read Modern Library's 100 Best Novels (Reader's List) in 2009

I want to do this too!! I have read a few of them. I don’t know if I can finish by the end of the year.

...but i’m still reading loads…I have finished the Island of Doctor Moreau which I loved loved loved. I had only seen the really bad movie with Marlon Brando and Val Kilmer (I think) so my expectations were low, but the book was fabulous and confronting and I just could not put it down…something I want to recommend sooooo highly though is this book I picked up on a $5 book table by an Australian author Anson Cameron. It is called Silences Long Gone and I swear I was sucked in by the cover, the blurb on the back didn’t really convince me and it took me a few pages to get and get into his writing style but yikes I was breathless with this book. I love amazing writing, I love interesting voices even more and this book entwined the most fabulous scenery, really interesting political thought about white and indigenous australia and just some really incredible moments. Highly highly recommended.

Like being hit over the head with a very thick piece of wood over and over again

I loved The World According to Garp, and I loved this too, but my love wasn’t as strong. I knew there was going to be something that I would discover or that I would want to discover at the end, so I rushed right through this book – I’m terrible like that, absolutely no patience!!!! Still good, but I need to do a shorter book next I think

but I’m still going to plug away at this. However, while reading The Prayer for Owen Meany, I got distracted by the overwhelmingly brilliant Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson.

I found this in a box at the side of the road, in one of those side of the road box of books give aways, which I love so much and love doing myself, but could not imagine the level of brilliance that I would find in the pages of one of the books.

So now my goal, is to let everyone know about this book and to pass on the encouragement to track it down and read it. And besides, it’s short stories only, so you can knock it over in a day or two.

↓ Year ↓ Title ↓ Author ↓
1. 1952 Atlas Shrugged Ayn Rand
2. 1943 The Fountainhead Ayn Rand
3. 1982 Battlefield Earth L. Ron Hubbard
4. 1954-
1955 The Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien
5. 1960 To Kill A Mockingbird Harper Lee
6. 1949 Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell
7. 1938 Anthem Ayn Rand
8. 1940 We The Living Ayn Rand
9. 1985-
1987 Mission Earth L. Ron Hubbard
10. 1951 Fear L. Ron Hubbard
11. 1922 Ulysses James Joyce
12. 1961 Catch-22 Joseph Heller
13. 1925 The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
14. 1965 Dune Frank Herbert
15. 1966 The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress Robert Heinlein
16. 1961 Stranger In A Strange Land Robert Heinlein
17. 1950 A Town Like Alice Nevil Shute
18. 1932 Brave New World Aldous Huxley
19. 1951 The Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger
20. 1945 Animal Farm George Orwell
21. 1973 Gravity’s Rainbow Thomas Pynchon
22. 1939 The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
23. 1969 Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut
24. 1936 Gone With The Wind Margaret Mitchell
25. 1954 Lord of the Flies William Golding
26. 1949 Shane Jack Schaefer
27. 1960 Trustee from the Toolroom Nevil Shute
28. 1989 A Prayer for Owen Meany John Irving
29. 1978 The Stand Stephen King
30. 1969 The French Lieutenant’s Woman John Fowles
31. 1987 Beloved Toni Morrison
32. 1922 The Worm Ourobouros E.R. Eddison
33. 1929 The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner
34. 1955 Lolita Vladimir Nabokov
35. 1984 Moonheart Charles de Lint
36. 1936 Absalom, Absalom! William Faulkner
37. 1915 Of Human Bondage W. Somerset Maugham
38. 1952 Wise Blood Flannery O’Connor
39. 1947 Under the Volcano Malcolm Lowry
40. 1970 Fifth Business Robertson Davies
41. 1998 Someplace to Be Flying Charles de Lint
42. 1957 On the Road Jack Kerouac
43. 1902 Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
44. 1986 Yarrow Charles de Lint
45. 1931 At the Mountains of Madness H.P. Lovecraft
46. 1951 One Lonely Night Mickey Spillane
47. 1994 Memory And Dream Charles de Lint
48. 1927 To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf
49. 1961 The Moviegoer Walker Percy
50. 1997 Trader Charles de Lint
51. 1979 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams
52. 1952 The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers
53. 1985 The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood
54. 1985 Blood Meridian Cormac McCarthy
55. 1962 A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess
56. 1957 On the Beach Nevil Shute
57. 1916 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce
58. 1988 Greenmantle Charles de Lint
59. 1985 Ender’s Game Orson Scott Card
60. 1991 The Little Country Charles de Lint
61. 1955b The Recognitions William Gaddis
62. 1959 Starship Troopers Robert Heinlein
63. 1926 The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway
64. 1978 The World According to Garp John Irving
65. 1962 Something Wicked This Way Comes Ray Bradbury
66. 1959 The Haunting of Hill House Shirley Jackson
67. 1930 As I Lay Dying William Faulkner
68. 1934 Tropic of Cancer Henry Miller
69. 1952 Invisible Man Ralph Ellison
70. 1996 The Wood Wife Terri Windling
71. 1966 The Magus John Fowles
72. 1957 The Door into Summer Robert Heinlein
73. 1974 Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Robert Pirsig
74. 1934 I, Claudius Robert Graves
75. 1903 The Call of the Wild Jack London
76. 1939 At Swim-Two-Birds Flann O’Brien
77. 1953 Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
78. 1901 Arrowsmith Sinclair Lewis
79. 1972 Watership Down Richard Adams
80. 1959 Naked Lunch William S. Burroughs
81. 1984 The Hunt for Red October Tom Clancy
82. 1993 Guilty Pleasures Laurell K. Hamilton
83. 1951 The Puppet Masters Robert Heinlein
84. 1986 IT Stephen King
85. 1963 V. Thomas Pynchon
86. 1956 Double Star Robert Heinlein
87. 1957 Citizen of the Galaxy Robert Heinlein
88. 1945 Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh
89. 1932 Light in August William Faulkner
90. 1962 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Ken Kesey
91. 1929 A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway
92. 1949 The Sheltering Sky Paul Bowles
93. 1964 Sometimes a Great Notion Ken Kesey
94. 1918 My Ántonia Willa Cather
95. 1985 Mulengro: A Romany Tale Charles de Lint
96. 1997 Suttree Cormac McCarthy
97. 1984 Mythago Wood Robert Holdstock
98. 1977 Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah Richard Bach
99. 1994 The Cunning Man Robertson Davies
100. 1988 The Satanic Verses Salman Rushdie

In green are the ones already read…