The Ultimate Reading List

[QUOTE=Rents]In good time, my dear.[/QUOTE]
My dear?

Yeah, you got a problem with that, toots? Let's take it outside.

[QUOTE=Rents]Yeah, you got a problem with that, toots? Let's take it outside.[/QUOTE]
I do, Sparky.

Okay, Tiger.

[QUOTE=Rents]Okay, Tiger.[/QUOTE]
As a co-worker of mine used to say to random bar patrons: "It's go time!"

Go time...

Hilarious.

Comic genius right there. That's what that is.

Stephen Graham Jones' [I]All the Beautiful Sinners[/I].

2 pages!? Wasn't this supposed to be a SUMMER READING LIST?!!? You're killing me Smalls.

dude, there's way too much, especially now, to read it over the summer. It's turning more into one of those things that I want to accomplish during my lifetime.

You do realize that this is our third lifelong project we've designed so far....either we need multiple lives or less projects.

Also, add "Rebecca" by Daphne Du Marier (spuh?) to the list. This is important for you especially, I think, because although it's a fairly modern novel (written in the 50's, by a woman no less) it's written as if it's a classic Victorian novel a la "Wuthering Heights." I think it would be a good transitional novel for you, ye who hates the 18th century lit.

[QUOTE=jane s.]You do realize that this is our third lifelong project we've designed so far....either we need multiple lives or less projects.

Also, add "Rebecca" by Daphne Du Marier (spuh?) to the list. This is important for you especially, I think, because although it's a fairly modern novel (written in the 50's, by a woman no less) it's written as if it's a classic Victorian novel a la "Wuthering Heights." I think it would be a good transitional novel for you, ye who hates the 18th century lit.[/QUOTE]
That being the case, I suggest you pick up A.S. Byatt's [U]Possession[/U] since that's just about the same thing and it won the Booker Prize. Word.

Are you actually reading any of these, or is this whole thing a scam to see how many books you can make me read?

Cause that's a pretty dumb scam.

well, not right now I'm not, but after the stroke of midnight tonight, everything turns back into pumpkins and mice and I can finally read again. Plus that would be an awesome scam, especially if I could get you to read all the books without ever noticing.

[QUOTE=Rents]In good time, my dear.[/QUOTE]
time's up...post it already!

I'm all over this shit. 250 books. I plan to kick him someday.

Okay apparently that's only fifty of them. I'm having the shittiest day. What the hell kind of a laptop doesn't let you open MS Word.

I didn't see it listed so I'm going to throw in my two cents.

The works of Jorge Luis Borges, the blind Argentinian poet and writer of short stories, essays, parables, you name it.

Bump requested of Vendetta. Bolded are the books I've already finished or are reading.

1. For Whom the Bell Tolls – Hemingway
2. [b]To Kill a Mockingbird – Lee[/b]
3. [b]House of Leaves – Danielewski[/b]
4. Bird by Bird – Lamott
5. [b]Fortress of Solitude – Lethem[/b]
6. [b]The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay – Chabon[/b]
7. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – Joyce
8. [b]Geek Love – Dunn[/b]
9. All Quiet on the Western Front – Remarque
10. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Haddon
11. Tomcat in Love – O’Brien
12. [b]Brave New World – Huxley[/b]
13. [b]Lolita – Nabokov[/b]
14. You Shall Know Our Velocity – Eggers
15. Crime and Punishment – Dostoevsky
16. [b]Pride and Prejudice – Austen[/b]
17. [b]Portnoy’s Complaint – Roth[/b]
18. The Divine Comedy – Dante
19. Paradise Lost – Milton
20. The Fermata – Baker
21. [b]Love in the Time of Cholera – Marquez[/b]
22. Tortilla Flat – Steinbeck
23. In the Lake of the Woods – O’Brien
24. [b]As I Lay Dying – Faulkner[/b]
25. [b]Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance – Pirsig[/b]
26. Notes from the Underground – Dostoyevsky
27. Glamorama – Ellis
28. Juneteenth – Ellison
29. Jubilee – Walker
30. Siddhartha – Hesse
31. The Rum Diary – Thompson
32. Frankenstein – Shelley
33. [b]Fahrenheit 451 – Bradbury[/b]
34. To the Lighthouse – Woolf
35. Mrs. Dalloway – Woolf
36. Leaves of Grass – Whitman
37. Blindness – Saramago
38. Ulysses – Joyce
39. Heart of Darkness – Conrad
40. The Feast of the Goat – Llosa
41. Native Son – Wright
42. [b]Of Human Bondage – Maugham [/b]
43. A People’s History – Zinn
44. The Autumn of the Patriarch – Marquez
45. A Tale of Two Cities – Dickens
46. The DaVinci Code – Brown
47. Reading Lolita in Tehran – Nafisi
48. Possession – Byatt
49. Brick Lane – Ali
50. The Talented Mr. Ripley – Highsmith
51. [b]Great Expectation – Dickens[/b]
52. Beowulf – Anonymous
53. The Yearling – Rawlings
54. Moby Dick – Melville
55. [b]Drown – Diaz[/b]
56. [b]On the Road – Kerouac[/b]
57. [b]The Sun Also Rises – Hemingway[/b]
58. Sometimes a Great Notion – Kesey
59. [b]Count of Monte Cristo – Dumas[/b]
60. Les Miserable – Hugo
61. Wise Blood – O’Connor
62. [b]The Beach – Garland[/b]
63. Cat’s Cradle – Vonnegut
64. [b]The Great Gatsby – Fitzgerald[/b]
65. Dangerous Liaisons – De Laclos
66. The Quiet American – Greene
67. [b]Microserfs – Coupland[/b]
68. [b]Metamorphosis – Kafka[/b]
69. Amerika – Kafka
70. [b]A Farewell to Arms – Hemingway[/b]
71. [b]A Good Man is Hard to Find – O’Connor[/b]
72. [b]The Bell Jar – Plath[/b]
73. Labyrinths – Borge
74. Don Quixote – Cervantes
75. The Trial – Kafka
76. Doctor Zhivago -- Pasternak
77. Anna Karenina – Tolstoy
78. Cloud Atlas – Mitchell
79. Dubliners – Joyce
80. Oracle Night – Auster
81. The Final Solution – Chabon
82. Drinking Coffee Elsewhere – Packer
83. Hell’s Angels – Thompson
84. The Electric Kool–Aid Acid Test – Wolfe
85. Invitation to a Beheading – Nabokov
86. The Iliad – Homer
87. The Odyssey – Homer
88. The Stranger – Camus
89. The Sound and the Fury – Faulkner
90. The Bluest Eye – Morrison
91. [b]Dry – Burroughs[/b]
92. The Shipping News – Annie Proulx
93. The Blind Assassin – Atwood
94. An American Tragedy – Dreiser
95. Wings of the Dove – James
96. [b]Turn of the Screw – James[/b]
97. The Tin Drum – Grass
98. From Here to Eternity – Jones
99. Lord Jim – Conrad
100. [b]The Heart is a Lonely Hunter – McCullers[/b]
101. Finnegan’s Wake – Joyce
102. [b]House of Spirits – Allende[/b]
103. The Call of the Wild – London
104. Sophie’s Choice – Styron
105. Candide – Voltaire
106. [b]The World According to Garp – Irving [/b]
107. Beloved – Morrison
108. The Fountainhead – Rand
109. Interpreter of Maladies – Lahiri
110. Empire Falls – Russo
111. The Time of Doves – Rodoreda
112. Disgrace – Coetzee
113. The Feast of Love – Baxter
114. ADA – Nabokov
115. Pulp – Bukowski
116. The Crying of Lot 49 – Pynchon--[b]fucking retarded book; started it and threw it away in disgust[/b]
117. [b]Life of Pi – Martel[/b]
118. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting – Kundera
119. The Contortionist’s Handbook – Clevenger
120. Breakfast of Champions – Vonnegut
121. Kitchen Confidential – Bourdain
122. Call it Sleep – Roth
123. White Teeth – Smith
124. [b]White Noise – Delillo[/b]
125. Everything is Illuminated – Foer
126. [b]The Red Tent – Diamant[/b]
127. [b]Virgin Suicides – Eugenides[/b]
128. Sideways – Pickett
129. Age of Innocence – Wharton
130. [b]Blood Meridian – McCarthy[/b]
131. The Pugilist at Rest – Jones
132. A Confederacy of Dunces – Toole
133. [b]Slaughterhouse 5 – Vonnegut[/b]
134. Last Exit to Brooklyn – Selby Jr.
135. The Name of the Rose – Eco
136. [b]The Screwtape Letters – Lewis[/b]
137. Three Soldiers – Dos Passos
138. [b]Lady Chatterly’s Lover – Lawrence[/b]
139. Jonathon Strange and Mr. Norrell – Clarke
140. Vernon God Little – Pierre
141. Bel Canto – Patchett
142. The Hours – Cunningham
143. [b]The Picture of Dorian Gray – Wilde[/b]
144. [b]Importance of Being Earnest – Wilde[/b]
145. [b]Mythology – Hamilton[/b]
146. A Short History of Nearly Everything – Bryson
147. [b]Wuthering Heights – Bronte[/b]
148. [b]Jane Eyre – Bronte[/b]
149. [b]The Jungle – Sinclair[/b]
150. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Smith
151. A Death in the Family – Frome
152. Their Eyes Were Watching God – Hurston
153. O Pioneers – Cather
154. Leviathan – Hobbes
155. Gulliver’s Travels – Swift
156. Eloisa and Abelard – Pope
157. Collected Works of William Blake – Blake
158. The Origin of Inequality– Rousseau
159. Don Juan – Byron
160. [b]Alice in Wonderland – Carroll[/b]
161. [b]Through the Looking Glass – Carroll[/b]
162. Dracula – Stoker
163. Beyond Good and Evil – Nietzsche
164. Thus Spake Zarathustra -- Nietzsche
165. [b]Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass – Douglass[/b]
166. Franny and Zooey – Salinger
167. Fiskadoro – Johnson
168. The Aeneid – Virgil
169. Dialogues – Plato
170. Second Treatise on Government – Locke
171. Madame Bovary – Flaubert
172. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Twain
173. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Twain
174. The Souls of Black Folk – DuBois
175. Common Sense – Paine
176. Poems – Dickinson
177. Six Characters in Search for an Author – Pirandello
178. [b]The Awakening – Chopin[/b]
179. The Cherry Orchard – Chekhov
180. Robinson Crusoe – Defoe
181. The Three Musketeers – Dumas
182. [b]Hamlet – Shakespeare[/b]
183. [b]Macbeth – Shakespeare[/b]
184. Fathers and Sons – Turgenev
185. The Wasteland – Eliot
186. Underworld – Delillo
187. [b]Infinite Jest – Wallace[/b]
188. Nostromo – Conrad
189. Pale Fire – Nabokov
190. House of Mirth – Wharton
191. Absalom, Absalom! – Faulkner
192. [b]The Handmaid’s Tale – Atwood[/b]
193. Naked Lunch – Burroughs
194. Death in Venice – Mann
195. [b]The Godfather – Puzo[/b]
196. The Wind Up Bird Chronicle – Murakami
197. Identity – Kunderas
198. The Magic Mountain – Mann
199. The War at the End of the World – Llosa
200. The Idiot – Dostoyevsky
201. The Brothers Karamazov – Dostoyevsky
202. The Castle – Kafka
203. [b]Sons and Lovers – Lawrence[/b]
204. Gargantua and Pantagruel – Rabelais
205. Invisible Cities – Calvino
206. Where the Air is Cleaner – Fuentes
207. The Lost Steps – Carpentier
208. Hopscotch – Cortazar
209. [b]Women in Love – Lawrence [/b]
210. Kim – Kipling
211. [b]Everything's Eventual – King [/b]
212. Mila 18 – Uris
213. Persuasion – Austen
214. The Good Earth – Buck
215. The Possessed – Dostoevsky
216. Eleanor Rigby – Coupland
217. Scarlet Letter – Hawthorne
218. The Crucible – Miller
219. [b]Secret Life of Bees – Kid [/b]
220. Silas Marner – Eliot
221. Vanity Fair – Thackery
222. [b]Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil – Berendt [/b]
223. The Orchid Thief – Orlean
224. A Passage to India – Forrester
225. [b]Rebecca – du Marier[/b]
226. [b]Running With Scissors – Burroughs [/b]
227. The Centaur – Updike
228. [b]Rabbit is Rich – Updike[/b]
229. The Mysteries of Pittsburgh – Chabon
230. [b]Cold Mountain – Frazier[/b]
231. A Friend of the Earth – Boyle
232. At the Jim Bridger – Carlson
233. Quarantine – Crace
234. Into the Wild – Krakauer
235. Ten Little Indians – Alexie
236. A Shooting Star – Stegner
237. Angle of Repose – Stegner
238. World’s Fair – Doctorow
239. Stones for Ibarra – Doerr
240. Darkness at Noon – Koestler
241. Amsterdam – McEwan
242. Cathedral – Carver
243. The Night in Question – Wolff
244. Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Stowe
245. [b]Collected Stories – Poe[/b]
246. [b]The Man Within – Greene[/b]
247. The Adventures of Augie March – Bellows
248. Sarah – Leroy
249. Gilead – Robinson
250. A Moveable Feast – Hemingway

