Sunday, November 20, 2011

A Good Read(s)

Here's the next set of books (I haven't read). A lot of these are books or authors I've heard of or have read (Douglas Adams, J. M. Coetzee, Ian McEwan, Toni Morrison), but, I dunno, between required college texts (which seemed to include a lot of pre-Victorian literature) and my own personal love for prolific and slightly epic fantasy series, I haven't gotten around to a lot of the "modern classics." But I have read some of these. Surprisingly.
  1. The Beautiful Room is Empty – Edmund White
  2. Wittgenstein’s Mistress – David Markson
  3. The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie
  4. The Swimming-Pool Library – Alan Hollinghurst
  5. Oscar and Lucinda – Peter Carey
  6. Libra – Don DeLillo
  7. The Player of Games – Iain M. Banks
  8. Nervous Conditions – Tsitsi Dangarembga
  9. The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul – Douglas Adams
  10. Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Douglas Adams
  11. The Radiant Way – Margaret Drabble
  12. The Afternoon of a Writer – Peter Handke
  13. The Black Dahlia – James Ellroy
  14. The Passion – Jeanette Winterson
  15. The Pigeon – Patrick Süskind
  16. The Child in Time – Ian McEwan
  17. Cigarettes – Harry Mathews
  18. The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe
  19. The New York Trilogy – Paul Auster
  20. World’s End – T. Coraghessan Boyle
  21. Enigma of Arrival – V.S. Naipaul
  22. The Taebek Mountains – Jo Jung-rae
  23. Beloved – Toni Morrison
  24. Anagrams – Lorrie Moore
  25. Matigari – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
  26. Marya – Joyce Carol Oates
  27. Watchmen – Alan Moore & David Gibbons
  28. The Old Devils – Kingsley Amis
  29. Lost Language of Cranes – David Leavitt
  30. An Artist of the Floating World – Kazuo Ishiguro
  31. Extinction – Thomas Bernhard
  32. Foe – J.M. Coetzee
  33. The Drowned and the Saved – Primo Levi
  34. Reasons to Live – Amy Hempel
  35. The Parable of the Blind – Gert Hofmann
  36. Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez Good, but weird. The whole May/December relationship between second cousins sort of did me in. 
  37. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson
  38. The Cider House Rules – John Irving
  39. A Maggot – John Fowles
  40. Less Than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis
  41. Contact – Carl Sagan
  42. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood Love. It. Also loved Oryx and Crake. 
  43. Perfume – Patrick Süskind
  44. Old Masters – Thomas Bernhard
  45. White Noise – Don DeLillo Very strange. Probably not a book I would have read on my own had it not been assigned my Freshman year of college. 
  46. Queer – William Burroughs
  47. Hawksmoor – Peter Ackroyd
  48. Legend – David Gemmell
  49. Dictionary of the Khazars – Milorad Pavi?
  50. The Bus Conductor Hines – James Kelman
  51. The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis – José Saramago
  52. The Lover – Marguerite Duras
  53. Empire of the Sun – J.G. Ballard
  54. The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
  55. Nights at the Circus – Angela Carter
  56. The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
  57. Blood and Guts in High School – Kathy Acker
  58. Neuromancer – William Gibson
  59. Flaubert’s Parrot – Julian Barnes
  60. Money: A Suicide Note – Martin Amis
  61. Shame – Salman Rushdie
  62. Worstward Ho – Samuel Beckett
  63. Fools of Fortune – William Trevor
  64. La Brava – Elmore Leonard
  65. Waterland – Graham Swift
  66. The Life and Times of Michael K – J.M. Coetzee
  67. The Diary of Jane Somers – Doris Lessing
  68. The Piano Teacher – Elfriede Jelinek
  69. The Sorrow of Belgium – Hugo Claus
  70. If Not Now, When? – Primo Levi
  71. A Boy’s Own Story – Edmund White
  72. The Color Purple – Alice Walker
  73. Wittgenstein’s Nephew – Thomas Bernhard
  74. A Pale View of Hills – Kazuo Ishiguro
  75. Schindler’s Ark – Thomas Keneally
  76. The House of the Spirits – Isabel Allende
  77. The Newton Letter – John Banville
  78. On the Black Hill – Bruce Chatwin
  79. Concrete – Thomas Bernhard
  80. The Names – Don DeLillo
  81. Rabbit is Rich – John Updike
  82. Lanark: A Life in Four Books – Alasdair Gray
  83. The Comfort of Strangers – Ian McEwan
  84. July’s People – Nadine Gordimer
  85. Summer in Baden-Baden – Leonid Tsypkin
  86. Broken April – Ismail Kadare
  87. Waiting for the Barbarians – J.M. Coetzee My first introduction to Coetzee in AP English. We also read Disgraced, which I rushed. 
  88. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
  89. Rites of Passage – William Golding
  90. Rituals – Cees Nooteboom
  91. Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
  92. City Primeval – Elmore Leonard
  93. The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco
  94. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting – Milan Kundera
  95. Smiley’s People – John Le Carré
  96. Shikasta – Doris Lessing
  97. A Bend in the River – V.S. Naipaul
  98. Burger’s Daughter - Nadine Gordimer
  99. The Safety Net – Heinrich Böll
  100. If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler – Italo Calvino
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