Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Updated list

Since it's an election year, I decided to add a classic journalistic history: The Making of the President, 1960. I find it shameful that I haven't read this book yet. So, below is the updated list, with only one spot left, unless I make some cuts.

  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 (finished Feb. 19)
  5. Beloved by Toni Morrison
  6. Deliverance by James Dickey (finished April 1)
  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 (finished March 6)
  11. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
  12. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
  13. Candide by Voltaire (finished Feb. 23)
  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 (finished April 13)
  32. The Strange Career of Jim Crow by C. Vann Woodward (finished March 27)
  33. Rabbit, Run by John Updike
  34. Kim by Rudyard Kipling
  35. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway (finished April 28)
  36. The Making of the President, 1960 by Theodore White
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