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Izzie and the "Hat"
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.
Izzie and the "Hat"
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)
update your blog dude ... hope you made it through the rest of Volume II.
ReplyDeleteMichael Lloyd