Posted by Lale on 27/5/2011, 11:44:15, in reply to "Re: Lists"
173.33.119.10
I have done really poorly on this list. Including the ones I have Abnf (Attempted but not finished) I seem to have tackled only one quarter of the list:
THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald --- R
LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov --- R
BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley --- R
CATCH-22 by Joseph Heller --- R
THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck --- R
UNDER THE VOLCANO by Malcolm Lowry --- R
1984 by George Orwell --- R
TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf --- R
INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison --- AbnF
THE AMBASSADORS by Henry James --- R
TENDER IS THE NIGHT by F. Scott Fitzgerald --- R
ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell --- R
THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY by Thornton Wilder --- R
THE HEART OF THE MATTER by Graham Greene --- R
THE AGE OF INNOCENCE by Edith Wharton --- R
THE MOVIEGOER by Walker Percy --- AbnF
THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger --- R
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess --- R
MAIN STREET by Sinclair Lewis --- R
THE HOUSE OF MIRTH by Edith Wharton --- R
A HOUSE FOR MR BISWAS by V.S. Naipaul --- R
THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE by Muriel Spark --- R
BRIDESHEAD REVISITED by Evelyn Waugh --- R
MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN by Salman Rushdie ---AbnF
THE SHELTERING SKY by Paul Bowles --- R
One book that I feel is missing in this list is Upton Sinclair's The Jungle. I believe it should be there.
I haven't read the remaining 75 books on the list. Could I ask each of you to name the three books from these remaining 75 that you think Lale must absolutely read to be worthy of being the owner and (from time to time, hopefully more frequently in the future) the manager of ReadLiterature.com.
The books I haven't yet tackled (or don't remember having tackled) are:
1. ULYSSES by James Joyce
2. A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce
3. THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner
4. DARKNESS AT NOON by Arthur Koestler
5. SONS AND LOVERS by D.H. Lawrence
6. THE WAY OF ALL FLESH by Samuel Butler
7. I, CLAUDIUS by Robert Graves
8. AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY by Theodore Dreiser
9. THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by Carson McCullers
10. SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut
11. NATIVE SON by Richard Wright
12. HENDERSON THE RAIN KING by Saul Bellow
13. APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA by John O’Hara
14. U.S.A. (trilogy) by John Dos Passos
15. WINESBURG, OHIO by Sherwood Anderson
16. A PASSAGE TO INDIA by E.M. Forster
17. THE WINGS OF THE DOVE by Henry James
18. THE STUDS LONIGAN TRILOGY by James T. Farrell
19. THE GOOD SOLDIER by Ford Madox Ford
20. THE GOLDEN BOWL by Henry James
21. SISTER CARRIE by Theodore Dreiser
22. A HANDFUL OF DUST by Evelyn Waugh
23. AS I LAY DYING by William Faulkner
24. ALL THE KING’S MEN by Robert Penn Warren
25. HOWARDS END by E.M. Forster
26. GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN by James Baldwin
27. LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding
28. DELIVERANCE by James Dickey
29. A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME (series) by Anthony Powell
30. POINT COUNTER POINT by Aldous Huxley
31. THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway
32. THE SECRET AGENT by Joseph Conrad
33. NOSTROMO by Joseph Conrad
34. THE RAINBOW by D.H. Lawrence
35. WOMEN IN LOVE by D.H. Lawrence
36. TROPIC OF CANCER by Henry Miller
37. THE NAKED AND THE DEAD by Norman Mailer
38. PORTNOY’S COMPLAINT by Philip Roth
39. PALE FIRE by Vladimir Nabokov
40. LIGHT IN AUGUST by William Faulkner
41. ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac
42. THE MALTESE FALCON by Dashiell Hammett
43. PARADE’S END by Ford Madox Ford
44. ZULEIKA DOBSON by Max Beerbohm
45. DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP by Willa Cather
46. FROM HERE TO ETERNITY by James Jones
47. THE WAPSHOT CHRONICLES by John Cheever
48. OF HUMAN BONDAGE by W. Somerset Maugham
49. HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad
50. THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTET by Lawrence Durell
51. A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA by Richard Hughes
52. THE DAY OF THE LOCUST by Nathanael West
53. A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway
54. SCOOP by Evelyn Waugh
55. FINNEGANS WAKE by James Joyce
56. KIM by Rudyard Kipling
57. A ROOM WITH A VIEW by E.M. Forster
58. THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH by Saul Bellow
59. ANGLE OF REPOSE by Wallace Stegner
60. A BEND IN THE RIVER by V.S. Naipaul
61. THE DEATH OF THE HEART by Elizabeth Bowen
62. LORD JIM by Joseph Conrad
63. RAGTIME by E.L. Doctorow
64. THE OLD WIVES’ TALE by Arnold Bennett
65. THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London
66. LOVING by Henry Green
67. TOBACCO ROAD by Erskine Caldwell
68. IRONWEED by William Kennedy
69. THE MAGUS by John Fowles
70. WIDE SARGASSO SEA by Jean Rhys
71. UNDER THE NET by Iris Murdoch
72. SOPHIE’S CHOICE by William Styron
73. THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE by James M. Cain
74. THE GINGER MAN by J.P. Donleavy
75. THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS by Booth Tarkington
I may have tried to read SlaughterHouse 5, I cannot recall. Kurt Vonnegut was very very famous in Turkey, we had most of his books translated into Turkish and I seem to think that I tried to read 3 of his books in Turkish and hated them (one of them is Breakfast of Champions, the other is The General in his Labyrinth and third might have been SH5). The books I read by him are: Cat's Cradle, Slapstick, Hocus Pocus and Bluebeard. I think Cat's Cradle should be on the list.
So if I could add to the Modern Library List, I would add:
A Suitable Boy
A Fine balance
Confederation of Dunces
The Jungle
Cat's Cradle
All the other good books that come to my mind seem to be either written in another century or written in another language so they don't qualify.
Lale
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