[QUOTE=jane s.]Bump requested of Vendetta.[/QUOTE]

If you wanna bump her off, you might not be so public about it.

[QUOTE=Mr. Brown]If you wanna bump her off, you might not be so public about it.[/QUOTE]

I say BRING IT ON!

Anyway though, the ones that I've read or have done started to read are in red:
1. For Whom the Bell Tolls – Hemingway
2. To Kill a Mockingbird – Lee
[COLOR=Red]3. House of Leaves – Danielewski[/COLOR]
4. Bird by Bird – Lamott
5. Fortress of Solitude – Lethem
6. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay – Chabon
7. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – Joyce
8. Geek Love – Dunn
9. All Quiet on the Western Front – Remarque
10. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Haddon
11. Tomcat in Love – O’Brien
12. Brave New World – Huxley
13. Lolita – Nabokov
14. You Shall Know Our Velocity – Eggers
15. Crime and Punishment – Dostoevsky
16. Pride and Prejudice – Austen
17. Portnoy’s Complaint – Roth
18. The Divine Comedy – Dante
19. Paradise Lost – Milton
[COLOR=Red]20. The Fermata – Baker[/COLOR]
21. Love in the Time of Cholera – Marquez
22. Tortilla Flat – Steinbeck
23. In the Lake of the Woods – O’Brien
[COLOR=Red]24. As I Lay Dying – Faulkner[/COLOR]
25. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance – Pirsig
26. Notes from the Underground – Dostoyevsky
27. Glamorama – Ellis
28. Juneteenth – Ellison
29. Jubilee – Walker
30. Siddhartha – Hesse
31. The Rum Diary – Thompson
32. Frankenstein – Shelley
33. Fahrenheit 451 – Bradbury
34. To the Lighthouse – Woolf
[COLOR=Red]35. Mrs. Dalloway – Woolf[/COLOR]
36. Leaves of Grass – Whitman
37. Blindness – Saramago
38. Ulysses – Joyce
39. Heart of Darkness – Conrad
40. The Feast of the Goat – Llosa
41. Native Son – Wright
42. Of Human Bondage – Maugham
43. A People’s History – Zinn
44. The Autumn of the Patriarch – Marquez
45. A Tale of Two Cities – Dickens
46. The DaVinci Code – Brown
47. Reading Lolita in Tehran – Nafisi
48. Possession – Byatt
49. Brick Lane – Ali
50. The Talented Mr. Ripley – Highsmith
51. Great Expectation – Dickens
52. Beowulf – Anonymous
53. The Yearling – Rawlings
54. Moby Dick – Melville
55. Drown – Diaz
[COLOR=Red]56. On the Road – Kerouac
57. The Sun Also Rises – Hemingway[/COLOR]
58. Sometimes a Great Notion – Kesey
59. Count of Monte Cristo – Dumas
60. Les Miserable – Hugo
[COLOR=Red]61. Wise Blood – O’Connor[/COLOR]
62. The Beach – Garland
63. Cat’s Cradle – Vonnegut
[COLOR=Red]64. The Great Gatsby – Fitzgerald[/COLOR]
65. Dangerous Liaisons – De Laclos
66. The Quiet American – Greene
[COLOR=Red]67. Microserfs – Coupland[/COLOR]
68. Metamorphosis – Kafka
69. Amerika – Kafka
70. A Farewell to Arms – Hemingway
71. A Good Man is Hard to Find – O’Connor
[COLOR=Red]72. The Bell Jar – Plath[/COLOR]
73. Labyrinths – Borge
74. Don Quixote – Cervantes
75. The Trial – Kafka
76. Doctor Zhivago -- Pasternak
77. Anna Karenina – Tolstoy
[COLOR=Red]78. Cloud Atlas – Mitchell[/COLOR]
79. Dubliners – Joyce
[COLOR=Red]80. Oracle Night – Auster[/COLOR]
81. The Final Solution – Chabon
82. Drinking Coffee Elsewhere – Packer
83. Hell’s Angels – Thompson
84. The Electric Kool–Aid Acid Test – Wolfe
85. Invitation to a Beheading – Nabokov
86. The Iliad – Homer
[COLOR=Red]87. The Odyssey – Homer[/COLOR]
88. The Stranger – Camus
[COLOR=Red]89. The Sound and the Fury – Faulkner[/COLOR]
90. The Bluest Eye – Morrison
91. Dry – Burroughs
92. The Shipping News – Annie Proulx
93. The Blind Assassin – Atwood
94. An American Tragedy – Dreiser
95. Wings of the Dove – James
[COLOR=Red]96. Turn of the Screw – James[/COLOR]
97. The Tin Drum – Grass
98. From Here to Eternity – Jones
99. Lord Jim – Conrad
100. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter – McCullers
101. Finnegan’s Wake – Joyce
102. House of Spirits – Allende
[COLOR=Red]103. The Call of the Wild – London[/COLOR]
104. Sophie’s Choice – Styron
105. Candide – Voltaire
106. The World According to Garp – Irving
[COLOR=Red]107. Beloved – Morrison[/COLOR]
108. The Fountainhead – Rand
109. Interpreter of Maladies – Lahiri
110. Empire Falls – Russo
111. The Time of Doves – Rodoreda
112. Disgrace – Coetzee
113. The Feast of Love – Baxter
114. ADA – Nabokov
115. Pulp – Bukowski
116. The Crying of Lot 49 – Pynchon
117. Life of Pi – Martel
118. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting – Kundera
119. The Contortionist’s Handbook – Clevenger
120. Breakfast of Champions – Vonnegut
121. Kitchen Confidential – Bourdain
122. Call it Sleep – Roth
123. White Teeth – Smith
[COLOR=Red]124. White Noise – Delillo[/COLOR]
125. Everything is Illuminated – Foer
126. The Red Tent – Diamant
[COLOR=Red]127. Virgin Suicides – Eugenides[/COLOR]
128. Sideways – Pickett
[COLOR=Red]129. Age of Innocence – Wharton[/COLOR]
130. Blood Meridian – McCarthy
131. The Pugilist at Rest – Jones
132. A Confederacy of Dunces – Toole
[COLOR=Red]133. Slaughterhouse 5 – Vonnegut[/COLOR]
134. Last Exit to Brooklyn – Selby Jr.
135. The Name of the Rose – Eco
136. The Screwtape Letters – Lewis
137. Three Soldiers – Dos Passos
138. Lady Chatterly’s Lover – Lawrence
139. Jonathon Strange and Mr. Norrell – Clarke
140. Vernon God Little – Pierre
141. Bel Canto – Patchett
142. The Hours – Cunningham
143. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Wilde
144. Importance of Being Earnest – Wilde
145. Mythology – Hamilton
146. A Short History of Nearly Everything – Bryson
[COLOR=Red]147. Wuthering Heights – Bronte
148. Jane Eyre – Bronte[/COLOR]
149. The Jungle – Sinclair
150. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Smith
151. A Death in the Family – Frome
[COLOR=Red]152. Their Eyes Were Watching God – Hurston[/COLOR]
153. O Pioneers – Cather
154. Leviathan – Hobbes
155. Gulliver’s Travels – Swift
156. Eloisa and Abelard – Pope
157. Collected Works of William Blake – Blake
158. The Origin of Inequality– Rousseau
159. Don Juan – Byron
160. Alice in Wonderland – Carroll
161. Through the Looking Glass – Carroll
162. Dracula – Stoker
163. Beyond Good and Evil – Nietzsche
164. Thus Spake Zarathustra -- Nietzsche
165. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass – Douglass
[COLOR=Red]166. Franny and Zooey – Salinger[/COLOR]
167. Fiskadoro – Johnson
[COLOR=Red]168. The Aeneid – Virgil[/COLOR]
169. Dialogues – Plato
170. Second Treatise on Government – Locke
[COLOR=Red]171. Madame Bovary – Flaubert
172. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Twain[/COLOR]
173. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Twain
174. The Souls of Black Folk – DuBois
175. Common Sense – Paine
[COLOR=Red]176. Poems – Dickinson[/COLOR]
177. Six Characters in Search for an Author – Pirandello
[COLOR=Red]178. The Awakening – Chopin[/COLOR]
179. The Cherry Orchard – Chekhov
180. Robinson Crusoe – Defoe
181. The Three Musketeers – Dumas
182. Hamlet – Shakespeare
[COLOR=Red]183. Macbeth – Shakespeare[/COLOR]
184. Fathers and Sons – Turgenev
[COLOR=Red]185. The Wasteland – Eliot[/COLOR]
186. Underworld – Delillo
187. Infinite Jest – Wallace
188. Nostromo – Conrad
189. Pale Fire – Nabokov
[COLOR=Red]190. House of Mirth – Wharton[/COLOR]
191. Absalom, Absalom! – Faulkner
192. The Handmaid’s Tale – Atwood
193. Naked Lunch – Burroughs
194. Death in Venice – Mann
195. The Godfather – Puzo
196. The Wind Up Bird Chronicle – Murakami
197. Identity – Kunderas
198. The Magic Mountain – Mann
199. The War at the End of the World – Llosa
200. The Idiot – Dostoyevsky
201. The Brothers Karamazov – Dostoyevsky
202. The Castle – Kafka
203. Sons and Lovers – Lawrence
204. Gargantua and Pantagruel – Rabelais
205. Invisible Cities – Calvino
206. Where the Air is Cleaner – Fuentes
207. The Lost Steps – Carpentier
208. Hopscotch – Cortazar
[COLOR=Red]209. Women in Love – Lawrence[/COLOR]
210. Kim – Kipling
211. Everything's Eventual – King
212. Mila 18 – Uris
213. Persuasion – Austen
214. The Good Earth – Buck
215. The Possessed – Dostoevsky
[COLOR=Red]216. Eleanor Rigby – Coupland
217. Scarlet Letter – Hawthorne [/COLOR]
218. The Crucible – Miller
219. Secret Life of Bees – Kid
220. Silas Marner – Eliot
221. Vanity Fair – Thackery
222. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil – Berendt
223. The Orchid Thief – Orlean
224. A Passage to India – Forrester
[COLOR=Red]225. Rebecca – du Marier[/COLOR]
226. Running With Scissors – Burroughs
227. The Centaur – Updike
228. Rabbit is Rich – Updike
[COLOR=Red]229. The Mysteries of Pittsburgh – Chabon[/COLOR]
230. Cold Mountain – Frazier
231. A Friend of the Earth – Boyle
232. At the Jim Bridger – Carlson
233. Quarantine – Crace
234. Into the Wild – Krakauer
235. Ten Little Indians – Alexie
236. A Shooting Star – Stegner
237. Angle of Repose – Stegner
238. World’s Fair – Doctorow
239. Stones for Ibarra – Doerr
240. Darkness at Noon – Koestler
241. Amsterdam – McEwan
242. Cathedral – Carver
243. The Night in Question – Wolff
244. Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Stowe
[COLOR=Red]245. Collected Stories – Poe[/COLOR]
246. The Man Within – Greene
247. The Adventures of Augie March – Bellows
248. Sarah – Leroy
249. Gilead – Robinson
250. A Moveable Feast – Hemingway

Why is there so much Russian stuff and only the barest smattering of Frenchness? Why all the philosophy, what a chore!

Because we're pretentious, obviously.

Hey me too! Wanna put on scarves and go pout at a Starbucks or something?

[QUOTE=Darren]The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.[/QUOTE]

can i make a list of the first 100 books to be [I][SIZE=3]destroyed?[/SIZE][/I]

What are you talking about?

one of the first replies is of this guy wanting to put gatsby on the list of books to save. since i didn't like it, i wish to put it on the top of the heap when it comes time to destroy all the books except for the ones we choose to save.

Fuck you and your filthy Nazi values. Here's my new and improved list. Feel free to add whatever you might not see.

