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The Year of Magical Thinking/Joan Didion (2005) 2 months ago

As a mystery story I found it surprisingly un-put-down-able, but otherwise so relentlessly clever. 2 months ago

Published in 1933, under the pseudonym Richard Meeker, this is a rare story from that period with a gay protagonist whose story has a happy ever after ending, which the author in fact went on to live with his life partner, who appears fictionalized in the book. On that basis alone, this is an interesting read. 2 months ago

Ryszard Kapuscinski/The Emperor (1978)
Richard Lee Marks/Three Men of The Beagle (1991)
John Preston/Mr. Benson (1983) 2 months ago

Ambitious, masterful, maddening, really scary in its evocation of the shifting boundaries of the house, but ultimately the footnotes and pseudo-critical stuff weigh the book down: in the end, just too many words. 4 months ago

Darieck Scott/Traitor to the Race (1995)
Jonathan D. Spence/The Question of Hu (1989)
Jeanette Farrell/Invisible Enemires: Stories of Infectious Disease (1997) 4 months ago

Ernesto by Umberto Saba (1975) 4 months ago

Invisible Enemies: Stories of Infectious Disease by Jeanette Farrell (1997) 4 months ago

A novel aimed at a young adult audience but appropriate for older readers too. Really sweet, lovely story of two adolescent girls falling in love with each other in New York City. Garden captures the feelings of growing attraction and questioning of sexual identity really well. I read it in one sitting. A beautiful book, apparently a classic of young adult LBGTQ fiction. 4 months ago

Green I own, blue I’ve read, red I’ve read since posting the list.

1. Death in Venice by Thomas Mann

2. Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin

3. Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet

4. Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust

5. The Immoralist by Andre Gide

6. Orlando by Virginia Woolf

7. The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall

8. Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig

9. The Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar

10. Zami by Audre Lorde

11. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

12. Nightwood by Djuna Barnes

13. Billy Budd by Herman Melville

14. A Boy’s Own Story by Edmund White

15. Dancer from the Dance by Andrew Holleran

16. Maurice by E. M. Forster

17. The City and the Pillar by Gore Vidal

18. Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown

19. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

20. Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima

21. The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers

22. City of Night by John Rechy

23. Myra Breckinridge by Gore Vidal
24. Patience and Sarah by Isabel Miller
25. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein

26. Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote

27. The Bostonians by Henry James

28. Two Serious Ladies by Jane Bowles

29. Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison

30. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

31. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

32. The Persian Boy by Mary Renault

33. A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood

34. The Swimming Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst

35. Olivia by Olivia (Dorothy Bussy)

36. The Price of Salt (Carol) by Claire Morgan (Patricia Highsmith)

37. Aquamarine by Carol Anshaw

38. Another Country by James Baldwin

39. Cheri by Colette

40. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

41. The Color Purple by Alice Walker

42. Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence

43. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

44. The Friendly Young Ladies (The Middle Mist) by Mary Renault
45. Young Torless by Robert Musil
46. Eustace Chisholm and the Works by James Purdy

47. The Story of Harold by Terry Andrews

48. The Gallery by John Horne Burns

49. Sister Gin by June Arnold
50. Ready to Catch Him Should He Fall by Neil Bartlett

51. Father of Frankenstein by Christopher Bram

52. Naked Lunch by William Burroughs

53. The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood

54. The Young and Evil by Charles Henri Ford and Parker Tyler

55. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson

56. A Visitation of Spirits by Randall Kenan

57. Three Lives by Gertrude Stein

58. Concerning the Eccentricities of Cardinal Pirelli by Ronald Firbank

59. Rat Bohemia by Sarah Schulman

60. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov

61. The Counterfeiters by Andre Gide

62. The Passion by Jeanette Winterson

63. Lover by Bertha Harris

64. Moby Dick by Herman Melville

65. La Batarde by Violette Leduc

66. Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather

67. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

68. The Satyricon by Petronius

69. The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell

70. Special Friendships by Roger Peyrefitte
71. The Changelings by Jo Sinclair
72. Paradiso by Jose Lezama Lima
73. Sheeper by Irving Rosenthal
74. Les Guerilleres by Monique Wittig

75. The Child Manuela (Madchen in Uniform) by Christa Winsloe

76. An Arrow’s Flight by Mark Merlis
77. The Gaudy Image by William Talsman
78. The Exquisite Corpse by Alfred Chester
79. Was by Geoff Ryman

80. Therese and Isabelle by Violette Leduc

81. Gemini by Michel Tournier

82. The Beautiful Room Is Empty by Edmund White
83. The Children’s Crusade by Rebecca Brown
84. The Story of the Night by Colm Toibin

85. The Holy Terrors (Les Enfants Terribles) by Jean Cocteau
86. Hell Has No Limits by Jose Donoso
87. Riverfinger Women by Elana Nachman (Dykewomon)
88. The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon by Tom Spanbauer

89. Closer by Dennis Cooper

90. Lost Illusions by Honore de Balzac
91. Miss Peabody’s Inheritance by Elizabeth Jolley

92. Rene’s Flesh by Virgilio Pinera

93. Funny Boy by Shyam Selvadurai
94. Wasteland by Jo Sinclair
95. Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing by May Sarton
96. Sea of Tranquillity by Paul Russell
97. Autobiography of a Family Photo by Jacqueline Woodson
98. In Thrall by Jane DeLynn
99. On Strike Against God by Joanna Russ
100. Sita by Kate Millett6 years ago

Green I own, blue I’ve read, red I’ve read since posting list.

