Friday, December 9

NOTE: I'm adding books. I've begun an attempt to read the Modern Library's list of the 100 great novels of the 20th century, so the marking (ML) instead of (B) indicates it's one of those, and the number next to it indicates how many books on the list I've finished, including that book.

(ML-6) 1984 (by George Orwell)

1 Comments:

At 10:28 PM, Blogger David said...

I have only read 28 of the 100.

This is what they are and how I rate them:

ULYSSES by James Joyce - PRO

THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald - PRO

A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce - PRO

LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov - PRO

BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley - mixed/pro

THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner - PRO

CATCH-22 by Joseph Heller - con/CON

DARKNESS AT NOON by Arthur Koestler - pro

SONS AND LOVERS by D.H. Lawrence - pro/PRO

THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck - pro

1984 by George Orwell - pro/mixed

TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf - pro/PRO

AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY by Theodore Dreiser - mixed/pro

SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut - pro

INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison - mixed

TENDER IS THE NIGHT by F. Scott Fitzgerald - PRO

ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell - pro

AS I LAY DYING by William Faulkner - PRO

LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding - pro

THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway - PRO

PALE FIRE by Vladimir Nabokov - PRO

LIGHT IN AUGUST by William Faulkner - PRO

ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac - con

THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger - pro

A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess - pro

HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad - pro

A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway - pro

UNDER THE NET by Iris Murdoch - pro

 

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