Here is the Random House Board’s list of greatest novels in the English language. I am working on reading my way through this list. The ones in Yellow I have already read. The ones in green I have started or attempted, and given up (for now).
Those for which I have a review in this blog are underlined, and clicking on the links jumps to the reviews.
1. ULYSSES by James Joyce |
2. THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald |
3. A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce |
4. LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov |
5. BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley |
6. THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner |
7. CATCH-22 |
8. DARKNESS AT NOON by Arthur Koestler |
9. SONS AND LOVERS by D.H. Lawrence |
10. THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck |
11. UNDER THE VOLCANO by Malcolm Lowry |
12. THE WAY OF ALL FLESH by Samuel Butler |
13. 1984 by George Orwell |
14. I, CLAUDIUS by Robert Graves |
15. TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf |
16. AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY by Theodore Dreiser |
17. THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by Carson McCullers |
18. SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut |
19. INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison |
20. NATIVE SON by Richard Wright |
21. HENDERSON THE RAIN KING by Saul Bellow |
22. APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA by John O’Hara |
23. U.S.A. (trilogy) by John Dos Passos |
24. WINESBURG, OHIO by Sherwood Anderson |
25. A PASSAGE TO INDIA by E.M. Forster |
26. THE WINGS OF THE DOVE by Henry James |
27. THE AMBASSADORS by Henry James |
28. TENDER IS THE NIGHT by F. Scott Fitzgerald |
29. THE STUDS LONIGAN TRILOGY by James T. Farrell |
30. THE GOOD SOLDIER by Ford Madox Ford |
31. ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell |
32. THE GOLDEN BOWL by Henry James |
33. SISTER CARRIE by Theodore Dreiser |
34. A HANDFUL OF DUST by Evelyn Waugh |
35. AS I LAY DYING by William Faulkner |
36. ALL THE KING’S MEN by Robert Penn Warren |
37. THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY by Thornton Wilder |
38. HOWARDS END by E.M. Forster |
39. GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN by James Baldwin |
40. THE HEART OF THE MATTER by Graham Greene |
41. LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding |
42. DELIVERANCE by James Dickey |
43. A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME (series) by Anthony Powell |
44. POINT COUNTER POINT by Aldous Huxley |
45. THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway |
46. THE SECRET AGENT by Joseph Conrad |
47. NOSTROMO by Joseph Conrad |
48. THE RAINBOW by D.H. Lawrence |
49. WOMEN IN LOVE by D.H. Lawrence |
50. TROPIC OF CANCER by Henry Miller |
51. THE NAKED AND THE DEAD by Norman Mailer |
52. PORTNOY’S COMPLAINT by Philip Roth |
53. PALE FIRE by Vladimir Nabokov |
54. LIGHT IN AUGUST by William Faulkner |
55. ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac |
56. THE MALTESE FALCON by Dashiell Hammett |
57. PARADE’S END by Ford Madox Ford |
58. THE AGE OF INNOCENCE by Edith Wharton |
59. ZULEIKA DOBSON by Max Beerbohm |
60. THE MOVIEGOER by Walker Percy |
61. DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP by Willa Cather |
62. FROM HERE TO ETERNITY by James Jones |
63. THE WAPSHOT CHRONICLES by John Cheever |
64. THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger |
65. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess |
66. OF HUMAN BONDAGE by W. Somerset Maugham |
67. HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad |
68. MAIN STREET by Sinclair Lewis |
69. THE HOUSE OF MIRTH by Edith Wharton |
70. THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTET by Lawrence Durell |
71. A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA by Richard Hughes |
72. A HOUSE FOR MR BISWAS by V.S. Naipaul |
73. THE DAY OF THE LOCUST by Nathanael West |
74. A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway |
75. SCOOP by Evelyn Waugh |
76. THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE by Muriel Spark |
77. FINNEGANS WAKE by James Joyce |
78. KIM by Rudyard Kipling |
79. A ROOM WITH A VIEW by E.M. Forster |
80. BRIDESHEAD REVISITED by Evelyn Waugh |
81. THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH by Saul Bellow |
82. ANGLE OF REPOSE by Wallace Stegner |
83. A BEND IN THE RIVER by V.S. Naipaul |
84. THE DEATH OF THE HEART by Elizabeth Bowen |
85. LORD JIM by Joseph Conrad |
86. RAGTIME by E.L. Doctorow |
87. THE OLD WIVES’ TALE by Arnold Bennett |
88. THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London |
89. LOVING by Henry Green |
90. MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN by Salman Rushdie |
91. TOBACCO ROAD by Erskine Caldwell |
92. IRONWEED by William Kennedy |
93. THE MAGUS by John Fowles |
94. WIDE SARGASSO SEA by Jean Rhys |
95. UNDER THE NET by Iris Murdoch |
96. SOPHIE’S CHOICE by William Styron |
97. THE SHELTERING SKY by Paul Bowles |
98. THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE by James M. Cain |
99. THE GINGER MAN by J.P. Donleavy |
100. THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS by Booth Tarkington |