1. Horatio Alger, Ragged Dick or, Street Life in New York

2. Clive Barker, Imajica

3. James M. Barrie, Peter Pan

4. William Beckford, Vathek

5. Aphra Behn, Oronooko

6. E.F. Benson, Make Way for Lucia

7. Elizabeth Bowen, The Death of the Heart

8. Poppy Z. Brite, Exquisite Corpse

9. Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh

10. Angela Carter, The Infernal Desire Machines of Dr. Hoffmann

11. John Cheever, The Wapshot Chronicle

12. Bruce Chatwin, On the Black Hill

13. Samuel R. Delany, Triton (aka Trouble on Triton)

14. Patrick Dennis (pseudonym of Edward Everett Tanner III), Auntie Mame

15. Norman Douglas, South Wind

16. Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca

17. Brett Easton Ellis, Less Than Zero

18. John Fox, The Boys on the Rock

19. Henry Blake Fuller, Bertram Cope’s Year

20. Nancy Garden, Annie on My Mind

21. Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

22. Juan Goytisolo, Marks of Identity

23. Joris-Karl Huysmans, Against the Grain

24. Sarah Orne Jewett, Country of the Pointed Firs

25. Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

26. Heinrich von Kleist, The Marquise of O…

27. John Knowles, A Separate Peace

28. Larry Kramer, Faggots

29. Nella Larsen, Passing

30. David Leavitt, The Lost Language of Cranes

31. Ursula K. LeGuin, The Left Hand of Darkness

32. Matthew Gregory Lewis, The Monk

33. H.P. Lovecraft, The Shadow Over Innsmouth

34. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

35. Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City Series

Tales of the City (1978)

More Tales of the City (1980)

Further Tales of the City (1982)

Babycakes (1984)

Significant Others (1987)

Sure of You (1989)

Michael Tolliver Lives (2007)

36. James McCourt, Mawrdew Czgowchwz

37. Michael Nava, Henry Rios Series (seven novels)
The Little Death (1986)

Goldenboy (1988)

How Town (1990)

The Hidden Law (1992)

The Death of Friends (1996)

The Burning Plain (1997)

Rag and Bone (2001)

38. Edward Prime-Stevenson (under pseudonym “Xavier Mayne”), Imre

39. Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

40. Frederick William Rolfe (under pseudonym “Baron Corvo”), Hadrian VII

41. Bram Stoker, Dracula

42. Bayard Taylor, Joseph and His Friend

43. Bruno Vogel, Alf

44. Sylvia Townsend Warner, Lolly Willowes

45. Patricia Nell Warren, The Front Runner

46. Anna Weirauch, The Scorpion

47. Denton Welch, In Youth is Pleasure

48. Glenway Wescott, The Grandmothers

49. Thornton Wilder, The Cabala

50. Cornell Woolrich, I Married a Dead Man6 years ago

The City & The Pillar, Revised by Gore Vidal (1965)
Dancing on Tisha B’Av by Lev Raphael (1991) 4 months ago

Irritating, full of trendy academic-speak, post-Foucault in its placing of the creation of the homosexual as an identity to the late nineteenth century, critical of essentialist notions of sexual identity, and a bit humourless – one of his mentors is Gore Vidal and he writes with a bit of Vidal’s chilly condescension – but, not without a lot of challenging and thought provoking ideas about what heterosexuality is, when it gained currency as an idea, and what the implications of that are for the future of our notions of gender, sex, sexuality identity, how we understand ourselves. 6 months ago

The Undergrowth of Literature/Gillian Freeman (1967) 6 months ago

Napoleon/Vincent Cronin (1971)
Intimate Companions: George Platt Lynes, Paul Cadmus, Lincoln Kirstein, and Their Circle/David Leddick (2000)
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher, or, The Murder at Road Hill House/Kate Summerscale (2008) 6 months ago

Green I own, blue I’ve read, red I’ve read since posting the list.

1. Anger, Kenneth – Hollywood Babylon

2. Auden, W.H. – The Dyer’s Hand and Other Essays

3. Augustine of Hippo [St. Augustine] – Confessions
4. Bacon, Francis (1561–1626) – The Essays, Civil and Moral
5. Bacon, Francis (1909–1992) (with David Sylvester) – The Brutality of Fact
6. Bagemihl, Bruce – Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity

7. Baldwin, James – The Fire Next Time & Nobody Knows My Name [two related books]
8. Barney, Natalie Clifford – Thoughts of an Amazon & More Thoughts of an Amazon [two related books]
9. Barthes, Roland – S/Z
10. Bashô, Matsuo – Narrow Road to the Deep North
11. Beaton, Cecil – Self Portrait with Friends: The Selected Diaries of Cecil Beaton, 1926–1974
12. Benedict, Ruth – Patterns of Culture
13. Bernstein, Leonard – The Unanswered Question
14. Bishop, Elizabeth (ed. by Robert Giroux) – One Art: Letters
15. Bowles, Jane (Auer) – Letters
16. Bowles, Paul – Their Heads are Green and Their Hands are Blue

17. Brecht, Bertolt – Brecht on Theatre
18. Burroughs, William S. – The Adding Machine
19. Byron, George Gordon, Lord (ed. by Leslie A. Marchand) – Letters and Journals
20. Caesar, Julius – Commentaries on the Gallic Wars
21. Cage, John – Silence: Lectures and Writings
22. Cammermeyer, Margarethe – Serving in Silence
23. Carson, Rachel – Silent Spring
24. Casement, Roger – The Black Diaries
25. Cellini, Benvenuto (trans. by gay-rights pioneer John Addington Symonds) – Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini

26. Cixous, Hélène – The Book of Promethea
27. Cocteau, Jean – The White Book & Diary of a Film: Beauty and the Beast [two contrasting books]
28. Colette (Sidonie Gabrielle) – The Pure and the Impure

