ML = The Modern Library Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century
RR = Radcliffe's Rival 100 Best Novels List
TM = Times Magazine 100 Best English Language Novels
J = Books I came across or books I've wanted to read for a long time
S = Suggestions given to me by others
I'll be updating them as I add more or I complete and review them. Please suggest good books so I can add them to the list!
1776 - McCullough, David - J
2666 - Bolano, Roberto - J
A Canticle for Leibowitz - Miller, Walter M. Jr. - J
A Clockwork Orange - Burgess, Anthony - ML,RR,TM
A Dance to the Music of Time (Series) - Powell, Anthony - ML,TM
A Death in the Family - Agee, James - TM
A Farewell to Arms - Hemingway, Ernest - ML,RR
A Game of Thrones - Martin, George RR - J
A Game of Thrones - Martin, George RR - J
A Good Man is Hard to Find - O'Connor, Flannery - RR
A Handful of Dust - Waugh, Evelyn - ML,TM
A House for Mr. Biswas - Naipaul, V.S. - ML,TM
A Passage to India - Forster, E.M. - ML,RR,TM
A Peace to End All Peace - Fromkin, David - J
A Peace to End All Peace - Fromkin, David - J
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - Joyce, James - ML,RR
A Separate Peace - Knowles, John - RR
Absalom, Absalom! - Faulkner, William - RR
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Twain, Mark - J
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Twain, Mark - J
The Age of Innocence - Wharton, Edith - ML,RR
The Alexandria Quartet - Durell, Lawrence - ML
The Autobiography of Alice B. Tokias - Stein, Gertrude - RR
The Awakening - Chopin, Kate - RR
All the King's Men - Warren, Robert Penn - ML,RR,TM
All Quiet on the Western Front - Remarque, Erich Maria - J
All Quiet on the Western Front - Remarque, Erich Maria - J
The Ambassadors - James, Henry - ML
American Pastoral - Roth, Philip - TM
An American Tragedy - Dreiser, Theodore - ML,RR,TM
Appointment in Samarra - O'Hara, John - ML,TM
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret - Bloom, Judy - TM
Armageddon: The Battle for Germany - Hastings, Sir Max - J
As I Lay Dying - Faulkner, William - ML,RR
The Assistant - Malamud, Bernard - TM
At Swim-Two-Birds - O'Brien, Flann - TM
Atonement - McEwan, Ian - TM
Babbit - Lewis, Sinclair - RR
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era - McPherson, James M. - J
The Beach - Garland, Alex - J
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era - McPherson, James M. - J
The Beach - Garland, Alex - J
Beloved - Morrison, Toni - RR,TM
The Berlin Stories - Isherwood, Christopher - TM
The Big Short - Lewis, Michael - J
The Big Sleep - Chandler, Raymond - TM
The Blind Assassin - Atwood, Margaret - TM
Blood Meridian - McCarthy, Cormac - TM
Bonfire of the Vanities - Wolfe, Tom - RR
The Border Trilogy - McCarthy, Cormac - J
The Border Trilogy - McCarthy, Cormac - J
The Bostonians - James, Henry - RR
Brave New World - Huxley, Aldous - ML,RR
The Bridge of the San Luis Rey - Wilder, Thornton - ML,TM
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Díaz, Junot - J
The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoevsky, Fyodor - J
The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoevsky, Fyodor - J
C - McCarthy, Tom - J
Call It Sleep - Roth, Philip - TM
Cannery Row - Steinbeck, John - J 5/23/2011 ****
Carter Beats the Devil - Gold, Glen David - J
Carter Beats the Devil - Gold, Glen David - J
Catch-22 - Heller, Joseph - ML,RR,TM
Charlotte's Web - White, E.B. - RR
Cincinnati Subway: The History of Rapid Transit - Singer, Allen J. - S
Cincinnati's Golden Age - Smiddy, Betty Ann - J
Cincinnati's Incomplete Subway: The Complete History - Mecklenborg, Jake - S
City of Thieves - Benioff, David - J
Civilwarland in Bad Decline - Saunders, George- J
Cloud Atlas - Mitchell, David - J
Coldheart Canyon - Barker, Clive - J
Cincinnati Subway: The History of Rapid Transit - Singer, Allen J. - S
Cincinnati's Golden Age - Smiddy, Betty Ann - J
Cincinnati's Incomplete Subway: The Complete History - Mecklenborg, Jake - S
