The List

Greatest Books Read: 100/100

Books I’ve finished are in bold.

Reviews I’m especially pleased with are starred*.

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1. Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes
2. Ulysses, James Joyce*
3. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov*
4. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
5. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
6. 1984, George Orwell*
7. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
8. In Search of Lost Time, Marcel Proust
9. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
10. Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
11. The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
12. Middlemarch, George Eliot
13. One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
14. The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner
15. Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
16. The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger
17. To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
18. On the Road, Jack Kerouac
19. Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift
20. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
21. Moby-Dick, Herman Melville*
22. Beloved, Toni Morrison
23. The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James*
24. The Iliad, Homer*
25. Absalom, Absalom!, William Faulkner*
26. A Passage to India, E.M. Forster
27. Native Son, Richard Wright
28. Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
29. The Odyssey, Homer*
30. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
31. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce
32. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
33. The Trial, Franz Kafka
34. As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner*
35. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
36. Emma, Jane Austen
37. Nostromo, Joseph Conrad
38. Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
39. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
40. Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
41. The Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien*
42. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
43. The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri*
44. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
45. Lord of the Flies, William Golding
46. All the King’s Men, Robert Penn Warren
47. Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
48. The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton
49. The Aeneid, Virgil*
50. Tom Jones, Henry Fielding
51. The Tin Drum, Günter Grass
52. Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray*
53. The Call of the Wild, Jack London
54. The Good Soldier, Ford Madox Ford
55. Malone Dies, Samuel Beckett
56. Animal Farm, George Orwell
57. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
58. Oedipus the King, Sophocles
59. Gargantua and Pantagruel, François Rabelais
60. U.S.A., John Dos Passos
61. The Tale of Genji, Murasaki Shikibu
62. Tristram Shandy, Laurence Sterne
63. An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser
64. Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
65. The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer
66. Clarissa, Samuel Richardson*
67. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
68. The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway*
69. The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins
70. Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe
71. Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
72. Sons and Lovers, D. H. Lawrence
73. Finnegans Wake, James Joyce*
74. Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
75. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
76. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
77. Women in Love, D. H. Lawrence
78. The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann*
79. Charlotte’s Web, E. B. White
80. Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry
81. Pilgrim’s Progress, John Bunyan
82. The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
83. Hamlet, William Shakespeare
84. A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway*
85. The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing
86. Light in August, William Faulkner*
87. Rabbit, Run, John Updike*
88. The Stranger, Albert Camus
89. Herzog, Saul Bellow
90. Go Tell It on the Mountain, James Baldwin
91. The Awakening, Kate Chopin
92. A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
93. Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison
94. Faust, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
95. King Lear, William Shakespeare
96. Dangerous Liaisons, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
97. Journey to the End of the Night, Louis-Ferdinand Céline
98. The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
99. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
100. Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie