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#2023 Modern Library 100 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: 26.01.2023

  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.

LIST 100 Novels

 

ULYSSES by James Joyce READ

THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald READ

A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce

LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov READ

BRAVE NEW WORLDby Aldous Huxley READ

THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner READ

CATCH-22 by Joseph Heller READ

05.02.2023  DARKNESS AT NOON by Arthur Koestler REVIEW

SONS AND LOVERS by D.H. Lawrence READ

THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck READ

UNDER THE VOLCANO by Malcolm Lowry READ

THE WAY OF ALL FLESH by Samuel Butler READ

1984 by George Orwell READ

I, CLAUDIUS by Robert Graves READ

TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf

AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY by Theodore Dreiser READ

THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by Carson McCullers

SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut

INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison READ

NATIVE SON by Richard Wright

HENDERSON THE RAIN KING by Saul Bellow

APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA by John O’Hara READ

U.S.A.(trilogy) by John Dos Passos

WINESBURG, OHIO by Sherwood Anderson READ

A PASSAGE TO INDIA by E.M. Forster READ

THE WINGS OF THE DOVE by Henry James

THE AMBASSADORS by Henry James

TENDER IS THE NIGHT by F. Scott Fitzgerald

THE STUDS LONIGAN TRILOGY by James T. Farrell

THE GOOD SOLDIER by Ford Madox Ford READ

ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell READ

THE GOLDEN BOWL by Henry James READ

SISTER CARRIE by Theodore Dreiser

A HANDFUL OF DUST by Evelyn Waugh READ

AS I LAY DYING by William Faulkner READ

ALL THE KING’S MEN by Robert Penn Warren READ

THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY by Thornton Wilder

HOWARDS END by E.M. Forster READ

GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN by James Baldwin READ

THE HEART OF THE MATTER by Graham Greene READ

LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding READ

DELIVERANCE by James Dickey

A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME (series) by Anthony Powell

POINT COUNTER POINT by Aldous Huxley

THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway READ

THE SECRET AGENT by Joseph Conrad READ

NOSTROMO by Joseph Conrad READ

THE RAINBOW by D.H. Lawrence

WOMEN IN LOVE by D.H. Lawrence READ

TROPIC OF CANCER by Henry Miller

THE NAKED AND THE DEAD by Norman Mailer

PORTNOY’S COMPLAINT by Philip Roth READ

PALE FIRE by Vladimir Nabokov READ

LIGHT IN AUGUST by William Faulkner READ

ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac

THE MALTESE FALCON by Dashiell Hammett

PARADE’S END by Ford Madox Ford

THE AGE OF INNOCENCE by Edith Wharton READ

ZULEIKA DOBSON by Max Beerbohm

THE MOVIEGOER by Walker Percy

DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP by Willa Cather

FROM HERE TO ETERNITY by James Jones

THE WAPSHOT CHRONICLES by John Cheever READ

THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger READ

A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess

OF HUMAN BONDAGE by W. Somerset Maugham READ

HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad READ

MAIN STREET by Sinclair Lewis READ

THE HOUSE OF MIRTH by Edith Wharton READ

THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTET by Lawrence Durrell

A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA by Richard Hughes

A HOUSE FOR MR BISWAS by V.S. Naipaul

THE DAY OF THE LOCUST by Nathanael West

A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway

SCOOP by Evelyn Waugh READ

THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIEby Muriel Spark

FINNEGANS WAKE by James Joyce

KIM by Rudyard Kipling

A ROOM WITH A VIEW by E.M. Forster READ

BRIDESHEAD REVISITED by Evelyn Waugh READ

THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH by Saul Bellow

ANGLE OF REPOSE by Wallace Stegner READ

A BEND IN THE RIVER by V.S. Naipaul READ

THE DEATH OF THE HEART by Elizabeth Bowen READ

LORD JIM by Joseph Conrad READ

RAGTIME by E.L. Doctorow READ

THE OLD WIVES’ TALE by Arnold Bennett READ

THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London

LOVING by Henry Green READ

MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN by Salman Rushdie

TOBACCO ROAD by Erskine Caldwell

IRONWEED by William Kennedy READ

THE MAGUS by John Fowles READ

WIDE SARGASSO SEA by Jean Rhys READ

UNDER THE NET by Iris Murdoch READ

SOPHIE’S CHOICE by William Styron READ

THE SHELTERING SKY by Paul Bowles READ

THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE by James M. Cain READ

THE GINGER MAN by J.P. Donleavy READ

THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS by Booth Tarkington READ