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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."

http://www.43things.com/comments/thread/277201

(found at: http://www.43things.com/comments/thread/277201)

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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.
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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.
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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
 
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