I have been hearing about this list, which Lazy Cow posted on her blog, so for lack of anything else more exciting to chat about, I am going to do the same as she did. I usually do terrible at these lists, but I will own up to what I have read (or not anyway). The bolded books are the ones I have read. I have put asterisks by the ones I would like to tackle in 2007--they are already on my TBR pile.
1. Don Quixote - Miguel De Cervantes*
2. Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan
3. Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe (currently reading this one)
4. Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift (in high school--does that count?)
5. Tom Jones - Henry Fielding
6. Clarissa - Samuel Richardson
7. Tristram Shandy - Laurence Sterne
8. Dangerous Liaisons - Pierre Choderlos De Laclos*
9. Emma - Jane Austen*
10. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley (currently reading this one, too)
11. Nightmare Abbey - Thomas Love Peacock (I'm afraid I have never heard of this one...)
12. The Black Sheep - Honore De Balzac
13. The Charterhouse of Parma - Stendhal
14. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
15. Sybil - Benjamin Disraeli
16. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
17. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
18. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
19. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
20. The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
21. Moby-Dick Herman Melville
22. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
23. The Woman in White -Wilkie Collins
24. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland - Lewis Carroll* ( yes, I should have read this one already!)
25. Little Women - Louisa M. Alcott
26. The Way We Live Now - Anthony Trollope
27. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
28. Daniel Deronda - George Eliot*
29. The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky (I might have read this in high school--either it was this one or Crime and Punishment--it's all a blur now)
30. The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James*
31. Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain (I read Tom Sawyer)
32. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
33. Three Men in a Boat - Jerome K. Jerome
34. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
35. The Diary of a Nobody - George Grossmith
36. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
37. The Riddle of the Sands - Erskine Childers
38. The Call of the Wild - Jack London
39. Nostromo - Joseph Conrad
40. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
41. In Search of Lost Time - Marcel Proust
42. The Rainbow - D. H. Lawrence
43. The Good Soldier - Ford Madox Ford
44. The Thirty-Nine Steps - John Buchan
45. Ulysses - James Joyce
46. Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
47. A Passage to India - E. M. Forster
48. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
49. The Trial - Franz Kafka
50. Men Without Women - Ernest Hemingway
51. Journey to the End of the Night Louis - Ferdinand Celine
52. As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
53. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley*
54. Scoop - Evelyn Waugh
55. USA - John Dos Passos
56. The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
57. The Pursuit Of Love - Nancy Mitford
58. The Plague - Albert Camus
59. Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
60. Malone Dies - Samuel Beckett
61. Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
62. Wise Blood - Flannery O'Connor
63. Charlotte's Web - E. B. White
64. The Lord Of The Rings J. R. R. Tolkien
65. Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis
66. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
67. The Quiet American - Graham Greene
68 On the Road - Jack Kerouac
69. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
70. The Tin Drum - Gunter Grass
71. Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
72. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
73. To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
74. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
75. Herzog - Saul Bellow
76. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
77. Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont - Elizabeth Taylor
78. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - John Le Carre
79. Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
80. The Bottle Factory Outing - Beryl Bainbridge
81. The Executioner's Song - Norman Mailer
82. If on a Winter's Night a Traveller - Italo Calvino
83. A Bend in the River - V. S. Naipaul
84. Waiting for the Barbarians - J.M. Coetzee
85. Housekeeping - Marilynne Robinson
86. Lanark - Alasdair Gray
87. The New York Trilogy - Paul Auster*
88. The BFG - Roald Dahl
89. The Periodic Table - Primo Levi
90. Money - Martin Amis
91. An Artist of the Floating World - Kazuo Ishiguro
92. Oscar And Lucinda - Peter Carey
93. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting - Milan Kundera
94. Haroun and the Sea af Stories - Salman Rushdie
95. La Confidential - James Ellroy
96. Wise Children Angela Carter
97. Atonement - Ian McEwan
98. Northern Lights - Philip Pullman
99. American Pastoral - Philip Roth
100. Austerlitz - W. G. Sebald
Of course I want to read most of them, and I will get around to reading more of them. This list does have a nice mixture of authors! By the way--sorry about the gaps in the list--Typepad won't let me format this the way I want to!
True to her word, Barbara Taylor Bradford sent along a copy of her new book. It is actually much nicer than publishers usually send out as advance readers copies--this is a lovely hardcover that must have been printed in the UK as it has the price in sterling inside. I have noticed that British books are bound differently than those here in the US. Personally I think they are nicer in most cases. The paper is nice and the binding is nice--the pages lay more flat. I have read all of about the first two pages, which is no reflection on the writing, I just haven't had much reading time this weekend. I think it is going to be along the lines of a Penny Vincenzi novel perhaps--we'll see. I have made progress in Eat,Pray, Love. We have left Italy and are now in India (the "pray" part of the book). I think I must have gained five pounds just reading about all the food she ate in Italy--and I still want to go there. I am really enjoying the book--it is sort of a memoir, sort of a travelogue, but sort of not, either. I really like her--as a matter of fact there have been a few places that I have nearly been in tears, and other places that I have laughed out loud. Sorry, I know that sounds like quite the cliche, but it is true! I have also gotten back into The Observations--I was afraid I had lost the thread. It is sort of an odd story, but I am curious to see where it all leads! This week it will be back to reading Indiana as discussion starts next weekend!