Saturday, January 16, 2010

A few selections for the 1001 books reading challenge

I wanted to post a list from which I will probably select my choices for the current reading challenge (in no particular order):

The Wings of the Dove - Henry James

The Old Wives' Tale - Arnold Bennett

A Room with a View - E.M. Forster

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce

The Glimpses of the Moon - Edith Wharton

The Devil in the Flesh - Raymond Radiguet

Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie

Lady Chatterly's Lover - D.H. Lawrence (banned)

Miss Lonelyhearts - Nathanel West

Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Postman Always Rings Twice - James M. Cain

Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh

The Victim - Saul Bellow

The Floating Opera - John Barth

The Once & Future King - T.H. White

Memento Mori - Muriel Spark

Rabbit, Run - John Updike (banned)

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey (banned)

One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Crash - J.G. Ballard

Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice

Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie

Schindler's Ark - Thomas Keneally

White Noise - Don Delillo

American Psycho - Breat Easton Ellis

Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood

The Human Stain - Philip Roth

The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver

City of God - E.L. Doctorow

White Teeth - Zadie Smith

- KER

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