Thursday, December 15, 2011

100 books to read (from Time, 2005)

Getting ready to delete a livejournal account that has been stagnant since 2005...
so... how many of these have I actually read?  hmm.



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Poster:[info]shkng
Date:2005-11-06 22:33
Subject:from Time -- 100 best
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http://www.time.com/time/2005/100books/the_complete_list.html
The Complete List
In Alphabetical Order

A - B
The Adventures of Augie March Saul Bellow

All the King's Men Robert Penn Warren Read the Original Review

American Pastoral Philip Roth Read the Original Review

An American Tragedy Theodore Dreiser

Animal Farm George Orwell   Read the Original Review
Appointment in Samarra John O'Hara  Read the Original Review

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret Judy Blume

The Assistant  Bernard Malamud  Read the Original Review
At Swim-Two-Birds Flann O'Brien
Atonement  Ian McEwan  Read the Original Review

Beloved  Toni Morrison  Read the Original Review

The Berlin Stories Christopher Isherwood  Read the Original Review

The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler Read the Original Review

The Blind Assassin Margaret Atwood  Read the Original Review

Blood Meridian Cormac McCarthy
Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh  Read the Original Review

The Bridge of San Luis Rey  Thornton Wilder  Read the Original Review

C - D
Call It Sleep  Henry Roth  Read the Original Review

Catch-22  Joseph Heller  Read the Original Review

The Catcher in the Rye  J.D. Salinger  Read the Original Review

A Clockwork Orange  Anthony Burgess  Read the Original Review

The Confessions of Nat Turner  William Styron  Read the Original Review

The Corrections  Jonathan Franzen  Read the Original Review

The Crying of Lot 49 Thomas Pynchon Read the Original Review

A Dance to the Music of Time  Anthony Powell  Read the Original Review

The Day of the Locust  Nathanael West  Read the Original Review
Death Comes for the Archbishop  Willa Cather

A Death in the Family  James Agee

The Death of the Heart  Elizabeth Bowen  Read the Original Review

Deliverance James Dickey  Read the Original Review

Dog Soldiers  Robert Stone  Read the Original Review

F - G
Falconer  John Cheever  Read the Original Review

The French Lieutenant's Woman  John Fowles  Read the Original Review

The Golden Notebook   Doris Lessing Read the Original Review
Go Tell it on the Mountain  James Baldwin  Read the Original Review

Gone With the Wind  Margaret Mitchell  Read the Original Review

The Grapes of Wrath  John Steinbeck  Read the Original Review

Gravity's Rainbow  Thomas Pynchon  Read the Original Review
The Great Gatsby  F. Scott Fitzgerald  Read the Original Review

H - I
A Handful of Dust  Evelyn Waugh  Read the Original Review 

The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers  Read the Original Review

The Heart of the Matter  Graham Greene

Herzog  Saul Bellow  Read the Original Review

Housekeeping  Marilynne Robinson  Read the Original Review

A House for Mr. Biswas  V.S. Naipaul  Read the Original Review
I, Claudius  Robert Graves  Read the Original Review

Infinite Jest  David Foster Wallace  Read the Original Review

Invisible Man  Ralph Ellison  Read the Original Review
L - N
Light in August William Faulkner  Read the Original Review   

The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe C.S. Lewis  
Lolita  Vladimir Nabokov  Read the Original Review
Lord of the Flies  William Golding
The Lord of the Rings  J.R.R. Tolkien  Read the Original Review
Loving  Henry Green  Read the Original Review
Lucky Jim  Kingsley Amis  Read the Original Review
The Man Who Loved Children Christina Stead  Read the Original Review
Midnight's Children  Salman Rushdie
Money  Martin Amis  Read the Original Review
The Moviegoer Walker Percy  Read the Original Review
Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf
Naked Lunch  William Burroughs  Read the Original Review
Native Son  Richard Wright  Read the Original Review
Neuromancer  William Gibson
Never Let Me Go  Kazuo Ishiguro  Read the Original Review
1984  George Orwell  Read the Original Review
O - R
On the Road  Jack Kerouac  Read the Original Review
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest  Ken Kesey  Read the Original Review
The Painted Bird  Jerzy Kosinski  

Pale Fire  Vladimir Nabokov  Read the Original Review
A Passage to India  E.M. Forster
Play It As It Lays  Joan Didion

Portnoy's Complaint   Philip Roth  Read the Original Review
Possession  A.S. Byatt  Read the Original Review
The Power and the Glory  Graham Greene
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie  Muriel Spark  Read the Original Review
Rabbit, Run  John Updike  Read the Original Review
Ragtime  E.L. Doctorow  Read the Original Review
The Recognitions  William Gaddis  Read the Original Review
Red Harvest  Dashiell Hammett
Revolutionary Road  Richard Yates
S - T
The Sheltering Sky  Paul Bowles  Read the Original Review
Slaughterhouse-Five  Kurt Vonnegut  Read the Original Review
Snow Crash  Neal Stephenson
The Sot-Weed Factor  John Barth
The Sound and the Fury  William Faulkner
The Sportswriter  Richard Ford  Read the Original Review
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold  John le Carre  Read the Original Review
The Sun Also Rises  Ernest Hemingway  Read the Original Review
Their Eyes Were Watching God  Zora Neale Hurston  Read the Original Review
Things Fall Apart  Chinua Achebe
To Kill a Mockingbird  Harper Lee  Read the Original Review
To the Lighthouse  Virginia Woolf  Read the Original Review
Tropic of Cancer  Henry Miller  Read the Original Review
U - W
Ubik  Philip K. Dick
Under the Net  Iris Murdoch
Under the Volcano  Malcolm Lowry  Read the Original Review
Watchmen  Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons  

White Noise  Don DeLillo  Read the Original Review
White Teeth  Zadie Smith  Read the Original Review
Wide Sargasso Sea  Jean Rhys





Poster:[info]pigasus
Date:2005-05-16 23:26
Subject:1000 things to do before you die
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First, how depressing is that, to define your life by counting the things someone ELSE is telling you to do.

Make your own list !
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Poster:[info]shkng
Date:2005-03-13 23:23
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This weekend, two Ron's were interrupted by shkng at the Starbucks, with an idea that we should all propose "the most important ... films? books?" that come to mind, for several purposes: to introduce them as cultural context for our children, but then, why not just include some for our own enjoyment as well ?

Please open a free LiveJournal account, and "join" this community, so we can all post ideas to this blog. 

RT's first pitch includes:
The books/movies/audio tapes I recommend are the following:

1) The Intelligent Asset Allocator by William Bernstein
2) Raising Cain by Dan Kindlon and Michael Thompson
3) The Case for Democracy by Nathan Sharansky
4) Movie: Coach Carter: Rated PG 13
5) The Namesake by Jumpar Lahiri
6) Audio Tape: The Great Good Book: The Bible and Roots of Western Literature by Adam Potkay

Still waiting for RC's email. I am going to also invite DMS, whose idea it was originally (and from whom I shamelessly stole it).

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