Thought-Provoking List for Book-Lovers

I do hope to read all the books on this list eventually, though I think it may take a verrrry long time.  theres actually closer to 120 books, because a few trilogies and tetralogies take up one number space on the list.


Books I've read so far(40) and links (reviews/text):

1. Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov, 1962
http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/elab/hfl0244.html

2. Ulysses, James Joyce, 1922

www.dougshaw.com/Reviews/review1.html

3. Gravity’s Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon, 1973
http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/05/18/reviews/pynchon-rainbow.html

4. The Public Burning , Robert Coover, 1977

http://partners.nytimes.com/books/98/09/27/specials/coover-burning.html

5. The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner, 1929
http://classic-american-fiction.suite101.com/article.cfm/the_sound_and_the_fury_review

6. Trilogy (Molloy [1953] , Malone Dies [1956], The Unnamable [1957]), Samuel Beckett
http://www.samuel-beckett.net/Karen2.htm

8. Nova Trilogy (The Soft Machine [1962], [1964], [1967])

http://www.worldlingo.com/ma/enwiki/en/The_Nova_Trilogy

9. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov, 1955
http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/03/02/lifetimes/nab-r-lolita.html

13. Going Native, Stephen Wright, 1994

14. Under the Volcano , Malcolm Lowery, 1949
http://esposito.typepad.com/Misc/Under_Volcano.html

15. To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf, 1927
http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/06/08/reviews/woolf-lighthouse.html

18. Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison, 1952
http://www.nytimes.com/library/books/072098ellison-invisible.html

20. The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway, 1926
http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/05/07/044757.php

21. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce, 1916
http://www.literature-study-online.com/essays/joyce.html
22. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925
http://www.geocities.com/andrew_dilling/essaynick.htm

23. The Ambassadors, Henry James, 1903.

24. Women in Love, D.H. Lawrence, 1921

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/jun/14/saturdayreviewsfeatres.guardianreview33


25. 60 Stories, Donald Barthelme, 1981

http://www.edmundyeo.com/2006/09/donald-barthelme-60-stories.html

26. The Rifles , William T. Vollmann, 1993

http://www.edrants.com/wtv/

27. The Recognitions, William Gaddis, 1955
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1951793_1951944_1952649,00.html

28. Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad, 1902

www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/jul/05/saturdayreviewsfeatures.guardianreview25

30. 1984, George Orwell, 1949
http://www.sfreader.com/read_review.asp?book=102

33. Dhalgren, Samuel R. Delany, 1975

http://www.dhalgren.com/Stranded/07.html

36. Cyberspace Trilogy (Neuromancer [1984])
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1037220/

37. Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller, 1934
http://www.architectureink.com/2002-06/bookreview-tropic.htm

38. On the Road, Jack Keroac, 1957
http://bookreviews.nabou.com/reviews/ontheroad.html

44. Brave New World , Aldous Huxley, 1932
http://www.challengingdestiny.com/reviews/bravenew.htm

54. Slaughterhouse Five , Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., 1969
http://www.vonnegutweb.com/sh5/sh5_nytimes.html

56. Wise Blood, Flannery O’Conner, 1952
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/book-of-a-lifetime-wise-blood-by-flannery-oconnor-7640224.html

60. The Catcher in the Rye , J.D. Salinger, 1951
http://www.levity.com/corduroy/salinger1.htm

63. Dubliners, James Joyce, 1915

http://www.csun.edu/~hceng029/joyce/dubart.html

65. The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton, 1905
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/21/books/21wharton.html

70. Skinny Legs and All, Tom Robbins, 1986
http://www.librarything.com/work/6522/reviews

71. Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace, 1995
http://www.badgerinternet.com/~bobkat/jest1a.html

72. The Age of Wire and String by Ben Marcus, 1996
http://www.richmondreview.co.uk/books/ageofwir.html

75. The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick, 1962

http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/reviews/books/0-679-74067-8.html

79. A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess, 1962
http://www.worldsgreatestcritic.com/aclockworkorangenovel.html

87. Winesberg Ohio, Sherwood Anderson, 1919

http://www.americanliterature.com/Anderson/WinesburgOhio/WinesburgOhio.html

99. In Memorium to Identity, Kathy Acker, 1990

100. Hogg, Samuel R. Delany, 1996
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hogg_%28novel%29

Two Poems by Yevtushenko Pt. 1 "my own poems... they endowed me with wealth. No one told me how to spend it"

Oh you in years my equal,
my true friend!
My fate's
contained in yours.
Then let us be extremely frank,
and speak the truth about ourselves.
Let us share our anxieties together,
discuss between us, tell others too,
what sort of men we can't be any longer,
what sort of men we now desire to be.
Fallen out of love with self-conceit,
we shall not regret the loss.

Character
begins to form
at the first pinch of anxiety about ourselves.

Two Poems by Yevtushenko Pt.2

There's something I often notice,
and someone apparently gloats over this,
that I'm rather scatter-brained,
and untidy in my ways of living.
Among the, in appearance, harmless
half-desires
and half-feelings,
my pinching worry is:
I do all right?
What if I don't pull through?
I am disturbed by all the waste of meetings
that nourish neither heart nor mind,
by the sloth,
not the festive spirit,
that has taken lodging in my house;
by my mistrust for many books,
and the warring strains in all my moods,
and the far too suspect
non-enthusiasm for myself...

I'll break with all I've lived with up to now,
forget my various mishaps,
with arms spread out
fall down
on the warm
and steamy earth.
Oh those who are my generation!
We're not the threshold, just a step.
We're but the preface to a preface,
a prologue to a newer prologue!