24 April 2010

a mi me gusta leer

While procrastinating (thanks, StumbleUpon), I came upon a list of what somebody thought the 100 Best Novels to be. The list can be found aqui. I want to read all of them. Read them with me. We can have a book club.
What books do you think should have made the list?

(The ones I've read are in bold)
1984 by George Orwell
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Ulysses by James Joyce
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
The Stranger by Albert Camus
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Moby Dick by Herman Melville
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Watership Down by Richard Adams
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Middlemarch by George Eliot
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
The Stand by Stephen King
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
Dune by Frank Herbert
The Trial by Franz Kafka
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Persuasion by Jane Austen
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Emma by Jane Austen
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
I, Claudius by Robert Graves
Light in August by William Faulkner
Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

5 comments:

  1. Toni Morrison could be on that list a little more.
    Although the book is not too famous I think that Sue Monk Kidd's "The Secret Life of Bee's" could be on my list. Hey Whit, I feel a book club coming on. <3

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  2. Also, I think this resembles the "Most Challenged Books" list.

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  3. We do! We should use this list.

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  4. Let's do it! I will go get 1984 and we can start!

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