City of Thieves - Benioff, David - J
Civilwarland in Bad Decline - Saunders, George- J
Cloud Atlas - Mitchell, David - J
Coldheart Canyon - Barker, Clive - J
The Color Purple - Walker, Alice - RR
The Confessions of Nat Turner - Styron, William - TM
The Corrections - Franzen, Jonathan - TM
The Count of Monte Cristo - Dumas, Alexandre - J
Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky, Fyodor - J
The Count of Monte Cristo - Dumas, Alexandre - J
Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky, Fyodor - J
The Crying of Lot 49 - Pynchon, Thomas - TM
D-Day: The Battle for Normandy - Beevor, Antony - J
The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy (1943-1944) - Atkinson, Rick - J
The Day of the Locust - West, Nathanael - ML,TM
The Death and Life of Great Modern Cities - Jacobs, Jane - J
Death Comes for the Archbishop - Cather, Willa - ML,RR,TM
Death with Interruptions - Saramago, Jose - J
Death with Interruptions - Saramago, Jose - J
Deliverance - Dickey, James - ML,TM
The Devil in the White City - Larson, Erik - J
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Dick, Philip K - J 5/30/2011 *** 1/2
The Devil in the White City - Larson, Erik - J
Dog Soldiers - Stone, Robert - TM
Don Quixote - Cervantes, Miguel - J
Down & Delirious in Mexico City - Hernandez, Daniel - J
Dracula - Stoker, Bram - J
Dune - Herbert, Frank - J
Empire Falls - Russo, Richard - J
Don Quixote - Cervantes, Miguel - J
Down & Delirious in Mexico City - Hernandez, Daniel - J
Dracula - Stoker, Bram - J
Dune - Herbert, Frank - J
Empire Falls - Russo, Richard - J
Ethan Frome - Wharton, Edith - RR
Exile and the Kingdom - Camus, Albert - J
Exile and the Kingdom - Camus, Albert - J
FDR - Smith, Jean Edward - J
Finnegans Wake - Joyce, James - ML,RR
For Whom the Bell Tolls - Hemingway, Ernest - RR
Foucault's Pendulum - Eco, Umberto - J
Frankenstein - Shelley, Mary - J
Foucault's Pendulum - Eco, Umberto - J
Frankenstein - Shelley, Mary - J
Franny and Zooey - Salinger, J.D. - RR
The French Lieutenant's Woman - Fowles, John - RR,TM
From Here to Eternity - Jones, James - ML
Ghost Wars - Coll, Steve
Ghost Wars - Coll, Steve
Go Tell It on the Mountain - Baldwin, James - ML,RR,TM
The Godfather - Puzo, Mario - J
The Godfather - Puzo, Mario - J
The Golden Bowl - James, Henry - ML
The Golden Notebook - Lessing, Doris - TM
Gone with the Wind - Mitchell, Margaret - RR,TM
Goodbye Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War - Manchester, William - J
Goodbye Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War - Manchester, William - J
The Good Soldier - Ford, Ford Madox - ML
The Good War - Turkel, Studs - J
The Gospel According to Jesus Christ - Saramago, Jose - J
The Good War - Turkel, Studs - J
The Gospel According to Jesus Christ - Saramago, Jose - J
Gravity's Rainbow - Pynchon, Thomas - TM
Gulliver's Travels - Swift, Jonathan - J
Half-broke Horses - Walls, Jeannette - J
Heart of Darkness - Conrad, Joseph - ML,RR
Gulliver's Travels - Swift, Jonathan - J
Half-broke Horses - Walls, Jeannette - J
Heart of Darkness - Conrad, Joseph - ML,RR
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - McCullers, Carson - ML,TM
The Heart of the Matter - Greene, Graham - ML,TM
Henderson the Rain King - Bellow, Saul - ML
Herzog - Bellow, Saul - TM
The House of Mirth - Wharton, Edith - ML
Housekeeping - Robinson, Marilynne - TM
Howards End - Forster, E.M. - ML,RR
I, Claudius - Graves, Robert - ML,TM
The Idiot - Dostoevsky, Fyodor - J
Imajica - Barker, Clive - J
The Idiot - Dostoevsky, Fyodor - J
Imajica - Barker, Clive - J
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Skloot, Rebecca - J
In Cold Blood - Capote, Truman - RR
In the First Circle - Solzhenitsyn, Aleksander - J
In the First Circle - Solzhenitsyn, Aleksander - J
In Our Time - Hemingway, Ernest - RR
Infinite Jest - Wallace, David Foster - TM
Interpreter of Maladies - Lahiri, Jhumpa - J
Jazz - Morrison, Toni - RR
The Jews of Cincinnati - Sarna, Jonathan - S (Thanks Julie!)
