Gertie's "The Gertie 100""First I googled top 100 and classic book lists. Then I put 7 lists together, sorted them, and chose the ones that were on every list. I removed books that I KNEW I had read, but left in ones that I was unsure of or had only seen the movie of." (found at: http://www.43things.com/comments/thread/277201)
|
||||
Pages: Pages: 1 2 |
||||
| 1. |
|
Lolita (Everyman's Library Classics)
by Vladimir Nabokov
|
||
| 2. |
|
On the Road (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
by Jack Kerouac
|
||
| 3. |
|
The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
|
||
| 4. |
|
To the Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf
|
||
| 5. |
|
A Clockwork Orange (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Anthony Burgess
|
||
| 6. |
|
A Passage To India
by E. M. Forster
|
||
| 7. |
|
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin Classics)
by James Joyce
|
||
| 8. |
|
As I Lay Dying
by William Faulkner
|
||
| 9. |
|
Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
|
||
| 10. |
|
Brideshead Revisited
by Evelyn Waugh
|
||
| 11. |
|
Gravity's Rainbow
by Thomas Pynchon
|
||
| 12. |
|
Invisible Man: A Novel
by Ralph Ellison
|
||
| 13. |
|
Heart of Darkness (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Joseph Conrad
|
||
| 14. |
|
Herzog (Penguin Classics)
by Saul Bellow
|
||
| 15. |
?
|
I, Claudius
by Robert Graves
|
||
| 16. |
|
Light in August
by William Faulkner
|
||
| 17. |
|
Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie
|
||
| 18. |
|
Moby-Dick: or, The Whale (Penguin Classics)
by Herman Melville
|
||
| 19. |
|
Nostromo (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Joseph Conrad
|
||
| 20. |
|
Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
|
||
| 21. |
|
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Oprah's Book Club)
by Carson McCullers
|
||
| 22. |
|
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics)
by Muriel Spark
|
||
| 23. |
|
The Sheltering Sky
by Paul Bowles
|
||
| 24. |
|
The Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway
|
||
| 25. |
|
Under the Volcano: A Novel (P.S.)
by Malcolm Lowry
|
||
| 26. |
|
Dance to the Music of Time
by Powell
|
||
| 27. |
|
Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West (Modern Library)
by Cormac Mccarthy
|
||
| 28. |
|
Sons and Lovers (Modern Library Classics)
by D.H. Lawrence
|
||
| 29. |
|
Ragtime: A Novel
by E.L. Doctorow
|
||
| 30. |
|
The Death of the Heart
by Elizabeth Bowen
|
||
| 31. |
|
A Handful of Dust (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Evelyn Waugh
|
||
| 32. |
|
Wise Blood: A Novel
by Flannery O'Connor
|
||
| 33. |
|
The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion
by Ford Madox Ford
|
||
| 34. |
|
The Heart of the Matter
by Graham Greene
|
||
| 35. |
|
Tropic of Cancer (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
by Henry Miller
|
||
| 36. |
|
Under The Net
by Iris Murdoch
|
||
| 37. |
|
Go Tell It on the Mountain (Penguin Modern Classics)
by James Baldwin
|
||
| 38. |
|
DELIVERANCE (BLOOMSBURY FILM CLASSICS S.)
by JAMES DICKEY
|
||
| 39. |
|
Ulysses
by James Joyce
|
||
| 40. |
|
Jean Rhys: Wide Sargasso Sea | ||
| 41. |
|
The Magus
by John Fowles
|
||
| 42. |
|
Appointment in Samarra: A Novel
by John O'Hara
|
||
| 43. |
|
The Day of the Locust (Signet Classic)
by Nathanael West
|
||
| 44. |
|
Native Son (Perennial Classics)
by Richard A. Wright
|
||
| 45. |
|
All the King's Men
by Robert Penn Warren
|
||
| 46. |
|
The Adventures of Augie March (Penguin Classics)
by Saul Bellow
|
||
| 47. |
|
Winesburg, Ohio
by Sherwood Anderson
|
||
| 48. |
?
|
AMERICAN TRAGEDY
by THEODORE DREISER
|
||
| 49. |
|
Bridge of San Luis Rey: A Novel
by Thornton Wilder
|
||
| 50. |
|
A Bend in the River
by V.S. Naipaul
|
||
|
This is a community list.
You can contribute, edit, or help maintain it by adding it to your lists.
Created by postcard on Jul 07, 2007.
|
||||