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read the modern librarys one hundred greatest novels
why?
to be an altogether well read kinda chappy. my one word review and mark out of ten will appear once ive read each one (im sure the best writers of the twentieth century are quaking in their boots...)
for those that are interested, the one hundred are:
1. Ulysses (Vintage International)
by JAMES JOYCE
2. Great Gatsby (Scribner Classics)
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man (Twentieth-Century Classics)
by James Joyce
4. Lolita (Vintage International)
by VLADIMIR NABOKOV
5. Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
6. The Sound and the Fury (Vintage International)
by WILLIAM FAULKNER
7. Catch 22
by Joseph Heller
8. Darkness at Noon
by ARTHUR KOESTLER
9. Sons and Lovers (Modern Library Classics)
by D.H. Lawrence
10. Grapes of Wrath, The (20th Century Classics)
by John Steinbeck
11. Under the Volcano : A Novel (Perennial Classics)
by Malcolm Lowry
12. The Way of All Flesh (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Samuel Butler
13. 1984
by George Orwell
14. I, Claudius : From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10
B.C., Murdered and Deified A.D. 54 (Vintage International)
by ROBERT GRAVES
15. To the Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf
16. An American Tragedy (Signet Classics (Paperback))
by Theodore Dreiser
17. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
by CARSON MCCULLERS
18. Slaughterhouse-Five
by KURT VONNEGUT
19. Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
20. Native Son
by Richard Wright
21. Henderson the Rain King (Penguin Classics)
by Saul Bellow
22. Appointment in Samarra (Vintage Open Market)
by John O'Hara
23. John Dos Passos : U.S.A. : The 42nd Parallel / 1919 / The Big Money
(Library of America)
by John DOS Passos
24. Winesburg, Ohio (Bantam Classic)
by SHERWOOD ANDERSON
25. A Passage to India
by E. M. Forster
26. The Wings of the Dove (Everymans Library, 230)
by Henry James
27. The Ambassadors : Revised Edition (Penguin Classics)
by Henry James
28. TENDER IS THE NIGHT
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
29. Studs Lonigan: A Trilogy Comprising Young Lonigan, the Young
Manhood of Studs Lonigan, and Judgement Day (Penguin Classics)
by James T. Farrell
30. The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion (Oxford World's Classics)
by Ford Madox Ford
31. Animal Farm
by George Orwell
32. The Golden Bowl (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Henry James
33. Sister Carrie (Signet Classics (Paperback))
by Theodore Dreiser
34. A Handful of Dust
by Evelyn Waugh
35. As I Lay Dying (Vintage International)
by WILLIAM FAULKNER
36. All the King's Men (Harvest Book)
by Robert Penn Warren
37. The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Perennial Classics)
by Thornton Wilder
38. Howards End (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics,)
by E. M. Forster
39. Go Tell It on the Mountain
by James Baldwin
40. The Heart of the Matter (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
by Graham Greene
41. Lord of the Flies
by William Gerald Golding
42. Deliverance
by JAMES DICKEY
43. A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement (Dance to the Music of
Time)
by Anthony Powell
44. Point Counter Point (British Literature)
by Aldous Huxley
45. Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway
46. The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (Oxford World's Classics)
by Joseph Conrad
47. Lord Jim & Nostromo (Modern Library (Paperback))
by Joseph Conrad
48. The Rainbow (Modern Library Classics)
by D.H. LAWRENCE
49. Women in Love (Modern Library Classics)
by D.H. LAWRENCE
50. Tropic of Cancer
by Henry Miller
51. The Naked and the Dead : 50th Anniversary Edition
by Norman Mailer
52. Portnoy's Complaint
by Philip Roth
53. Pale Fire (Vintage International)
by VLADIMIR NABOKOV
54. Light in August (Vintage International)
by WILLIAM FAULKNER
55. On the Road
by Jack Kerouac
56. The Maltese Falcon (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
by Dashiell Hammett
57. Parade's End
by Ford Madox Ford
58. The Age of Innocence (The Modern Library Classics)
by EDITH WHARTON
59. Zuleika Dobson (Modern Library Paperbacks)
by Max Beerbohm
60. The Moviegoer
by WALKER PERCY
61. Death Comes for the Archbishop (Vintage Classics)
by Willa Cather
62. From Here to Eternity
by JAMES JONES
63. The Wapshot Chronicle (Perennial Classics)
by John Cheever
64. The Catcher in the Rye
by J.D. Salinger
65. A Clockwork Orange (Norton Paperback Fiction)
by Anthony Burgess
66. Of Human Bondage (Bantam Classic)
by W. Somerset Maugham
67. Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
68. Main Street (Signet Classics (Paperback))
by Sinclair Lewis
69. The House of Mirth (Signet Classics (Paperback))
by Edith Wharton
70.Alexandria Quartet (Boxed)
by Lawrence Durrell
71.High Wind in Jamaica
by Richard Arthur Warren Hughes
72. A House for Mr. Biswas
by V.S. NAIPAUL
73. Day of the Locust, The (Signet Classic)
by Nathanael West
74. Farewell To Arms
by Ernest Hemingway
75. Scoop
by Evelyn Waugh
76. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
by Muriel Spark
77. Finnegans Wake (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
by James Joyce
78. Kim (Penguin Classics)
by Rudyard Kipling
79. A Room with a View (Classic)
by E.M. FORSTER
80. Brideshead Revisited (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by EVELYN WAUGH
81. The Adventures of Augie March (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Saul Bellow
82. Angle of Repose (Contemporary American Fiction)
by Wallace Stegner
83. A Bend in the River
by V.S. NAIPAUL
84. The Death of the Heart
by Elizabeth Bowen
85. Lord Jim
by Joseph Conrad
86. Ragtime
by E. L. Doctorow
87. The Old Wives' Tale (Modern Library Classics)
by Arnold Bennett
88. The Call Of The Wild
by Jack London
89. Loving (A novel by Henry Green)
by Henry Green
90. Midnight's Children (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Salman Rushdie
91. Tobacco Road
by Erskine Caldwell
92. Ironweed
by William J. Kennedy
93. The Magus
by JOHN FOWLES
94. Wide Sargasso Sea (Norton Paperback Fiction)
by Jean Rhys
95. Under the Net
by Iris Murdoch
96. Sophie's Choice
by WILLIAM STYRON
97. The Sheltering Sky
by Paul Bowles
98. The Postman Always Rings Twice (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
by JAMES M. CAIN
99. The Ginger Man
by J. P. Donleavy
100. The Magnificent Ambersons (Modern Library Classics)
by Booth Tarkington
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