1. For Whom the Bell Tolls – Hemingway
2. To Kill a Mockingbird – Lee
3. House of Leaves – Danielewski
4. Bird by Bird – Lamott
5. Fortress of Solitude – Lethem
6. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay – Chabon
7. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – Joyce
8. Geek Love – Dunn
9. All Quiet on the Western Front – Remarque
10. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Haddon
11. Tomcat in Love – O’Brien
12. Brave New World – Huxley
13. Lolita – Nabokov
14. You Shall Know Our Velocity – Eggers
15. Crime and Punishment – Dostoevsky
16. Pride and Prejudice – Austen
17. Portnoy’s Complaint – Roth
18. The Divine Comedy – Dante
19. Paradise Lost – Milton
20. The Fermata – Baker
21. Love in the Time of Cholera – Marquez
22. Tortilla Flat – Steinbeck
23. In the Lake of the Woods – O’Brien
24. As I Lay Dying – Faulkner
25. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance – Pirsig
26. Notes from the Underground – Dostoyevsky
27. Glamorama – Ellis
28. Juneteenth – Ellison
29. Jubilee – Walker
30. Siddhartha – Hesse
31. The Rum Diary – Thompson
32. Frankenstein – Shelley
33. Fahrenheit 451 – Bradbury
34. To the Lighthouse – Woolf
35. Mrs. Dalloway – Woolf
36. Leaves of Grass – Whitman
37. Blindness – Saramago
38. Ulysses – Joyce
39. Heart of Darkness – Conrad
40. The Feast of the Goat – Llosa
41. Native Son – Wright
42. Of Human Bondage – Maugham
43. A People’s History – Zinn
44. The Autumn of the Patriarch – Marquez
45. A Tale of Two Cities – Dickens
46. The DaVinci Code – Brown
47. Reading Lolita in Tehran – Nafisi
48. Possession – Byatt
49. Brick Lane – Ali
50. The Talented Mr. Ripley – Highsmith
51. Great Expectation – Dickens
52. Beowulf – Anonymous
53. The Yearling – Rawlings
54. Moby Dick – Melville
55. Drown – Diaz
56. On the Road – Kerouac
57. The Sun Also Rises – Hemingway
58. Sometimes a Great Notion – Kesey
59. Count of Monte Cristo – Dumas
60. Les Miserable – Hugo
61. Wise Blood – O’Connor
62. The Beach – Garland
63. Cat’s Cradle – Vonnegut
64. The Great Gatsby – Fitzgerald
65. Dangerous Liaisons – De Laclos
66. The Quiet American – Greene
67. Microserfs – Coupland
68. Metamorphosis – Kafka
69. Amerika – Kafka
70. A Farewell to Arms – Hemingway
71. A Good Man is Hard to Find – O’Connor
72. The Bell Jar – Plath
73. Labyrinths – Borge
74. Don Quixote – Cervantes
75. The Trial – Kafka
76. Doctor Zhivago -- Pasternak
77. Anna Karenina – Tolstoy
78. Cloud Atlas – Mitchell
79. Dubliners – Joyce
80. The New York Trilogy – Auster
81. Oracle Night – Auster
82. The Final Solution – Chabon
83. Drinking Coffee Elsewhere – Packer
84. Hell’s Angels – Thompson
85. The Electric Kool–Aid Acid Test – Wolfe
86. Invitation to a Beheading – Nabokov
87. The Iliad – Homer
88. The Odyssey – Homer
89. The Stranger – Camus
90. The Sound and the Fury – Faulkner
91. The Bluest Eye – Morrison
92. Dry – Burroughs
93. The Shipping News – Annie Proulx
94. The Blind Assassin – Atwood
95. An American Tragedy – Dreiser
96. Wings of the Dove – James
97. Turn of the Screw – James
98. The Tin Drum – Grass
99. From Here to Eternity – Jones
100. Lord Jim – Conrad
101. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter – McCullers
102. Finnegan’s Wake – Joyce
103. House of Spirits – Allende
104. The Call of the Wild – London
105. Sophie’s Choice – Styron
106. Candide – Voltaire
107. The World According to Garp – Irving
108. Beloved – Morrison
109. The Fountainhead – Rand
110. Interpreter of Maladies – Lahiri
111. Empire Falls – Russo
112. The Time of Doves – Rodoreda
113. Disgrace – Coetzee
114. The Feast of Love – Baxter
115. ADA – Nabokov
116. Ham on Rye – Bukowski
117. Pulp – Bukowski
118. The Crying of Lot 49 – Pynchon
119. Life of Pi – Martel
120. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting – Kundera
121. The Contortionist’s Handbook – Clevenger
122. Breakfast of Champions – Vonnegut
123. Kitchen Confidential – Bourdain
124. Call it Sleep – Roth
125. White Teeth – Smith
126. White Noise – Delillo
127. Everything is Illuminated – Foer
128. The Red Tent – Diamant
129. Virgin Suicides – Eugenides
130. Sideways – Pickett
131. Age of Innocence – Wharton
132. Blood Meridian – McCarthy
133. The Pugilist at Rest – Jones
134. A Confederacy of Dunces – Toole
135. Slaughterhouse 5 – Vonnegut
136. Last Exit to Brooklyn – Selby Jr.
137. The Name of the Rose – Eco
138. The Screwtape Letters – Lewis
139. Three Soldiers – Dos Passos
140. Lady Chatterly’s Lover – Lawrence
141. Jonathon Strange and Mr. Norrell – Clarke
142. Vernon God Little – Pierre
143. Bel Canto – Patchett
144. The Hours – Cunningham
145. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Wilde
146. Importance of Being Earnest – Wilde
147. Mythology – Hamilton
148. A Short History of Nearly Everything – Bryson
149. Wuthering Heights – Bronte
150. Jane Eyre – Bronte
151. The Jungle – Sinclair
152. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Smith
153. A Death in the Family – Frome
154. Their Eyes Were Watching God – Hurston
155. O Pioneers – Cather
156. Leviathan – Hobbes
157. Gulliver’s Travels – Swift
158. Eloisa and Abelard – Pope
159. Collected Works of William Blake – Blake
160. The Origin of Inequality– Rousseau
161. Don Juan – Byron
162. Alice in Wonderland – Carroll
163. Through the Looking Glass – Carroll
164. Dracula – Stoker
165. Beyond Good and Evil – Nietzsche
166. Thus Spake Zarathustra -- Nietzsche
167. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass – Douglass
168. Franny and Zooey – Salinger
169. Fiskadoro – Johnson
170. The Aeneid – Virgil
171. Dialogues – Plato
172. Second Treatise on Government – Locke
173. Madame Bovary – Flaubert
174. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Twain
175. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Twain
176. The Souls of Black Folk – DuBois
177. Common Sense – Paine
178. Poems – Dickinson
179. Six Characters in Search for an Author – Pirandello
180. The Awakening – Chopin
181. The Cherry Orchard – Chekhov
182. Robinson Crusoe – Defoe
183. The Three Musketeers – Dumas
184. Hamlet – Shakespeare
185. Macbeth – Shakespeare
186. Fathers and Sons – Turgenev
187. The Wasteland – Eliot
188. Underworld – Delillo
189. Infinite Jest – Wallace
190. Nostromo – Conrad
191. Pale Fire – Nabokov
192. House of Mirth – Wharton
193. Absalom, Absalom! – Faulkner
194. The Handmaid’s Tale – Atwood
195. Naked Lunch – Burroughs
196. Death in Venice – Mann
197. The Godfather – Puzo
198. The Wind Up Bird Chronicle – Murakami
199. Identity – Kunderas
200. The Magic Mountain – Mann
201. The War at the End of the World – Llosa
202. The Idiot – Dostoyevsky
203. The Brothers Karamazov – Dostoyevsky
204. The Castle – Kafka
205. Sons and Lovers – Lawrence
206. Gargantua and Pantagruel – Rabelais
207. If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller – Calvino
208. Where the Air is Cleaner – Fuentes
209. The Lost Steps – Carpentier
210. Hopscotch – Cortazar
211. Women in Love – Lawrence
212. Kim – Kipling
213. Everything's Eventual – King
214. Mila 18 – Uris
215. Persuasion – Austen
216. The Good Earth – Buck
217. The Possessed – Dostoevsky
218. Eleanor Rigby – Coupland
219. Scarlet Letter – Hawthorne
220. The Crucible – Miller
221. Secret Life of Bees – Kid
222. Silas Marner – Eliot
223. Vanity Fair – Thackery
224. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil – Berendt
225. The Orchid Thief – Orlean
226. Rebecca – du Marier
227. Running With Scissors – Burroughs
228. The Centaur – Updike
229. Rabbit is Rich – Updike
230. The Mysteries of Pittsburgh – Chabon
231. Cold Mountain – Frazier
232. A Friend of the Earth – Boyle
233. At the Jim Bridger – Carlson
234. Quarantine – Crace
235. Into the Wild – Krakauer
236. Ten Little Indians – Alexie
237. A Shooting Star – Stegner
238. Angle of Repose – Stegner
239. World’s Fair – Doctorow
240. Stones for Ibarra – Doerr
241. Darkness at Noon – Koestler
242. Amsterdam – McEwan
243. Cathedral – Carver
244. The Night in Question – Wolff
245. Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Stowe
246. Collected Stories – Poe
247. The Man Within – Greene
248. The Adventures of Augie March – Bellows
249. Sarah – Leroy
250. Gilead – Robinson
251. A Moveable Feast – Hemingway
252. The Satanic Verses – Rushdie
253. Like Water for Chocolate – Esquivel
254. A Prayer for Owen Meany – Irving
255. The Known World – Jones
256. American Pastoral – Roth
257. The Stories of John Cheever – Cheever
258. Humboldt’s Gift – Bellow
259. Oliver Twist – Dickens
260. A Tale of Two Cities – Dickens
261. War and Peace – Tolstoy
262. Cannery Row – Steinbeck
263. A Room of One’s Own – Woolf
264. The Brother’s Karamazov – Dostoevsky
265. The Plot Against America – Roth
266. The Glass Menagerie – Williams
267. A Street Car Named Desire – Williams
268. Travels With Charley – Steinbeck
269. Sons (Good Earth Trilogy vol. 2) – Buck
270. A House Divided (Good Earth Trilogy vol. 3) – Buck
271. The Bookseller of Kabul – Seierstad
272. The Prince – Machiavelli
273. Treasure Island – Stevenson
274. The Pearl – Steinbeck
275. In Search of America – Steinbeck
276. The Complete Works of Shakespeare – Bevington
277. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Stevenson
278. David Copperfield – Dickens
279. A Passage to India – Forster
280. Under the Volcano – Lowry
281. The Way of All Flesh – Butler
282. I, Claudius – Graves
283. Appointment in Samarra – O’Hara
284. Henderson the Rain King – Bellow
285. U.S.A. (Trilogy) – Dos Passos
286. Winesburg, Ohio – Anderson
287. A Christmas Carol – Dickens
288. The Sorrow of War – Ninh
289. West of Kabul, East of New York – Ansary
290. In Cold Blood – Capote
291. Regeneration – Barker
292. Brideshead Revisited – Waugh
293. A Handful of Dust – Waugh
294. Herzog – Bellow
295. Ubik – Dick
296. The Recognitions – Gaddis
297. Red Harvest – Hammett
298. Watchmen – Moore & Gibbons
299. Atonement – McEwan
300. Ragtime – Doctorow
301. Falconer – Cheever
302. The Black Sheep – Balzac
303. The Big Sleep – Chandler
304. Lucky Jim – Amis
305. Invisible Cities – Calvino
306. Watership Down – Adams
307. Men Without Women – Hemingway
308. Too Loud a Solitude – Hrabal
309. Dead Souls – Gogol
310. Spring Snow – Mishima
311. Nina – Zola
312. Tropic of Cancer – Miller
313. Shopgirl – Martin
314. Zorba the Greek – Kazantzakis
315. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Adams
316. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln – Goodwin
317. The Bridge of San Luis Rey – Wilder
318. Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Capote
319. Girlfriend in a Coma – Coupland
320.

Posted on request. Add some books and feel intelligent.

