Monday, February 27, 2012

Reading List for 2012


1.       All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren
2.       Animal Farm  by George Orwell
3.       The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
4.       The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
5.       Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
6.       Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
7.       A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
8.       Go Tell It On the Mountain by James Baldwin
9.       Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
10.   Lolita by Vladimir Nabakov
11.   Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
12.   Neuro-mancer by William Gibson
13.   Never  Let  Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
14.   On the Road by Jack Kerouac
15.   One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
16.   A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
17.   Slaughter House –Five by Kurt Vonnegut
18.   The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
19.   Collected Stories by Carson McCullers
20.   In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
21.   Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
22.   The Dubliners by James Joyce
23.   Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
24.   Tropic of Capricorn by Henry Miller
25.   Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
26.   A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
27.   Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
28.   Sons and Lovers by DH Lawrence
29.   The Wings of the Dove by Henry James
30.   Beloved by Toni Morrison
31.   Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor
32.   At the Mountains of Madness by HP Lovecraft
33.   The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
34.   Lilith’s Brood by Octavia E. Butler
35.   The House Of Mirth by Edith Wharton
36.   Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
37.   The Satanic Verses by Salmon Rushdie
38.   The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington
39.   Don Quixote by Cervantes
40.   Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia-Marquez
41.   Nightmare Abbey by Thomas Love Peacock
42.   Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
43.   The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
44.   The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky (audio)
45.   War and Peace by Tolstoy (audio)
46.   The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
47.   The Trial by Franz Kafka
48.   Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John LeCarre
49.   Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
50.   The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
51.   The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein
52.   Notes on Camp by Susan Sontag
53.   The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
54.   Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
55.   Hard Times by Studs Terkel
56.   The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
57.   The Story of My Experiments with the Truth by Mahatma Gandhi
58.   The Periodic Table by Primo Levi
59.   The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud
60.   The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
61.   The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine
62.   A Vindication of the Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft
63.   The Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels
64.   The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
65.   Manufacturing Consent by Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman
66.   A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
67.   A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
68.   The Gulag Archipelago by Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn
69.   Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain
70.   Paradise Lost by Milton
71.   The Decameron by Giovanni  Boccaccio
72.   War with the Newts by Karel Capek
73.   Like the Flowing River by Paulo Coelho
74.   The Pugilist at Rest by Thom Jones
75.   The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
76.   Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
77.   Shakespeare: Inventing the Human by Harold Bloom
78.   The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley
79.   Mother Jones  by Elliot J Gorn
80.   The Autobiography of Martin Luther King
81.   The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
82.   Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
83.   A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
84.   The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
85.   Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
86.   No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
87.   The Divine Comedy by Dante
88.   A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
89.   Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe
90.   Rumi (poetry)
91.   Yeats (poetry)
92.   Dickinson (poetry)
93.   Rilke (poetry)
94.   Neruda (poetry)
95.   Byron (poetry)
96.   Pushkin (poetry)
97.   Keats (poetry)
98.   Tennyson (poetry)
99.   Spenser (poetry)
100. Rimbaud (poetry)

Now, where to start...

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