29. Copland, Aaron – What to Listen for in Music

30. Coward, Noël (ed. by Graham Payn & Sheridan Morley) – The Noël Coward Diaries
31. Cruz, Sor Juana Inés de la (trans. by Electa Arenal & Amanda Powell) – The Answer / La Respuesta
32. Cullen, Countee – My Soul’s High Song: The Collected Writings of Countee Cullen, Voice of the Harlem Renaissance
33. Dickinson, Emily (ed. by Thomas Johnson) – Letters
34. Doty, Mark – Heaven’s Coast
35. Eisenstein, Sergei – The Film Sense & The Film Form [two related books]
36. Eliot, T.S. – Selected Essays
37. Fassbinder, Rainer Werner (ed. by Michael Töteberg & Leon A. Lensing) – Anarchy of the Imagination: Interviews, Essays, Notes
38. Flanner, Janet – Paris Journal
39. Forster, E.M. – Aspects of the Novel
40. Frederick II [Frederick the Great (1712–1786)] (ed. by Jay Luvaas) – Frederick the Great on the Art of War
41. Genet, Jean – Prisoner of Love
42. Goodman, Paul – Growing Up Absurd

43. Goytisolo, Juan – Forbidden Territory

44. Hart, Moss – Act One: An Autobiography
45. Hildegard of Bingen (trans. by Sabina Flanagan) – Secrets of God: Writings of Hildegard of Bingen
46. Hopkins, Gerard Manley – Spiritual Writings
47. Hughes, Langston – The Big Sea: An Autobiography
48. Humboldt, Alexander von, Baron – Cosmos
49. Jarman, Derek – Dancing Ledge
50. James, Henry – The Art of the Novel: Critical Prefaces
51. Kerouac, Jack – The Scripture of the Golden Eternity
52. Ladies of Llangollen (Lady Eleanor Butler & the Honorable Sarah Ponsonby) (ed. by Mrs. G.H. Bell) – The Hamwood Papers of the Ladies of Llangollen
53. Lawrence, D.H. – Studies in Classic American Literature & Apocalypse [two related books]

54. Lawrence, T.E. – Seven Pillars of Wisdom

55. Leduc, Violette – La Bâtarde

56. Leonardo da Vinci – Notebooks
57. Lincoln, Abraham (ed. by Arthur Brooks Lapsley) – The Writings of Abraham Lincoln
58. Lister, Anne – Diaries
59. Lovecraft, H.P. – Supernatural Horror in Literature
60. Mann, Thomas – Essays of Three Decades
61. Mann, William J. – Behind the Screen: How Gays and Lesbians Shaped Hollywood 1910–1969
62. Marcuse, Herbert – Eros and Civilization
63. Matthiesen, F.O. – American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman
64. Mead, Margaret – Coming of Age in Samoa
65. Melville, Herman – Typee & Omoo [two related books]
66. Michelangelo Buonarroti (trans. by Creighton Gilbert) – Letters (in Complete Poems and Selected Letters of Michelangelo)
67. Mordden, Ethan – Broadway Babies: The People Who Made the American Musical

68. Murdoch, Iris – Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals

69. Nietzsche, Friedrich – Thus Spake Zarathustra
70. Nin, Anaïs – Henry and June
71. Orton, Joe (ed. by John Lahr) – The Orton Diaries
72. Pasolini, Pier Paolo (ed. by Oswald Stack) – Pasolini on Pasolini
73. Plutarch – Parallel Lives of Noble Greeks and Romans

74. Proust, Marcel – Contre Sainte-Beuve
75. Przhevalsky, Nikolai Mikhailovich – Mongolia, the Tangut Country, and the Solitudes of Northern Tibet
76. Rustin, Bayard (ed. by Devon W. Carbado & Donald Weise) – Time on Two Crosses: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin
77. Sackville-West, Vita & Nigel Nicolson – Portrait of a Marriage
78. Sand, George (Amantine-Aurore-Lucile Dupin) – The Story of My Life
79. Santayana, George – The Life of Reason
80. Sarton, May – Journal of a Solitude

81. Saslow, James M. – Pictures & Passions: A History of Homosexuality in the Visual Arts
82. Schubert, Franz (ed. Otto Deutsch) – Franz Schubert’s Letters and Other Writings
83. Sedaris, David – Naked
84. Sontag, Susan – Against Interpretation & Styles of Radical Will [two related books]
85. Staël, Madame de (Anne-Louise-Germaine Necker, Baroness de Staël-Holstein) – A Treatise on the Influence of the Passions Upon the Happiness of Individuals and of Nations
86. Stoddard, Charles Warren – South-Sea Idyls
87. Strachey, Lytton – Eminent Victorians
88. Sullivan, Louis H. – The Autobiography of an Idea
89. Taylor, Bayard – At Home and Abroad: A Sketch-Book of Life, Scenery, and Men
90. Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich (ed. by Modeste Tchaikovsky) – Letters
91. Thomson, Virgil – Words With Music: A Composer’s View
92. Thoreau, Henry David – Walden

93. Warhol, Andy – The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
94. Weston, Edward (ed. by Nancy Newhall) – The Daybooks of Edward Weston
95. White, Minor – Mirrors, Messages, Manifestations
96. White, Patrick – Flaws in the Glass: A Self-Portrait

97. Whitman, Walt – Specimen Days
98. Williams, Tennessee (ed. by Albert J. Devlin & Nancy M. Tischler) – Selected Letters
99. Williams, Walter L. – The Spirit and the Flesh: Sexual Diversity in American Indian Culture
100. Wittgenstein, Ludwig – Philosophical Investigations 6 years ago

Stole this list from Amy from Luton. Thank you. What a great list. Did Donald Barthelme give this out at some course he taught? Where did this come from? Here’s the list (green, I own; blue, I’ve read previously; red, I’ve read since starting):

