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Currently Reading

The Plague - Camus
Crying of Lot 49 - Pynchon

Books I Recently Finished

Yiddish Policeman's Union - Chabon
Suicide - Edouard Leve
Hour of the Star - Clarice Lispector
Atmospheric Disturbances - Rivkah Galchen
We Need to Talk About Kevin - Lionel Shriver

The Modern Library Top 100 of the 20th Century

Only 7 left to go!

1. Ulysses – Joyce
2. The Great Gatsby – Fitzgerald
3. Portrait of the Artist – Joyce
4. Lolita – Nabokov
5. Brave New World – Huxley
6. The Sound and the Fury – Faulkner
7. Catch-22 – Heller
8. Darkness at Noon – Koestler
9. Sons and Lovers – Lawrence
10. The Grapes of Wrath – Steinbeck
11. Under the Volcano – Lowry
12. The Way of All Flesh – Butler
13. 1984 – Orwell
14. I, Claudius – Graves
15. To the Lighthouse – Woolf
16. An American Tragedy – Dreiser
17. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter – McCullers
18. Slaughterhouse Five – Vonnegut
19. Invisible Man – Ellison
20. Native Son – Wright
21. Henderson the Rain King – Bellow
22. Appointment at Samara – O’Hara
23. USA (Trilogy) – Dos Passos
24. Winesburg, Ohio – Anderson
25. Passage to India – Forster
26.Wings of the Dove – James
27. The Ambassadors – James
28. Tender is the Night – Fitzgerald
29. Studs Lonigan Trilogy – Farrell
30. The Good Soldier – Ford
31. Animal Farm – Orwell
32. Golden Bowl – James
33. Sister Carrie – Dreiser
34. A Handful of Dust – Waugh
35. As I Lay Dying – Faulkner
36. All the Kings Men - Warren
37. The Bridge of San Luis Rey – Wilder
38. Howard's End – Forster
39. Go Tell It On the Mountain – Baldwin
40. The Heart of the Matter - Greene
41. Lord of the Flies – Golding
42.Deliverance – Dickey
43. Dance to the Music of Time – Powell
44. Point Counter Point – Huxley
45. The Sun Also Rises – Hemingway
46. Secret Agent – Conrad
47. Nostromo – Conrad
48. The Rainbow – Lawrence
49. Women in Love – Lawrence
50. Tropic of Cancer – Miller
51. The Naked and the Dead – Mailer
52. Portnoy's Complaint – Roth
53. Pale Fire – Nabokov
54. A Light in August – Faulkner
55. On the Road - Kerouac
56. The Maltese Falcon - Hammett
57. Parade's End – Ford
58. The Age of Innocence – Wharton
59. Zuleika Dobson – Beerbohm
60. The Moviegoer – Percy
61.Death Comes for the Archbishop – Cather
62. From Here to Eternity – Jones
63. Wapshot Chronicle – Cheever
64. Catcher in the Rye – Salinger
65. Clockwork Orange – Burgess
66. Of Human Bondage – Maugham
67. The Heart of Darkness – Conrad
68. Main Street - Lewis
69. House of Mirth – Wharton
70. Alexandria Quartet – Durrell
71. A High Wind in Jamaica – Hughes
72. House for Ms. Biswas – Naipaul
73. Day of the Locust - West
74. Farewell to Arms – Hemingway
75. Scoop – Waugh
76. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Spark
77. Finnegans Wake – Joyce
78. Kim – Kipling
79. A Room with a View – Forster
80. Brideshead Revisisted - Waugh
81. The Adventures of Augie March – Bellow
82. Angle of Repose – Stegner
83. A Bend in the River – Naipaul
84. Death of the Heart – Bowen
85. Lord Jim – Conrad
86. Ragtime – Doctorow
87. The Old Wives' Tale - Bennett
88. Call of the Wild – London
89. Loving - Green
90. Midnight's Children – Rushdie
91. Tobacco Road – Caldwell
92. Ironweed – Kennedy
93. The Magus – Fowles
94. Wide Sargasso Sea - Rhys
95. Under the Net – Murdoch
96.Sophie's Choice – Styron
97. The Sheltering Sky – Bowles
98. The Postman Always Rings Twice - Cain
99. The Ginger Man – Donleavy
100. The Magnificent Ambersons - Tarkington

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