1. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Not read, on the list of books to read
2. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Not read, on the list of books to read
3. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Read, superb - one of the best books I've ever read
4. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Not read, on the list of books to read
5. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Not read
6. Ulysses by James Joyce
Not read, on the list of books to read
7. Beloved by Toni Morrison
Not read
8. The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Not read, on the list of books to read
9. 1984 by George Orwell
Read, the classic dystopian novel
10. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Not read, don't know
much about it
11. Lolita by Vladmir Nabokov
Not read, on the list of books to read
12. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Read, simplistic and rated too highly but a good allegory.
13. Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
Hasn't everyone read this? One of the most powerful pieces of children's fiction, well, ever.
14. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Not read
15. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Not read, on the list of books to read
16. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Read, incredibly overrated - it spends the first third (or more?) of the book setting the scene, and then the plot is shite. Nod defends the book on the quality of the scene that Huxley envisages, but I don't think that makes up for the terrible plot.
17. Animal Farm by George Orwell
Read, a great political satire.
18. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Not read, but I have a general ambition to read Hemingway
19. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Not read, on the list of books to read
20. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
See 18
21. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Not read
22. Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne
Read, one of the best children's books.
23. Their Eyes are Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Not read
24. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Not read
25. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Not read
26. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Not read
27. Native Son by Richard Wright
Not read
28. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Not read, on the list of books to read
29. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Not read
30. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
See 18
31. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Not read
32. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
See 18
33. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
Not read
34. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Not read
35. Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
Not read
36. Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin
Not read
37. The World According to Garp by John Irving
Not read
38. All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
Not read, on the list of books to read
39. A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
Not read
40. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Read, the classic saga.
41. Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally
Not read, on the list of books to read
42. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Not read, sounds intriguing
43. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
Read very recently, one of the best books I have ever read.
44. Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Not read, on the list of books to read
45. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Not read
46. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Not read
47. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
We've all seen the film....
48. Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
Not read, on the list of books to read
(in fact, it's waiting on my desk)
49. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Not read, on the list of books to read
50. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Not read
51. My Antonia by Willa Cather
Not read
52. Howards End by E.M. Forster
Not read
53. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Not read, on the list of books to read
54. Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
Not read
55. The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
Not read, on the list of books to read
56. Jazz by Toni Morrison
Not read
57. Sophie's Choice by William Styron
Not read, on the list of books to read...at least, I don't think I've read it
58. Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
Not read
59. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
I've read a passage of it, I'd like to read it all
60. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Not read
61. A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor
Not read
62. Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Not read
63. Orlando by Virginia Woolf
Not read
64. Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
Not read
65. Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
Not read
66. Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
Not read
67. A Separate Peace by John Knowles
Not read
68. Light in August by William Faulkner
Not read
69. The Wings of the Dove by Henry James
Not read
70. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Not read, but a book that my friends studied for A-Level English...
71. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Not read, on the list of books to read
72. A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Read...what more can I say? A science-fiction classic.
73. Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
Not read
74. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Not read, but one I should read
75. Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence
Not read
76. Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe
Not read
77. In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway
Not read
78. The Autobiography of Alice B. Tokias by Gertrude Stein
Not read
79. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
Not read
80. The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
Not read
81. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Not read
82. White Noise by Don DeLillo
Not read
83. O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
Not read
84. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
Not read
85. The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
I haven't actually read it
but I plan to
86. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
Not read
87. The Bostonians by Henry James
Not read
88. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
Not read
89. Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
Not read
90. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
We've all read this...
91. This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Not read
92. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
My current reading material, about halfway through, seems very good so far
93. The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
Not read
94. Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
Not read
95. Kim by Rudyard Kipling
Not read
96. The Beautiful and the Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Not read
97. Rabbit, Run by John Updike
Not read
98. Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster
Not read
99. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
Not read
100. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Not read.