1. For Whom the Bell Tolls – Hemingway
2. To Kill a Mockingbird – Lee
3. House of Leaves – Danielewski
4. Bird by Bird – Lamott
5. Fortress of Solitude – Lethem
6. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay – Chabon
7. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – Joyce
8. Geek Love – Dunn
9. All Quiet on the Western Front – Remarque
10. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Haddon
11. Tomcat in Love – O’Brien
12. Brave New World – Huxley
13. Lolita – Nabokov
14. You Shall Know Our Velocity – Eggers
15. Crime and Punishment – Dostoevsky
16. Pride and Prejudice – Austen
17. Portnoy’s Complaint – Roth
18. The Divine Comedy – Dante
19. Paradise Lost – Milton
20. The Fermata – Baker
21. Love in the Time of Cholera – Marquez
22. Tortilla Flat – Steinbeck
23. In the Lake of the Woods – O’Brien
24. As I Lay Dying – Faulkner
25. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance – Pirsig
26. Notes from the Underground – Dostoyevsky
27. Glamorama – Ellis
28. Juneteenth – Ellison
29. Jubilee – Walker
30. Siddhartha – Hesse
31. The Rum Diary – Thompson
32. Frankenstein – Shelley
33. Fahrenheit 451 – Bradbury
34. To the Lighthouse – Woolf
35. Mrs. Dalloway – Woolf
36. Leaves of Grass – Whitman
37. Blindness – Saramago
38. Ulysses – Joyce
39. Heart of Darkness – Conrad
40. The Feast of the Goat – Llosa
41. Native Son – Wright
42. Of Human Bondage – Maugham
43. A People’s History – Zinn
44. The Autumn of the Patriarch – Marquez
45. A Tale of Two Cities – Dickens
46. The DaVinci Code – Brown
47. Reading Lolita in Tehran – Nafisi
48. Possession – Byatt
49. Brick Lane – Ali
50. The Talented Mr. Ripley – Highsmith
51. Great Expectation – Dickens
52. Beowulf – Anonymous
53. The Yearling – Rawlings
54. Moby Dick – Melville
55. Drown – Diaz
56. On the Road – Kerouac
57. The Sun Also Rises – Hemingway
58. Sometimes a Great Notion – Kesey
59. Count of Monte Cristo – Dumas
60. Les Miserable – Hugo
61. Wise Blood – O’Connor
62. The Beach – Garland
63. Cat’s Cradle – Vonnegut
64. The Great Gatsby – Fitzgerald
65. Dangerous Liaisons – De Laclos
66. The Quiet American – Greene
67. Microserfs – Coupland
68. Metamorphosis – Kafka
69. Amerika – Kafka
70. A Farewell to Arms – Hemingway
71. A Good Man is Hard to Find – O’Connor
72. The Bell Jar – Plath
73. Labyrinths – Borge
74. Don Quixote – Cervantes
75. The Trial – Kafka
76. Doctor Zhivago -- Pasternak
77. Anna Karenina – Tolstoy
78. Cloud Atlas – Mitchell
79. Dubliners – Joyce
80. The New York Trilogy – Auster
81. Oracle Night – Auster
82. The Final Solution – Chabon
83. Drinking Coffee Elsewhere – Packer
84. Hell’s Angels – Thompson
85. The Electric Kool–Aid Acid Test – Wolfe
86. Invitation to a Beheading – Nabokov
87. The Iliad – Homer
88. The Odyssey – Homer
89. The Stranger – Camus
90. The Sound and the Fury – Faulkner
91. The Bluest Eye – Morrison
92. Dry – Burroughs
93. The Shipping News – Annie Proulx
94. The Blind Assassin – Atwood
95. An American Tragedy – Dreiser
96. Wings of the Dove – James
97. Turn of the Screw – James
98. The Tin Drum – Grass
99. From Here to Eternity – Jones
100. Lord Jim – Conrad
101. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter – McCullers
102. Finnegan’s Wake – Joyce
103. House of Spirits – Allende
104. The Call of the Wild – London
105. Sophie’s Choice – Styron
106. Candide – Voltaire
107. The World According to Garp – Irving
108. Beloved – Morrison
109. The Fountainhead – Rand
110. Interpreter of Maladies – Lahiri
111. Empire Falls – Russo
112. The Time of Doves – Rodoreda
113. Disgrace – Coetzee
114. The Feast of Love – Baxter
115. ADA – Nabokov
116. Ham on Rye – Bukowski
117. Pulp – Bukowski
118. The Crying of Lot 49 – Pynchon
119. Life of Pi – Martel
120. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting – Kundera
121. The Contortionist’s Handbook – Clevenger
122. Breakfast of Champions – Vonnegut
123. Kitchen Confidential – Bourdain
124. Call it Sleep – Roth
125. White Teeth – Smith
126. White Noise – Delillo
127. Everything is Illuminated – Foer
128. The Red Tent – Diamant
129. Virgin Suicides – Eugenides
130. Sideways – Pickett
131. Age of Innocence – Wharton
132. Blood Meridian – McCarthy
133. The Pugilist at Rest – Jones
134. A Confederacy of Dunces – Toole
135. Slaughterhouse 5 – Vonnegut
136. Last Exit to Brooklyn – Selby Jr.
137. The Name of the Rose – Eco
138. The Screwtape Letters – Lewis
139. Three Soldiers – Dos Passos
140. Lady Chatterly’s Lover – Lawrence
141. Jonathon Strange and Mr. Norrell – Clarke
142. Vernon God Little – Pierre
143. Bel Canto – Patchett
144. The Hours – Cunningham
145. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Wilde
146. Importance of Being Earnest – Wilde
147. Mythology – Hamilton
148. A Short History of Nearly Everything – Bryson
149. Wuthering Heights – Bronte
150. Jane Eyre – Bronte
151. The Jungle – Sinclair
152. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Smith
153. A Death in the Family – Frome
154. Their Eyes Were Watching God – Hurston
155. O Pioneers – Cather
156. Leviathan – Hobbes
157. Gulliver’s Travels – Swift
158. Eloisa and Abelard – Pope
159. Collected Works of William Blake – Blake
160. The Origin of Inequality– Rousseau
161. Don Juan – Byron
162. Alice in Wonderland – Carroll
163. Through the Looking Glass – Carroll
164. Dracula – Stoker
165. Beyond Good and Evil – Nietzsche
166. Thus Spake Zarathustra -- Nietzsche
167. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass – Douglass
168. Franny and Zooey – Salinger
169. Fiskadoro – Johnson
170. The Aeneid – Virgil
171. Dialogues – Plato
172. Second Treatise on Government – Locke
173. Madame Bovary – Flaubert
174. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Twain
175. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Twain
176. The Souls of Black Folk – DuBois
177. Common Sense – Paine
178. Poems – Dickinson
179. Six Characters in Search for an Author – Pirandello
180. The Awakening – Chopin
181. The Cherry Orchard – Chekhov
182. Robinson Crusoe – Defoe
183. The Three Musketeers – Dumas
184. Hamlet – Shakespeare
185. Macbeth – Shakespeare
186. Fathers and Sons – Turgenev
187. The Wasteland – Eliot
188. Underworld – Delillo
189. Infinite Jest – Wallace
190. Nostromo – Conrad
191. Pale Fire – Nabokov
192. House of Mirth – Wharton
193. Absalom, Absalom! – Faulkner
194. The Handmaid’s Tale – Atwood
195. Naked Lunch – Burroughs
196. Death in Venice – Mann
197. The Godfather – Puzo
198. The Wind Up Bird Chronicle – Murakami
199. Identity – Kunderas
200. The Magic Mountain – Mann
201. The War at the End of the World – Llosa
202. The Idiot – Dostoyevsky
203. The Brothers Karamazov – Dostoyevsky
204. The Castle – Kafka
205. Sons and Lovers – Lawrence
206. Gargantua and Pantagruel – Rabelais
207. If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller – Calvino
208. Where the Air is Cleaner – Fuentes
209. The Lost Steps – Carpentier
210. Hopscotch – Cortazar
211. Women in Love – Lawrence
212. Kim – Kipling
213. Everything's Eventual – King
214. Mila 18 – Uris
215. Persuasion – Austen
216. The Good Earth – Buck
217. The Possessed – Dostoevsky
218. Eleanor Rigby – Coupland
219. Scarlet Letter – Hawthorne
220. The Crucible – Miller
221. Secret Life of Bees – Kid
222. Silas Marner – Eliot
223. Vanity Fair – Thackery
224. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil – Berendt
225. The Orchid Thief – Orlean
226. Rebecca – du Marier
227. Running With Scissors – Burroughs
228. The Centaur – Updike
229. Rabbit is Rich – Updike
230. The Mysteries of Pittsburgh – Chabon
231. Cold Mountain – Frazier
232. A Friend of the Earth – Boyle
233. At the Jim Bridger – Carlson
234. Quarantine – Crace
235. Into the Wild – Krakauer
236. Ten Little Indians – Alexie
237. A Shooting Star – Stegner
238. Angle of Repose – Stegner
239. World’s Fair – Doctorow
240. Stones for Ibarra – Doerr
241. Darkness at Noon – Koestler
242. Amsterdam – McEwan
243. Cathedral – Carver
244. The Night in Question – Wolff
245. Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Stowe
246. Collected Stories – Poe
247. The Man Within – Greene
248. The Adventures of Augie March – Bellow
249. Sarah – Leroy
250. Gilead – Robinson
251. A Moveable Feast – Hemingway
252. The Satanic Verses – Rushdie
253. Like Water for Chocolate – Esquivel
254. A Prayer for Owen Meany – Irving
255. The Known World – Jones
256. American Pastoral – Roth
257. The Stories of John Cheever – Cheever
258. Humboldt’s Gift – Bellow
259. Oliver Twist – Dickens
260. War and Peace – Tolstoy
261. Cannery Row – Steinbeck
262. A Room of One’s Own – Woolf
263. The Brother’s Karamazov – Dostoevsky
264. The Plot Against America – Roth
265. The Glass Menagerie – Williams
266. A Street Car Named Desire – Williams
267. Travels With Charley – Steinbeck
268. Sons (Good Earth Trilogy vol. 2) – Buck
269. A House Divided (Good Earth Trilogy vol. 3) – Buck
270. The Bookseller of Kabul – Seierstad
271. The Prince – Machiavelli
272. Treasure Island – Stevenson
273. The Pearl – Steinbeck
274. In Search of America – Steinbeck
275. The Complete Works of Shakespeare – Bevington
276. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Stevenson
277. David Copperfield – Dickens
278. A Passage to India – Forster
279. Under the Volcano – Lowry
280. The Way of All Flesh – Butler
281. I, Claudius – Graves
282. Appointment in Samarra – O’Hara
283. Henderson the Rain King – Bellow
284. U.S.A. (Trilogy) – Dos Passos
285. Winesburg, Ohio – Anderson
286. A Christmas Carol – Dickens
287. The Sorrow of War – Ninh
288. West of Kabul, East of New York – Ansary
289. In Cold Blood – Capote
290. Regeneration – Barker
291. Brideshead Revisited – Waugh
292. A Handful of Dust – Waugh
293. Herzog – Bellow
294. Ubik – Dick
295. The Recognitions – Gaddis
296. Red Harvest – Hammett
297. Watchmen – Moore & Gibbons
298. Atonement – McEwan
299. Ragtime – Doctorow
300. Falconer – Cheever
301. The Black Sheep – Balzac
302. The Big Sleep – Chandler
303. Lucky Jim – Amis
304. Invisible Cities – Calvino
305. Watership Down – Adams
306. Men Without Women – Hemingway
307. Too Loud a Solitude – Hrabal
308. Dead Souls – Gogol
309. Spring Snow – Mishima
310. Nina – Zola
311. Tropic of Cancer – Miller
312. Shopgirl – Martin
313. Zorba the Greek – Kazantzakis
314. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Adams
315. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln – Goodwin
316. The Bridge of San Luis Rey – Wilder
317. Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Capote
318. Girlfriend in a Coma – Coupland
319. Memoirs of a Geisha – Golden
320. Shakespeare and Company – Beach
321. Wicked – Maguire
322. Kite Runner – Hosseini
323. The Graduate – Webb
324. Poems – Frost
325. Europe Central – Vollmann
326. Emma – Austen
327. The Portrait of a Lady – James
328. Tom Jones – Fielding
329. The Mayor of Casterbridge – Hardy
330. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy – Sterne
331. The Earth – Zola
332. Remembrance of Things Past – Proust
333. The Good Soldier Svejk – Hasek
334. Old Goriot – Balzac
335. Goodbye to Berlin – Isherwood
336. Middlemarch – Eliot
337. Hotel du Lac – Brookner
338. The Good Soldier – Ford
339. Tender is the Night – Fitzgerald
340. The Heart of the Matter – Greene
341. Light in August – Faulkner
342. The Maltese Falcon – Hammett
343. Scoop – Waugh
344. The Worm of Ouroboros – Eddison
345. Atlas Shrugged – Rand
346. Money – Amis
347. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe – Lewis
348. Dog Soldiers – Stone
349. The Day of the Locust – West
350. Cosmopolis – Delillo
351. The Fuck-Up – Neresian
352. Happy Baby – Elliott

