{"id":9777,"date":"2006-11-04T19:39:55","date_gmt":"2006-11-05T02:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/11\/04\/ill-literate-10-of-100.html"},"modified":"2014-06-13T17:08:52","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T23:08:52","slug":"ill_literate_10_of_100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/11\/04\/ill_literate_10_of_100.html","title":{"rendered":"Ill-Literate — 10 of 100"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2005, Time magazine picked the 100 best English-language novels<\/a> (1923-present). Mark the selections you have read in bold. If you liked it, add a star (*) in front of the title, if you didn\u2019t, give it a minus (-). [I\u2019ve added, if you feel totally indifferent or just can\u2019t remember, mark it with a question mark (?).] Then, put the total number of books you\u2019ve read in the subject line.<\/em> <\/p>\n

\n

The Adventures of Augie March – Saul Bellow
\nAll the King\u2019s Men – Robert Penn Warren
\nAmerican Pastoral – Philip Roth
\nAn American Tragedy – Theodore Dreiser
\n* Animal Farm – George Orwell<\/strong>
\n
\nAppointment in Samarra – John O\u2019Hara
\nAre You There God? It\u2019s Me, Margaret – Judy Blume
\nThe Assistant – Bernard Malamud
\nAt Swim-Two-Birds – Flann O\u2019Brien
\nAtonement – Ian McEwan
\nBeloved – Toni Morrison
\nThe Berlin Stories – Christopher Isherwood
\n* The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler
\n<\/strong>The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
\nBlood Meridian – Cormac McCarthy
\nBrideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
\nThe Bridge of San Luis Rey – Thornton Wilder
\nCall It Sleep – Henry Roth
\nCatch-22 – Joseph Heller
\n
\nThe Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
\n
\nA Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
\nThe Confessions of Nat Turner – William Styron
\nThe Corrections – Jonathan Franzen
\nThe Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon
\nA Dance to the Music of Time – Anthony Powell
\nThe Day of the Locust – Nathanael West
\nDeath Comes for the Archbishop – Willa Cather
\nA Death in the Family – James Agee
\nThe Death of the Heart – Elizabeth Bowen
\nDeliverance – James Dickey
\nDog Soldiers – Robert Stone
\nFalconer – John Cheever
\nThe French Lieutenant\u2019s Woman – John Fowles
\nThe Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing
\nGo Tell it on the Mountain – James Baldwin
\nGone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
\n* The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck<\/strong>
\n
\nGravity\u2019s Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon
\n– The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald<\/strong>
\n
\nA Handful of Dust – Evelyn Waugh
\nThe Heart Is A Lonely Hunter – Carson McCullers
\nThe Heart of the Matter – Graham Greene
\nHerzog – Saul Bellow
\nHousekeeping – Marilynne Robinson
\nA House for Mr. Biswas – V.S. Naipaul
\n* I, Claudius – Robert Graves
\n<\/strong>Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace
\nInvisible Man – Ralph Ellison
\nLight in August – William Faulkner
\n* The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe – C.S. Lewis<\/strong>
\n
\nLolita – Vladimir Nabokov
\n– Lord of the Flies – William Golding
\n
\n* The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
\n
\n<\/strong>Loving – Henry Green
\nLucky Jim – Kingsley Amis
\nThe Man Who Loved Children – Christina Stead
\nMidnight\u2019s Children – Salman Rushdie
\nMoney – Martin Amis
\nThe Moviegoer – Walker Percy
\nMrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
\nNaked Lunch – William Burroughs
\nNative Son – Richard Wright
\nNeuromancer – William Gibson
\n
\nNever Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
\n* 1984 – George Orwell<\/strong>
\n
\nOn the Road – Jack Kerouac
\nOne Flew Over the Cuckoo\u2019s Nest – Ken Kesey
\nThe Painted Bird – Jerzy Kosinski
\nPale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov
\nA Passage to India – E.M. Forster
\nPlay It As It Lays – Joan Didion
\nPortnoy\u2019s Complaint – Philip Roth
\nPossession – A.S. Byatt
\nThe Power and the Glory – Graham Greene
\nThe Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark
\nRabbit, Run – John Updike
\nRagtime – E.L. Doctorow
\nThe Recognitions – William Gaddis
\nRed Harvest – Dashiell Hammett
\nRevolutionary Road – Richard Yates
\nThe Sheltering Sky – Paul Bowles
\nSlaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut
\nSnow Crash – Neal Stephenson
\n
\nThe Sot-Weed Factor – John Barth
\nThe Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
\nThe Sportswriter – Richard Ford
\nThe Spy Who Came in From the Cold – John le Carr\u00e9
\nThe Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
\nTheir Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
\nThings Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
\nTo Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
\nTo the Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
\nTropic of Cancer – Henry Miller
\nUbik – Philip K. Dick
\nUnder the Net – Iris Murdoch
\nUnder the Volcano – Malcolm Lowry
\n* Watchmen – Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
\n<\/strong>White Noise – Don DeLillo
\nWhite Teeth – Zadie Smith
\nWide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I read a lot of books. Just not a lot of Literatti-approved books.<\/p>\n

Actually, I don’t even recognize the titles<\/em> of half of the above.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

(via Twenty Sided<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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