My Great Shame

In honour of Jay who has managed to read 6 of the Top 100 Romance list according to AAR I will now post my reads of the Top 100 Book of All Time as found here. If you are easily shocked leave now before you judge me a complete moron.

Okay, I am a complete moron but, nonetheless, avert your eyes.

The books I have read are in red with a simple note of explaination. The green ones are the ones that I've seen the movie of.

The list below is from the book The Novel 100: A Ranking of Greatest Novels All Time (Checkmark Books/Facts On File, Inc.: New York, 2004), written by Daniel S. Burt.

1 Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes
2 War and Peace Leo Tolstoy
3 Ulysses 1922 James Joyce
4 In Search of Lost Time 1913-27 Marcel Proust
5 The Brothers Karamazov 1880 Feodor Dostoevsky
6 Moby-Dick 1851 Herman Melville
7 Madame Bovary 1857 Gustave Flaubert
8 Middlemarch 1871-72 George Eliot - Ahem, if I may interject here I would like to say that I suffered my way through the Mill on The Floss by this author. Oh all right, I read the first few chapters and then the last one. It was for an English class in university and it was an elective.
9 The Magic Mountain 1924 Thomas Mann
10 The Tale of Genji 11th Century Murasaki Shikibu
11 Emma 1816 Jane Austen - meh
12 Bleak House 1852-53 Charles Dickens
13 Anna Karenina 1877 Leo Tolstoy Russian - I saw the movie and it was retched so I imagine the book was the same.
14 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1884 Mark Twain
15 Tom Jones 1749 Henry Fielding
16 Great Expectations 1860-61 Charles Dickens - again, saw the movie - ugh
17 Absalom, Absalom! 1936 William Faulkner
18 The Ambassadors 1903 Henry James
19 One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967 Gabriel Garcia Marquez
20 The Great Gatsby 1925 F. Scott Fitzgerald - I only remember parts of this book but I remember how the prof. was all about the sybolism of the industrial nation. Whatever.
21 To The Lighthouse 1927 Virginia Woolf
22 Crime and Punishment 1866 Feodor Dostoevsky
23 The Sound and the Fury 1929 William Faulkner
24 Vanity Fair 1847-48 William Makepeace Thackeray
25 Invisible Man 1952 Ralph Ellison
26 Finnegans Wake 1939 James Joyce
27 The Man Without Qualities 1930-43 Robert Musil
28 Gravity's Rainbow 1973 Thomas Pynchon
29 The Portrait of a Lady 1881 Henry James - pathetic
30 Women in Love 1920 D. H. Lawrence
31 The Red and the Black 1830 Stendhal
32 Tristram Shandy 1760-67 Laurence Sterne
33 Dead Souls 1842 Nikolai Gogol
34 Tess of the D'Urbervilles 1891 Thomas Hardy
35 Buddenbrooks 1901 Thomas Mann
36 Le Pere Goriot 1835 Honore de Balzac
37 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 1916 James Joyce
38 Wuthering Heights 1847 Emily Bronte - saw movie recently and thought they deserved each other.
39 The Tin Drum 1959 Gunter Grass
40 Molloy; Malone Dies; The Unnamable 1951-53 Samuel Beckett
41 Pride and Prejudice 1813 Jane Austen - liked the movie very much but I don't read romances without the payoff ;)
42 The Scarlet Letter 1850 Nathaniel Hawthorne - I actually read this book to the very end because I kept waiting for Hester Prinn to just leave already. Nope. Lived there forever with her friggin' A
43 Fathers and Sons 1862 Ivan Turgenev
44 Nostromo 1904 Joseph Conrad
45 Beloved 1987 Toni Morrison
46 An American Tragedy 1925 Theodore Dreiser
47 Lolita 1955 Vladimir Nabokov - saw part of movie - ugh
48 The Golden Notebook 1962 Doris Lessing
49 Clarissa 1747-48 Samuel Richardson
50 Dream of the Red Chamber 1791 Cao Xueqin
51 The Trial 1925 Franz Kafka
52 Jane Eyre 1847 Charlotte Bronte - seen movie
53 The Red Badge of Courage 1895 Stephen Crane
54 The Grapes of Wrath 1939 John Steinbeck - I think we read this in grade 7 or 8 but I don't remember much
55 Petersburg 1916/1922 Andrey Bely
56 Things Fall Apart 1958 Chinue Achebe
57 The Princess of Cleves 1678 Madame de Lafayette
58 The Stranger 1942 Albert Camus
59 My Antonio 1918 Willa Cather
60 The Counterfeiters 1926 Andre Gide
61 The Age of Innocence 1920 Edith Wharton - saw movie and was bored to tears
62 The Good Soldier 1915 Ford Madox Ford
63 The Awakening 1899 Kate Chopin
64 A Passage to India 1924 E. M. Forster
65 Herzog 1964 Saul Bellow
66 Germinal 1855 Emile Zola
67 Call It Sleep 1934 Henry Roth
68 U.S.A. Trilogy 1930-38 John Dos Passos
69 Hunger 1890 Knut Hamsun
70 Berlin Alexanderplatz 1929 Alfred Doblin
71 Cities of Salt 1984-89 'Abd al-Rahman Munif
72 The Death of Artemio Cruz 1962 Carlos Fuentes
73 A Farewell to Arms 1929 Ernest Hemingway
74 Brideshead Revisited 1945 Evelyn Waugh
75 The Last Chronicle of Barset 1866-67 Anthony Trollope
76 The Pickwick Papers 1836-67 Charles Dickens
77 Robinson Crusoe 1719 Daniel Defoe
78 The Sorrows of Young Werther 1774 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Deist
79 Candide 1759 Voltaire
80 Native Son 1940 Richard Wright
81 Under the Volcano 1947 Malcolm Lowry
82 Oblomov 1859 Ivan Goncharov
83 Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937 Zora Neale Hurston
84 Waverley 1814 Sir Walter Scott
85 Snow Country 1937, 1948 Kawabata Yasunari
86 Nineteen Eighty-Four 1949 George Orwell
87 The Betrothed 1827, 1840 Alessandro Manzoni
88 The Last of the Mohicans 1826 James Fenimore Cooper - uh, is this the same book as the movie because the movie rocked! But then, 1826? I guess not.
89 Uncle Tom's Cabin 1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe
90 Les Miserables 1862 Victor Hugo - sucked
91 On the Road 1957 Jack Kerouac
92 Frankenstein 1818 Mary Shelley - DNF
93 The Leopard 1958 Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
94 The Catcher in the Rye 1951 J.D. Salinger - blergh
95 The Woman in White 1860 Wilkie Collins
96 The Good Soldier Svejk 1921-23 Jaroslav Hasek
97 Dracula 1897 Bram Stoker
98 The Three Musketeers 1844 Alexandre Dumas - movie? Meh.
99 The Hound of Baskervilles 1902 Arthur Conan Doyle
100 Gone with the Wind 1936 Margaret Mitchell - saw the movie and was pissed - this is my best bud's favourite book of all time.

So, I have partially read 4 books on this list. The four I read assure me that this type of list will not be helpful in finding other books for me to read.

I have to do the 20 favourite books by 20 different authors meme, 20 things that make you mad meme and then some other posts that I can't think of right now.

I'm going to head to bed. It's 1am and I'm hoping I can sleep to 11am tomorrow. I have a friend coming over tomorrow at 2pm so I need some time to clean the house and since I seem to be sleepy now, I'll do it when I get up! I know my luck will be bad if my sleepiness could be cured by a nap because then I'll be up at all the wrong times. Ah, well.

Ohmmmmmm.