Read Time Magazine's All-Time 100 Novels

Finishing my first book for this goal made me feel good about adding it to my 43 things. It was extremely embarrassing that I had only read 8/100 before setting the goal. I guess that’s why I set the goal, so I won’t be too hard on myself. Anyway, I plan to read those again at some point in time. Anyway, 1/100 is better than 0/100. Feels good!!! :)

1. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
2. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
3. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
4. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
5. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
6. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
7. Native Son by Richard Wright
8. 1984 by George Orwell

1. Atonement by Ian McEwan -12/13/08

1. The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
2. All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren
3. American Pastoral by Philip Roth
4. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
5. Animal Farm by George Orwell
6. Appointment in Samarra by John O’Hara
7. Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
8. The Assistant by Bernard Malamud
9. At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O’Brien
10. Beloved by Toni Morrison
11. The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood
12. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
13. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
14. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
15. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
16. The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
17. Call It Sleep by Henry Roth
18. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
19. The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
20. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
21. The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
22. A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell
23. The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
24. Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
25. A Death in the Family by James Agee
26. The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen
27. Deliverance by James Dickey
28. Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone
29. Falconer by John Cheever
30. The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles
31. The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
32. Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin
33. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
34. Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
35. A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
36. The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
37. The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
38. Herzog by Saul Bellow
39. Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
40. A House for Mr. Biswas by V.S. Naipaul
41. I, Claudius by Robert Graves
42. Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
43. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
44. Light in August by William Faulkner
45. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
46. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
47. Loving by Henry Green
48. Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
49. The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead
50. Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
51. Money by Martin Amis
52. The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
53. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
54. Naked Lunch by William Burroughs
55. Neuromance by William Gibson
56. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
57. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
58. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
59. The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski
60. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
61. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
62. Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
63. Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth
64. Possession by A.S. Byatt
65. The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
66. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
67. Rabbit, Run by John Updike
68. Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow
69. The Recognitions by William Gaddis
70. Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
71. Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
72. The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
73. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
74. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
75. The Sot-Weed Factor by John Barth
76. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
77. The Sportswriter by Richard Ford
78. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John le Carre
79. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
80. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
81. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
82. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
83. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
84. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
85. Ubik by Philip K. Dick
86. Under the Net by Iris Murdoch
87. Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
88. Watchmen by Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
89. White Noise by Don DeLillo
90. White Teeth by Zadie Smith
91. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

are those books? I really have to learn how to read again… Maybe, it will help me communicate better. My grunting sounds and hand gestures are not making me a popular person at work. Speaking in words will work a lot better than expecting people to understand my silly facial expressions.

I have 3 books that have been staring at me everyday. They are taunting me and begging me to stop wasting my time procrastinating and to start reading them. Two of them are from the list. I’ll try to start reading one before I go to bed tonight. :)