Hee hee.
1. RABBIT IS RICH by John Updike
2. A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce
4. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee
5. GRAVITY'S RAINBOW by Thomas Pynchon
6. THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner
8. NATIVE SON by Richard Wright
9. INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison
11. THE END OF THE AFFAIR by Graham Greene
13. THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck
14. CATCH-22 by Joseph Heller
15. TROPIC OF CANCER by Henry Miller
16. WATERSHIP DOWN by Richard Adams
17. THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE by James M. Cain
18. GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN by James Baldwin
19. THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by Carson McCullers
20. THE WAPSHOT CHRONICLES by John Cheever
21. HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad
23. THE TIME TRAVELERS WIFE by Audrey Niffenegger
24. BELOVED by Toni Morrison
25. OF HUMAN BONDAGE by W. Somerset Maugham
26. NAKED LUNCH by William S. Burroughs
27. THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway
28. THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD by Zora Neale Hurston
29. DELIVERANCE by James Dickey
30. THE BIG SLEEP by Raymond Chandler
31. A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY by John Irving
32. THE STAND by Stephen King
33. MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN by Salman Rushdie
34. DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP by Willa Cather
35. THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER by Tom Clancy
36. NORWEGIAN WOOD by Haruki Murakami
37. LIGHT IN AUGUST by William Faulkner
38. SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES by Ray Bradbury
40. HUMBOLDT'S GIFT by Saul Bellow
42. THE BELL JAR by Sylvia Plath
44. UBIK by Philip K. Dick
45. SPARES by Michael Marshall Smith
46. TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf
47. THE DOOR INTO SUMMER by Robert Heinlein
49. THE DAY OF THE LOCUST by Nathanael West
50. GODBODY by Theodore Sturgeon
53. A PERFECT CRIME by Peter Abrahams
54. A WALK IN THE WOODS by Bill Bryson
55. THE POISONWOOD BIBLE by Barbara Kingsolver
56. THE LIAR’S CLUB by Mary Karr
57. THE FIRM by John Grisham
58. THE GOLD COAST by Nelson DeMille
59. THE WOMAN WHO WALKED INTO DOORS by Roddy Doyle
61. JONATHAN STRANGE & MR. NORRELL by Susanna Clarke
62. ... AND CALL ME CONRAD (AKA THIS IMMORTAL) by Roger Zelazny
64. NEUROMANCER by William Gibson
65. THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS (REMEMBERING TOMORROW) by Ursula K. Le Guin
66. WHITE TEETH: A NOVEL by Zadie Smith
67. THE HARMONY SILK FACTORY by Tash Aw
68. COME TO GRIEF by Dick Francis
69. BONES by Jan Burke
70. PURPLE HIBISCUS: A NOVEL by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichi
71. THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald
72. ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac
73. THE LOVELY BONES by Alice Sebold
74. THE RISING by Brian Keene
75. PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT by Philip Roth
6 comments:
Thanks for making me 75! :) - Weston Ochse
Hello, Weston!
Thanks for your note on my blog.
CONGRATULATIONS on winning the Bram Stoker award for your first novel. I can't wait to read it!
This past November was my first time participating in National Novel Writing Month. I was able to scare up 120,000 words by month's end, but I also gained a respect for writers that I didn't have before. Completing a novel is an amazing feat. Winning a prestigious award for a *first* novel is equally amazing.
You.
Truly.
Rock.
Cheers,
jules
Very interesting list, Jules. Nice mix of classics and newer stuff. Ulysses took me three tries over 2 years to get through, and for me, I'm not sure it was worth the effort. But it's something I wanted to do, and persistence is one thing I have in abundance. How are you able to post these lists on your blog?
Phil from MS
Hi Phil!
Thanks for the comment on my list.
It needs some revising though - I've decided to get rid of all the "doubles," an author should only be represented once on this list. Would you recommend "Portrait of the Artist" over "Ulysses"?
And of course, To Build a Fire is a short story, not a novel. I also can't find Weston Ochse's novel in paperback!
*sigh*
jules
I haven't read Portrait, so I can't give a real opinion on which should stay on your list. To me, Ulysses was worthwhile mainly in an historical context, since I think the style of writing, and the perspective used were revolutionary for that time. But there was no real plot line to speak of......came across as a less funny, very literary Seinfeld episode. :) Lots of Shakespearean references, etc....
to kill a mockingbird, naked lunch, catch-22, on the road : 4 of the most important books in my life so far. (lolita, too.)
i'm reading ulysses. it's very hard but it's thrilling when you get what he's talking about.
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