1. At Swim Two Birds – Flann O’Brien

2. The Third Policeman – Flann O’Brien

3. Collected Short Stories – Isaac Babel

4. Labyrinths – Borges
5. Other Inquisitions – Borges
6. One Hundred Years Of Solitude – Garcia Marquez
7. Correction – Thomas Bernhard
8. Nog – Rudy Wurlitzer
9. Gimpel The Fool – Isaac B. Singer

10. The Assistant – Bernard Malamud

11. The Magic Barrel – Bernard Malamud

12. Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison

13. Under The Volcano – Malcom Lowry
14. Entire – Samuel Beckett
15. Hunger – Knut Hamsun

16. I’m Not Stiller – Max Frisch

17. Man In The Holocene – Max Frisch

18. Seven Gothic Tales – Dinesen
19. Gogol’s Wife – Tommaso Landolfi
20. V – Thomas Pynchon
21. The Lime Twig – John Hawkes

22. Blood Oranges – John Hawkes

23. Little Disturbances Of Man – Grace Paley

24. I, Etc., – Susan Sontag

25. Tell Me A Riddle – Tillie Olson

26. Hero With A Thousand Faces – Campbell

27. Henderson The Rain King – Bellow

28. The Coup – John Updike

29. Rabbit, Run – John Updike
30. The Paris Review Interviews – Various
31. How We Live – ed, Rust Hills
32. Superfiction – ed, Joe David Bellamy
33. Pushcart Prize Anthologies (no specific years given!)
The Pushcart Prize V

The Pushcart Prize IX

The Pushcart Prize XXV
34. The Writer On Her Work – ed, Sternburg
35. Manifestos Of Surrealism – Andre Breton
36. Documents Of Modern Art – ed, Motherwell
37. Against Interpretation – Susan Sontag
38. A Homemade World – Hugh Kenner
39. Letters – Flaubert

40. Sexual Perversity In Chicago – Mamet
41. The Changeling – Joy Williams
42. The New Fiction – ed, Joe David Bellamy
43. Going After Cacciato -Tim O’Brien

44. The Palm-Wine Drunkard – Amos Tutola

45. Searching For Caleb – Ann Tyler
46. Thank You – Kenneth Koch
47. Collected Poems – Frank O’Hara
48. Rivers And Mountains – John Ashbery
49. Tragic Magic – Wesley Brown

50. Mythologies – Roland Barthes
51. The Pleasure Of The Text – Barthes
52. For A New Novel – Robbe-Grillet

53. Falling In Place – Ann Beattie

54. In The Heart Of The Heart Of The Country – William Gass

55. Fiction And The Figures Of Life – Gass

56. The World Within The Word – Gass

57. Advertisements For Myself – Mailer

58. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess

59. Journey To The End Of The Night – Celine

60. The Box Man – Kobo Abe

61. Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino

62. A Sorrow Beyond Dreams – Peter Handke

63. Kaspar And Other Plays – Peter Handke

64. Nadja – Andre Breton

65. Chimera – John Barth
66. Lost In The Funhouse – John Barth
67. The Moviegoer – Walker Percy

68. Black Tickets – Jayne Anne Phillips

69. Collected Stories – Peter Taylor

70. The Pure And The Impure – Colette
71. Will You Please Be Quiet, Please – Carver
72. Collected Stories – John Cheever
73. I Would Have Saved Them If I Could – Leonard Michaels
74. Collected Stories – Eudora Welty
75. The Oranging Of America – Max Apple
76. Collected Stories – Flannery O’Connor
77. Mumbo Jumbo – Ishmael Reed

78. Song Of Solomon – Toni Morrison

79. The Death Of Artemio Cruz – Carlos Fuentes

80. The Book Of Laughter And Forgetting – Milan Kundera

81. The Rhetoric Of Fiction – Wayne C. Booth

P.S. The lists must stop! 7 years ago

The titles in blue are the the ones I had read prior to starting to work on the list. Items in red are books read since starting. Items in green are books I possess.

1. Ulysses by James Joyce

2. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

3. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

4. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

5. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

6. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

7. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

8. Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler

9. Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence

10. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

11. Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry

12. The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler

13. 1984 by George Orwell

14. I, Claudius by Robert Graves

15. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

16. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser

17. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

18. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

19. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

20. Native Son by Richard Wright

21. Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow

22. Appointment in Samarra by John O?Hara

23. U.S.A. (trilogy) by John Dos Passos

The 42nd Parallel (1930)

Nineteen Nineteen (1932)

The Big Money (1936)

24. Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson

25. A Passage to India by E. M. Forster

26. The Wings of the Dove by Henry James

27. The Ambassadors by Henry James

28. Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

29. The Studs Lonigan Trilogy by James T. Farrell

Young Lonigan (1932)

The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan (1934)

Judgement Day (1935)

30. The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford

31. Animal Farm by George Orwell

32. The Golden Bowl by Henry James

33. Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser

34. A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh

35. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

36. All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren

37. The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder

38. Howards End by E. M. Forster

39. Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin

40. The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene

41. Lord of the Flies by William Golding

42. Deliverance by James Dickey

43. A Dance to the Music of Time (series) by Anthony Powell

A Question of Upbringing (1951)

A Buyer’s Market (1952)

The Acceptance World (1955)

At Lady Molly’s (1957)

Casanova’s Chinese Restaurant (1960)

The Kindly Ones (1962)

The Valley of Bones (1964)

The Soldier’s Art (1966)

The Military Philosophers (1968)

Books Do Furnish a Room (1971)

Temporary Kings (1973)

Hearing Secret Harmonies (1975)

