Goal #5 Progress

12 Thoughts on “Goal #5 Progress”

1. Dee on January 27, 2011 at 4:42 pm said:

   I’ve read:

   Animal Farm by George Orwell
   Appointment in Samarra by John O’Hara
   Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
   The Assistant by Bernard Malamud
   Atonement by Ian McEwan
   The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
   Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
   Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
   The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
   A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
   The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
   A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell
   Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
   The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
   The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
   The Heart is A Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
   The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
   Lord of the Flies by William Golding
   The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (got bored halfway through the first book and gave it up as a lost cause)
   Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
   Naked Lunch by William Burroughs
   Native Son by Richard Wright
   On the Road by Jack Kerouac
   One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
   Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth
   The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
   Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow
   Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
   Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
   Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
   To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
   Watchmen by Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
   White Teeth by Zadie Smith

   I really like Catch 22 and The Great Gatsby, and I like anything by Carson McCullers.

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   • Jessica on January 27, 2011 at 6:35 pm said:

     That is an impressive selection Dee! I really want to read The Great Gatsby before the new film is released with Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan.

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     • Dee on January 28, 2011 at 9:24 am said:

       To be fair, a few of them I read in high school, and I also studied literature. But I have read a lot of books in my time. 🙂

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2. Emily on January 27, 2011 at 5:20 pm said:

   I would consider myself a ‘reader’ but have hardly read any on this list.

   Challenge accepted!

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   • Jessica on January 27, 2011 at 6:27 pm said:

     Excellent! Good luck with your reading Emily, I look forward to hearing how you go!

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3. Stacey on January 27, 2011 at 7:27 pm said:

   From those, I’ve read:

   Animal Farm by George Orwell
   Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
   Atonement by Ian McEwan
   Beloved by Toni Morrison
   The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood
   The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
   The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
   Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
   Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
   The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
   A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
   A Death in the Family by James Agee
   The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
   Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
   The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
   The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
   The Heart is A Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
   The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
   Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
   Lord of the Flies by William Golding
   The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
   Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
   Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
   Naked Lunch by William Burroughs
   Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
   1984 by George Orwell
   On the Road by Jack Kerouac
   One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
   A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
   Possession by A.S. Byatt
   Rabbit, Run by John Updike
   Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
   Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
   The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
   The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
   Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
   Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
   To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
   To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
   White Teeth by Zadie Smith
   Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

   My top 7 (tried to do 5!) of those would be:
   Beloved by Toni Morrison
   The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
   Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
   Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
   Rabbit, Run by John Updike
   To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
   Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

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4. Stacey on January 27, 2011 at 7:28 pm said:

   I should read the rest on that list. There’s so many there that I know the basic plots of so I’ve never read them, or started them and never finished, and I should!

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5. Stacey on January 27, 2011 at 7:34 pm said:

   PS My most hated from that list are:

   The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing (Not really hated, but it’s SO COMPLICATED it made me feel very stupid. I feel like I literally had to have been a communist to understand it.)

   The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner – I found this IMPOSSIBLE to read, and I’ve got a feeling it was designed that way.

   Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie (I just can’t get over how much I hate Rushdie, he’s a jerk).

   Also I’ve only read Animal Farm, Catch 22, A Clockwork Orange, 1984 and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest because I’ve had to for school/uni, I didn’t particularly like them.

   OK I’ll stop talking now 🙂

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6. Jessica on January 27, 2011 at 10:08 pm said:

   I’m working on this list myself (amongst about 5 other lists!). I’ve only got 22 of 100. Right now I’m working more on another list, so I’ll have to focus on this list later.

   Way to go with your progress thus far!

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7. Thelma on January 28, 2011 at 12:38 am said:

   Okay I’ve only read 4- and thats including Revolutionary Road, which Im not even finished yet!!

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8. Natalie on January 28, 2011 at 9:25 pm said:

   I would also consider myself a reader but have only read about a dozen and there’s plenty on there I’ve never even heard of.

   I’d second the recommendation re Wide Sargasso Sea – it’s based loosely on Jane Eyre.

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9. themissadventurejournals on February 2, 2011 at 11:40 am said:

   I consider myself to be pretty well read but Ive only read seven books on this list.

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