Catching up on Classics (and lots more!) discussion

Modern Library 100
Multi-year challenge


✔️1. "Ulysses," James Joyce

✔️2. "The Great Gatsby," F. Scott Fitzgerald

✔️3. "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man," James Joyce

✔️4. "Lolita," Vladimir Nabokov

✔️5. "Brave New World," Aldous Huxley

6. "The Sound and the Fury," William Faulkner

✔️7. "Catch-22," Joseph Heller

✔️8. "Darkness at Noon," Arthur Koestler

9. "Sons and Lovers," D. H. Lawrence

✔️10. "The Grapes of Wrath," John Steinbeck

11. "Under the Volcano," Malcolm Lowry

12. "The Way of All Flesh," Samuel Butler

✔️13. "1984," George Orwell

✔️14. "I, Claudius," Robert Graves

✔️15. "To the Lighthouse," Virginia Woolf

16. "An American Tragedy," Theodore Dreiser

✔️17. "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter," Carson McCullers read 2025 5 stars

✔️18. "Slaughterhouse Five," Kurt Vonnegut

19. "Invisible Man," Ralph Ellison

20. "Native Son," Richard Wright

21. "Henderson the Rain King," Saul Bellow

22. "Appointment in Samarra," John O' Hara

23. "U.S.A." (trilogy), John Dos Passos ✔️The 42nd <b>Parallel 2024 5 stars,✔️ 1919 2025 5 stars

✔️24. "Winesburg, Ohio," Sherwood Anderson

25. "A Passage to India," E. M. Forster

✔️26. "The Wings of the Dove," Henry James

27. "The Ambassadors," Henry James

✔️28. "Tender Is the Night," F. Scott Fitzgerald

29. "The Studs Lonigan Trilogy," James T. Farrell

✔️30. "The Good Soldier," Ford Madox Ford

✔️31. "Animal Farm," George Orwell

32. "The Golden Bowl," Henry James

33. "Sister Carrie," Theodore Dreiser

✔️34. "A Handful of Dust," Evelyn Waugh

✔️35. "As I Lay Dying," William Faulkner

✔️36. "All the King's Men," Robert Penn Warren

✔️37. "The Bridge of San Luis Rey," Thornton Wilder

✔️38. "Howards End," E. M. Forster

39. "Go Tell It on the Mountain," James Baldwin

40. "The Heart of the Matter," Graham Greene

✔️41. "Lord of the Flies," William Golding

42. "Deliverance," James Dickey

43. "A Dance to the Music of Time" (series), Anthony Powell (12 books)

44. "Point Counter Point," Aldous Huxley

✔️45. "The Sun Also Rises," Ernest Hemingway

✔️46. "The Secret Agent," Joseph Conrad read Jun 2025 4 stars

47. "Nostromo," Joseph Conrad

48. "The Rainbow," D. H. Lawrence

49. "Women in Love," D. H. Lawrence

50. "Tropic of Cancer," Henry Miller

51. "The Naked and the Dead," Norman Mailer

52. "Portnoy's Complaint," Philip Roth

✔️53. "Pale Fire," Vladimir Nabokov

✔️54. "Light in August," William Faulkner read 2025 5 stars

55. "On the Road," Jack Kerouac

✔️56. "The Maltese Falcon," Dashiell Hammett

57. "Parade's End," Ford Madox Ford

✔️58. "The Age of Innocence," Edith Wharton

59. "Zuleika Dobson," Max Beerbohm

✔️60. "The Moviegoer," Walker Percy

6✔️1. "Death Comes to the Archbishop," Willa Cather

62. "From Here to Eternity," James Jones

63. "The Wapshot Chronicles," John Cheever

✔️64. "The Catcher in the Rye," J. D. Salinger

65. "A Clockwork Orange," Anthony Burgess

66. "Of Human Bondage," W. Somerset Maugham

✔️67. "Heart of Darkness," Joseph Conrad

68. "Main Street," Sinclair Lewis

✔️69. "The House of Mirth," Edith Wharton

70. "The Alexandria Quartet," Lawrence Durrell

✔️71. "A High Wind in Jamaica," Richard Hughes

72. "A House for Ms. Biswas," V. S. Naipaul

73. "The Day of the Locust," Nathaniel West

✔️74. "A Farewell to Arms," Ernest Hemingway

✔️75. "Scoop," Evelyn Waugh

✔️76. "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie," Muriel Spark

77. "Finnegans Wake," James Joyce

78. "Kim," Rudyard Kipling

✔️79. "A Room With a View," E. M. Forster

✔️80. "Brideshead Revisited," Evelyn Waugh

81. "The Adventures of Augie March," Saul Bellow

✔️82. "Angle of Repose," Wallace Stegner

83. "A Bend in the River," V. S. Naipaul

84. "The Death of the Heart," Elizabeth Bowen

85. "Lord Jim," Joseph Conrad

86. "Ragtime," E. L. Doctorow

87. "The Old Wives' Tale," Arnold Bennett

✔️88. "The Call of the Wild," Jack London

89. "Loving," Henry Green

90. "Midnight's Children," Salman Rushdie

91. "Tobacco Road," Erskine Caldwell

✔️92. "Ironweed," William Kennedy

93. "The Magus," John Fowles

✔️94. "Wide Sargasso Sea," Jean Rhys

95. "Under the Net," Iris Murdoch

96. "Sophie's Choice," William Styron

97. "The Sheltering Sky," Paul Bowles

✔️98. "The Postman Always Rings Twice," James M. Cain

99. "The Ginger Man," J. P. Donleavy

✔️100. "The Magnificent Ambersons," Booth Tarkington

GW wrote: "Here are my books read off your list. Great list! Where did you get this thread?
+ 1. "Ulysses," James Joyce

Hi GW - Click on "Personal Challenges" at the top and then click "new topic' the the right hand corner.

Please cut and paste your list there and then we can comment on each other's threads with shorter comments that don't take up so much room.

This should be fun because there are a lot on my TBR already!

Hey Sue! I have been reading from this list for 20 years!! I have read 70/100. This year I plan to read Scoop and Angle of Repose, and any others that I might accidentally read! I planned to read "The Adventures of Augie March" last year but never got to it. I might read it eventually.
I guess we'll both look forward to reading more from this list in 2024 :)

Terris wrote: "Hey Sue! I have been reading from this list for 20 years!! I have read 70/100. This year I plan to read Scoop and Angle of Repose, and any others that I might accidental"

Only 30 left, that's great Terris! My 59 remaining will take me awhile, especially because of the Pulitzers.

Sue wrote: "Terris wrote: "Hey Sue! I have been reading from this list for 20 years!! I have read 70/100. This year I plan to read Scoop and Angle of Repose, and any others that I mi..."

All we have to do is "keep reading" and we'll both make it to 100!! ;)

I only completed one off this one this year but it was a great one,
The 42nd Parallel by Jon Dos Passos. It was a unique way to do historical fiction and I loved it. I can't wait for the other 2 in the trilogy.

These are the ones I'm most interested in. I hope to get 3 of them read in 2025
✔️1919 5 stars
The Big Money
The Sheltering Sky
Of Human Bondage
A Clockwork Orange
The Adventures of Augie March
✔️Light in August 5 stars
✔️The Secret Agent 3.5 stars
The Heart of the Matter
✔️The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter 5 stars