44. Point Counter Point by Aldous Huxley

45. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

46. The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad

47. Nostromo by Joseph Conrad

48. The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence

49. Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence

50. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller

51. The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer

52. Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth

53. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov

54. Light in August by William Faulkner

55. On the Road by Jack Kerouac

56. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

57. Parade’s End by Ford Madox Ford

58. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

59. Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm

60. The Moviegoer by Walker Percy

61. Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather

62. From Here to Eternity by James Jones

63. The Wapshot Chronicles by John Cheever

64. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

65. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

66. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham

67. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

68. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis

69. The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

70. The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell

Justine (1957)

Balthazar (1958)

Mountolive (1958)

Clea (1960)

71. A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes

72. A House for Mr. Biswas by V. S. Naipaul

73. The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West

74. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

75. Scoop by Evelyn Waugh

76. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark

77. Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

78. Kim by Rudyard Kipling

79. A Room With a View by E. M. Forster

80. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

81. The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow

82. Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner

83. A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul

84. The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen

85. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

86. Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow

87. The Old Wives’ Tale by Arnold Bennett

88. The Call of the Wild by Jack London

89. Loving by Henry Green

90. Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie

91. Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell

92. Ironweed by William Kennedy

93. The Magus by John Fowles

94. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

95. Under the Net by Iris Murdoch

96. Sophie’s Choice by William Styron

97. The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles

98. The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain

99. The Ginger Man by J. P. Donleavy

100. The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington4 years ago

This is the last one, I promise. Lots of overlap with the Modern Library List. Blue I’ve read, green I possess.

1. Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes

2. Pilgrim’s Progress John Bunyan

3. Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe

4. Gulliver’s Travels Jonathan Swift

5. Tom Jones Henry Fielding

6. Clarissa Samuel Richardson

7. Tristram Shandy Laurence Sterne

8. Dangerous Liaisons Pierre Choderlos De Laclos

9. Emma Jane Austen

10. Frankenstein Mary Shelley

11. Nightmare Abbey Thomas Love Peacock

12. The Black Sheep Honore De Balzac

13. The Charterhouse of Parma Stendhal

14. The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas

15. Sybil Benjamin Disraeli

16. David Copperfield Charles Dickens

17. Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte

18. Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte

19. Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray

20. The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne

21. Moby-Dick Herman Melville

22. Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert

23. The Woman in White Wilkie Collins

24. Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland Lewis Carroll

25. Little Women Louisa M. Alcott

26. The Way We Live Now Anthony Trollope

27. Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy

28. Daniel Deronda George Eliot

29. The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky

30. The Portrait of a Lady Henry James

31. Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain

32. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson

33. Three Men in a Boat Jerome K. Jerome

34. The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde

35. The Diary of a Nobody George Grossmith

36. Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy

37. The Riddle of the Sands Erskine Childers

38. The Call of the Wild Jack London

39. Nostromo Joseph Conrad

40. The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame

41. In Search of Lost Time Marcel Proust

42. The Rainbow D. H. Lawrence

43. The Good Soldier Ford Madox Ford

44. The Thirty-Nine Steps John Buchan

45. Ulysses James Joyce

46. Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf

47. A Passage to India E. M. Forster

48. The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald

49. The Trial Franz Kafka

50. Men Without Women Ernest Hemingway

51. Journey to the End of the Night Louis-Ferdinand Celine

52. As I Lay Dying William Faulkner

53. Brave New World Aldous Huxley

54. Scoop Evelyn Waugh

55. USA John Dos Passos

56. The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler

57. The Pursuit Of Love Nancy Mitford

58. The Plague Albert Camus

59. Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell

60. Malone Dies Samuel Beckett

61. Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger

62. Wise Blood Flannery O’Connor

63. Charlotte’s Web E. B. White

64. The Lord Of The Rings J. R. R. Tolkien

65. Lucky Jim Kingsley Amis

66. Lord of the Flies William Golding

67. The Quiet American Graham Greene

68 On the Road Jack Kerouac

69. Lolita Vladimir Nabokov

70. The Tin Drum Gunter Grass

71. Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe

72. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Muriel Spark

73. To Kill A Mockingbird Harper Lee

74. Catch-22 Joseph Heller

75. Herzog Saul Bellow

76. One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez

77. Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont Elizabeth Taylor

78. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy John Le Carre

79. Song of Solomon Toni Morrison

80. The Bottle Factory Outing Beryl Bainbridge

81. The Executioner’s Song Norman Mailer

82. If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller Italo Calvino

83. A Bend in the River V. S. Naipaul

84. Waiting for the Barbarians J.M. Coetzee

85. Housekeeping Marilynne Robinson

86. Lanark Alasdair Gray

87. The New York Trilogy Paul Auster

City of Glass (1985)

Ghosts (1986)

The Locked Room (1986)

88. The BFG Roald Dahl

89. The Periodic Table Primo Levi

90. Money Martin Amis

91. An Artist of the Floating World Kazuo Ishiguro

92. Oscar and Lucinda Peter Carey

93. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting Milan Kundera

94. Haroun and the Sea of Stories Salman Rushdie

95. L.A. Confidential James Ellroy

96. Wise Children Angela Carter

97. Atonement Ian McEwan

98. Northern Lights Philip Pullman

99. American Pastoral Philip Roth

100. Austerlitz W. G. Sebald7 years ago

News of a Kidnapping/Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1997)
Low Life: Lures and Snarls of Old New York/Luc Sante (1992)
Hooked: Seven Poems/Carolyn Smart (2009)
The Forbidden Experiment: The Story of the Wild Boy of Aveyron/Roger Shattuck (1980)
The Monster of Florence/Douglas Preston with Mario Spezi (2008)
The Death of Classical Paganism/John Holland Smith (1976)
Every Book Its Reader: The Power of the Printed Word to Stir the World/Nicholas A. Basbanes (2005)
Misogynies/Joan Smith (1989)
Tales from the German Underworld: Crime and Punishment in the Nineteenth Century/Richard J. Evans (1998) 9 months ago

it’s about raoul wallenberg, a true hero who rescued hundreds/thousands of European Jews from the Nazi concentration camps. Google him, it’s a fascinating, inspiring story. 11 months ago

