Monday, November 26, 2007

A lover of lists....

I am an ardent lover of lists. I like to make lists of whatever I am doing. I especially like to find lists books, list of the greatest novels, most evil villians, banned books, whatever. And then I plan to read all of them. Unfortunately, I'm much better at FINDING the lists then I am at READING the lists. I have so many, but I don't get too far.

The London Observer's 100 Greatest Novels
100. Austerlitz - W.G. Sebald
99. American Pastoral - Philip Roth
98. Northern Lights - Philip Pullman
97. Atonement - Ian McEwan
96. Wise Children - Angela Carter
95. LA Confidential - James Ellroy
94. Haroun and the Sea of Stories - Salmon Rushdie
93. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting - Milan Kundera
92. Oscar and Lucinda - Peter Carey
91. An Artist of the Floating World - Kazuo Ishiguru
90. Money - Martin Amis
89. The Periodic Table - Primo Levi
88. The BFG - Roald Dahl
87. The New York Trilogy - Paul Auster
86. Lanark - Alasdair Gray
85. Housekeeping - Marilynne Robinson
84. Waiting for the Barbarians - J.M. Coetzee
83. A Bend in the River - V.S. Naipaul
82. If on a Winter's Night a Traveller - Italo Calvino
81. The Executioner's Song - Norman Mailer
80. The Bottle Factory Outing - Beryl Bainbridge
79. Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
78. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - John Le Carre
77. Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont - Elizabeth Taylor
76. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
75. Herzog - Saul Bellow
74. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
73. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
72. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
71. Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
70. The Tin Drum - Gunter Grass
69. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
68. On the Road - Jack Kerouac
67. The Quiet American - Graham Greene
66. The Lord of the Flies - William Golding
65. Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis
64. The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
63. Charlotte's Web - E.B. White
62. Wise Blood - Flannery O'Conner
61. Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
60. Malone Dies - Samuel Beckett
59. 1984 - George Orwell
58. The Plague - Albert Camus
57. The Pursuit of Love - Nancy Mitford
56. The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
55. USA - John Dos Passos
54. Scoop - Evelyn Waugh
53. Brave New World - Aldous Huckley
52. As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
51. Journey to the End of the Night - Louis-Ferdinand Celine
50. Men Without Women - Ernest Hemmingway
49. The Trial - Franz Kafka
48. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
47. A Passage to India - E.M. Forster
46. Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
45. Ulysses - James Joyce
44. The Thirty-Nine Steps - John Buchan
43. The Good Soldier - Ford Madox Ford
42. The Rainbow - D.H. Lawrence
41. In Search of Lost Time - Marcel Proust
40. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
39. Nostromo - Joseph Conrad
38. The Call of the Wild - Jack London
37. The Riddle of the Sands - Erskine Childers
36. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
35. The Diary of Nobody - George Grossmith
34. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
33. Three Men in a Boat - Jerome K. Jerome
32. Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
31. Huckelberry Finn - Mark Twain
30. The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
29. The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dosteoevsky
28. Daniel Deronda - George Eliot
27. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
26. The Way We Live Now - Anthony Trollope
25. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
24. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
23. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
22. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
21. Moby-Dick - Herman Melville
20. The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
19. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
18. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
17. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
16. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
15. Sybil - Benjamin Disraeli
14. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
13. The Charterhouse of Parma - Stendhal
12. The Black Sheep - Honore de Balzac
11. Nightmare Abbey - Thomas Love Peacock
10. Frankenstine - Mary Shelley
9. Emma - Jane Austin
8. Dangerous Liasons - Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
7. Tristram Shandy - Laurence Sterne
6. Clarissa - Smauel Richardson
5. Tom Jones - Henry Fielding
4. Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
3. Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
2. Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan
1. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes


Strike through are books that I've read and Italics are books I've attempted. I started at the end of the list and am working my way back towards the greatest novel of all time. I imagine I'll reread some of those already tried or read before. Most have only been attempted or read once, and then quite some time ago. We'll see how I do!

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