100 Best Books

My attempt to tackle Newsweek’s 100 Best Book Meta-List.  I plan to read all the books on this list, starting with ones I have not yet read.  Seeing how I’m feeling once I’ve conquered those, perhaps revisiting the books I read long ago. There are a few I may have read but don’t remember or would like to revisit.  These have question marks next to them.  I’ll also rate the books on a scale of 1-10 based on their complexity, enjoyability, usefulness, beauty, and overall how much I loved-it-ness.

Recently Read

 

1. To Kill A Mocking Bird (8)
2. Slaughter House Five (7)
3. Beloved (8)
4. Lolita (9)

 

Read Long Ago

1. 1984 (7)
2. Invisible Man (6)
3. To the Lighthouse (9)
4. Things Fall Apart (7)
5. The Catcher in the Rye (7)
6. One Hundred Years of Solitude (8)
7. The Great Gatsby (7)
8. The Grapes of Wrath (6)
9. Brave New World (7)
10. Mrs. Dalloway (9 )
11. As I Lay Dying (8 )
12. The History of the Pelopennesian War (4)
13. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (7)
14. Hamlet (7)
15. The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin (6)
16. Frankenstein (9)
17. Song of Solomon (9)
18. Animal Farm (7)
19. Charlotte’s Web (6)
20. Heart of Darkness (5)
21. The Color Purple (8)
22. The Illiad and the Odyssey (7)
23. Native Son (5)

Not Yet Read

1. Pride and Prejudice
2. Middle March
3. Midnight’s Children
4. On the Road
5. Catch 22
6. Canterbury Tales
7. Divine Comedy
8. War and Peace
9. Ulysses
10. The Sound and the Fury
11. Gone With the Wind
12. Democracy in America
13. Lord of the Flies
14. In Cold Blood
15. The Golden Notebook
16. The Second World War
17. Eminent Victorians
18. Remembrance of Things Past
19. The Big Sleep
20. The Sun Also Rises
21. On the Origin of Species
22. I, Claudius
23. The Hear is a Lonely Hunter
24. Rabbit, Run
25. The Day of the Locust
26. Brideshead Revisited
27. Tropic of Cancer
28. Death Comes for the Arch Bishop
29. The Education of Henry Adams
30. The Maltese Falcon
31. His Dark Materials
32. The Interpretation of Dreams
33. Quotations from Chairman Mao
34. The Varieties of Religious Experience
35. Silent Spring
36. The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
37. Lord Jim
38. Goodbye to All That
39. The Affluent Society
40. The Age of Innocence
41. Portnoy’s Complaint
42. An American Tragedy
43. The Histories
44. Leaves of Grass
45. Kim
46. The Social Contract
47. Das Kapital
48. The Prince
49. Confessions
50. Leviathan
51. Lord of the Rings
52. The Holy Bible
53. Light in August
54. The Souls of Black Folk
55. All the King’s Men
56. Go Tell it on the Mountain 
57. Night
58. Wide Sargasso Sea
59. Madame Bovary
60. Anna Karenina
61. Paradise Lost?
62. A Cloclwork Orange?
63. Gulliver’s Travels?
64. Winnie the Pooh?
65. A Passage to India?
66. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest?
67. For Whom the Bell Tolls?
68. Sons and Lovers?
69. King Lear?
70. Othello?
71. Sonnets?
72. The Wind in the Willows?
73. The Autobiography of Malcom x?