I'm a sucker for a good list
Time magazine book critics list their choices for 100 top English language novels from 1923 to the present. It's an interesting list. I'm sure it will generate howls from various quarters because of its inclusion of several science fiction novels and even one graphic novel. I've read....
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
- A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
- The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
- The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
- The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
- Neuromancer by William Gibson
- 1984 by George Orwell
- The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski
- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
- The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
I'm not at all certain that I wouldn't have taken V for Vendetta over Watchmen, and I certainly don't understand how Thomas Wolfe (either
You Can't Go Home Again or
Look Homeward, Angel) were omitted. And I still contend, having read a significant quantity of Salinger, that
Catcher in the Rye is my
least favorite of his writing. As usual, I have major pangs of "I
really ought to get around to reading that" as I look through the list, especially in this case for
The Big Sleep,
The Great Gatsby,
On the Road, and
The Grapes of Wrath. Great Zarquon, how can I do so much reading and not be better read than this?
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As we continue homeschooling, I expect you will end up reading a fairly large portion of the ones you've missed. You're a computer geek, not an English major.
nice list of books,
I think animal farm & 1984 have had made more sense to me since my move back to saudi arabia.