Traveling Ph.D.

For the past year, I’ve been reading my way through Time’s 100 Best English Language Novels from 1923 to the Present. It’s been slow going. Sometimes I get distracted by my research. Other times, my brain cannot function so I end up reading vampire novels and fairy tales aimed at teenage girls. Looking at the list, I’ve been reading in fits and starts. Hopefully, I’ll make better headway this academic year?

Book(s) I am currently reading (1)

1. All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren

Books I had read before starting this challenge (19)

1. Animal Farm by George Orwell
2. Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
3. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
4. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger – Reread March 2010
5. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
6. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
7. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
8. The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
9. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
10. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
11. The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
12. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
13. 1984 by George Orwell
14. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
15. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
16. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
17. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
18. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
19. Watchmen by Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons

Books I have read since starting the challenge (18)

1. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler [April 22, 2009]
2. Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates [April 26, 2009]
3. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller [May 7, 2009]
4. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson [May 11, 2009]
5. Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion [May 12, 2009]
6. American Pastoral by Philip Roth [May 18, 2009]
7. Neuromancer by William Gibson [May 23, 2009]
8. Naked Lunch by William Burroughs [June 27, 2009]
9. The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon [June 28, 2009]
10. The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder [July 9, 2009]
11. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carre [July 12, 2009]
12. Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett [August 8, 2009]
13. White Teeth by Zadie Smith [August 12, 2009]
14. Deliverance by James Dickey [October 2009]
15. The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles  [July 15, 2010]
16. White Noise by Don DeLillo [July 19, 2010]
17. Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis [December 13, 2011]
18. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey [December 26, 2011]

 

On deck | Books I have ordered (9)

1. The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
2. Appointment in Samarra by John O’Hara
3. At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O’Brien
4. The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood
5. Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
6. Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone
7. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers – reshelved
8. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
9. Ubik by Philip K. Dick

The rest of the list (53)

1. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
2. The Assistant by Bernard Malamud
3. Atonement by Ian McEwan
4. Beloved by Toni Morrison
5. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
6. Brideshead Revisit by Evelyn Waugh
7. Call It Sleep by Henry Roth
8. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
9. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
10. The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
11. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
12. A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell
13. The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
14. A Death in the Family by James Agee
15. The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen
16. Falconer by John Cheever
17. The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles
18. The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
19. Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
20. Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
21. A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
22. The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
23. Herzog by Saul Bellow
24. Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
25. A House for Mr. Biswas by V.S. Naipaul
26. I, Claudius by Robert Graves
27. Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
28. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
29. Light in August by William Faulkner
30. Loving by Henry Green
31. The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead
32. Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
33. Money by Martin Amis
34. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
35. Native Son by Richard Wright
36. The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski
37. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
38. A Passage to India by E.M. Foster
39. Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth
40. Possession by A.S. Byatt
41. The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
42. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
43. Rabbit, Run by John Updike
44. Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow
45. The Recognitions by William Gaddis
46. The Sot-Weed Factor by John Barth
47. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
48. The Sportswriter by Richard Ford
49. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
50. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
51. Under the Net by Iris Murdoch
52. Under the Volcano by Malcom Lowry
53. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

Books I decided to read after reading an author on this list

1. Democracy by Joan Didion
2. I Married a Communist by Philip Roth
3. The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
4. The Plot against America by Philip Roth
5. The Spider’s House by Paul Bowles
6. The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
7. End Zone by Don DeLillo
8. Libra by Don DeLillo
9. Underworld by Don DeLillo

NOTE: The books highlighted in green are books that I enjoyed reading.

Tags: Books, Hobbies

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