John Adams - McCullough, David - J
The Jews of Cincinnati - Sarna, Jonathan - S (Thanks Julie!)
John Adams - McCullough, David - J
The Jungle - Sinclair, Upton - RR
Kafka on the Shore - Murakami, Haruki - J
The Kite Runner - Hosseini, Khaled - J
The Known World - Jones, Edward P. - J
The Known World - Jones, Edward P. - J
Lady Chatterley’s Lover - Lawrence, D.H. - RR
Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition - Okrent, Daniel - J
Let the Great World Spin - McCann, Colum - J
The Life and Opinions of Tomcat Murr - Hoffmann, E.T.A - S (Thanks Adam!)
The Life and Opinions of Tomcat Murr - Hoffmann, E.T.A - S (Thanks Adam!)
Light in August - Faulkner, William - ML,RR,TM
The Lonesome Dove - McMurtry, Larry - J
The Lonesome Dove - McMurtry, Larry - J
Look Homeward, Angel - Wolfe, Thomas - RR
The Lord of the Rings - Tolkien, J.R.R - RR,TM 3/18/2011 *****
The Lost City of Z - Grann, David - J
The Lost City of Z - Grann, David - J
Lucky Jim - Amis, Kingsley - TM
Main Street - Lewis, Sinclair - ML,RR
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand - Simonson, Helen - J
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand - Simonson, Helen - J
The Maltese Falcon - Hammett, Dashiell - ML,RR
The Man Who Loved Children - Stead, Christina - TM
The Manchurian Candidate - Condon, Richard - J
The Master and Margarita - Bulgakov, Mikhail - J
Moby Dick - Melville, Herman - J
The Master and Margarita - Bulgakov, Mikhail - J
Moby Dick - Melville, Herman - J
Money - Amis, Martin - TM
The Moviegoer - Percy, Walker - ML,TM
Mr. Peanut - Ross, Adam - J
Mrs. Dalloway - Woolf, Virginia - RR,TM
My Antonia - Cather, Willa - RR
The Naked and the Dead - Mailer, Norman - ML,RR
Naked Lunch - Burroughs, William S. - RR,TM
Name of the Wind - Rothfuss, Patrick - S (Thanks Puddin!)
Name of the Wind - Rothfuss, Patrick - S (Thanks Puddin!)
Native Son - Wright, Richard - ML,RR,TM
Neuromancer - Gibson, William - TM
Nostromo - Conrad, Joseph - ML
O Pioneers! - Cather, Willa - RR
Of Human Bondage - Somerset Maugham, W. - ML
The Old Man and the Sea - Hemingway, Ernest - RR
On the Road - Kerouac, Jack - ML,RR,TM
On the Beach - Shute, Nevil - J
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Solzhenitsyn, Alexander - J 4/10/2011 *** 1/2
On the Beach - Shute, Nevil - J
Over-the-Rhine: When Beer Was King - Morgan, Michael D. - J
The Ox-Bow Incident - Clark, Walter Van Tilburg - J
The Ox-Bow Incident - Clark, Walter Van Tilburg - J
The Painted Bird - Kosinski, Jerzy - TM
Pale Fire - Nabokov, Vladimir - ML,TM
Parade's End - Ford, Ford Madox - ML
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Wilde, Oscar - J
Plainsong - Haruf, Ken - J 10/13/2011
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Wilde, Oscar - J
Play It as It Lays - Didion, Joan - TM
Portnoy's Complaint - Roth, Philip - ML,TM
Portrait of a Lady - James, Henry - RR
Possession - Byatt, A.S. - TM
The Power and the Glory - Greene, Graham - TM
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York - Cato, Robert A. - J
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York - Cato, Robert A. - J
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Spark, Muriel - ML,TM
The Princess Bride - Goldman, William - J
Scoop - Waugh, Evelyn - ML 4/5/2011 **** 1/2
Scorecasting - Moskowitz, Tobias - J
Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege - Beevor, Anthony 2/25/2011 *** 1/2
Swan Song - McCammon, Robert - J
The Princess Bride - Goldman, William - J
Rabbit, Run - Updike, John - RR,TM
The Rainbow - Lawrence, D.H. - ML
Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788 - Maier, Pauline - J
Rebecca - du Maurier, Daphne - RR
The Recognitions - Gaddis, William - TM