Fascinating and depressing history/examination of American history from the end of the slavery of black Americans to the granting of full civil rights to them in the 1960s. This period is known as Jim Crow. I didn’t realize there was a period of relative harmony in the U.S. South after slavery was revoked while whites and blacks remained in proximity to each other and maintained amicable relationships, largely based on the kind of power structure that prevailed before the end of slavery. But it was also a period of huge advances in opportunity and status for many black Americans. And then, when the South (and much of the rest of the country) realized what was going on, there was a huge swing to the right and virulent segregation became the norm. Why are human beings so bigoted and fearful? The history of the racism of white Americans against black Americans is appalling, terrifying, and very hard to understand. It still affects the lives of black America today, in terrible ways. This book was very informative about a period of American history I knew nothing about, a period of much more contradiction and complexity than I knew. Slavery didn’t just end and civil rights begin: it was a long, painful struggle for freedom and justice. 11 months ago

This is one for later. Ones in blue I have read. Ones in green I possess.

1. “THE EDUCATION OF HENRY ADAMS,” Henry Adams

2. “THE VARIETIES OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE,” William James

3. “UP FROM SLAVERY,” Booker T. Washington

4. “A ROOM OF ONE’S OWN,” Virginia Woolf

5. “SILENT SPRING,” Rachel Carson

6. “SELECTED ESSAYS, 1917-1932,” T.S. Eliot

7. “THE DOUBLE HELIX,” James D. Watson

8. “SPEAK, MEMORY,” Vladimir Nabokov

9. “THE AMERICAN LANGUAGE,” H.L. Mencken
10. “THE GENERAL THEORY OF EMPLOYMENT, INTEREST, AND MONEY,” John Maynard Keynes
11. “THE LIVES OF A CELL,” Lewis Thomas
12. “THE FRONTIER IN AMERICAN HISTORY,” Frederick Jackson Turner
13. “BLACK BOY,” Richard Wright
14. “ASPECTS OF THE NOVEL,” E.M. Forster
15. “THE CIVIL WAR,” Shelby Foote
16. “THE GUNS OF AUGUST,” Barbara W. Tuchman
17. “THE PROPER STUDY OF MANKIND,” Isaiah Berlin
18. “THE NATURE AND DESTINY OF MAN,” Reinhold Niebuhr
19. “NOTES OF A NATIVE SON,” James Baldwin

20. “THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ALICE B. TOKLAS,” Gertrude Stein

21. “THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE,” William Strunk and E.B. White
22. “AN AMERICAN DILEMMA,” Gunnar Myrdal
23. “PRINCIPIA MATHEMATICA,” Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell
24. “THE MISMEASURE OF MAN,” Stephen Jay Gould
25. “THE MIRROR AND THE LAMP,” Meyer Howard Abrams
26. “THE ART OF THE SOLUBLE,” Peter B. Medawar
27. “THE ANTS,” Bert Hoelldobler and Edward O. Wilson
28. “A THEORY OF JUSTICE,” John Rawls
29. “ART AND ILLUSION,” Ernest H. Gombrich
30. “THE MAKING OF THE ENGLISH WORKING CLASS,” E.P. Thompson
31. “THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLK,” W.E.B. Du Bois
32. “PRINCIPIA ETHICA,” G.E. Moore
33. “PHILOSOPHY AND CIVILIZATION,” John Dewey
34. “ON GROWTH AND FORM,” D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson
35. “IDEAS AND OPINIONS,” Albert Einstein
36. “THE AGE OF JACKSON,” Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

37. “THE MAKING OF THE ATOMIC BOMB,” Richard Rhodes

38. “BLACK LAMB AND GREY FALCON,” Rebecca West

39. “AUTOBIOGRAPHIES,” W.B. Yeats

40. “SCIENCE AND CIVILIZATION IN CHINA,” Joseph Needham
41. “GOODBYE TO ALL THAT,” Robert Graves

42. “HOMAGE TO CATALONIA,” George Orwell
43. “THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MARK TWAIN,” Mark Twain
44. “CHILDREN OF CRISIS,” Robert Coles
45. “A STUDY OF HISTORY,” Arnold J. Toynbee
46. “THE AFFLUENT SOCIETY,” John Kenneth Galbraith
47. “PRESENT AT THE CREATION,” Dean Acheson
48. “THE GREAT BRIDGE,” David McCullough
49. “PATRIOTIC GORE,” Edmund Wilson
50. “SAMUEL JOHNSON,” Walter Jackson Bate

51. “THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X,” Alex Haley and Malcolm X

52. “THE RIGHT STUFF,” Tom Wolfe

53. “EMINENT VICTORIANS,” Lytton Strachey

54. “WORKING,” Studs Terkel

55. “DARKNESS VISIBLE,” William Styron
56. “THE LIBERAL IMAGINATION,” Lionel Trilling
57. “THE SECOND WORLD WAR,” Winston Churchill
58. “OUT OF AFRICA,” Isak Dinesen
59. “JEFFERSON AND HIS TIMES,” Dumas Malone
60. “IN THE AMERICAN GRAIN,” William Carlos Williams

61. “CADILLAC DESERT,” Marc Reisner
62. “THE HOUSE OF MORGAN,” Ron Chernow
63. “THE SWEET SCIENCE,” A. J. Liebling

64. “THE OPEN SOCIETY AND ITS ENEMIES,” Karl Popper
65. “THE ART OF MEMORY,” Frances A. Yates
66. “RELIGION AND THE RISE OF CAPITALISM,” R. H. Tawney
67. “A PREFACE TO MORALS,” Walter Lippmann
68. “THE GATE OF HEAVENLY PEACE,” Jonathan D. Spence
69. “THE STRUCTURE OF SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTIONS,” Thomas S. Kuhn

