Wednesday, March 16, 2011

The Reading List (Top 61)

Here are the top 61 books on my list.  These books were each on at least 3 of the 8 lists I went through.  The top 3 books (1984, The Grapes of Wrath, and The Great Gatsby) were each on 7 of the 8 lists.


TitleAuthorYearLists out of 8
1984George Orwell19487
The Grapes of WrathJohn Steinbeck19397
The Great GatsbyF. Scott Fitzgerald19257
Heart of DarknessJoseph Conrad 6
Lord of the FliesWilliam Golding19556
On the RoadJack Kerouac19576
The Catcher in the RyeJ.D. Salinger19516
The Sound and the FuryWilliam Faulkner19296
The Sun Also RisesErnest Hemingway19266
A Clockwork OrangeAnthony Burgess19635
A Farewell to ArmsErnest Hemingway 5
Animal FarmGeorge Orwell19465
BelovedToni Morrison19875
Brave New WorldAldous Huxley 5
Catch-22Joseph Heller19615
Gone with the WindMargaret Mitchell19365
Invisible ManRalph Ellison19525
LolitaVladimir Nabokov19555
One Flew Over the Cockoo's NestKen Kesey19625
Slaughterhouse FiveKurt Vonnegut19695
To Kill a MockingbirdHarper Lee19605
To the LighthouseVirginia Woolf19275
A Passage to IndiaE.M. Forster19244
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManJames Joyce 4
An American TragedyTheodore Dreiser19254
As I Lay DyingWilliam Faulkner 4
Atlas ShruggedAyn Rand 4
Brideshead RevisitedEvelyn Waugh19464
Farenheit 451Ray Bradbury 4
Light in AugustWilliam Faulkner19324
The Call of the WildJack London 4
The FountainheadAyn Rand 4
The Lord of the RingsJ.R.R. Tolkien19544
Tropic of CancerHenry Miller19344
UlyssesJames Joyce 4
A Confederacy of DuncesJohn Kennedy Toole 3
A House for Mr. BiswasV.S. Naipaul19623
Absalom, Absalom!William Faulkner 3
All the King's MenRobert Penn Warren19463
Blood MeridianCormac McCarthy19863
Death Comes for the ArchbishopWilla Cather19273
Go Tell it on the MountainJames Baldwin19533
I, ClaudiusRobert Graves19343
Jane EyreCharlotte Bronte 3
Midnight's ChildrenSalman Rushdie19813
Naked LunchWilliam Borroughs19593
Native SonRichard Wright19403
Of Human BondageW. Somerset Maugham 3
Of Mice and MenJohn Steinbeck 3
SiddhartaHermann Hesse 3
Sons and LoversD.H. Lawrence 3
The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnMark Twain 3
The Count of Monte CristoAlexandre Dumas 3
The French Lieutenant's WomanJohn Fowles19693
The Handmaid's TaleMargaret Atwood 3
The Heart is a Lonely HunterCarson McCullers19403
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the GalaxyDouglas Adams 3
The MoviegoerWalker Percy19613
The Sheltering SkyPaul Bowles19493
Under the VolcanoMalcolm Lowry19473
Wide Sargasso SeaJean Rhys19663

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