As I mentioned in a previous post, one of my goals for next year is to read 50 of the “100 Greatest Books” of all time. After looking through a couple of lists online and dismissing all that included the Twilight series I settled on Time Magazine’s selection.
So my first 25 choices from the list are as follows…
01: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey [read]
02: White Teeth by Zadie Smith [read]
03: The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon [read]
04: Atonement by Ian McEwan [read]
05: Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut [read]
06: The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood [read]
07: Call It Sleep by Henry Roth
08: The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen
09: Possession by A.S. Byatt
10: An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
11: The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
12: Neuromancer by William Gibson
13: The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
14: White Noise by Don DeLillo [read]
15: Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
16: Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
17: The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
18: Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
19: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
20: The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
21: Beloved by Toni Morrison
22: Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
23: A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
24: Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
25: Naked Lunch by William Burroughs
02: White Teeth by Zadie Smith [read]
03: The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon [read]
04: Atonement by Ian McEwan [read]
05: Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut [read]
06: The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood [read]
07: Call It Sleep by Henry Roth
08: The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen
09: Possession by A.S. Byatt
10: An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
11: The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
12: Neuromancer by William Gibson
13: The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
14: White Noise by Don DeLillo [read]
15: Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
16: Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
17: The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
18: Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
19: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
20: The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
21: Beloved by Toni Morrison
22: Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
23: A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
24: Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
25: Naked Lunch by William Burroughs
I will update the list as I make my way through the books. I have already started reading One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest. Wish me luck!