Red Harvest - Hammett, Dashiell - TM
Retribution: The Battle for Japan - Hastings, Sir Max - J
Revolutionary Road - Yates, Richard - TM
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany - Shirer, William L. - J
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt - Morris, Edmund - J
Robinson Crusoe - Defoe, Daniel - J
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt - Morris, Edmund - J
Robinson Crusoe - Defoe, Daniel - J
Room - Donaghue, Emma - J
The Satanic Verses - Rushdie, Salman - RR
The Scarlet Letter - Hawthorne, Nathaniel - J
The Scarlet Letter - Hawthorne, Nathaniel - J
Scorecasting - Moskowitz, Tobias - J
The Secret Agent - Conrad, Joseph - ML
Shantaram - Roberts, Gregory David - J
Shadow Country - Matthiessen, Peter - J
Siddhartha - Hesse, Hermann - J
Shadow Country - Matthiessen, Peter - J
Siddhartha - Hesse, Hermann - J
Snow Crash - Stephenson, Neal - TM
Song of Solomon - Morrison, Toni - RR
Sons and Lovers - Lawrence, D.H. - ML,RR
The Sot-Weed Factor - Barth, John - TM
The Sportswriter - Ford, Richard - TM
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold - le Carre, John - TM
The Sound and the Fury - Faulkner, William - ML,RR,TM
Swan Song - McCammon, Robert - J
The Studs Lonigan Trilogy - Farrell, James T. - ML
The Sun Also Rises - Hemingway, Ernest - ML,RR,TM
Tender is the Night - Fitzgerald, F. Scott - ML,RR
The Things They Carried - O'Brien, Tim - J
Their Eyes Were Watching God - Hurston, Zora Neale - RR,TM
Them - McCall, Nathan - S (Thanks Julie!)
Thin Red Line - Jones, James - J 7/19/2011 8/10
Them - McCall, Nathan - S (Thanks Julie!)
Things Fall Apart - Achebe, Chinua - RR,TM
This Side of Paradise - Fitzgerald, F. Scott - RR
To Kill A Mockingbird - Lee, Harper - RR,TM
To the Lighthouse - Woolf, Virginia - ML,RR,TM
Travels with Charley - Steinbeck, John - J
Treasure Island - Stevenson, Robert Louis - J 4/15/2011 ***
Tree of Smoke - Johnson, Denis - J
The Trial - Kafka, Franz - J
Triumph of the City - Glaeser, Edward - J
Travels with Charley - Steinbeck, John - J
Tree of Smoke - Johnson, Denis - J
The Trial - Kafka, Franz - J
Triumph of the City - Glaeser, Edward - J
Tropic of Cancer - Miller, Henry - ML,RR,TM
Ubik - Dick, Philip K. - TM
Ulysses - Joyce, James - ML,RR
Uncle Tom's Cabin - Stowe, Harriet Beecher - J
Uncle Tom's Cabin - Stowe, Harriet Beecher - J
Under the Volcano - Lowry, Malcolm - ML,TM
USA (Trilogy) - Passos, John Dos - ML
Waiting for the Barbarians - Coetzee, J.M. - J
Waiting for the Barbarians - Coetzee, J.M. - J
The Wapshot Chronicle - Cheever, John - ML
The War of the Worlds - Wells, H.G. - RR
The Warmth of Other Suns - Wilkerson, Isabel - J
Washington: A Life - Chernow, Ron - J
Watership Down - Adams, Richard - J
Watership Down - Adams, Richard - J
The Way of All Flesh - Butler, Samuel - ML
What is the What - Eggers, Dave - J
What is the What - Eggers, Dave - J
Where Angels Fear to Tread - Forster, E.M. - RR
White Noise - DeLillo, Don - RR,TM
White Teeth - Smith, Zadie - TM
The Wind in the Willows - Grahame, Kenneth - RR
Winesburg, Ohio - Anderson, Sherwood - ML
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle - Murakami, Haruki - J
The Wings of the Dove - James, Henry - ML,RR
Winnie-the-Pooh - Milne, A.A. - RR
Winter's Bone - Woodrell, Daniel - J
Wolf Hall - Mantel, Hilary - J
Winter's Bone - Woodrell, Daniel - J
Wolf Hall - Mantel, Hilary - J
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - Baum, L. Frank - RR
The World According to Garp - Irving, John - RR
Women in Love - Lawrence, D.H. - ML,RR
The Worst Hard Time - Egan, Timothy - J
Zeitoun - Eggers, Dave - S (Thanks Loki!)
The Worst Hard Time - Egan, Timothy - J
Zeitoun - Eggers, Dave - S (Thanks Loki!)
