1900: Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
1901:
1902: The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
1903:
1904:
1905: The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
1906: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
1907:
1908:
1909: Strait is the Gate by Andre Gide
1910:
1911: Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
1912: Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
1913: O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
1914: Dubliners by James Joyce
1915: The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
1916: A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
1917: Summer by Edith Wharton
1918: My Antonia by Willa Cather
1919: My Man Jeeves by P.D. Wodehouse
1920: Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
1921: To Let by John Galsworthy
1922: Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
1923: The Fox by D. H. Lawrence
1924: Billy Budd by Herman Melville
1925: The Professor’s House by Willa Cather
1926: The Silver Spoon by John Galsworthy
1927: Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
1928: Point Counterpoint by Aldous Huxley
1929: A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
1930: The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
1931: Babylon Revisited and Other Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald
1932: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
1933: Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
1934: And Quiet Flows the Don by Mikhail Sholokhov
1935: A Clergyman’s Wife by George Orwell
1936: Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell
1937: The Citadel by A. J. Cronin
1938: Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
1939: The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
1940: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
1941: What Makes Sammy Run by Budd Schulberg
1942: The Stranger by Albert Camus
1943: The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
1944: The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
1945: The Egg and I by Betty MacDonald
1946: All the King's Men by William Penn Warren
1947: Aurora Dawn by Herman Wouk
1948: The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh
1949: 1984 by George Orwell
1950: The Town and the City by Jack Kerouac
1951: The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
1952: East of Eden by John Steinbeck
1953: Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
1954: Lord of the Flies by William Golding
1955: After Dark, My Sweet by Jim Thompson
1956: Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz
1957: On the Road by Jack Kerouac
1958: Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
1959: A Separate Peace by John Knowles
1960: Rabbit, Run by John Updike
1961: Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
1962: We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
1963: The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
1964: Herzog by Saul Bellow
1965: The British Museum is Falling Down by David Lodge
1966: Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
1967: Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin
1968: A Fan's Notes by Frederick Exley
1969: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sing by Maya Angelou
1970: A Fairly Honourable Defeat by Iris Murdoch
1971: Black Sun by Edward Abbey
1972: Surfacing by Margaret Atwood
1973: Nickel Mountain by John Gardner
1974: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert N. Pirsig
1975: Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
1976: Ordinary People by Judith Guest
1977: Death of an Expert Witness by P.D. James
1978: The Sweet Dove Died by Barbara Pym
1979: Sophie’s Choice by William Styron
1980: The Second Coming by Walker Percy
1981: Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith
1982: Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler
1983: Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
1984: White Noise by Don DeLillo
1985: Continental Drift by Russell Banks
1986: The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
1987: Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
1988: Dalva by Jim Harrison
1989: The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
1990: Immortality by Milan Kundera
1991: The Kitchen God’s Wife by Amy Tan
1992: The Secret History by Donna Tartt
1993: Montana, 1948 by Larry Watson
1994: Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
1995: The Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle
1996: We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates
1997: Midwives by Chris Bohjalian
1998: Charming Billy by Alice McDermott
1999: Plainsong by Kent Haruf
To be read, so I can fill in the blanks.
1901: MY BRILLIANT CAREER by MILES FRANKLIN
1903: THE CALL OF THE WILD by JACK LONDON
1904: THE GOLDEN BOWL by HENRY JAMES
1907: THROUGH THE EYE OF THE NEEDLE by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS
1908: THE MAN WHO WAS THURSDAY by G.K. CHESTERTON
1910: HOWARDS END by E.M. FORSTER
It took me a long time, and I mean a long time, to complete this list. I get obsessed at times.
3 comments:
Did you count books that you have already read or did you choose new books when you decided to participate in the challenge?
Shannon: These are all books I've read in the past -- the very distant past in some cases. As in the 60s when I was in college. In 1984, I started a journal to keep track of every book I read so I referred to that a bit. But mostly I just remember what I've read. Books are a very important part of my life. I don't travel much in real life so I travel through books. (Got your email and will reply soon.)
That book journal is a good idea. It's hard for me to remember all of the books that I have read. I read several of the books on your list in high school. Can you believe that I never read novels for college courses? Science majors...
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