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