100 Books In Five Years
April 1, 2009 to April 31, 2014
Books Read:
001. Notes From the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
002. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
003. Like Water For Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
004. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
005. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
006. The Savage Detectives byRoberto Bolaño (DNF)
007. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
008. The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers (DNF)
009. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
010. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
011. The Graveyard Book by Gaiman, Neil
012. A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway
013. Breakfast At Tiffanys by Truman Capote
014. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
Books I’d Like to Read Next
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner
My Antonia by Willa Cather
The Devil and Miss Prym by Paulo Coehlo
The March by E.L. Doctorow
The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich
Tinkers by Paul Harding
Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
The Shadow Catcher by Marianne Wiggins
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Kept by D.J. Taylor
The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti
Books To Be Read:
Angelou, Maya – I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
Atwood, Margaret – The Blind Assassin
Bellow, Saul – Humboldt’s Gift
Buck, Pearl S. – The Good Earth
Cather, Willa – One of Ours
Cervantes, Miguel – Don Quixote
Chabon, Michael – The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Chekhov, Anton– The Cherry Orchard
Chopin, Kate – The Awakening
Cunningham, Michael – The Hours
Díaz, Junot – The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Doctorow, E.L. – Ragtime
Doctorow, E.L. – Billy Bathgate
Dreiser, Theodore – Sister Carrie
Dubus III, Andre — House of Sand and Fog
Ellison, Ralph – Invisible Man
Fitzgerald, F. Scott – The Great Gatsby
Ford, Richard – Independence Day
Faulkner, William — Absalom, Absalom!
Faulkner, William – As I Lay Dying
Faulkner, William – The Sound and the Fury
Frazier, Charles – Cold Mountain
Gaines, Ernest J. – A Lesson Before Dying
Gibbons, Kaye – Ellen Foster
Guterson, David – Snow Falling On Cedars
Hardy, Thomas — Far From The Madding Crowd
Hemingway, Ernest – The Sun Also Rises
Hurston, Zora Neale – Their Eyes Were Watching God
Ishiguro, Kazuo – When We Were Orphans
Jones, Edward P. – The Known World
Kafka, Franz – The Metamorphosis
Kantor, MacKinlay – Andersonville
Kincaid, Jamaica – Annie John
Kingsolver, Barbara – The Poisonwood Bible
Lahiri, Jhumpa – The Namesake
Lawrence, D.H. – Women In Love
Lippman, Laura – What the Dead Know
Lurie, Alison – Foreign Affairs
Márquez, Gabriel García – One Hundred Years of Solitude
Márquez, Gabriel García – Love In the Time of Cholera
McCarthy, Cormac — The Road
McCourt, Frank – Angela’s Ashes
McEwan, Ian – Atonement
Morrison, Toni – Beloved
Morrison, Toni — The Bluest Eye
Nabokov, Vladimir – Lolita
Oates, Joyce Carol – We Were The Mulvaneys
Patchett, Ann – Bel Canto
Patchett, Ann – Run
Porter, Katherine Ann – Pale Horse, Pale Rider
Porter, Katherine Ann – Ship of Fools
Pratchett, Terry – Nation
Proulx, E. Annie – The Shipping News
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan – The Yearling
Roth, Philip – Exit Ghost
Roth, Philip – The Human Stain
Roth, Philip – Portnoy’s Complaing
Russo, Richard – Empire Falls
Russo, Richard – Bridge of Sighs
Steinbeck, John — Cannery Row
Steinbeck, John – Of Mice and Men
Stout, Elizabeth – Olive Kitteridge
Ulinich, Anya – Petropolis
Updike, John – Rabbit, Run
Walker, Alice – The Color Purple
Waugh, Evelyn – Brideshead Revisited
Wright, Richard — Native Son
Wroblewski, David – The Story of Edgar Sawtelle