Reading List

So, in this post I mentioned reading through this list of Great Novels.

An ambitious goal.

In an effort to, well, not lose the list...and find some accountability, I decided to post the list here...and read away.

1. Remembrance of Things Past Marcel Proust
2. The Brothers Karamozov Fyodor Dostoevsky
3. The Magic Mountain Thomas Mann
4. The Ambassadors Henry James
5. Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes
6. Moby Dick Herman Melville
7. Absalom, Absalom! Wililam Faulkner
8. War and Peace Leo Tolstoy
9. Tom Jones Henry Fielding
10. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain
11. One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez
12. The Wings of the Dove Henry James
13. Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky
14. Great Expectations Charles Dickens
15. Les Miserables Victor Hugo
16. Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
17. The Idiot Fyodor Dostoevsky
18. The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway
19. The Sleepwalkers Hermann Broch
20. The Trial Franz Kafka
21. Ulysses James Joyce
22. Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert
23. The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
24. The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner
25. Middlemarch George Eliot
26. Invisible Man Ralph Ellison
27. The Golden Bowl Henry James
28. The Red and the Black Stendhal
29. The Portrait of a Lady Henry James
30. Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy
31. Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
32. To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf
33. Vanity Fair William Thackeray
34. Fathers and Sons Ivan Turgenev
35. Pale Fire Vladimir Nabokov
36. The Adventures of Augie March Saul Bellow
37. Bleak House Charles Dickens
38. Atonement Ian McEwan
39. Silas Marner George Eliot
40. The Gambler Fyodor Dostoevsky
41. Le Pere Goriot Honore de Balzac
42. The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
43. The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger
44. Emma Jane Austen
45. Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
46. Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
47. Nostromo Joseph Conrad
48. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Ken Kesey
49. In Cold Blood Truman Capote
50. The American Henry James
51. Oliver Twist Charles Dickens
52. Miss Lonelyhearts Nathanael West
53. The French Lieutenant's Woman John Fowles
54. The Corrections Jonathan Franzen
55. Tristam Shandy Laurence Sterne
56. The Day of the Locust Nathanael West
57. Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck
58. Lord Jim Joseph Conrad
59. 1984 George Orwell
60. The Narrative of Arthur Gordom Pym of Nantucket Edgar Allen Poe
61. Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh
62. The Charterhouse of Parma Stendhal
63. Death Comes for the Archbishop Willa Cather
64. Animal Farm George Orwell
65. The Last of the Mohicans James Fenimore Cooper
66. The Power and the Glory Graham Greene
67. Lucky Jim Kingsley Amis
68. The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler
69. The Lord of the Flies William Golding
70. The Hound of Baskervilles Arthur Conan Doyle
71. On the Road Jack Kerouac
72. Kim Rudyard Kipling
73. Tess of the d'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy
74. A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens
75. American Pastoral Philip Roth
76. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress Robert Heinlein
77. Frankenstein Mary Shelley
78. The Fortress of Solitude Jonathan Lethem
79. Riders of the Purple Sage Zane Grey
80. Neuromancer William Gibson
81. Money Martin Amis
82. The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne
83. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Agatha Christie
84. As I Lay Dying William Fuulkner
85. Daisy Miller Henry James
86. The Return of the Native Thomas Hardy
87. The Black Swan Thomas Mann
88. For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway
89. The Possessed Fyodor Dostoevsky
90. The Death of Ivan Ilych Leo Tolstoy
91. Buddenbrooks Thomas Mann
92. The Kreutzer Sonata Leo Tolstoy
93. Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf
94. David Copperfield Charles Dickens
95. The Spoils of Poynton Henry James
96. A Bend in the River V.S. Naipaul
97. Dune Frank Herbert
98. Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy
99. Valis Philip K. Dick
100. Gravity's Rainbow Thomas Pynchon

First up--as selected by the Random Integer Generator--is...

...drumroll, please...

#57 - Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck.