Rising to the challenge...

[strange_complex]

OK, so which of kharin's top 100 books have I read?


1. Apuleius – The Golden Ass
2. Margaret Atwood – The Handmaid’s Tale
3. James Baldwin – Giovanni’s Room
4. Charlotte Bronte - Villette
5. Emily Bronte – Wuthering Heights
6. JG Ballard – Cocaine Nights
7. JG Ballard – The Atrocity Exhibition
8. Paul Bowles – Let It Come Down
9. Bertolt Brecht – The Threepenny Opera
10. Mikhail Bulgakov – The Master and Margarita
11. Anthony Burgess – Earthly Powers
12. William Beckford - Vathek
13. William Burroughs – Naked Lunch
14. Samuel Butler – Erewhon
15. Albert Camus – The Fall
16. Albert Camus – The Plague
17. Truman Capote – In Cold Blood
18. Lewis Carroll – Alice in Wonderland
19. Angela Carter – The Bloody Chamber
20. Willa Cather – Death Comes for the Archbishop
21. Kate Chopin – The Awakening
22. JM Coetzee – The Master of St Petersburg
23. Wilkie Collins – No Name (nope, but I have read The Woman in White, though: very good)
24. Dennis Cooper - Frisk
25. Joseph Conrad – Nostromo
26. Thomas De Quincey – Confessions of an English Opium Eater
27. Daniel Defoe – Roxana
28. Charles Dickens – Bleak House
29. Charles Dickens – Little Dorrit
30. Fyodor Dostoevsky – Crime and Punishment
31. Fyodor Dostoevsky – The Devils
32. Umberto Eco – The Name of the Rose
33. George Eliot – Middlemarch
34. George Eliot – The Mill on the Floss
35. Henry Fielding – Tom Jones
36. Ford Madox Ford – The Good Soldier
37. EM Forster – Howards End
38. John Fowles – The French Lieutenant’s Woman
39. Jean Genet – Querelle of Brest
40. Andre Gide – The Immoralist
41. William Godwin – Caleb Williams
42. William Golding – Lord of the Flies
43. Ivan Goncharov – Oblomov
44. Juan Goytisolo – The Garden of Secrets
45. Thomas Hardy – Jude the Obscure
46. Nathaniel Hawthorne – The Scarlet Letter (Nope, but again I've read The Marble Faun, which I loved!)
47. ET Hoffmann – The Tales of Hoffmann
48. Joseph Heller – Catch 22
49. Herman Hesse – Narziss and Goldmund
50. Michel Houellebecq - Platform
51. Aldous Huxley – Brave New World
52. Homer – The Odyssey
53. Huysmans – Against Nature
54. Christopher Isherwood – The Berlin Novels
55. James Joyce – A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
56. Franz Kafka – The Trial
57. Soren Kierkegaard – Either/Or
58. Arthur Koestler – Darkness at Noon
59. Milan Kundera – Immortality
60. William Langland – Piers Plowman
61. DH Lawrence – Women in Love
62. Mikhail Lermontov – A Hero of Our Time
63. Doris Lessing – The Golden Notebook
64. Malcolm Lowry – Under The Volcano
65. Thomas Mann – Buddenbrooks
66. Sandor Marai - Embers
67. Gabriel Garcia Marquez – One Hundred Years of Solitude
68. Charles Maturin – Melmoth the Wanderer
69. Francois Mauriac - Therese
70. Herman Melville – Moby Dick
71. William Morris – News From Nowhere
72. Iris Murdoch – The Sea, The Sea
73. Robert Musil – The Confusions of Young Torless
74. Vladimir Nabokov – Pale Fire
75. Friedrich Nietzsche – Thus Sprach Zarathustra
76. Flannery O’Connor – Wise Blood
77. George Orwell – Burmese Days
78. Walter Pater – Marius the Epicurean (Had to read it for a course on Classical Receptions. Got very sick of his sub-clauses within sub-clauses within sub-clauses.)
79. Mervyn Peake – Gormenghast
80. Fernando Pessoa – The Book of Disquiet
81. Petronius – The Satyricon
82. Edgar Allan Poe – Selected Tales (I've read all his short stories, so I presume I've read whatever's in here)
83. Joesph Roth – The Radetzky March
84. JD Salinger - The Catcher in the Rye
85. Jean Paul Sartre – Nausea
86. Mary Shelley – Frankenstein
87. Stendhal – The Red and The Black
88. Bram Stoker - Dracula
89. Jonathan Swift – Gulliver’s Travels
90. William Makepeace Thackeray – Vanity Fair
91. Leo Tolstoy – Anna Karenina
92. Ivan Turgenev – Fathers and Sons
93. Mark Twain – Pudd’nhead Wilson
94. Voltaire – Candide
95. Oscar Wilde – The Portrait of Dorian Gray
96. Mrs Humphrey Ward – Robert Elsmere
97. Jeanette Winterson – The Passion
98. Virginia Woolf – To The Lighthouse
99. Edith Wharton – Ethan Frome
100. Yevgeny Zamyatin - We

Comments

[addedentry.livejournal.com]

16 over here, but now I have a reading list (-:

Alarmingly, I can't remember when I stumbled on kharin's journal, but it was surely through a polyfriendly person like you or verlaine: everyone knows you, ergo everyone knows everyone else at one remove. No need for a conspiracy.

[venta.livejournal.com]

everyone knows you

More people know Tom Fool than Tom Fool knows :)

No need for a conspiracy.

That, however, is something of a relief :)

[ex-kharin447.livejournal.com]

Twas verlaine, I think.