8) Swann's Way, Marcel Proust (a- a- a- recently purchased)
9) Sons and Lovers, D.H. Lawrence
10) Women in Love, D. H. Lawrence
11) The Way of All Flesh, Samuel Butler
12) War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
13) To The Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
14) The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald (have read, but was in high school. I'm sure you understand.)
15) An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser
16) The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers
17) Native Son, Richard Wright
18) Henderson the Rain King, Saul Bellow
19) Appointment in Samarra, John O'Hara
20) Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
21) At the Mountains of Madness, H.P. Lovecraft
22) Moby Dick, Herman Melville
23) A Passage to India, E.M. Forster
24) The Wings of the Dove, Henry James
25) The Ambassadors, Henry James
26) The Golden Bowl, Henry James
27) Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald
28) The Studs Lonigan Trilogy, James Farrell
29) The Good Soldier, Ford Madox Ford
30) Private Lives, Noel Coward
31) Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser
32) Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe
33) A Handful of Dust, Evelyn Waugh
34) All the King's Men, Robert Penn Warren
35) The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder
36) The Heart of the Matter, Graham Greene
37) Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
38) Point Counter Point, Aldous Huxley
39) Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
40) The Secret Agent, Joseph Conrad
41) Nostromo, Joseph Conrad
42) Germinale, Emile Zola
43) Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller
44) The Naked and the Dead, Norman Mailer
45) Portnoy's Complaint, Philip Roth
46) Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov
47) A Doll's House, Henrik Ibsen
48) The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett
49) Parade's End, Ford Madox Ford
50) The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton
51) Middlemarch, George Elliott
52) Zuleika Dobson, Max Beerbohm
53) The Moviegoer, Walker Percy
54) A Sentimental Education, Gustave Flaubert
55) Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak
56) Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather
57) From Here to Eternity, James Jones
58) On The Beach, Neville Shute
59) Crime and Punishment, Feodor Dotstoyevsky
60) The Wapshot Chronicle, John Cheever
61) Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
62) Journey to the Center of the Earth, Jules Verne
63) Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett
64) Main Street, Sinclair Lewis
65) The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton
66) The End of the Affair, Graham Greene
67) The Alexandria Quartet, Lawrence Durrell
68) A High Wind in Jamaica, Richard Hughes
69) A House for Mr. Biswas, V.S. Naipaul
70) A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
71) Pale Horse, Pale Rider, Katherine Anne Porter
72) The Day of the Locust, Nathanael West
73) Scoop, Evelyn Waugh
74) The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark
75) The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler
76) Lelia, George Sand
77) Kim, Rudyard Kipling
78) Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
79) Prometheus Unbound, Percy Shelley
80) Hyperion, Freidrich Holderlin
81) The Call of the Wild, Jack London (read when I was a child, forgot it mostly)
82) The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan
83) Ironweed, William Kennedy
84) Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
85) Sophie's Choice, William Styron (saw the movie)
86) The Sheltering Sky, Paul Bowles
87) Look Homeward, Angel, Thomas Wolfe
88) The Postman Always Rings Twice, James Cain
89) The Ginger Man, J.P. Donleavy
90) The Magnificent Ambersons, Booth Tarkington
91) Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Gertrude Stein
92) Out of Africa, Isak Dinesen (which is a penname for some woman named Mary somethingorother ;)
93) The World According to Garp, John Irving
94) A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving
95) The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
96) The Accidental Tourist, Anne Tyler
97) Darkness at Noon, Arther Koestler
98) Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
99) American Pastoral, Philip Roth
100) Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
Hmmmm... must find three more to round out my list at an even 100. Isn't this sad? I feel so uneducated. I shouldn't. I should make a list of the things I have read!
ETA: The lovely trinil provided me with the last three to round out the pathetically long list of "classics" I haven't read.
1) The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde (recently purchased)
2) All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
3) The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo
4) 1919, John Dos Passos
5) Ulysses, James Joyce (which I actually own but have not made my way through yet...)
