Sunday, January 8, 2012

My New Year's Resolution

Well, that may be distorting things a tiny bit. I'm not much on resolutions, in all honesty. Sometimes I aspire to have resolutions (maybe my resolution should be to come up with some resolutions for next year). But! I did decide to fill out the books that I am missing from Modern Library's top 100 books this year.

I should clarify that these two lists are not at all connected; there are plenty on the ML's top 100 that aren't in the 1001 (so we'll just not be reading those; yay!).

Here's what is on tap for the next little bit, after I finish this Henry Miller one (blurg).

Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
Under the Volcano – Malcolm Lowry
Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
Native Son – Richard Wright
Henderson the Rain King – Saul Bellow
U.S.A. – John Dos Passos
"The Good Soldier," Ford Madox Ford
Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
"A Dance to the Music of Time" (series), Anthony Powell
Nostromo – Joseph Conrad
The Magus – John Fowles
Loving – Henry Green
The Old Wives’ Tale – Arnold Bennett
A Bend in the River – V.S. Naipaul
The Adventures of Augie March – Saul Bellow
Finnegans Wake – James Joyce
A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
Parade’s End – Ford Madox Ford
Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth

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