Thursday, December 06, 2007

100 Best Novels

After looking at MLA's 100 Best Novels, I am feel like I'll need to get out of the brain candy mode and pick up something worth reading.

For the Board's List, I have only read 15 of them!
  • The Great Gatsby - does it count that I have read it more than once?
  • Brave New World
  • Catch-22
  • The Grapes of Wrath - again, do multiple readings count for something?
  • 1984 - multiple readings again...
  • Slaughterhouse-Five
  • Animal Farm
  • Howards End
  • Lord of the Flies
  • The Age of Innocence
  • Death Comes for the Archbishop
  • The Catcher in the Rye - multiple readings
  • The House of Mirth
  • A Bend in the River
  • The Call of the Wild
I do slightly better for the Reader's list, 28!
  • Atlas Shrugged
  • The Fountainhead
  • The Lord of the Rings
  • To Kill a Mockingbird
  • 1984
  • Catch-22
  • The Great Gatsby
  • Stranger in a Strange Land
  • Brave New World
  • The Catcher in the Rye
  • Animal Farm
  • The Grapes of Wrath
  • Slaughterhouse-Five
  • Gone with the Wind
  • Lord of the Flies
  • A Prayer for Owen Meany
  • The Stand
  • Beloved
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
  • The Handmaid's Tale
  • Something Wicked This Way Comes
  • The Call of the Wild
  • Fahrenheit 451
  • Watership Down
  • The Hunt for Red October
  • Naked Lunch
  • It
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Does it count that I tried to read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance? I think it should, I won't pick it up again.

How did you do?

2 comments:

Kristin said...

I've read 17 and 24, respectively. Pitiful! Though, I did just buy The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man this weekend... I need to work on this.

CeeDubbVA said...

Did you know I've experienced all sorts of angst about this recently? I started off at a pitiful, pathetic 9 on the MLA list. I'm up to 19 MLA books since September, 30 on the Reader's List, and a respectable 35 on the Radcliffe list!
I'm currently struggling through The Sound and the Fury, which manages to be confusing and boring at the same time. Obviously, stream of consciousness is not my thing; I had to plow through James Joyce and Virginia Woolf too.