*.* My Reading List *.*
March 31, 2003

Harvard Book Store's 100 Favorite Titles

(Bold Titles I have read..obviously I have some catching up to do )

1. 1984 ~ George Orwell

2. Beloved ~Toni Morrison

3. One Hundred Years of Solitude ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

4. A People's History of the United States ~ Howard Zinn

5. Crime and Punishment ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky

6. The Catcher in the Rye ~ J.D. Salinger

7. Dubliners ~ James Joyce

8. The Great Gatsby ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

9. Nine Stories ~ J.D. Salinger

10. The Bell Jar ~ Sylvia Plath

11. The Brothers Karamazov ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky

12. The Grapes of Wrath ~ John Steinbeck

13. Jane Eyre ~ Charlotte Bronte

14. The Jungle ~ Upton Sinclair

15. Lolita ~ Vladimir Nabokov

16. The Plague ~ Albert Camus

17. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ~ James Joyce

18. Savage Inequalities ~ Jonathan Kozol

19. The Sound and the Fury ~ William Faulkner

20. Their Eyes Were Watching God ~ Zora Neale Hurston

21. The Sun Also Rises ~ Ernest Hemingway

22. Light In August ~ William Faulkner

23. Where I'm Calling From ~ Raymond Carver

24. Absalom, Absalom ~ William Faulkner

25. Another Country ~ James Baldwin

26. Invisible Man ~ Ralph Ellison

27. Nightwood ~ Djuna Barnes

28. Song of Solomon ~ Toni Morrison

29. The Things They Carried ~ Tim O'Brien

30. As I Lay Dying ~ William Faulkner

31. Ask the Dust ~ John Fante

32. Bastard Out of Carolina ~ Dorothy Allison

33. Brave New World ~ Aldous Huxley

34. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee ~ Dee Brown

35. Catch-22 ~ Joseph Heller

36. The Cherry Orchard ~ Anton Chekhov

37. City of Quartz ~ Mike Davis

38. The Complete Saki ~ Saki

39. David Copperfield ~ Charles Dickens

40. A Death in the Family ~ James Agee

41. The English Patient ~ Michael Ondaatje

42. Fathers and Sons ~ Ivan Turgenev

43. Fear and Trembling ~ Soren Kierkegaard

44. For Whom the Bell Tolls ~ Ernest Hemingway

45. Got Tell It On The Mountain ~ James Baldwin

46. Journey To The End Of The Night ~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine

47. Hamlet ~ William Shakespeare

48. Heart of Darkness ~ Joseph Conrad

49. History of the Arab Peoples ~ Albert Hourani

50. King Lear ~ William Shakespeare

51. The Long Goodbye ~ Raymond Chandler

52. Middlemarch ~ George Eliot

53. Maus ~ Art Spiegelman

54. Mrs. Dalloway ~ Virginia Woolf

55. Of Mice And Men ~ John Steinbeck

56. One Day In the Life of Ivan Denisovich ~ Alexander Solzhenitsyn

57. Pride and Prejudice ~ Jane Austen

58. Raise High The Roof Beam, Carpenters ~ J.D. Salinger

59. The Stranger ~ Albert Camus

60. Things Fall Apart ~ Chinua Achebe

61. To Kill A Mockingbird ~ Harper Lee

62. To The Lighthouse ~ Virginia Woolf

63. Ulysses ~ James Joyce

64. Watermark ~ Joseph Brodsky

65. Ways of Seeing ~ John Berger

66. White Noise ~ Don DeLillo

67. Wuthering Heights ~ Emily Bronte

68. A Farewell To Arms ~ Ernest Hemingway

69. A Good Man Is Hard To Find ~ Flannery O'Connor

70. Anna Karenina ~ Leo Tolstoy

71. Autumn of the Patriarch ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

72. Barrel Fever ~ David Sedaris

73. Burger's Daughter ~ Nadine Gordimer

74. Collected Stories of Eudora Welty

75. The Communist Manifesto ~ Karl Marx

76. Cosmicomics ~ Italo Calvino

77. The Crying of Lot 49 ~ Thomas Pynchon

78. Duino Elegies Rainer Maria Rilke

79. East of Eden ~ John Steinbeck

80. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter ~ Carson McCullers

81. Going After Cacciato ~ Tim O'Brien

82. Homage To Catalonia ~ George Orwell

83. If On A Winter's Night a Traveler ~ Italo Calvino

84. The Metamorphosis ~ Franz Kafka

85. Native Son ~ Richard Wright

86. Next of Kin ~ Roger Fouts

87. Origins of Totalitarianism ~ Hannah Arendt

88. Price of a Ticket ~ James Baldwin

89. The Second Sex ~ Simone de Beauvoir

90. Selected Stories ~ Alice Munro

91. Silent Spring ~ Rachel Carson

92. Structural Anthropology ~ C. Levi-Strauss

93. The Souls of Black Folk ~ W.E.B. duBois

94. The Night in Question ~ Tobias Wolff

95. The Odyssey ~ Homer

96. Race Matters ~ Cornel West

97. Revolutionary Road ~ Richard Yates

98. The Trial ~ Franz Kafka

99. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love ~ Ray Carver

100. Written on the Body ~ Jeanette Winterson