353. Marabou Stork Nightmares - Welsh
354. Solipsist - Rollins
355. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Dick
356. The Holy Innocents - Adair

Because Jane made me, these are the one's I've probably read, though, to be honest, I kinda lost concentration around 100 or so.
2. To Kill a Mockingbird – Lee
6. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay – Chabon
8. Geek Love – Dunn
9. All Quiet on the Western Front – Remarque
10. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Haddon
12. Brave New World – Huxley
13. Lolita – Nabokov
16. Pride and Prejudice – Austen
21. Love in the Time of Cholera – Marquez
22. Tortilla Flat – Steinbeck
26. Notes from the Underground – Dostoyevsky
32. Frankenstein – Shelley
33. Fahrenheit 451 – Bradbury
37. Blindness – Saramago
39. Heart of Darkness – Conrad
41. Native Son – Wright
42. Of Human Bondage – Maugham
43. A People’s History – Zinn
52. Beowulf – Anonymous
54. Moby Dick – Melville
55. Drown – Diaz
56. On the Road – Kerouac
64. The Great Gatsby – Fitzgerald
66. The Quiet American – Greene
74. Don Quixote – Cervantes
75. The Trial – Kafka
83. Drinking Coffee Elsewhere – Packer
129. Virgin Suicides – Eugenides
130. Sideways – Pickett
135. Slaughterhouse 5 – Vonnegut
174. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Twain
187. The Wasteland – Eliot
196. Death in Venice – Mann
219. Scarlet Letter – Hawthorne
225. The Orchid Thief – Orlean
244. The Night in Question – Wolff
259. Oliver Twist – Dickens
292. A Handful of Dust – Waugh

My updated "What I've Read" list.

Nicky, add yours, I'm interested in your progress.

