Title | Author | Year | Lists out of 8 |
1984 | George Orwell | 1948 | 7 |
The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck | 1939 | 7 |
The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald | 1925 | 7 |
Heart of Darkness | Joseph Conrad | 6 | |
Lord of the Flies | William Golding | 1955 | 6 |
On the Road | Jack Kerouac | 1957 | 6 |
The Catcher in the Rye | J.D. Salinger | 1951 | 6 |
The Sound and the Fury | William Faulkner | 1929 | 6 |
The Sun Also Rises | Ernest Hemingway | 1926 | 6 |
A Clockwork Orange | Anthony Burgess | 1963 | 5 |
A Farewell to Arms | Ernest Hemingway | 5 | |
Animal Farm | George Orwell | 1946 | 5 |
Beloved | Toni Morrison | 1987 | 5 |
Brave New World | Aldous Huxley | 5 | |
Catch-22 | Joseph Heller | 1961 | 5 |
Gone with the Wind | Margaret Mitchell | 1936 | 5 |
Invisible Man | Ralph Ellison | 1952 | 5 |
Lolita | Vladimir Nabokov | 1955 | 5 |
One Flew Over the Cockoo's Nest | Ken Kesey | 1962 | 5 |
Slaughterhouse Five | Kurt Vonnegut | 1969 | 5 |
To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee | 1960 | 5 |
To the Lighthouse | Virginia Woolf | 1927 | 5 |
A Passage to India | E.M. Forster | 1924 | 4 |
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | James Joyce | 4 | |
An American Tragedy | Theodore Dreiser | 1925 | 4 |
As I Lay Dying | William Faulkner | 4 | |
Atlas Shrugged | Ayn Rand | 4 | |
Brideshead Revisited | Evelyn Waugh | 1946 | 4 |
Farenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury | 4 | |
Light in August | William Faulkner | 1932 | 4 |
The Call of the Wild | Jack London | 4 | |
The Fountainhead | Ayn Rand | 4 | |
The Lord of the Rings | J.R.R. Tolkien | 1954 | 4 |
Tropic of Cancer | Henry Miller | 1934 | 4 |
Ulysses | James Joyce | 4 | |
A Confederacy of Dunces | John Kennedy Toole | 3 | |
A House for Mr. Biswas | V.S. Naipaul | 1962 | 3 |
Absalom, Absalom! | William Faulkner | 3 | |
All the King's Men | Robert Penn Warren | 1946 | 3 |
Blood Meridian | Cormac McCarthy | 1986 | 3 |
Death Comes for the Archbishop | Willa Cather | 1927 | 3 |
Go Tell it on the Mountain | James Baldwin | 1953 | 3 |
I, Claudius | Robert Graves | 1934 | 3 |
Jane Eyre | Charlotte Bronte | 3 | |
Midnight's Children | Salman Rushdie | 1981 | 3 |
Naked Lunch | William Borroughs | 1959 | 3 |
Native Son | Richard Wright | 1940 | 3 |
Of Human Bondage | W. Somerset Maugham | 3 | |
Of Mice and Men | John Steinbeck | 3 | |
Siddharta | Hermann Hesse | 3 | |
Sons and Lovers | D.H. Lawrence | 3 | |
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain | 3 | |
The Count of Monte Cristo | Alexandre Dumas | 3 | |
The French Lieutenant's Woman | John Fowles | 1969 | 3 |
The Handmaid's Tale | Margaret Atwood | 3 | |
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter | Carson McCullers | 1940 | 3 |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | 3 | |
The Moviegoer | Walker Percy | 1961 | 3 |
The Sheltering Sky | Paul Bowles | 1949 | 3 |
Under the Volcano | Malcolm Lowry | 1947 | 3 |
Wide Sargasso Sea | Jean Rhys | 1966 | 3 |
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.
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