Okay, so this won't be a very literary post but I thought I'd at least take the time to "check in." I just came across another list of "must reads" and I was curious to compare it to the works on our list. I also typed in beforewereadwedie.blogspot.com before realizing my error. Freudian slip do you think? Lol. There are just so many books. It is a bit daunting. Here's the other list, if you'd like to compare as well.
THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA by Ernest Hemingway
CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London
OF MICE AND MEN by John Steinbeck
THE STRANGER by Albert Camus
A GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND by Flannery O’Connor
JESUS’ SON by Denis Johnson
FEAR IN LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS by Hunter S. Thompson
SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut
TAPPING THE SOURCE by Kem Nunn
ALL THE PRETTY HORSES by Cormac McCarthy
DELIVERANCE by James Dickey
THIS SIDE OF PARADISE by F. Scott Fitzgerald
THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY by Oscar Wilde
ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac
BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY by Jay McInerney
NETHERLAND by Joseph O’Neill
LESS THAN ZERO by Bret Easton Ellis
LOST HORIZON by James Hilton
THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD by Zora Neale Thurston
HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad
TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf
THE LOST STEPS by Alejo Carpentier
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess
REMAINDER by Tom McCarthy
THE CONTORTIONIST’S HANDBOOK by Craig Clevenger
THE BIRD IS GONE: A MANIFESTO by Stephen Graham Jones
THE CASTLE by Franz Kafka
LOOK HOMEWARD, ANGEL by Thomas Wolfe
ANNA KARENINA by Leo Tolstoy
INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison
APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA by John O’Hara
THE AGE OF INNOCENCE by Edith Wharton
ALL THE KING’S MEN by Robert Penn Warren
FICCIONES by Jorge Luis Borges
100 YEARS OF SOLITUDE by Gabriel GARCIA MARQUEZ
THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner
SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION by Ken Kesey
CATCH-22 by Joseph Heller
HOUSE OF LEAVES by Mark Z. Danielewski
DARKNESS VISIBLE by William Styron
BELOVED by Toni Morrison
MOBY-DICK by Herman Melville
PORTRAIT OF A LADY by Henry James
The King James Bible by God
WOODCUTTERS by Thomas Bernhard
THE OBSCENE BIRD OF NIGHT by Jose Donoso
UNDER THE VOLCANO by Malcolm Lowry
CEREMONY by Leslie Marmon Silko
THE RECOGNITIONS by William Gaddis
ULYSSES by James Joyce
IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME by Marcel Proust
Hmm...I have read several of those...and I was thinking before that it might be more reasonable (read: doable) and more fun to take a vote and pick...say...50-100 books from all those listed on this Web site and read THOSE. You know, make our very own "must read" list based on those we've loved or those we've been trying to get to. What do you guys think of that?
ReplyDeleteI, too, have accidentally typed "beforewereadwedie." LOL. Depressing...
I like the idea. If the list wouldn't take most of the remainder of life then I would be more encouraged to read them all but I would like to read some other books that aren't on the list, you know, before I die. "I like big sentences and I cannot lie..."
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