1. For Whom the Bell Tolls – Hemingway
[B]2. To Kill a Mockingbird – Lee[/B]
[B]3. House of Leaves – Danielewski[/B]
4. Bird by Bird – Lamott
[B]5. Fortress of Solitude – Lethem[/B]
[B]6. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay – Chabon[/B]
7. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – Joyce
[B]8. Geek Love – Dunn[/B]
9. All Quiet on the Western Front – Remarque
10. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Haddon
11. Tomcat in Love – O’Brien
[B]12. Brave New World – Huxley[/B]
[B]13. Lolita – Nabokov[/B]
14. You Shall Know Our Velocity – Eggers
15. Crime and Punishment – Dostoevsky
[B]16. Pride and Prejudice – Austen
17. Portnoy’s Complaint – Roth[/B]
18. The Divine Comedy – Dante
19. Paradise Lost – Milton
20. The Fermata – Baker
[B]21. Love in the Time of Cholera – Marquez[/B]
22. Tortilla Flat – Steinbeck
23. In the Lake of the Woods – O’Brien
24. As I Lay Dying – Faulkner
[B]25. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance – Pirsig[/B]
26. Notes from the Underground – Dostoyevsky
27. Glamorama – Ellis
28. Juneteenth – Ellison
29. Jubilee – Walker
30. Siddhartha – Hesse
31. The Rum Diary – Thompson
32. Frankenstein – Shelley
[B]33. Fahrenheit 451 – Bradbury[/B]
34. To the Lighthouse – Woolf
[B]35. Mrs. Dalloway – Woolf[/B]
36. Leaves of Grass – Whitman
37. Blindness – Saramago
38. Ulysses – Joyce
39. Heart of Darkness – Conrad
40. The Feast of the Goat – Llosa
41. Native Son – Wright
[B]42. Of Human Bondage – Maugham [/B]
[B]43. A People’s History – Zinn[/B]
44. The Autumn of the Patriarch – Marquez
[B]45. A Tale of Two Cities – Dickens[/B]
46. The DaVinci Code – Brown
47. Reading Lolita in Tehran – Nafisi
48. Possession – Byatt
49. Brick Lane – Ali
50. The Talented Mr. Ripley – Highsmith
[B]51. Great Expectation – Dickens[/B]
52. Beowulf – Anonymous
53. The Yearling – Rawlings
54. Moby Dick – Melville
[B]55. Drown – Diaz
56. On the Road – Kerouac
57. The Sun Also Rises – Hemingway[/B]
58. Sometimes a Great Notion – Kesey
[B]59. Count of Monte Cristo – Dumas[/B]
60. Les Miserable – Hugo
61. Wise Blood – O’Connor
[B]62. The Beach – Garland[/B]
63. Cat’s Cradle – Vonnegut
[B]64. The Great Gatsby – Fitzgerald[/B]
65. Dangerous Liaisons – De Laclos
66. The Quiet American – Greene
[B]67. Microserfs – Coupland
68. Metamorphosis – Kafka[/B]
69. Amerika – Kafka
[B]70. A Farewell to Arms – Hemingway
71. A Good Man is Hard to Find – O’Connor
72. The Bell Jar – Plath[/B]
73. Labyrinths – Borge
74. Don Quixote – Cervantes
75. The Trial – Kafka
76. Doctor Zhivago -- Pasternak
77. Anna Karenina – Tolstoy
78. Cloud Atlas – Mitchell
79. Dubliners – Joyce
80. The New York Trilogy – Auster
81. Oracle Night – Auster
82. The Final Solution – Chabon
83. Drinking Coffee Elsewhere – Packer
84. Hell’s Angels – Thompson
85. The Electric Kool–Aid Acid Test – Wolfe
86. Invitation to a Beheading – Nabokov
87. The Iliad – Homer
[B]88. The Odyssey – Homer[/B]
89. The Stranger – Camus
90. The Sound and the Fury – Faulkner
91. The Bluest Eye – Morrison
[B]92. Dry – Burroughs[/B]
93. The Shipping News – Annie Proulx
94. The Blind Assassin – Atwood
95. An American Tragedy – Dreiser
96. Wings of the Dove – James
[B]97. Turn of the Screw – James[/B]
98. The Tin Drum – Grass
99. From Here to Eternity – Jones
100. Lord Jim – Conrad
[B]101. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter – McCullers[/B]
102. Finnegan’s Wake – Joyce
[B]103. House of Spirits – Allende[/B]
104. The Call of the Wild – London
105. Sophie’s Choice – Styron
106. Candide – Voltaire
[B]107. The World According to Garp – Irving[/B]
108. Beloved – Morrison
109. The Fountainhead – Rand
110. Interpreter of Maladies – Lahiri
111. Empire Falls – Russo
112. The Time of Doves – Rodoreda
113. Disgrace – Coetzee
114. The Feast of Love – Baxter
115. ADA – Nabokov
116. Ham on Rye – Bukowski
117. Pulp – Bukowski
[B]118. The Crying of Lot 49 – Pynchon
119. Life of Pi – Martel[/B]
120. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting – Kundera
121. The Contortionist’s Handbook – Clevenger
122. Breakfast of Champions – Vonnegut
123. Kitchen Confidential – Bourdain
124. Call it Sleep – Roth
[B]125. White Teeth – Smith
126. White Noise – Delillo[/B]
127. Everything is Illuminated – Foer
[B]128. The Red Tent – Diamant
129. Virgin Suicides – Eugenides[/B]
130. Sideways – Pickett
131. Age of Innocence – Wharton
[B]132. Blood Meridian – McCarthy[/B]
133. The Pugilist at Rest – Jones
[B]134. A Confederacy of Dunces – Toole
135. Slaughterhouse 5 – Vonnegut[/B]
136. Last Exit to Brooklyn – Selby Jr.
137. The Name of the Rose – Eco
[B]138. The Screwtape Letters – Lewis[/B]
139. Three Soldiers – Dos Passos
[B]140. Lady Chatterly’s Lover – Lawrence[/B]
141. Jonathon Strange and Mr. Norrell – Clarke
142. Vernon God Little – Pierre
143. Bel Canto – Patchett
144. The Hours – Cunningham
[B]145. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Wilde
146. Importance of Being Earnest – Wilde
147. Mythology – Hamilton[/B]
148. A Short History of Nearly Everything – Bryson
[B]149. Wuthering Heights – Bronte
150. Jane Eyre – Bronte
151. The Jungle – Sinclair[/B]
152. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Smith
153. A Death in the Family – Frome
154. Their Eyes Were Watching God – Hurston
155. O Pioneers – Cather
156. Leviathan – Hobbes
157. Gulliver’s Travels – Swift
158. Eloisa and Abelard – Pope
159. Collected Works of William Blake – Blake
160. The Origin of Inequality– Rousseau
161. Don Juan – Byron
[B]162. Alice in Wonderland – Carroll
163. Through the Looking Glass – Carroll[/B]
164. Dracula – Stoker
165. Beyond Good and Evil – Nietzsche
166. Thus Spake Zarathustra -- Nietzsche
[B]167. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass – Douglass[/B]
168. Franny and Zooey – Salinger
169. Fiskadoro – Johnson
170. The Aeneid – Virgil
171. Dialogues – Plato
172. Second Treatise on Government – Locke
173. Madame Bovary – Flaubert
[B]174. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Twain
175. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Twain[/B]
