#2023 Modern Library 100 Best Novels Challenge

1. It is time to get back some serious classic reading in 2023
2. I started the Modern Library’s List of top 100 novels  20th C
3. …way back in 2017. 
4. I’ve read a few of these books but want  to complete the list
5. I will check off each book as I progress.
6. My past reviews are on my other laptop…
7. …so I will try to link them with this post soon!
8. Here is an EXCELLENT list on the 100 novels.
9. Just click not book and a pull-down menu appears with important information
10. Scroll: HERE

 

UPDATE: 12.12.2022

1. There are multiple selections by Henry James and I feel that
2. …there are other great writers to highlight.
3. I am not a fan of HJ and will replace his books with some other author.
4. How in heavens name The Ginger Man by Irish author J. Donleavy ever made
5. …the list is beyond me.
6. It was smutty “gutter” fiction
7. ….just an awful read. I suppose he was just out to shock readers!
8. My reviews are on an other laptop and I  will link them 
9. …to this post as soon as possible.

 

READ:   62/100…I still have 38 to read!

1. Ulysses by James Joyce – READ
2. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald – READ
3. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov – READ
4.  Brave New World by Aldous Huxley – READ
5. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner – READ
6. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller – READ
7. Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence – READ
8. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck – READ
9. Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry – READ
10. The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler – READ
11. 1984 by George Orwell – READ
12. I, Claudius by Robert Graves – READ
13. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser – READ 
14.  Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison – READ
15. Appointment in Samarra by John O’Hara – READ
16. Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson – READ
17. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster – READ
18. The Studs Lonigan Trilogy by James T. Farrell
19. The Good Solidier by Ford Madox Ford – READ
20. Animal Farm by George Orwell – READ
21. The Golden Bowl by Henry James – READ
22. A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh – READ
23. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner – READ
24. All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren – READ
25. The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder – READ
26. Howards End by E.M. Forster – READ
27. Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin – READ
28. The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene – READ
29. Lord of the Flies by William Golding – READ
30. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway – READ
31. The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad – READ
32. Nostromo by Joseph Conrad – READ
33. Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence – READ
34. Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth – READ
35. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov – READ
36. Light in August by William Faulkner – READ
37. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton – READ
38. The Wapshot Chronicles by John Cheever – READ
39. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger – READ
40. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham – READ
41. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad – READ
42. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis – READ
43. The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton – READ
44. Scoop by Evelyn Waugh – READ
45. Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
46. A Room With a View by E.M. Forster – READ
47. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh – READ
48. Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner – READ
49. A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul – READ
50. The Death  of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen – READ
51. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad – READ
52. Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow – READ
53. The Old Wives Tale by Arnold Bennett – READ
54. Loving by Henry Green – READ
55. Ironweed by William Kennedy – READ
56. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys – READ
57. Under the Net by Iris Murdoch – READ
58. Sophie’s Choice by William Styron – READ
59. The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles – READ
60. The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain – READ
61. The Ginger Man by J.P. Donleavy – READ
62. The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington – READ