Saturday, September 29, 2007

Favorite Books

I have a more substantial post coming up, but I've been thinking about this a lot lately as I have been re-reading a few favorites in school.
  1. The Iliad
  2. The Odyssey
  3. Oedipus Rex
  4. Hamlet
  5. Paradise Lost
  6. The Inferno
  7. Moby-Dick
  8. Swann's Way
  9. Middlemarch
  10. David Copperfield
  11. War and Peace
  12. Madame Bovary
  13. Tristram Shandy
  14. Emma
  15. 100 Years of Solitude
  16. Great Expectations
  17. Macbeth
  18. Portrait of a Lady
  19. Absalom, Absalom!
  20. The Great Gatsby
  21. Beowulf
  22. Charterhouse of Parma
  23. The Trial
  24. Crime and Punishment
  25. King Lear
  26. The Red and the Black
  27. The Good Soldier
  28. Pride and Prejudice
  29. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
  30. The Brothers Karamazov
  31. Wings of the Dove
  32. Love in the Time of Cholera
  33. The Castle
  34. Antigone
  35. Borges' Collected Fictions
  36. The Guermantes Way
  37. Persuasion
  38. Cities of the Plain
  39. Jude the Obscure
  40. Wuthering Heights
  41. Sound and the Fury
  42. Tropic of Cancer
  43. In a Budding Grove
  44. Richard III
  45. Heart of Darkness
  46. Things Fall Apart
  47. Man and Superman
  48. The Old Man and the Sea
  49. Lolita
  50. Tess of the D'urbervilles
  51. Bleak House
  52. Huckleberry Finn
  53. Grapes of Wrath
  54. The Fall
  55. Nightwood
  56. Henry V
  57. The Stranger
  58. Our Mutual Friend
  59. Dubliners
  60. Lord Jim
  61. Le Morte D'Arthur
  62. Julius Caesar
  63. The Pickwick Papers
  64. Dead Souls
  65. Pere Goriot
  66. Animal Farm
  67. Disgrace
  68. Of Mice and Men
  69. Naked Lunch
  70. Vanity Fair
  71. Siddhartha
  72. Austerlitz
  73. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
  74. The Count of Monte Cristo
  75. For Whom the Bell Tolls
  76. The Scarlet Letter
  77. L'Assomoir
  78. The Song of Roland
  79. Notes from the Underground
  80. Fifth Business
  81. Romeo and Juliet
  82. Tom Sawyer
  83. The Maltese Falcon
  84. 1984
  85. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  86. The Secret Agent
  87. Elective Affinities
  88. Sense and Sensibility
  89. The Moonstone
  90. Catch 22
  91. Barchester Towers
  92. The Monk
  93. All Quiet on the Western Front
  94. Edwin Mullhouse
  95. The Long Goodbye
  96. Mrs. Dalloway
  97. Washington Square
  98. Mansfield Park
  99. New Grub Street
  100. The Sun Also Rises

1 comment:

Slobodan Burgher said...

I absolutely loath # 29. The most inconsequential book I ever read.

Curious also to see neither L.F Celine nor Blaise Cendrars on the list while obviously there's books on list that are great influenced by both.