So, Today I was looking at the Newsweek's Top 100 Book List. I really want to read books that have made a difference in culture and history. Highlighted are books I have read excerpts of (blue) and the whole thing (yellow). I figured up that if I was to complete this book list by reading all of the books that I have not completed, one book a month, it would take me 7 years to finish! I better get started. Good thing my book club is reading #14 in a couple months.
Newsweek's Top 100 Books
1.War and Peace-Tolstoy
2.Nineteen eighty four-Orwell
3.Ulysses-Joyce
4.Lolita-Nabokov
5.The Sound and the Fury-Faulkner
6.The Invisible Man-Ellison
7.To the Lighthouse-Woolf
8.The Illiad and the Odyssey-Homer
9.Pride and Predjudice-Austen
10.Divine Comedy-Alighieri
11.Canterbury Tales-Chaucer
12.Guillver's Travels-Swift
13.Middlemarch-Elliot
14.Things Fall Apart-Achebe
15.The Catcher in the Rye-Salinger
16.Gone with the Wind-Mitchell
17.100 Years of Solitude-Marquez
18.The Great Gatsby-Fitzgerald
19.Catch 22-Heller
20.Beloved-Morrison
21.The Grapes of Wrath-Steinbeck
22.Midnight's Children-Rushdie
23.Brave New World-Huxley
24.Mrs. Dalloway-Woolf
25.Native Son-Wright
26.Democracy in America-Tocqueville
27.On the Origin of Species-Darwin
28.The Histories-Herodotus
29.The Social Contract-Rousseau
30.Das Kapital-Marx
31.The Prince-Machiavelli
32.Confessions-St. Augustine
33.Leviathan-Hobbes
34.The History of the Peloponnesian War-Thucydides
35.The Lord of the Rings-Tolkien
36.Winnie-the-Pooh-Milne
37.The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe-Lewis
38.Passage to India-Forster
39.On the Road-Kerouac
40.To Kill a Mockingbird-Lee
41.The Holy Bible
42.A Clockwork Orange-Burgess
43.Light in August-Faulkner
44.The Souls of Black Folks-Du Bois
45.Wild Sargasso Sea-Rhys
46.Madame Bovary-Flaubert
47.Paradise Lost-Milton
48.Anna Karenina-Tolstoy
49.Hamlet-Shakespeare
50.King Lear-Shakespeare
51.Othello-Shakespeare
52.Sonnets-Shakespeare
53.Leaves of Grass-Whitman
54.The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn-Twain
55.Kim-Kipling
56.Frankenstein-Shelley
57.Song of Solomon-Morrison
58.One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest-Kesey
59.For whom the Bell Tolls-Hemingway
60.Slaughterhouse-Five-Vonnegut
61.Animal Farm-Orwell
62.Lord of the Flies-Golding
63.In Cold Blood-Capote
64.The Golden Notebook-Lessing
65.Rembrance of Things Past-Proust
66.The Big Sleep-Chandler
67.As I Lay Dying-Faulkner
68.The Sun also Rises-Hemingway
69.I, Claudius-Graves
70.The Heart is a Lonely Hunter-McCullers
71.Sons and Lovers-Lawrence
72.All the King's Men-Warren
73.Go Tell it on the Mountain-Baldwin
74.Charlotte's Web-White
75.Heart of Darkness-Conrad
76.Night-Wiesel
77.Rabbit, Run-Updike
78.The Age of Innocence-Wharton
79.Portnoy's Complaint-Roth
80.An American Tradgedy-Dresier
81.The Day of the Locust-West
82.Tropic of Cancer-Miller
83.The Maltese Falcon-Hammett
84.His Dark Materials-Pullman
85.Death Comes for the Archbishop-Cather
86.The Interpretation of Dreams-Freud
87.The Education of Henry Adams-Adams
88.Quotations from Chairman-Zedong
89.The Varieties of Religious Experience-James
90.Brideshead Revisited-Waugh
91.Silent Spring-Carson
92.The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money-Keynes
93.Lord Jim-Conrad
94.Goodbye to All That-Graves
95.The Affluent Society-Gallbraith
96.The Wind in the Willows-Grahame