70. “THE STRANGE CAREER OF JIM CROW,” C. Vann Woodward
71. “THE RISE OF THE WEST,” William H. McNeill
72. “THE GNOSTIC GOSPELS,” Elaine Pagels
73. “JAMES JOYCE,” Richard Ellmann
74. “FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE,” Cecil Woodham-Smith

75. “THE GREAT WAR AND MODERN MEMORY,” Paul Fussell
76. “THE CITY IN HISTORY,” Lewis Mumford
77. “BATTLE CRY OF FREEDOM,” James M. McPherson
78. “WHY WE CAN’T WAIT,” Martin Luther King Jr.
79. “THE RISE OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT,” Edmund Morris
80. “STUDIES IN ICONOLOGY,” Erwin Panofsky
81. “THE FACE OF BATTLE,” John Keegan
82. “THE STRANGE DEATH OF LIBERAL ENGLAND,” George Dangerfield
83. “VERMEER,” Lawrence Gowing
84. “A BRIGHT SHINING LIE,” Neil Sheehan

85. “WEST WITH THE NIGHT,” Beryl Markham

86. “THIS BOY’S LIFE,” Tobias Wolff

87. “A MATHEMATICIAN’S APOLOGY,” G.H. Hardy
88. “SIX EASY PIECES,” Richard P. Feynman
89. “PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK,” Annie Dillard

90. “THE GOLDEN BOUGH,” James George Frazer
91. “SHADOW AND ACT,” Ralph Ellison
92. “THE POWER BROKER,” Robert A. Caro
93. “THE AMERICAN POLITICAL TRADITION,” Richard Hofstadter
94. “THE CONTOURS OF AMERICAN HISTORY,” William Appleman Williams
95. “THE PROMISE OF AMERICAN LIFE,” Herbert Croly
96. “IN COLD BLOOD,” Truman Capote
97. “THE JOURNALIST AND THE MURDERER,” Janet Malcolm
98. “THE TAMING OF CHANCE,” Ian Hacking
99. “OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS,” Anne Lamott

100. “MELBOURNE,” Lord David Cecil7 years ago

John Bierman/Righteous Gentile (1981)
John Bierman/Napoleon III and His Carnival Empire (1988)
Anthony Blond/The Private Lives of the Roman Emperors (2008) 12 months ago

1. The Front Runner by Patricia Nell Warren
2. The Hours by Michael Cunningham
3. The Charioteer by Mary Renault

4. Like People in History by Felice Picano

5. Annie On My Mind by Nancy Garden

6. A Home at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham

7. Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin

8. The Lost Language of Cranes by David Leavitt

9. Mysterious Skin by Scott Heim

10. The Object of My Affection by Stephen McCauley

11. Faggots by Larry Kramer

12. A Separate Peace by John Knowles
13. Other Women by Lisa Alther
14. Stars in my Pocket Like Grains of Sand by Samuel Delany
15. Six of One by Rita Mae Brown

16. Even Cowgirls Get The Blues by Tom Robbins

17. Martin and John by Dale Peck

18. Querelle by Jean Genet
19. The God in Flight by Laura Argiri
20. Totempole by Sanford Friedman

21. Falconer by John Cheever

22. Latin Moon in Manhattan by Jaime Manrique

23. Openly Bob by Bob Smith

24. The Lord Won’t Mind by Gordon Merrick

25. The Naked Civil Servant by Quentin Crisp

26. Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg

27. Quatrefoil by James Barr (James Fugaté)

28. The Better Angel by Richard Meeker (Forman Brown)
29. Known Homosexual by Joseph Hansen
30. She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb

31. Burning Houses by Andrew Harvey

32. The American Woman In The Chinese Hat by Carole Maso
33. Nightswimmer by Joseph Olshan
34. Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice

35. The Beauty of Men by Andrew Holleran
36. The Folded Leaf by William Maxwell
37. The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon

38. The Catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger
39. The Sea of Light by Jenifer Levin
40. Bending at the Bow by Marion Douglas
41. Amnesty by Louise Blum
42. Hood by Emma Donoghue
43. Queer by William Burroughs

44. Funeral Rites by Jean Genet

45. The Thief’s Journal by Jean Genet

46. Forbidden Colors by Yukio Mishima
47. The Grandmothers by Glenway Wescott
48. Scissors, Paper, Rock by Fenton Johnson
49. Just Above My Head by James Baldwin
50. Flesh and Blood by Michael Cunningham
51. Equal Affections by David Leavitt

52. Tim and Pete by James Robert Baker
53. Dance of the Warriors by Kevin Esser
54. Streetboy Dreams by Kevin Esser
55. Livre blanc by Jean Cocteau

56. Confession of Felix Krull by Thomas Mann

57. Pryor Rendering by Gary Reed
58. Winter Birds by Jim Grimsley
59. The Color Purple by Alice Walker

60. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

61. The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith

62. Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing by May Sarton
63. Curious Wine by Katherine V. Forrest
64. In a Shallow Grave by James Purdy

65. The Unlit Lamp by Radclyffe Hall
66. Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady by Florence King
67. The Wild Boys by William S. Burroughs
68. Paxton Court by Diane Salvatore
69. The Twyborn Affair by Patrick White
70. Hemlock and After by Angus Wilson
71. Chamber Music by Doris Grumbach
72. Ernesto by Umberto Saba
73. Separate Rooms by Pier Vittorio Tondelli
74. Bertram Cope’s Year by H.B. Fuller
75. Bom-Criulo by Adolfo Caminha
76. Nights in the Underground by Marie Claire Blais
77. The High Cost of Living by Marge Piercy
78. Toilet by Tom Woolley
79. Red Azalea by Anchee Min
80. The Shipping News by Annie Proulx

