Books

Books To Read For NaNo '09

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  • Psychiatric Hosptials:
  • One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

MY 2009 READING JOURNAL

  • These are the books I've read in 2009!

  • 1. Cross Country by James Patterson
  • 2. Gundel's Hungarian Cookbook by CORVINA/BUDAPEST
  • 3. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle: A Novel by David Wroblewski
  • 4. The Brass Verdict (Mickey Haller, #2) by Michael Connelly
  • 5. The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters, Volume 1 by Gordon Dahlquis
  • 6. Interred with Their Bones by Jennifer Lee Carrell
  • 7. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
  • 8. The Shack by William P. Young
  • 9. A Mercy by Toni Morrison
  • 10.

Clone of The Observer's "100 Greatest Novels of All Time" List

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  • Don Quixote - Miguel De Cervantes
  • The Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan
  • Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
  • Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
  • Tom Jones - Henry Fielding
  • Clarissa - Samuel Richardson
  • Tristram Shandy - Laurence Sterne
  • Dangerous Liaisons - Pierre Choderlos De Laclos
  • Emma - Jane Austen
  • Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
  • Nightmare Abbey - Thomas Love
  • The Black Sheep - Honore De Balzac
  • The Charterhouse of Parma - Stendhal
  • The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
  • Sybil - Benjamin Disraeli
  • David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
  • Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
  • Jane Eyre - Charlo

Clone of Modern Library's 100 Greatest English-Language Novels of the 20th Century

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  • ULYSSES by James Joyce
  • THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce
  • LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov
  • BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley
  • THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner
  • CATCH-22 by Joseph Heller
  • DARKNESS AT NOON by Arthur Koestler
  • SONS AND LOVERS by D.H.

Clone of "1001 books you have to read before ..."

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  1. * Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
  2. * Saturday – Ian McEwan
  3. * On Beauty – Zadie Smith
  4. * Slow Man – J.M. Coetzee
  5. * Adjunct: An Undigest – Peter Manson
  6. * The Sea – John Banville
  7. * The Red Queen – Margaret Drabble
  8. * The Plot Against America – Philip Roth
  9. * The Master – Colm Tóibín
  10. * Vanishing Point – David Markson
  11. * The Lambs of London – Peter Ackroyd
  12. * Dining on Stones – Iain Sinclair
  13. * Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
  14. * Drop City – T.

Books You Should Read If You Want To Consider Yourself Well-Read

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  1. The $30,000 Bequest And Other Stories by Mark Twain (1906)
  2. Abramham Lincoln by Benjamin Thomas (1952)
  3. Absalom, Absalom!

Clone of The Blue Pyramid Book List (or: The 1,041 Best Books of All-Time)

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  1. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
  2. Hamlet – William Shakespeare
  3. 1984 – George Orwell
  4. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
  5. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
  6. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
  7. One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  8. The Fellowship of the Ring – J.R.R. Tolkien
  9. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
  10. The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
  11. Ender's Game – Orson Scott Card
  12. The Return of the King – J.R.R.

Books Read in 2009

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  • Alexandre Dumas, fils - The Lady of the Camellias (1848) [7,5]
  • Maxim Gorky - The Mother (1907) [7]
  • Jules Verne - The Begum's Millions (1879) [7,5]
  • Jules Verne - The Purchase of the North Pole (1890) [6,5]

Dick Meyer's 100 Years, 100 Novels, One List

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  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce
  • The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
  • Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
  • Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
  • The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
  • Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner
  • Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
  • Humboldt's Gift, Saul Bellow
  • A Passage to India, E.M. Forster
  • To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
  • U.S.A.

Guardian's 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read

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  • Comedy
  • Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
  • Money by Martin Amis
  • The Information by Martin Amis
  • The Bottle Factory Outing by Beryl Bainbridge
  • According to Queeney by Beryl Bainbridge
  • Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes
  • A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters by Julian Barnes
  • Augustus Carp, Esq.