What I've read is in bold:
The Adventures of Augie March -- Saul BellowThis makes it clear, in case it wasn't already, that I don't like "Classic Modern Literature" and I'm woefully poorly read. {{shrug}}
All the King's Men -- Robert Penn Warren
American Pastoral -- Philip Roth
An American Tragedy -- Theodore Dreiser
Animal Farm -- George Orwell
Appointment in Samarra -- John O'Hara
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret -- Judy Blume
A must-read for all 12-year-old girls. Can't believe it's on the list!
The Assistant -- Bernard Malamud
I haven't read this one, but "The Fixer" was great.
At Swim-Two-Birds -- Flann O'Brien
(never heard of this!)
Atonement -- Ian McEwan
I may have read this; I'm pretty sure I've read something by McEwan.
Beloved -- Toni Morrison
A totally weird book.
The Berlin Stories -- Christopher Isherwood
The Big Sleep -- Raymond Chandler
The Blind Assassin -- Margaret Atwood
Blood Meridian -- Cormac McCarthy
No, thanks.
Brideshead Revisited -- Evelyn Waugh
The Bridge of San Luis Rey -- Thornton Wilder
Call It Sleep -- Henry Roth
Catch-22 -- Joseph Heller
I should reread this.
The Catcher in the Rye -- J.D. Salinger
I've tried, oh, have I. Just don't care about this annoying little twit at all.
A Clockwork Orange -- Anthony Burgess
There's a long story here, but no, I haven't read it.
The Confessions of Nat Turner -- William Styron
The Corrections -- Jonathan Franzen
The Crying of Lot 49 -- Thomas Pynchon
A Dance to the Music of Time -- Anthony Powell
The Day of the Locust -- Nathanael West
Death Comes for the Archbishop -- Willa Cather
A Death in the Family -- James Agee
The Death of the Heart -- Elizabeth Bowen
Deliverance -- James Dickey
Nope. Haven't seen the movie, either.
Dog Soldiers -- Robert Stone
(never heard of this one)
Falconer -- John Cheever
The French Lieutenant's Woman -- John Fowles
Saw the movie too.
The Golden Notebook -- Doris Lessing
Go Tell it on the Mountain -- James Baldwin
Gone With the Wind -- Margaret Mitchell
Multiple times partway, once all the way.
The Grapes of Wrath -- John Steinbeck
I think I'd rather eat the Dust Bowl.
Gravity's Rainbow -- Thomas Pynchon
The Great Gatsby -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Love this book.
A Handful of Dust -- Evelyn Waugh
The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter -- Carson McCullers
I've started it, never finished it
The Heart of the Matter -- Graham Greene
Herzog -- Saul Bellow
Housekeeping -- Marilynne Robinson
A House for Mr. Biswas -- V.S. Naipaul
I, Claudius -- Robert Graves
Infinite Jest -- David Foster Wallace
Invisible Man -- Ralph Ellison
Light in August -- William Faulkner
To quote Amy, from whom I stole this list: I'd rather fall on a grenade.
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe -- C.S. Lewis
Many many times.
Lolita -- Vladimir Nabokov
Lord of the Flies -- William Golding
Read it in the Soviet Union, a surreal experience.
The Lord of the Rings -- J.R.R. Tolkien
Loving -- Henry Green
(haven't heard of this one either)
Lucky Jim -- Kingsley Amis
The Man Who Loved Children -- Christina Stead
(never heard of it)
Midnight's Children -- Salman Rushdie
Money -- Martin Amis
The Moviegoer -- Walker Percy
Mrs. Dalloway -- Virginia Woolf
I don't like Woolf's writing.
Naked Lunch -- William Burroughs
Native Son -- Richard Wright
Neuromancer -- William Gibson
Never Let Me Go -- Kazuo Ishiguro
1984 -- George Orwell
On the Road -- Jack Kerouac
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest -- Ken Kesey
A couple of times
The Painted Bird -- Jerzy Kosinski
Pale Fire -- Vladimir Nabokov
A Passage to India -- E.M. Forster
Play It As It Lays -- Joan Didion
Portnoy's Complaint -- Philip Roth
Possession -- A.S. Byatt
Started it. Hated it.
The Power and the Glory -- Graham Greene
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie -- Muriel Spark
Rabbit, Run -- John Updike
Ragtime -- E.L. Doctorow
The Recognitions -- William Gaddis
Red Harvest -- Dashiell Hammett
Revolutionary Road -- Richard Yates
The Sheltering Sky -- Paul Bowles
Slaughterhouse-Five -- Kurt Vonnegut
Snow Crash -- Neal Stephenson
The Sot-Weed Factor -- John Barth
The Sound and the Fury -- William Faulkner
[see above]
The Sportswriter -- Richard Ford
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold -- John le Carre
The Sun Also Rises -- Ernest Hemingway
...hate Hemingway...
Their Eyes Were Watching God -- Zora Neale Hurston
Things Fall Apart -- Chinua Achebe
To Kill a Mockingbird -- Harper Lee
Great book.
To the Lighthouse -- Virginia Woolf
Yish. See above.
Tropic of Cancer -- Henry Miller
Ubik -- Philip K. Dick
(another I haven't heard of)
Under the Net -- Iris Murdoch
Under the Volcano -- Malcolm Lowry
Watchmen -- Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
White Noise -- Don DeLillo
White Teeth -- Zadie Smith
Wide Sargasso Sea -- Jean Rhys
Final total = 16 read for sure.
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