Time‘s critics pick the 100 best English-language novels from 1923-2005. Of those, I’ve read eight (two of them solely for school, back in the day) and pieces (often for school) of several more.
Remarkably enough, there’s a graphic novel in there, too (and I can’t argue with their choice).
The ones I’ve read:
Animal Farm
The Big Sleep
The Grapes of Wrath
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Lord of the Flies
Lord of the Rings
1984
Watchmen
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Animal Farm***
Are you there god? It’s me, Margaret**
Brideshead Revisited
Catch-22
The Catcher in the Rye***
A Clockwork Orange***
Grapes of Wrath***
The Great Gatsby***
I, Claudius
Invisible Man
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe** (3/4 of it until I realized that really bad things were not going to happen to the really annoying Lucy…hated it and is one of the few books I have never finished)
Lolita
Lord of the Flies***
Lord of the Rings
1984***
On the Road
Ragtime
Slaughterhouse-Five***
Snow Crash
The sound and the Fury***
The Spy that came in from the cold
The sun also rises
To kill a Mockingbird***
Watchman
White Teeth
**Forced to read in school
***Read in school
Oops…
The Sun Also Rises, was also one of three Hemingway books I was forced to read. I hated all of them, but there is a very special hatered for the Old Man and the Sea…Grrrr….
Animal Farm ***
The Big Sleep ***
Catch-22 ***
The Catcher in the Rye ***
A Clockwork Orange ***
The Grapes of Wrath **
I, Claudius *****
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe * (hardly his best)
Lord of the Flies **
The Lord of the Rings *****
Neuromancer ***
1984 ***
Portnoy’s Complaint **
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie * (grudgingly)
Slaughterhouse-Five ***
Snow Crash ****
Watchmen ****
rated 1-5 stars
Animal Farm
Are you there God? It’s me, Margaret*
Beloved **
The Big Sleep
Brideshead Revisited
Catch-22 ***
The Catcher in the Rye
A Clockwork Orange
The French Lieutenant’s Woman
The Grapes of Wrath
The Great Gatsby
I, Claudius
The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe
Lolita
Lord of the Flies
The Lord of the Rings
Mrs. Dalloway
Naked Lunch
Neuromancer
1984
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Possession
Rabbit, Run
Red Harvest
Slaughterhouse-Five
Snow Crash
The Sound and the Fury
The Sun Also Rises
Things Fall Apart ***
To Kill a Mockingbird
Tropic of Cancer ***
Ubik ****
Watchmen
And if anybody can catch up with me, so help me I’ll finish more of them this weekend.
*But I can’t remember a dang thing.
**Started and pitched across room.
***Started and intend to finish.
****Of all the PKD’s, why this one?!?