1.
2. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling (2000)
3.
4. The Liars’ Club, Mary Karr (1995)
5. American Pastoral, Philip Roth (1997)
6. Mystic River, Dennis Lehane (2001)
7.
8. Selected Stories, Alice Munro (1996)
9. Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier (1997)
10. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami (1997)
11. Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer (1997)
12. Blindness, José Saramago (1998)
13. Watchmen, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons (1986-87)
14. Black Water, Joyce Carol Oates (1992)
15. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers (2000)
16.
17. Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez (1988)
18. Rabbit at Rest, John Updike (1990)
19. On Beauty, Zadie Smith (2005)
20.
21. On Writing, Stephen King (2000)
22. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Díaz (2007)
23. The Ghost Road, Pat Barker (1996)
24. Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry (1985)
25. The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan (1989)
26. Neuromancer, William Gibson (1984)
27. Possession, A.S. Byatt (1990)
28. Naked, David Sedaris (1997)
29. Bel Canto, Anne Patchett (2001)
30. Case Histories, Kate Atkinson (2004)
31. The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien (1990)
32. Parting the Waters, Taylor Branch (1988)
33.
34.
35. The Line of Beauty, Alan Hollinghurst (2004)
36.
37.
38. Birds of America, Lorrie Moore (1999)
39. Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri (2000)
40.
41. The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros (1984)
42. LaBrava, Elmore Leonard (1983)
43. Borrowed Time, Paul Monette (1988)
44. Praying for Sheetrock, Melissa Fay Greene (1991)
45.
46.
47. World’s Fair, E.L. Doctorow (1985)
48. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver (1998)
49. Clockers, Richard Price (1992)
50.
51. The Journalist and the Murderer, Janet Malcom (1990)
52. Waiting to Exhale, Terry McMillan (1992)
53. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon (2000)
54. Jimmy Corrigan, Chris Ware (2000)
55.
56. The Night Manager, John le Carré (1993)
57. The Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe (1987)
58. Drop City, TC Boyle (2003)
59. Krik? Krak! Edwidge Danticat (1995)
60. Nickel & Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich (2001)
61. Money, Martin Amis (1985)
62. Last Train To Memphis, Peter Guralnick (1994)
63. Pastoralia, George Saunders (2000)
64. Underworld, Don DeLillo (1997)
65.
66. A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, David Foster Wallace (1997)
67.
68. Fun Home, Alison Bechdel (2006)
69. Secret History, Donna Tartt (1992)
70. Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell (2004)
71. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Ann Fadiman (1997)
72.
73. A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving (1989)
74. Friday Night Lights, H.G. Bissinger (1990)
75. Cathedral, Raymond Carver (1983)
76. A Sight for Sore Eyes, Ruth Rendell (199
77. The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro (1989)
78. Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert (2006)
79. The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell (2000)
80. Bright Lights, Big City, Jay McInerney (1984)
81. Backlash, Susan Faludi (1991)
82.
83.
84. Holes, Louis Sachar (1998)
85.
86. And the Band Played On, Randy Shilts (1987)
87. The Ruins, Scott Smith (2006)
88. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby (1995)
89. Close Range, Annie Proulx (1999)
90. Comfort Me With Apples, Ruth Reichl (2001)
91. Random Family, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc (2003)
92. Presumed Innocent, Scott Turow (1987)
93. A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley (1991)
94. Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser (2001)
95. Kaaterskill Falls, Allegra Goodman (1999)
96.
97. Jesus’ Son, Denis Johnson (1992)
98. The Predators’ Ball, Connie Bruck (1989)
99.
100. America (the Book), Jon Stewart/Daily Show (2004)
I did that meme some time ago, but I no longer have any idea how many books I'd read :P I know it wasn't very many, though.
ReplyDeleteYeah. I have seen it a couple places but just now got around to actually doing it.
ReplyDeleteI've read an even dozen, with another half dozen on my TBR list. I've seen the movie adaptations of a few of them. And I have no intention of reading most of them.
ReplyDeleteAm I the only person who, when she hears about the same book at every turn, tends to lose all desire to read that book?
haha, I do that. The more I hear about a book, the less I want to read it! Sometimes I am lucky and read the book before the hype starts, but there are lots of 'popular' books that I have no interest in reading...
ReplyDelete.... wow, I've only read four of them. That's almost depressing, except I have no desire to read a lot of hem.
ReplyDeleteI have no desire to read a lot of them, either.
ReplyDeleteUgh, I've only read three from the list. Lots of catching for me to do, as always. New books come out every day, it's almost impossible to read them all!
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, I've no desire to read everything either. :)
No one will ever read everything that they want to read. I suppose there is not even any point in worrying about something that you can't change!
ReplyDeleteI did a version of this list a couple of months ago and got 36.
ReplyDeleteThere are several more on the list that I really want to read. Some of the books surprised me and I wouldn't think of them as classics but it's still a fun list.
ReplyDeleteTink: Wow, 36 is a good number!
ReplyDeleteBooklogged: There are still some that I want to read too, and I didn't totally agree with everything offered, but I have seen worse lists.