Sunday, January 20, 2008

Current List and new potential additions

Comments are, of course, welcome:

  1. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (finished Jan. 22)
  2. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (finished Feb. 3)
  3. The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
  4. All The King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
  5. Beloved by Toni Morrison
  6. Deliverance by James Dickey
  7. Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
  8. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
  9. The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
  10. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
  11. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
  12. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
  13. Candide by Voltaire
  14. Don Quixote by Cervantes
  15. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
  16. The Age of Jackson by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
  17. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  18. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
  19. Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
  20. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
  21. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
  22. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
  23. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  24. Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman
  25. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
  26. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
  27. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
  28. Night by Elie Wiesel
  29. The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
  30. The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
  31. Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
  32. The Strange Career of Jim Crow by C. Vann Woodward
  33. Rabbit, Run by John Updike
  34. Kim by Rudyard Kipling
  35. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
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Possibilities:

Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucalt
Gulliver's Travels by Johnathan Swift
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers
12 Caesars by Suetonius
A Study of History by Arnold Toynbee
The Federalist Papers by Hamilton, et al.
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Madame Bovary by Gustav Flaubert
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Days of Grace by Arthur Ashe
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
Babbit by Sinclair Lewis
The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman
Armies of the Night by Norman Mailer
The Making of the English Working Class by E.P. Thompson
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn


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