97.The Autobiography of Malcom X-Malcom X
98.Eminent Victorians-Strachey
99.The Color Purple-Walker
100.The Second World War-Churchhill
Newsweek's Top 100 Books
1.War and Peace-Tolstoy
2.Nineteen eighty four-Orwell
3.Ulysses-Joyce
4.Lolita-Nabokov
5.The Sound and the Fury-Faulkner
6.The Invisible Man-Ellison
7.To the Lighthouse-Woolf
8.The Illiad and the Odyssey-Homer
9.Pride and Predjudice-Austen
10.Divine Comedy-Alighieri
11.Canterbury Tales-Chaucer
12.Guillver's Travels-Swift
13.Middlemarch-Elliot
14.Things Fall Apart-Achebe
15.The Catcher in the Rye-Salinger
16.Gone with the Wind-Mitchell
17.100 Years of Solitude-Marquez
18.The Great Gatsby-Fitzgerald
19.Catch 22-Heller
20.Beloved-Morrison
21.The Grapes of Wrath-Steinbeck
22.Midnight's Children-Rushdie
23.Brave New World-Huxley
24.Mrs. Dalloway-Woolf
25.Native Son-Wright
26.Democracy in America-Tocqueville
27.On the Origin of Species-Darwin
28.The Histories-Herodotus
29.The Social Contract-Rousseau
30.Das Kapital-Marx
31.The Prince-Machiavelli
32.Confessions-St. Augustine
33.Leviathan-Hobbes
34.The History of the Peloponnesian War-Thucydides
35.The Lord of the Rings-Tolkien
36.Winnie-the-Pooh-Milne
37.The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe-Lewis
38.Passage to India-Forster
39.On the Road-Kerouac
40.To Kill a Mockingbird-Lee
41.The Holy Bible
42.A Clockwork Orange-Burgess
43.Light in August-Faulkner
44.The Souls of Black Folks-Du Bois
45.Wild Sargasso Sea-Rhys
46.Madame Bovary-Flaubert
47.Paradise Lost-Milton
48.Anna Karenina-Tolstoy
49.Hamlet-Shakespeare
50.King Lear-Shakespeare
51.Othello-Shakespeare
52.Sonnets-Shakespeare
53.Leaves of Grass-Whitman
54.The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn-Twain
55.Kim-Kipling
56.Frankenstein-Shelley
57.Song of Solomon-Morrison
58.One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest-Kesey
59.For whom the Bell Tolls-Hemingway
60.Slaughterhouse-Five-Vonnegut
61.Animal Farm-Orwell
62.Lord of the Flies-Golding
63.In Cold Blood-Capote
64.The Golden Notebook-Lessing
65.Rembrance of Things Past-Proust
66.The Big Sleep-Chandler
67.As I Lay Dying-Faulkner
68.The Sun also Rises-Hemingway
69.I, Claudius-Graves
70.The Heart is a Lonely Hunter-McCullers
71.Sons and Lovers-Lawrence
72.All the King's Men-Warren
73.Go Tell it on the Mountain-Baldwin
74.Charlotte's Web-White
75.Heart of Darkness-Conrad
76.Night-Wiesel
77.Rabbit, Run-Updike
78.The Age of Innocence-Wharton
79.Portnoy's Complaint-Roth
80.An American Tradgedy-Dresier
81.The Day of the Locust-West
82.Tropic of Cancer-Miller
83.The Maltese Falcon-Hammett
84.His Dark Materials-Pullman
85.Death Comes for the Archbishop-Cather
86.The Interpretation of Dreams-Freud
87.The Education of Henry Adams-Adams
88.Quotations from Chairman-Zedong
89.The Varieties of Religious Experience-James
90.Brideshead Revisited-Waugh
91.Silent Spring-Carson
92.The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money-Keynes
93.Lord Jim-Conrad
94.Goodbye to All That-Graves
95.The Affluent Society-Gallbraith
96.The Wind in the Willows-Grahame
97.The Autobiography of Malcom X-Malcom X
98.Eminent Victorians-Strachey
99.The Color Purple-Walker
100.The Second World War-Churchhill
1 comment:
haha. I love that we *have* way too many of these books. Guess who's read them all and guess who's started (barely) a lot of them!
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