100 greatest novels
My siblings inform me that Phil's coming back in mid-August... seeing him again will definitely be cool! Oh, and I think Eric T. just added me to his YM contact list: neat!
Shamelessly stolen from Steve W., this meme just is a reminder that I want to read Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. Maybe one of these days...
The Observer list of the hundred greatest novels...
bold = read
plain = not read
1. Miguel De Cervantes, Don Quixote
2. John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress
3. Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
4. Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels
5. Henry Fielding, Tom Jones
6. Samuel Richardson, Clarissa
7. Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy
8. Pierre Choderlos De Laclos, Dangerous Liaisons
9. Jane Austen, Emma
10. Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
11. Thomas Love Peacock, Nightmare Abbey
12. Honore De Balzac, The Black Sheep
13. Stendhal, The Charterhouse of Parma
14. Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
15. Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil
16. Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
17. Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
18. Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
19. William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair
20. Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
21. Herman Melville, Moby Dick
22. Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
23. Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
24. Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
25. Louisa M. Alcott, Little Women
26. Anthony Trollope, The Way We Live Now
27. Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
28. George Eliot, Daniel Deronda
29. Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
30. Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
31. Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn
32. Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
33. Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat
34. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (but I sent it to Erin M. once...)
35. George Grossmith, The Diary of a Nobody
36. Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
37. Erskine Childers, The Riddle of the Sands
38. Jack London, The Call of the Wild
39. Joseph Conrad, Nostromo
40. Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
41. Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time
42. D.H. Lawrence, The Rainbow
43. Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier
44. John Buchan, The Thirty-Nine Steps
45. James Joyce, Ulysses (finally... Darren M. would be proud of me, hehehe)
46. Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
47. E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
48. F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (gee, I wonder why this one reminds me of the AIM hatbots? haha)
49. Franz Kafka, The Trial
50. Ernest Hemingway, Men Without Women
51. Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Journey to the End of the Night
52. William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
53. Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
54. Evelyn Waugh, Scoop
55. John Dos Passos, USA
56. Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep
57. Nancy Mitford, The Pursuit Of Love
58. Albert Camus, The Plague
59. George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four
60. Samuel Beckett, Malone Dies
61. J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye
62. Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
63. E.B. White, Charlotte's Web
64. J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord Of The Rings
65. Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim
66. William Golding, Lord of the Flies (had to read it for English once... never liked it much :P)
67. Graham Greene, The Quiet American
68. Jack Kerouac, On the Road
69. Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
70. Gunter Grass, The Tin Drum
71. Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
72. Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (I played a piano piece which was from the movie that was made from the book once, though...)
73. Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird
74. Joseph Heller, Catch-22
75. Saul Bellow, Herzog (but that reminds me of baseball and Whitey Herzog!)
76. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
77. Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
78. John Le Carre, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
79. Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
80. Beryl Bainbridge, The Bottle Factory Outing
81. Norman Mailer, The Executioner's Song
82. Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
83. V.S. Naipaul, A Bend in the River
84. J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians
85. Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping
86. Alasdair Gray, Lanark (but that does remind me of Tony, Dianne, and Cindy!)
87. Paul Auster, The New York Trilogy
88. Roald Dahl, The BFG
89. Primo Levi, The Periodic Table
90. Martin Amis, Money
91. Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World
92. Peter Carey, Oscar And Lucinda
93. Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
94. Salman Rushdie, Haroun and the Sea af Stories
95. James Ellroy, L.A. Confidential
96. Angela Carter, Wise Children
97. Ian McEwan, Atonement
98. Philip Pullman, Northern Lights
99. Philip Roth, American Pastoral
100. W.G. Sebald, Austerlitz
Okay... a great reader, I am so not! Heh, oh well... 33 out of 100 isn't bad, all things considered.
Shamelessly stolen from Steve W., this meme just is a reminder that I want to read Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. Maybe one of these days...
The Observer list of the hundred greatest novels...
bold = read
plain = not read
1. Miguel De Cervantes, Don Quixote
2. John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress
3. Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
4. Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels
5. Henry Fielding, Tom Jones
6. Samuel Richardson, Clarissa
7. Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy
8. Pierre Choderlos De Laclos, Dangerous Liaisons
9. Jane Austen, Emma
10. Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
11. Thomas Love Peacock, Nightmare Abbey
12. Honore De Balzac, The Black Sheep
13. Stendhal, The Charterhouse of Parma
14. Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
15. Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil
16. Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
17. Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
18. Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
19. William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair
20. Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
21. Herman Melville, Moby Dick
22. Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
23. Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
24. Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
25. Louisa M. Alcott, Little Women
26. Anthony Trollope, The Way We Live Now
27. Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
28. George Eliot, Daniel Deronda
29. Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
30. Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
31. Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn
32. Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
33. Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat
34. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (but I sent it to Erin M. once...)
35. George Grossmith, The Diary of a Nobody
36. Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
37. Erskine Childers, The Riddle of the Sands
38. Jack London, The Call of the Wild
39. Joseph Conrad, Nostromo
40. Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
41. Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time
42. D.H. Lawrence, The Rainbow
43. Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier
44. John Buchan, The Thirty-Nine Steps
45. James Joyce, Ulysses (finally... Darren M. would be proud of me, hehehe)
46. Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
47. E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
48. F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (gee, I wonder why this one reminds me of the AIM hatbots? haha)
49. Franz Kafka, The Trial
50. Ernest Hemingway, Men Without Women
51. Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Journey to the End of the Night
52. William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
53. Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
54. Evelyn Waugh, Scoop
55. John Dos Passos, USA
56. Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep
57. Nancy Mitford, The Pursuit Of Love
58. Albert Camus, The Plague
59. George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four
60. Samuel Beckett, Malone Dies
61. J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye
62. Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
63. E.B. White, Charlotte's Web
64. J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord Of The Rings
65. Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim
66. William Golding, Lord of the Flies (had to read it for English once... never liked it much :P)
67. Graham Greene, The Quiet American
68. Jack Kerouac, On the Road
69. Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
70. Gunter Grass, The Tin Drum
71. Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
72. Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (I played a piano piece which was from the movie that was made from the book once, though...)
73. Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird
74. Joseph Heller, Catch-22
75. Saul Bellow, Herzog (but that reminds me of baseball and Whitey Herzog!)
76. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
77. Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
78. John Le Carre, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
79. Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
80. Beryl Bainbridge, The Bottle Factory Outing
81. Norman Mailer, The Executioner's Song
82. Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
83. V.S. Naipaul, A Bend in the River
84. J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians
85. Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping
86. Alasdair Gray, Lanark (but that does remind me of Tony, Dianne, and Cindy!)
87. Paul Auster, The New York Trilogy
88. Roald Dahl, The BFG
89. Primo Levi, The Periodic Table
90. Martin Amis, Money
91. Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World
92. Peter Carey, Oscar And Lucinda
93. Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
94. Salman Rushdie, Haroun and the Sea af Stories
95. James Ellroy, L.A. Confidential
96. Angela Carter, Wise Children
97. Ian McEwan, Atonement
98. Philip Pullman, Northern Lights
99. Philip Roth, American Pastoral
100. W.G. Sebald, Austerlitz
Okay... a great reader, I am so not! Heh, oh well... 33 out of 100 isn't bad, all things considered.
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