I finished "Catcher in the Rye." I didn't love it. My friend Erin thinks that maybe its because I didn't grow up on the East Coast in the worth of prep school. It was well written, and an easy read, I just didn't really enjoy it.
I also finished "Night." It was an incredible book, but it is probably the saddest book I have ever read. I cried on the airplane. It is short, but such a powerful account of the atrocities of the Holocaust. It is a true story which makes it even harder to read.
Started Volume One of the Second World War. It is actually very interesting. Although Churchill really likes to blame America. Too bad I have to read 3600 pages.
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About Brooke's Book Blog
Well... Since I currently don't have a job, and in an effort to not become stupid, I have decided to read Newsweek's Top 100 books over the next three (maybe four) years. Thoughts and details to follow.
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Completed Books
- Sonnets - William Shakespeare (No. 52)
- The Education of Henry Adams - Henry Adams (No. 87)
- Frankenstein - Mary Shelley (No. 56)
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain (No. 54)
- The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (No. 35)
- The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli (No. 31)
- Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie (No. 22)
- Quotations from Chairman Mao - Mao Zedong (No. 88)
- To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf (No. 7)
- Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad (No. 93)
- His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman (No. 84)
- 1984 - George Orwell (No. 2)
- Ulysses - James Joyce (No. 3)
- Middlemarch - George Eliot (No. 13)
- Pride and Predjudice - Jane Austen (No. 9)
- An American Tragedy - Theodore Dreiser (No. 80)
- To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (No. 40)
- Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad (No. 75)
- Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy (No. 48)
- Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison (No. 6)
- The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers (No. 70)
- Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegaut (No. 60)
- The Day of the Locust - Nathanael West (No. 81)
- Hamlet - William Shakespeare (No. 49)
- Catch-22 - Joseph Heller (No. 19)
- Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri (No. 10)
- Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf (No. 24)
- Night - Elie Wiesel (No. 76)
- The Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger (No. 15)
- Eminent Victorians - Lytton Strachey (No. 98)
- The Social Contract - Jean-Jacques Rosseau (No. 29)
- The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton (No. 78)
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey (No. 58)
- On the Road - Jack Kerouac (No. 39)
- The Histories - Herodotus (No. 28)
- Light in August - William Faulkner (No. 43)
- On the Origin of Species - Charles Darwin (No. 27)
- Animal Farm - George Orwell (No. 61)
- Lord of the Flies - William Golding (No. 62)
- The Bible (No. 41)
- Leviathan - Thomas Hobbes (No. 33)
- The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett (No. 83)
- The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (No. 21)
- Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift (No. 12)
- Death Comes for the Archbishop - Willa Cather (No. 85)
- King Lear - William Shakespeare (No. 50)
- Confessions - St. Augustine (No. 32)
- For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway (No. 59)
- Canterbury Tales - Geoffery Chaucer (No. 11)
- Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe (No. 14)
- A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess (No. 42)
- Paradise Lost - John Milton (No. 47)
- Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert (No. 46)
- The Varieties of Religious Experience - William James (No. 89)
- The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler (No. 66)
- Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman (No. 53)
- Go Tell it on the Mountain - James Baldwin (No. 73)
- Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell (No. 16)
- Democracy in America - Alexis de Tocqueville (No. 26)
- The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame (No. 96)
- The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner (No. 5)
- The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald (No. 18)
- I, Claudius - Robert Graves (No. 69)
Books Still to Go
- War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy (No. 1)
- Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (No. 4)
- The Illiad and the Odyssey - Homer (No. 8)
- One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (No. 17)
- Beloved - Toni Morrison (No. 20)
- Brave New World - Aldous Huxley (No. 23)
- Native Son - Richard Wright (No. 25)
- Das Kapital - Karl Marx (No. 30)
- The History of the Pelopennesian War - Thucydides (No. 34)
- Winnie-the-Pooh - AA Milne (No. 36)
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis (No. 37)
- A Passage to India - EM Forster (No. 38)
- The Souls of Black Folk - WEB DuBois (No. 44)
- Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys (No. 45)
- Kim - Rudyard Kipling (No. 55)
- Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison (No. 57)
- In Cold Blood - Truman Capote (No. 63)
- The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing (No. 64)
- Remberence of Things Past - Marcel Proust (No. 65)
- As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner (No. 67)
- The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway (No. 68)
- Sons and Lovers - DH Lawrence (No. 71)
- All the King's Men - Robert Penn Warren (No. 72)
- Charlotte's Web - EB White (No. 74)
- Rabbit, Run - John Updike (No. 77)
- Portnoy's Complaint - Philip Roth (No. 79)
- Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller (No. 82)
- The Interpretation of Dreams - Sigmund Freud (No. 86)
- Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh (No. 90)
- Silent Spring - Rachel Carson (No. 91)
- The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money - John Maynard Keynes (No. 92)
- Goodbye to All That - Robert Graves (No. 94)
- The Affluent Society - John Kennenth Galbraith (No. 95)
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X - Malcolm X (No. 97)
- The Color Purple - Alice Walker (No. 99)
- The Second World War - Winston Churchill (No. 100)
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