81. Dream Boy by Jim Grimsley
82. Kissing the Witch by Emma Donoghue
83. Biography of Desire by Mary Dorcey
84. Mother of the Grass by Jovette Marchessault
85. Six Chapters of a Floating Life by Shen Fu
86. The Four Winds by Gerd Brantenberg
87. China Mountain Zhang by Maureen McHugh 4 years ago

Peter Hay/My German Question: Growing Up in Nazi Berlin (1998)
Jan T. Gross/Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland (2001)
Janet Malcolm/In The Freud Archives (1984)
Virginia Woolf/The Waves (1931)
Paul Strathern/A Season in Abyssinia: An Impersonation (1972)
Karen Armstrong/The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness (2004)
Mark Merlis/American Studies (1994)
Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons/Watchmen (1987)
Martin L. Friedland/The Trials of Israel Lipski (1985)
Don Hannah/Ragged Islands (2008)
Gregory Gibson/Hubert’s Freaks: The Rare-Book Dealer, The Times Square Talker, and The Lost Photos of Diane Arbus (2008) 14 months ago

Frank Rich/Ghost Light (2000) 20 months ago

Merlin Holland/Irish Peacock & Scarlet Marquess: The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde (2003)
John Cornwell/Seminary Boy (2006) 20 months ago

Okay, so I’ll never get around to this. But it’s a very interesting list. And I get a total of 102. Blue titles I have read, green ones I possess. Author’s name first and then all titles by that author on consecutive lines.

1. W. H. Ainsworth: The Tower of London

2. Old St Paul’s

3. Windsor Castle

4. Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice

5. Sense and Sensibility

6. Honore de Balzac: Pere Goriot
7. J. M. Barrie: A Window in Thrums
8. Walter Besant and James Rice: The Golden Butterfly

9. Rolf Boldrewood: Robbery Under Arms

10. Mary Elizabeth Braddon: Lady Audley’s Secret

11. Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre

12. Shirley
13. Hall Caine: The Deemster
14. Henry Cockton: Valentine Vox
15. Wilkie Collins : The Woman in White

16. The Moonstone

17. James Fenimore Cooper: The Last of the Mohicans

18. The Pathfinder

19. The Prairie
20. F. Marion Crawford: Mr. Isaacs
21. Charles Dickens: Martin Chuzzlewit

22. Nicholas Nickleby

23. The Old Curiosity Shop

24. Dombey and Son

25. Oliver Twist

26. Arthur Conan Doyle: The Firm of Girdlestone
27. Alexandre Dumas: The Three Musketeers

28. Twenty Years After

29. The Count of Monte Cristo

30. George Eliot: Scenes of Clerical Life

31. Henry Fielding: Tom Jones

32. Joseph Andrews

33. Elizabeth Gaskell: Mary Barton
34. James Grant: The Aide de Camp
35. The Romance of War
36. Bret Harte: Gabriel Conroy
37. Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter

38. The House of the Seven Gables

39. Oliver Wendell Holmes: Elsie Venner

40. Anthony Hope: The Prisoner of Zenda

41. Thomas Hughes: Tom Brown’s Schooldays

42. Victor Hugo: Les Miserables
43. Toilers of the Sea
44. Notre Dame

45. Charles Kingsley: Two Years Ago

46. Alton Locke
47. Hypatia

48. Henry Kingsley: The Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn

49. Rudyard Kipling: Soldiers Three
50. George Lawrence: Guy Livingstone
51. Charles Lever: Harry Lorrequer
52. Charles O’Malley
53. E. Lynn Linton: The Atonement of Leam Dundas
54. Samuel Lover: Handy Andy
55. Rory O’More
56. Edward Bulwer-Lytton: Last of the Barons
57. Night and Morning
58. Rienzi
59. The Caxtons
60. Frederick Marryat: The King’s Own
61. Peter Simple
62. Jacob Faithful
63. Midshipman Easy

64. George Meredith: Diana of the Crossways

65. Dinah Maria Muloch: John Halifax, Gentleman

66. Ouida: Under Two Flags

67. Charles Reade: It is Never Too Late to Mend

68. Peg Woffington
69. Christie Johnstone
70. Hard Cash
71. Mayne Reid: The Headless Horseman
72. Amelie Rives: Virginia of Virginia
73. Olive Schreiner: The Story of an African Farm
74. Michael Scott: Tom Cringle’s Log
75. Cruise of the Midge
76. Henryk Sienkiewicz: Quo Vadis?

77. Walter Scott: Rob Roy

78. The Bride of Lammermoor

79. Old Mortality

80. Kenilworth

81. Guy Mannering

82. Woodstock

83. The Talisman

84. Frank E. Smedley: Frank Fairlegh

85. Tobias Smollett: Roderick Random

86. Peregrine Pickle
87. Flora Annie Steel: On the Face of the Waters
88. Laurence Sterne: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

89. Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom’s Cabin

90. R. S. Surtees: Soapey Sponge’s Sporting Tour

91. Eugene Sue: The Wandering Jew

92. William Makepeace Thackeray: The History of Henry Esmond
93. The Newcomes
94. The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon

95. Leo Tolstoy: Anna Karenina

96. Anthony Trollope: Orley Farm

97. Mrs. Humphrey Ward: Robert Elsmere

98. Samuel Warren: Ten Thousand a Year

99. Elizabeth Wetherell: The Wide, Wide World
100. George John Whyte-Melville: Market Harborough
101. Inside the Bar
102. Mrs. Henry Wood: East Lynne7 years ago

John Rechy/The Sexual Outlaw (1977) 20 months ago