read all 100 of The Modern Library's 100 Best Novels

Man, just starting this is taking forever! I just finished (39. GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN by James Baldwin) and it’s been what, 4 weeks since I started this? Gotta pick up the pace if I want to finish this before I graduate…

These lists are going to be the end of me. This list is as of June 29, 09, though I doubt there will be any change to it. But alas, here’s the list and the crossed out ones are the ones that I have read so far.

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
  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
 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
 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
 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 Durell
 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 Tarkington

10. Brave New World
11. Howard’s End
12. Heart of Darkness
13. Scoop
14. A Room with a View
15. Sophie’s Choice

Hopefully I’ll be able to read more, but it doesn’t look likely between work and class. Oh well, I’ll find room in my schedule somewhere.

So far I’ve read on the Board’s List
#17 the Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
#4 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
and on the Reader’s List
#5 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

and I just started #20 Native Son by Richard Wright this evening

I am SO excited to get thru these, even if it takes me forever!

1. The Great Gatsby
2. Lolita
3. Catch-22
4. 1984
5. To the Lighthouse
6. A Passage to India
7. Animal Farm
8. Lord of the Flies
9. Catcher in the Rye

It seems I’ve got quite a ways to go, but I’m starting Ulysses tonight.