(SHORT) Introduction to the 100 Greatest Books Challenge — The List

I am going to read 100 books. Supposedly they are great. We shall see.

Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes Ulysses, James Joyce Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald 1984, George Orwell War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy In Search of Lost Time, Marcel Proust Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky Middlemarch, George Eliot One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf On the Road, Jack Kerouac Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck Moby Dick, Herman Melville Beloved, Toni Morrison The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James The Iliad, Homer Absalom, Absalom!, William Faulkner A Passage to India, E.M. Forster Native Son, Richard Wright Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf The Odyssey, Homer Catch-22, Joseph Heller A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen The Trial, Franz Kafka As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner Brave New World, Aldous Huxley Emma, Jane Austen Nostromo, Joseph Conrad Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad The Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë Lord of the Flies, William Golding All the King’s Men, Robert Penn Warren Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton The Aeneid, Virgil Tom Jones, Henry Fielding The Tin Drum, Günter Grass Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray The Call of the Wild, Jack London The Good Soldier, Ford Madox Ford Malone Dies, Samuel Beckett Animal Farm, George Orwell Frankenstein, Mary Shelley Oedipus the King, Sophocles Gargantua and Pantagruel, François Rabelais U.S.A., John Dos Passos The Tale of Genji, Murasaki Shikibu Tristram Shandy, Laurence Sterne An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer Clarissa, Samuel Richardson Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut Sons and Lovers, D. H. Lawrence Finnegans Wake, James Joyce Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame Women in Love, D. H. Lawrence The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann Charlotte’s Web, E. B. White Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry Pilgrim’s Progress, John Bunyan The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne Hamlet, William Shakespeare A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing Light in August, William Faulkner Rabbit, Run, John Updike The Stranger, Albert Camus Herzog, Saul Bellow Go Tell It on the Mountain, James Baldwin The Awakening, Kate Chopin A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison Faust, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe King Lear, William Shakespeare Dangerous Liaison, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Journey to the End of the Night, Louis-Ferdinand Céline The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas Great Expectations, Charles Dickens Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie

For more details, see the LONG Introduction to the 100 Greatest Books Challenge.