176. The Souls of Black Folk – DuBois
177. Common Sense – Paine
178. Poems – Dickinson
179. Six Characters in Search for an Author – Pirandello
[B]180. The Awakening – Chopin[/B]
181. The Cherry Orchard – Chekhov
182. Robinson Crusoe – Defoe
183. The Three Musketeers – Dumas
[B]184. Hamlet – Shakespeare
185. Macbeth – Shakespeare[/B]
186. Fathers and Sons – Turgenev
[B]187. The Wasteland – Eliot[/B]
188. Underworld – Delillo
[B]189. Infinite Jest – Wallace[/B]
190. Nostromo – Conrad
191. Pale Fire – Nabokov
192. House of Mirth – Wharton
193. Absalom, Absalom! – Faulkner
[B]194. The Handmaid’s Tale – Atwood[/B]
195. Naked Lunch – Burroughs
196. Death in Venice – Mann
[B]197. The Godfather – Puzo[/B]
198. The Wind Up Bird Chronicle – Murakami
199. Identity – Kunderas
200. The Magic Mountain – Mann
201. The War at the End of the World – Llosa
202. The Idiot – Dostoyevsky
203. The Brothers Karamazov – Dostoyevsky
204. The Castle – Kafka
[B]205. Sons and Lovers – Lawrenc[/B]e
206. Gargantua and Pantagruel – Rabelais
207. If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller – Calvino
208. Where the Air is Cleaner – Fuentes
209. The Lost Steps – Carpentier
210. Hopscotch – Cortazar
[B]211. Women in Love – Lawrence[/B]
212. Kim – Kipling
[B]213. Everything's Eventual – King [/B]
214. Mila 18 – Uris
215. Persuasion – Austen
216. The Good Earth – Buck
217. The Possessed – Dostoevsky
218. Eleanor Rigby – Coupland
219. Scarlet Letter – Hawthorne
220. The Crucible – Miller
[B]221. Secret Life of Bees – Kid [/B]
222. Silas Marner – Eliot
223. Vanity Fair – Thackery
[B]224. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil – Berendt [/B]
225. The Orchid Thief – Orlean
[B]226. Rebecca – du Marier
227. Running With Scissors – Burroughs [/B]
228. The Centaur – Updike
[B]229. Rabbit is Rich – Updike[/B]
230. The Mysteries of Pittsburgh – Chabon
[B]231. Cold Mountain – Frazier[/B]
232. A Friend of the Earth – Boyle
233. At the Jim Bridger – Carlson
234. Quarantine – Crace
235. Into the Wild – Krakauer
236. Ten Little Indians – Alexie
237. A Shooting Star – Stegner
238. Angle of Repose – Stegner
239. World’s Fair – Doctorow
240. Stones for Ibarra – Doerr
241. Darkness at Noon – Koestler
242. Amsterdam – McEwan
243. Cathedral – Carver
244. The Night in Question – Wolff
245. Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Stowe
[B]246. Collected Stories – Poe
247. The Man Within – Greene[/B]
248. The Adventures of Augie March – Bellow
249. Sarah – Leroy
250. Gilead – Robinson
251. A Moveable Feast – Hemingway
252. The Satanic Verses – Rushdie
[B]253. Like Water for Chocolate – Esquivel
254. A Prayer for Owen Meany – Irving[/B]
255. The Known World – Jones
256. American Pastoral – Roth
257. The Stories of John Cheever – Cheever
258. Humboldt’s Gift – Bellow
259. Oliver Twist – Dickens
260. War and Peace – Tolstoy
261. Cannery Row – Steinbeck
262. A Room of One’s Own – Woolf
263. The Brother’s Karamazov – Dostoevsky
264. The Plot Against America – Roth
[B]265. The Glass Menagerie – Williams[/B]
266. A Street Car Named Desire – Williams
267. Travels With Charley – Steinbeck
268. Sons (Good Earth Trilogy vol. 2) – Buck
269. A House Divided (Good Earth Trilogy vol. 3) – Buck
270. The Bookseller of Kabul – Seierstad
271. The Prince – Machiavelli
272. Treasure Island – Stevenson
273. The Pearl – Steinbeck
274. In Search of America – Steinbeck
275. The Complete Works of Shakespeare – Bevington
276. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Stevenson
277. David Copperfield – Dickens
278. A Passage to India – Forster
279. Under the Volcano – Lowry
280. The Way of All Flesh – Butler
281. I, Claudius – Graves
282. Appointment in Samarra – O’Hara
283. Henderson the Rain King – Bellow
284. U.S.A. (Trilogy) – Dos Passos
285. Winesburg, Ohio – Anderson
[B]286. A Christmas Carol – Dickens[/B]
287. The Sorrow of War – Ninh
288. West of Kabul, East of New York – Ansary
[B]289. In Cold Blood – Capote[/B]
290. Regeneration – Barker
291. Brideshead Revisited – Waugh
292. A Handful of Dust – Waugh
293. Herzog – Bellow
294. Ubik – Dick
295. The Recognitions – Gaddis
296. Red Harvest – Hammett
297. Watchmen – Moore & Gibbons
298. Atonement – McEwan
299. Ragtime – Doctorow
300. Falconer – Cheever
301. The Black Sheep – Balzac
[B]302. The Big Sleep – Chandler[/B]
303. Lucky Jim – Amis
304. Invisible Cities – Calvino
[B]305. Watership Down – Adams[/B]
306. Men Without Women – Hemingway
307. Too Loud a Solitude – Hrabal
308. Dead Souls – Gogol
309. Spring Snow – Mishima
310. Nina – Zola
[B]311. Tropic of Cancer – Miller[/B]
312. Shopgirl – Martin
313. Zorba the Greek – Kazantzakis
[B]314. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Adams[/B]
315. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln – Goodwin
316. The Bridge of San Luis Rey – Wilder
317. Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Capote
[B]318. Girlfriend in a Coma – Coupland
319. Memoirs of a Geisha – Golden[/B]
320. Shakespeare and Company – Beach
321. Wicked – Maguire
322. Kite Runner – Hosseini
323. The Graduate – Webb
324. Poems – Frost
325. Europe Central – Vollmann
[B]326. Emma – Austen[/B]
327. The Portrait of a Lady – James
328. Tom Jones – Fielding
329. The Mayor of Casterbridge – Hardy
330. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy – Sterne
331. The Earth – Zola
332. Remembrance of Things Past – Proust
333. The Good Soldier Svejk – Hasek
334. Old Goriot – Balzac
335. Goodbye to Berlin – Isherwood
336. Middlemarch – Eliot
337. Hotel du Lac – Brookner
338. The Good Soldier – Ford
[B]339. Tender is the Night – Fitzgerald[/B]
340. The Heart of the Matter – Greene
341. Light in August – Faulkner
342. The Maltese Falcon – Hammett
343. Scoop – Waugh
344. The Worm of Ouroboros – Eddison
345. Atlas Shrugged – Rand
346. Money – Amis
[B]347. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe – Lewis[/B]
348. Dog Soldiers – Stone
349. The Day of the Locust – West
[B]350. Cosmopolis – Delillo[/B]
351. The Fuck-Up – Neresian
352. Happy Baby – Elliott

89 of 352. Sigh.

