Tuesday, October 21, 2008

MUCH Better!

Now THIS is more like it! A list, gathered by the Norwegian Book Clubs, of the top 100 books nominated by 100 writers from 54 countries. This time, I'll just bold the one's I've read.
  1. Absalom, Absalom - William Faulkner
  2. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
  3. The Aeneid - Virgil
  4. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
  5. Beloved - Toni Morrison
  6. Berlin Alexanderplatz - Alfred Doblin
  7. Blindness - Jose Saramago
  8. The Book of Disquiet - Fernando Pessoa
  9. The Book of Job - Anon
  10. The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor M Dostoyevsky
  11. Buddenbrook - Thomas Mann
  12. Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
  13. The Castle - Franz Kafka
  14. Children of Gebelawi - Naguib Mahfouz
  15. Collected Fictions - Jorge Luis Borges
  16. Complete Poems - Giacomo Leopardi
  17. The Complete Stories - Franz Kafka
  18. The Complete Tales - Edgar Allan Poe
  19. Confessions of Zeno - Italo Svevo
  20. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor M Dostoyevsky
  21. Dead Souls - Nikolai Gogol
  22. The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories - Leo Tolstoy
  23. Decameron - Giovanni Boccaccio
  24. The Devil to Pay in the Backlands - Joao Guimaraes Rosa
  25. Diary of a Madman and Other Stories - Lu Xun
  26. The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri
  27. A Doll's House - Henrik Ibsen
  28. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
  29. Essays - Michel de Montaigne
  30. Fairy Tales and Stories - Hans Christian Andersen
  31. Faust - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (I DID read the Marlow play Dr. Faustus.)
  32. Gargantua and Pantagruel - Francois Rabelais
  33. Gilgamesh - Anon
  34. The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing
  35. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
  36. Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
  37. Gypsy Ballads - Federico Garcia Lorca
  38. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
  39. History - Elsa Morante
  40. Hunger - Knut Hamsun
  41. The Idiot - Fyodor M Dostoyevsky
  42. The Iliad - Homer
  43. Independent People - Halldor K Laxness
  44. Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
  45. Jacques the Fatalist and His Master - Denis Diderot
  46. Journey to the End of the Night - Louis-Ferdinand Celine
  47. King Lear - William Shakespeare
  48. Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman
  49. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy - Laurence Sterne
  50. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
  51. Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  52. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
  53. The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann
  54. Mahabharata - Anon
  55. The Man Without Qualities - Robert Musil
  56. Mathnawi - Jalal ad-din Rumi
  57. Medea - Euripides (But I did read and love The Bacchae.)
  58. Memoirs of Hadrian - Marguerite Yourcenar
  59. Metamorphoses - Ovid
  60. Middlemarch - George Eliot
  61. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
  62. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
  63. Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf (Loved The Waves!)
  64. 1984 - George Orwell
  65. Njaals Saga - Anon
  66. Nostromo - Joseph Conrad
  67. The Odyssey - Homer
  68. Oedipus the King - Sophocles
  69. Old Goriot - Honore de Balzac
  70. The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
  71. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  72. The Orchard - Sheikh Musharrif ud-din Sadi
  73. Othello - William Shakespeare
  74. Pedro Paramo - Juan Rulfo
  75. Pippi Longstocking - Astrid Lindgren
  76. Poems - Paul Celan
  77. The Possessed - Fyodor M Dostoyevsky
  78. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
  79. Ramayana - Valmiki
  80. The Recognition of Sakuntala - Kalidasa
  81. The Red and the Black - Stendhal
  82. Remembrance of Things Past - Marcel Proust
  83. Season of Migration to the North - Tayeb Salih
  84. Selected Stories - Anton P Chekhov
  85. Sentimental Education - Gustave Flaubert
  86. Sons and Lovers - DH Lawrence (Read and loved Women in Love!)
  87. The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
  88. The Sound of the Mountain - Yasunari Kawabata
  89. The Stranger - Albert Camus
  90. The Tale of Genji - Shikibu Murasaki (Some of it!)
  91. Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
  92. Thousand and One Nights - Anon (Some of it!)
  93. The Tin Drum - Gunter Grass
  94. To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
  95. The Trial - Franz Kafka
  96. Trilogy: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable - Samuel Beckett
  97. Ulysses - James Joyce
  98. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
  99. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
  100. Zorba the Greek - Nikos Kazantzakis
Dammit, that was even more HTML I had to type out. Thank God for "copy" and "paste."

1 comments:

Mrs. C said...

I love that Pippi is on this list!

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