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)
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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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