According to the 'Modern Library' anyway... I started last year to try to read, in my lifetime, this list of 100 classic novels. I have heard so many people rant and rave about some of these books, I wanted to see what all the fuss was about. I find that so many people don't have an opinion for...
The Novel 100 is one man's ranking of the 100 greatest novels ever written. I'm a sucker for a list. I love to mark progress by checking stuff off. Given my poor memory, lists are the only way I can remember to do anything. I liked this list so much, I went out and bought the book. The author,...
"1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die" by ukaunz 2000s Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro Saturday – Ian McEwan On Beauty – Zadie Smith Slow Man – J.M. Coetzee Adjunct: An Undigest – Peter Manson The Sea – John Banville The Red Queen – Margaret Drabble The Plot Against America –...
From this post, a list of what are considered the 100 best novels, and a question as to how many of them people have read. I don't often go for lists, and I agree that it's hard to decide what constitutes "greatest." But I thought I'd give it a try nonetheless. I actually own a lot of the ones I...
Here are my selections from the list - the bolds ones being the ones I have read and the italicised ones being the ones I've never heard of. I think I have done quite poorly so have highlighted in red the ones that I do own in the hopes of getting my score up. Rank Title Year Author 1 Don Quixote...
In response to Jonathan's message about the 100 best books, below are the ones I've read (those in italics are ones I don't know: Rank Title Year Author 1 Don Quixote 1605, 1630 Miguel de Cervantes 2 War and Peace 1869 Leo Tolstoy 3 Ulysses 1922 James Joyce 4 In Search of Lost Time 1913-27 Marcel...
Jonathan posted about The Novel 100 - the hundred best novels of all time, at least according to the book by Daniel Burt. Obviously there will be disagreements - what, Gone With the Wind but no To Kill a Mockingbird? - but there are a lot of books here that would probably be on anyone's list. I'm...
In response to Jonathan's post about The Novel 100, here's how I measure up. Bold titles are ones I've read (a somewhat-respectable 30 of 100). Some of these came from my (now defunct) resolution to read 1 classic for every 3-4 "other" novels I've chosen to read, but most of them came from required...
Full details here Looks like I have read 37 of them. Rank Title Year Author 1 Don Quixote 1605, 1630 Miguel de Cervantes 2 War and Peace 1869 Leo Tolstoy 3 Ulysses 1922 James Joyce 4 In Search of Lost Time 1913-27 Marcel Proust 5 The Brothers Karamazov 1880 Feodor Dostoevsky 6 Moby-Dick 1851 Herman...
I made this list a while ago, but have gotten around to posting/editing it. I'm giving myself until May 2010(when I graduate college) to finish it. Please leave a comment telling me any books you recommend. Thanks =) Start: January 5th, 2007 Books: Alphabetical by Author ( [R] are the books I'm...
I recently picked up a used copy of 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. As the title would suggest, it features essays on 1,001 books that the editors have chosen as important or essential reading. The book is fundamentally flawed as it features eleven selections by J.M. Coetzee and only two by...
Saturday was a good reading day. I killed some grown-up books (Tamar and Nature Girl) and some kidlit (The Wish List and Clash of the Sky Galleons), worked down my New Yorker backlog, and generally enjoyed life. I also served as a Cloth Diaper Expert at Tiny Tots, wherein I diapered a stuffed tiger...
Richard Dawkins' Five Favorite fiction books: The Black Cloud: Fred Hoyle Dark Universe: Daniel Galouye Red Strangers: Elspeth Huxley The Lion Children: Angus, Travers and Maisie McNeice Sword of Honour: Evelyn Waugh Great, more books to add to my To Read list. Heck, I haven't heard of any of them!...
Waugh, Evelyn. A Handful of Dust. Boston: Little, Brown, 1977 (1934). The ending of this book creeped me out more than anything I've read lately, and I'm still puzzling about how it happened. A lot of it comes from a disorienting change of genre; the first two thirds of the book are recognizable as...
