while these may or may not be “great” novels (and i have a problem with ranking/applying quantitative standards to art…blah blah blah…find it very limited in scope and lacking in spotaneity…whatever) they are still worth reading. and i’m supposed to be a literature concentrator, but the more coursework i do, the more i realize that i’m not well-read. at all. so…yeah…i’m choosing this list as a starting point for this summer.

Initially I had read:

1.All the King’s Men
2.Atonement
3.Catch-22
4.The Catcher in the Rye
5.The Crying of Lot 49
6.The Great Gatsby
7.The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
8. Lolita
9.Mrs. Dalloway
10.The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
11.Slaughterhouse-Five
12.Their Eyes Were Watching God
13.To Kill a Mockingbird
14.White Noise
15. White Teeth

And I’ve since read:
16.A Handful of Dust
17.A House for Mr. Biswas
18.Play it As it Lays
19.Portnoy’s Complaint
20.The Sun Also Rises
21.Things Fall Apart

I guess that’s not too bad.