I am gonna read these books and find out for myself why these books are the 100 best novels for this century:
I will update this list to indicate the books I have read and the dates:
1. THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald - not yet read
2. ULYSSES by James Joyce - not yet read
3. 1984 by George Orwell - not yet read
4. THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger - not yet read
5. ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac - not yet read
6. THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck - not yet read
7. CATCH-22 by Joseph Heller - not yet read
8. LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov - not yet read
9. BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley - not yet read
10. BRIDESHEAD REVISITED by Evelyn Waugh - not yet read
11. THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner - not yet read
12. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee - Year 2002
13. THE LORD OF THE RINGS by J.R.R. Tolkien - Year 2002-2003
14. A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce - not yet read
15. ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell - Year 2002
16. TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf - not yet read
17. INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison - not yet read
18. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess - not yet read
19. GONE WITH THE WIND by Margaret Mitchell - not yet read
20. AS I LAY DYING by William Faulkner - not yet read
21. A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway - May 2008
22. A PASSAGE TO INDIA by E.M. Forster - not yet read
23. LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding - not yet read
24. THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London - not yet read
25. DAVID COPPERFIELD by Charles Dickens - not yet read
26. EMMA by Jane Austen - not yet read
27. TESS Of The D’URBERVILLES, Thomas Hardy - not yet read
28. THE SCARLET LETTER by Nathaniel Hawthorne - not yet read
29. WUTHERING HEIGHTS by Emily Bronte - not yet read
30. THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by Carson McCullers - not yet read
31. SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut - not yet read
32. JANE EYRE by Charlotte Bronte - not yet read
33. BELOVED by Toni Morrison - not yet read
34. ANNA KAREINA by Leo Tolstoy - not yet read
35. THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway - not yet read
36. NATIVE SON by Richard Wright - not yet read
37. ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE by Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Year 2001
38. NOSTROMO by Joseph Conrad - not yet read
39. HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad - not yet read
40. UNDER THE VOLCANO by Malcolm Lowry - not yet read
41. THE GOOD SOLDIER by Ford Madox Ford - not yet read
42. HERZOG by Saul Bellow - not yet read
43. THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS by Kenneth Grahame - not yet read
44. U.S.A. (trilogy) by John Dos Passos - not yet read
45. FINNEGANS WAKE by James Joyce - not yet read
46. AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY by Theodore Dreiser - not yet read
47. WOMEN IN LOVE by D.H. Lawrence - not yet read
48. THE AGE OF INNOCENCE by Edith Wharton (3
49. THE WOMAN IN WHITE by Wilkie Collins - not yet read
50. THINGS FALL APART by Chinua Achebe - not yet read
51. TROPIC OF CANCER by Henry Miller - not yet read
52. MY ANTONIA by Willa Cather - not yet read
53. LIGHT IN AUGUST by William Faulkner - not yet read
54. THE MAGUS by John Fowles - not yet read
55. THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP by John Irving - not yet read
56. DON QUIXOTE by Miguel de Cervantes - not yet read
57. TOM JONES by Henry Fielding - not yet read
58. WAR AND PEACE by Leo Tolstoy - not yet read
59. MOBY-DICK by Herman Melville - not yet read
60. MADAME BOVARY by Gustave Flaubert - not yet read
61. WINNIE THE POOH by A(lan) A(lexander) Milne - not yet read
62. GREAT EXPECTATIONS by Charles Dickens - not yet read
63. THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV by Feodor Dostoevsky - not yet read
64. TRISTAM SHANDY by Laurence Sterne - not yet read
65. LITTLE WOMEN by Louisa M. Alcott - not yet read
66. VANITY FAIR by William Makepeace Thackeray - not yet read
67. PRIDE AND PREJUDICE by Jane Austen - not yet read
68. IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME by Marcel Proust - not yet read
69. THE AMBASSADORS by Henry James - not yet read
70. THE FOUNTAINHEAD by Ayn Rand - not yet read
71. GRAVITY’S RAINBOW by Thomas Pynchon - not yet read
72. THE AWAKENING by Kate Chopin (1851-1904) - not yet read
73. DUNE by Frank Herbert - not yet read
74. A TOWN LIKE ALICE by Nevil Shute - not yet read
75. ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND by Lewis Carroll - not yet read
76. CLARISSA by Samuel Richardson - not yet read
77. THE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY by Douglas Adams - not yet read
78. A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY by John Irving - not yet read
79. THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO by Alexandre Dumas - not yet read
80. THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY by Henry James - not yet read
81. OF MICE AND MEN by John Steinbeck - not yet read
82. ALL THE KING’S MEN by Robert Penn Warren - not yet read
83. GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN by James Baldwin - not yet read
84. CHARLOTE’S WEB by E. B. White - not yet read
85. ROBINSON CRUSOE by Daniel Defoe - not yet read
86. CRIME AND PUNISHMENT by Feodor Dostoevsky - not yet read
87. THE STAND by Stephen King - not yet read
88. REBECCA by Daphne du Maurier - not yet read
89. I, CLAUDIUS by Robert Graves - not yet read
90. HOWARDS END by E.M. Forster - not yet read
91. TENDER IS THE NIGHT by F. Scott Fitzgerald - not yet read
92. THE RAINBOW by D.H. Lawrence - not yet read
93. BLEAK HOUSE by Charles Dickens - not yet read
94. ATLAS SHRUGGED by Ayn Rand - not yet read
95. ABSALOM, ABSALOM! by William Faulkner - not yet read
96. THE WINGS OF THE DOVE by Henry James - not yet read
97. AUSTERLITZ by W. G. Sebald - not yet read
98. THE TRIAL by Franz Kafka - not yet read
99. WISE BLOOD by Flannery O’Connor - not yet read
100. FRANKENSTEIN by Mary Shelley- not yet read