Wednesday, November 23, 2011

I'm Thankful For Books

So, I've read a few more of these books. And a quick note on Wide Sargasso Sea--if you've read Jane Eyre and liked Roderick, chances are, you're not going to like this book.
  1. Pilgrimage – Dorothy Richardson
  2. The Joke – Milan Kundera
  3. No Laughing Matter – Angus Wilson
  4. The Third Policeman – Flann O’Brien
  5. A Man Asleep – Georges Perec
  6. The Birds Fall Down – Rebecca West
  7. Trawl – B.S. Johnson
  8. In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
  9. The Magus – John Fowles
  10. The Vice-Consul – Marguerite Duras
  11. Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys I thought this book SUCKED
  12. Giles Goat-Boy – John Barth
  13. The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon
  14. Things – Georges Perec
  15. The River Between – Ngugi wa Thiong’o
  16. August is a Wicked Month – Edna O’Brien
  17. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater – Kurt Vonnegut
  18. Everything That Rises Must Converge – Flannery O’Connor
  19. The Passion According to G.H. – Clarice Lispector
  20. Sometimes a Great Notion – Ken Kesey
  21. Come Back, Dr. Caligari – Donald Bartholme
  22. Albert Angelo – B.S. Johnson
  23. Arrow of God – Chinua Achebe
  24. The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein – Marguerite Duras
  25. Herzog – Saul Bellow
  26. V. – Thomas Pynchon
  27. Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut
  28. The Graduate – Charles Webb
  29. Manon des Sources – Marcel Pagnol
  30. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold – John Le Carré
  31. The Girls of Slender Means – Muriel Spark
  32. Inside Mr. Enderby – Anthony Burgess
  33. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
  34. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
  35. The Collector – John Fowles
  36. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
  37. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
  38. Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov
  39. The Drowned World – J.G. Ballard
  40. The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing
  41. Labyrinths – Jorg Luis Borges
  42. Girl With Green Eyes – Edna O’Brien
  43. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis – Giorgio Bassani
  44. Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert Heinlein
  45. Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger
  46. A Severed Head – Iris Murdoch
  47. Faces in the Water – Janet Frame
  48. Solaris – Stanislaw Lem
  49. Cat and Mouse – Günter Grass
  50. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark
  51. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller I kept a notebook filled with my favorite lines from this book
  52. The Violent Bear it Away – Flannery O’Connor
  53. How It Is – Samuel Beckett
  54. Our Ancestors – Italo Calvino
  55. The Country Girls – Edna O’Brien
  56. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee Another book I hated in high school, but I think it had more to do with the teacher
  57. Rabbit, Run – John Updike
  58. Promise at Dawn – Romain Gary
  59. Cider With Rosie – Laurie Lee
  60. Billy Liar – Keith Waterhouse
  61. Naked Lunch – William Burroughs
  62. The Tin Drum – Günter Grass
  63. Absolute Beginners – Colin MacInnes
  64. Henderson the Rain King – Saul Bellow
  65. Memento Mori – Muriel Spark
  66. Billiards at Half-Past Nine – Heinrich Böll
  67. Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote
  68. The Leopard – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
  69. Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring – Kenzaburo Oe
  70. A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
  71. The Bitter Glass – Eilís Dillon
  72. Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe So good!
  73. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning – Alan Sillitoe
  74. Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris – Paul Gallico
  75. Borstal Boy – Brendan Behan
  76. The End of the Road – John Barth
  77. The Once and Future King – T.H. White I've read most of it....
  78. The Bell – Iris Murdoch
  79. Jealousy – Alain Robbe-Grillet
  80. Voss – Patrick White
  81. The Midwich Cuckoos – John Wyndham
  82. Blue Noon – Georges Bataille
  83. Homo Faber – Max Frisch
  84. On the Road – Jack Kerouac
  85. Pnin – Vladimir Nabokov
  86. Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak
  87. The Wonderful “O” – James Thurber
  88. Justine – Lawrence Durrell
  89. Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin
  90. The Lonely Londoners – Sam Selvon
  91. The Roots of Heaven – Romain Gary
  92. Seize the Day – Saul Bellow
  93. The Floating Opera – John Barth
  94. The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien Love forever. 
  95. The Talented Mr. Ripley – Patricia Highsmith A trip. 
  96. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
  97. A World of Love – Elizabeth Bowen
  98. The Trusting and the Maimed – James Plunkett
  99. The Quiet American – Graham Greene
  100. The Last Temptation of Christ – Nikos Kazantzákis
  101. The Recognitions – William Gaddis
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