[B]3. House of Leaves – Danielewski[/B]
[B]16. Pride and Prejudice – Austen[/B]
[B]20. The Fermata – Baker[/B]
[B]24. As I Lay Dying – Faulkner[/B]
[B]35. Mrs. Dalloway – Woolf[/B]
[B]36. Leaves of Grass – Whitman[/B]
[B]56. On the Road – Kerouac
57. The Sun Also Rises – Hemingway[/B]
[B]61. Wise Blood – O’Connor[/B]
[B]64. The Great Gatsby – Fitzgerald[/B]
[B]67. Microserfs – Coupland[/B]
[B]72. The Bell Jar – Plath[/B]
[B]78. Cloud Atlas – Mitchell[/B]
[B]81. Oracle Night – Auster[/B]
[B]88. The Odyssey – Homer[/B]
[B]90. The Sound and the Fury – Faulkner[/B]
[B]97. Turn of the Screw – James[/B]
[B]104. The Call of the Wild – London[/B]
[B]108. Beloved – Morrison[/B]
[B]126. White Noise – Delillo[/B]
[B]129. Virgin Suicides – Eugenides[/B]
[B]131. Age of Innocence – Wharton[/B]
[B]134. A Confederacy of Dunces – Toole[/B]
[B]135. Slaughterhouse 5 – Vonnegut[/B]
[B]145. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Wilde[/B]
[B]149. Wuthering Heights – Bronte
150. Jane Eyre – Bronte[/B]
[B]154. Their Eyes Were Watching God – Hurston[/B]
[B]168. Franny and Zooey – Salinger[/B]
[B]170. The Aeneid – Virgil[/B]
[B]173. Madame Bovary – Flaubert
174. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Twain[/B]
[B]180. The Awakening – Chopin[/B]
[B]185. Macbeth – Shakespeare[/B]
[B]187. The Wasteland – Eliot[/B]
[B]192. House of Mirth – Wharton[/B]
[B]211. Women in Love – Lawrence[/B]
[B]218. Eleanor Rigby – Coupland
219. Scarlet Letter – Hawthorne [/B]
[B]226. Rebecca – du Marier[/B]
[B]246. Collected Stories – Poe[/B] Only over here it's called something else.
[B]266. A Street Car Named Desire – Williams[/B]
[B]291. Brideshead Revisited – Waugh[/B]
[B]293. Herzog – Bellow[/B]
[B]302. The Big Sleep – Chandler[/B]
[B]310. Nana – Zola[/B] It's Nana, not Nina! Sheesh! Do you know, if I were so inclined to choose a favourite book ever then this might be it.
[B]318. Girlfriend in a Coma – Coupland[/B]
[B]319. Memoirs of a Geisha – Golden[/B]
[B]327. The Portrait of a Lady – James[/B]YAY!!
[B]339. Tender is the Night – Fitzgerald[/B]
[B]347. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe – Lewis[/B]
[B]349. The Day of the Locust – West[/B]

Where the fudge did all these extra books come from? I think that makes it an even 50 for me (I kept losing count), I haven't made much progress because of school reading but I'm reading Pride and Prejudice at the moment and I have a passel of other books from the list coming up. I came into this later than you two, a hanger on if you will, so you must cut me some slack.:umbrella:

I've read 52 of those suckers, but some so long ago that I wouldn't be able to tell you anything about them whatsoever. Which is slightly depressing, given that it kind of shows that I learn shit-all as I go through life.

But that list! No Brighton Rock? No Trainspotting? No Chaucer (if we're going to have all this Illiad shenanigans)? No Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas? No 100 Years of Solitude? Midnight's Children? Three Men in a Boat? A Doll's House? A Clockwork Orange? Samuel Beckett? Lord of The Rings (fine - it's fantasy, but it's been pretty damn influential I'd say) etc etc etc

Oh sod it. There's no point getting angry with a list now is there? I may as well rage at my feet.

This is a great list and I feel ashamed that I haven’t read more of it. In my defense though, I was changing diapers for far too many years to have the chance to read. Contrary to popular belief, the life oh the housewife is not all leisure and bon bons.

This is my completed list, much of which has been required reading from the 7th grade through college.

1. For Whom the Bell Tolls – Hemingway [I](on my own but agonizingly boring)[/I]
7. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – Joyce [I](college)[/I]
32. Frankenstein – Shelley [I](college)[/I]
36. Leaves of Grass – Whitman [I](college)[/I]
38. Ulysses – Joyce [I](college)[/I]
54. Moby Dick – Melville [I](college)[/I]
57. The Sun Also Rises – Hemingway [I](college)[/I]
79. Dubliners – Joyce [I](college)[/I]
88. The Odyssey – Homer [I](on my own)[/I]
87. The Iliad – Homer [I](on my own)[/I]
90. The Sound and the Fury – Faulkner [I](reading now)[/I]
104. The Call of the Wild – London [I](7th grade)[/I]
107. The World According to Garp – Irving [I](on my own)[/I]
135. Slaughterhouse 5 – Vonnegut [I](7th grade on my own)[/I]
140. Lady Chatterly’s Lover – Lawrence [I](10th grade)[/I]
146. Importance of Being Earnest – Wilde [I](college)[/I]
149. Wuthering Heights – Bronte [I](8th grade)[/I]
150. Jane Eyre – Bronte [I](8th grade)[/I]
159. Collected Works of William Blake – Blake [I](college)[/I]
162. Alice in Wonderland – Carroll [I](in my 20’s)[/I]
163. Through the Looking Glass – Carroll [I](in my 20’s)[/I]
167. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass – Douglass [I](college)[/I]
174. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Twain [I](college and never again)[/I]
177. Common Sense – Paine [I](college: And I hope to NEVER read it again!)[/I]
178. Poems – Dickinson [I](college but also for pleasure)[/I]
219. Scarlet Letter – Hawthorne [I](high school sometime)[/I]
245. Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Stowe [I](2 years ago)[/I]
246. Collected Stories – Poe [I](over and over again since the 7th grade maybe)[/I]
251. A Moveable Feast – Hemingway [I](this summer)[/I]
253. Like Water for Chocolate – Esquivel [I](college and so very worth it)[/I]
262. A Room of One’s Own – Woolf [I](college)[/I]
265. The Glass Menagerie – Williams [I](college)[/I]
273. The Pearl – Steinbeck [I](7th grade)[/I]
272. Treasure Island – Stevenson [I](to my kids 10 years ago)[/I]
324. Poems – Frost [I](over and over again for decades)[/I]
347. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe – Lewis [I](6th grade?)[/I]

My additions to the list:
The Time Machine – Wells
A Scientific Romance – Wright
The Things They Carried – O’Brien
Complete Poems – Carl Sandburg
The Beautiful and Damned – Fitzgerald
The Joy Luck Club –Amy Tan
The Wonderbook for Girls and Boys -- Hawthorne

[QUOTE=Rents]
3. House of Leaves – Danielewski
18. The Divine Comedy – Dante
26. Notes from the Underground – Dostoyevsky
32. Frankenstein – Shelley
46. The DaVinci Code – Brown
62. The Beach – Garland
68. Metamorphosis – Kafka
75. The Trial – Kafka
89. The Stranger – Camus
121. The Contortionist’s Handbook – Clevenger
126. White Noise – Delillo
133. The Pugilist at Rest – Jones
135. Slaughterhouse 5 – Vonnegut
138. The Screwtape Letters – Lewis
142. Vernon God Little – Pierre
164. Dracula – Stoker
182. Robinson Crusoe – Defoe
195. Naked Lunch – Burroughs
[/QUOTE]
18 books out of 350+ is all ive read out of that list and i wish i hadnt read at least 2 of em

[QUOTE=mort]
(hope the administrators won't find my post offending...)
[/QUOTE]

Are you kidding? Do a search on Dan Brown. I think you'll find you're in good company round these parts.

[QUOTE=Riddlegimp]Are you kidding? Do a search on Dan Brown. I think you'll find you're in good company round these parts.[/QUOTE]
yeah, especially in the posts from said administrators

[QUOTE=Riddlegimp]I've read 52 of those suckers, but some so long ago that I wouldn't be able to tell you anything about them whatsoever. Which is slightly depressing, given that it kind of shows that I learn shit-all as I go through life.

But that list! No Brighton Rock? No Trainspotting? No Chaucer (if we're going to have all this Illiad shenanigans)? No Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas? No 100 Years of Solitude? Midnight's Children? Three Men in a Boat? A Doll's House? A Clockwork Orange? Samuel Beckett? Lord of The Rings (fine - it's fantasy, but it's been pretty damn influential I'd say) etc etc etc

Oh sod it. There's no point getting angry with a list now is there? I may as well rage at my feet.[/QUOTE]

"Trainspotting" and "100 Years..." are two favorite books of the both of ours, so inclusion on the list wasn't necessary. And I think Samuel Beckett is a ponce, personally.

You don't have to rage on the list! The whole point of the thread is adding to what we've forgotten.

I was raging at my feet.