Tuesday, August 4, 2009

The Book Bucket List

The objective is to read all 200 of these books before I die.

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
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
101. ATLAS SHRUGGED by Ayn Rand
102. THE FOUNTAINHEAD by Ayn Rand
103. BATTLEFIELD EARTH by L. Ron Hubbard
104. THE LORD OF THE RINGS by J.R.R. Tolkien
105. ANTHEM by Ayn Rand
106. WE THE LIVING by Ayn Rand
107. MISSION EARTH by L. Ron Hubbard
108. FEAR by L. Ron Hubbard
109. DUNE by Frank Herbert
110. THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS by Robert Heinlein
111. STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND by Robert Heinlein
112. A TOWN LIKE ALICE by Nevil Shute
113. BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley
114. ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell
115. GRAVITY'S RAINBOW by Thomas Pynchon
116. SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut
117. GONE WITH THE WIND by Margaret Mitchell
118. SHANE by Jack Schaefer
119. TRUSTEE FROM THE TOOLROOM by Nevil Shute
120. A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY by John Irving
121. THE STAND by Stephen King
122. THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN by John Fowles
123. BELOVED by Toni Morrison
124. THE WORM OUROBOROS by E.R. Eddison
125. MOONHEART by Charles de Lint
126. ABSALOM, ABSALOM! by William Faulkner
127. WISE BLOOD by Flannery O'Connor
128. FIFTH BUSINESS by Robertson Davies
129. SOMEPLACE TO BE FLYING by Charles de Lint
130. YARROW by Charles de Lint
131. AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS by H.P. Lovecraft
132. ONE LONELY NIGHT by Mickey Spillane
133. MEMORY AND DREAM by Charles de Lints
134. TRADER by Charles de Lint
135. THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY by Douglas Adams
136. THE HANDMAID'S TALE by Margaret Atwood
137. BLOOD MERIDIAN by Cormac McCarthy
138. ON THE BEACH by Nevil Shute
139. GREENMANTLE by Charles de Lint
140. ENDER'S GAME by Orson Scott Card
141. THE LITTLE COUNTRY by Charles de Lint
142. THE RECOGNITIONS by William Gaddis
143. STARSHIP TROOPERS by Robert Heinlein
144. THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP by John Irving
145. SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES by Ray Bradbury
146. THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE by Shirley Jackson
147. THE WOOD WIFE by Terri Windling
148. THE DOOR INTO SUMMER by Robert Heinlein
149. ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE by Robert Pirsig
150. AT SWIM-TWO-BIRDS by Flann O'Brien
151. FARENHEIT 451 by Ray Bradbury
152. ARROWSMITH by Sinclair Lewis
153. WATERSHIP DOWN by Richard Adams
154. NAKED LUNCH by William S. Burroughs
155. THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER by Tom Clancy
156. GUILTY PLEASURES by Laurell K. Hamilton
157. THE PUPPET MASTERS by Robert Heinlein
158. IT by Stephen King
159. V. by Thomas Pynchon
160. DOUBLE STAR by Robert Heinlein
161. CITIZEN OF THE GALAXY by Robert Heinlein
162. ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST by Ken Kesey
163. SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION by Ken Kesey
164. MY ANTONIA by Willa Cather
165. MULENGRO by Charles de Lint
166. SUTTREE by Cormac McCarthy
167. MYTHAGO WOOD by Robert Holdstock
168. ILLUSIONS by Richard Bach
169. THE CUNNING MAN by Robertson Davies
170. THE SATANIC VERSES by Salman Rushdie
171. The Complete Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
172. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
173. Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
174. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
175. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 2006
176. The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain 07.09
177. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court By Mark Twain
178. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
179. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
180. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway 07.09
181. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
182. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
183. Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
184. Their Eyes were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
185. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
186. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
187. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas pere
188. Daisy Miller by Henry James
189. David Cooperfield by Charles Dickens
190. Dracula by Bram Stoker
191. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
192. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 09.08
193. House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
194. The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
195. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
196. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
197. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
198. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
199. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
200. You Can’t Go Home Again by Thomas Wolfe

List adapted from:
http://www.cincinnatilibrary.org/booklists/?id=classics
http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/100bestnovels.html
http://www.listsofbests.com/list/5884?page=2

1 comment:

  1. I love this idea... a book bucket list. I may need to really think about this one... :)

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