6) Ward No. Six and Other Stories, Anton Chekhov (also recently purchased)
7) The Jungle Books, Rudyard Kipling (also also recently purchased)
8) Swann's Way, Marcel Proust (a- a- a- recently purchased)
9) Sons and Lovers, D.H. Lawrence
10) Women in Love, D. H. Lawrence
11) The Way of All Flesh, Samuel Butler
12) War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
13) To The Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
14) The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald (have read, but was in high school. I'm sure you understand.)
15) An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser
16) The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers
17) Native Son, Richard Wright
18) Henderson the Rain King, Saul Bellow
19) Appointment in Samarra, John O'Hara
20) Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
21) At the Mountains of Madness, H.P. Lovecraft
22) Moby Dick, Herman Melville
23) A Passage to India, E.M. Forster
24) The Wings of the Dove, Henry James
25) The Ambassadors, Henry James
26) The Golden Bowl, Henry James
27) Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald
28) The Studs Lonigan Trilogy, James Farrell
29) The Good Soldier, Ford Madox Ford
30) Private Lives, Noel Coward
31) Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser
32) Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe
33) A Handful of Dust, Evelyn Waugh
34) All the King's Men, Robert Penn Warren
35) The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder
36) The Heart of the Matter, Graham Greene
37) Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
38) Point Counter Point, Aldous Huxley
39) Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
40) The Secret Agent, Joseph Conrad
41) Nostromo, Joseph Conrad
42) Germinale, Emile Zola
43) Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller
44) The Naked and the Dead, Norman Mailer
45) Portnoy's Complaint, Philip Roth
46) Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov
47) A Doll's House, Henrik Ibsen
48) The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett
49) Parade's End, Ford Madox Ford
50) The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton
51) Middlemarch, George Elliott
52) Zuleika Dobson, Max Beerbohm
53) The Moviegoer, Walker Percy
54) A Sentimental Education, Gustave Flaubert
55) Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak
56) Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather
57) From Here to Eternity, James Jones
58) On The Beach, Neville Shute
59) Crime and Punishment, Feodor Dotstoyevsky
60) The Wapshot Chronicle, John Cheever
61) Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
62) Journey to the Center of the Earth, Jules Verne
63) Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett
64) Main Street, Sinclair Lewis
65) The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton
66) The End of the Affair, Graham Greene
67) The Alexandria Quartet, Lawrence Durrell
68) A High Wind in Jamaica, Richard Hughes
69) A House for Mr. Biswas, V.S. Naipaul
70) A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
71) Pale Horse, Pale Rider, Katherine Anne Porter
72) The Day of the Locust, Nathanael West
73) Scoop, Evelyn Waugh
74) The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark
75) The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler
76) Lelia, George Sand
77) Kim, Rudyard Kipling
78) Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
79) Prometheus Unbound, Percy Shelley
80) Hyperion, Freidrich Holderlin
81) The Call of the Wild, Jack London (read when I was a child, forgot it mostly)
82) The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan
83) Ironweed, William Kennedy
84) Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
85) Sophie's Choice, William Styron (saw the movie)
86) The Sheltering Sky, Paul Bowles
87) Look Homeward, Angel, Thomas Wolfe
88) The Postman Always Rings Twice, James Cain
89) The Ginger Man, J.P. Donleavy
90) The Magnificent Ambersons, Booth Tarkington
91) Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Gertrude Stein
92) Out of Africa, Isak Dinesen (which is a penname for some woman named Mary somethingorother ;)
93) The World According to Garp, John Irving
94) A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving
95) The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
96) The Accidental Tourist, Anne Tyler
97) Darkness at Noon, Arther Koestler
98) Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
99) American Pastoral, Philip Roth
100) Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
Hmmmm... must find three more to round out my list at an even 100. Isn't this sad? I feel so uneducated. I shouldn't. I should make a list of the things I have read!
ETA: The lovely trinil provided me with the last three to round out the pathetically long list of "classics" I haven't read.