Booklist

Thanks, Ross, for the idea.
2008

• Allen, David / Getting things done
• Cederholm / Bulletproof web design
• Conrad, Joseph / The secret agent
• Fforde, Jasper / The big over easy
• Fodor’s / Florida 2008
• Japanese for busy people, 3rd Ed.
• Kingsolver, Barbara / Animal, vegetable, miracle (unfinished)
• Lethem, Jonathan / Motherless Brooklyn
• Lonely Planet / Japan
• Lonely Planet / The Philippines
• Meyer / CSS : the definitive guide
• Saramago, José / Seeing
• Spurling, Hilary / Matisse the master
• Verhoogt, Robert / Art in Reproduction: Nineteenth-Century Prints after Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Jozef Israels and Ary Scheffer.  My review on ARLIS/NA reviews: PDF version here.

2007

• Babbie, Earl / The practice of social research
• Coote, Stephen / Drake
• Eggers, Dave / What is the what
• Fodor’s / Northern California (1st ed.)
• Galvan, Jose / Writing literature reviews
• Insiders guide to the Florida Keys and Key West (11th ed.)
• Jain, Kajri / Gods in the bazaar : the economies of Indian calendar art. Posted here (in PDF) is my review of this book for the November 2007 issue of the publication ARLIS/NA reviews.
• Jannach & Korb / German for reading knowledge
• Kiernan, Frances / The last Mrs. Astor
• Lonely Planet / Coastal California (1st ed.)
• Némorovsky, Irène / Suite française
• Picturing the banjo [exhibition catalog]
• Pynchon, Thomas / Against the day
• Spurling, Hilary / The unknown Matiss

2006 (partial)

• Bulgakov, Mikhail / Heart of a dog (thank you Sarah)
• Burnett, Frances Hodgson / The secret garden (thank you Bob)
• Bryson, Bill / A short history of nearly everything
• Cervantes / Don Quixote (Part 1 only)
• Ellman, Richard / James Joyce
• Last, Jay T. / The color explosion: 19th century American lithography
  Posted here (in PDF) is my review of this book for the October/November 2006 issue of the publication ARLIS/NA reviews, formerly part of Art Documentation.
• Moon / Atlantic Canada
• Nabokov, Vladimir / Lectures on Don Quixote (thanks Oleg)
• Pamuk, Orhan / Snow
• Powers, J. F. / Morte d’Urban (thank you Nolan)

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Guardian Observer: “100 greatest novels of all time.”
Robert McCrum
Sunday October 12, 2003

1. Don Quixote / Miguel De Cervantes
2. Pilgrim’s Progress / John Bunyan
3. Robinson Crusoe / Daniel Defoe
4. Gulliver’s Travels / Jonathan Swift
5. Tom Jones / Henry Fielding
6. Clarissa / Samuel Richardson
7. Tristram Shandy / Laurence Sterne
8. Dangerous Liaisons / Pierre Choderlos De Laclos
9. Emma / Jane Austen
10. Frankenstein / Mary Shelley
11. Nightmare Abbey / Thomas Love Peacock
12. The Black Sheep / Honore De Balzac
13. The Charterhouse of Parma / Stendhal
14. The Count of Monte Cristo / Alexandre Dumas
15. Sybil / Benjamin Disraeli
16. David Copperfield / Charles Dickens
17. Wuthering Heights / Emily Bronte
18. Jane Eyre / Charlotte Bronte
19. Vanity Fair / William Makepeace Thackeray
20. The Scarlet Letter / Nathaniel Hawthorne
21. Moby-Dick / Herman Melville *****
22. Madame Bovary / Gustave Flaubert
23. The Woman in White / Wilkie Collins
24. Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland / Lewis Carroll
25. Little Women / Louisa M. Alcott
26. –
27. Anna Karenina / Leo Tolstoy
28. Daniel Deronda / George Eliot
29. The Brothers Karamazov / Fyodor Dostoevsky
30. The Portrait of a Lady / Henry James
31. Huckleberry Finn / Mark Twain
32. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde / Robert Louis Stevenson
33. Three Men in a Boat / Jerome K. Jerome
34. The Picture of Dorian Gray / Oscar Wilde
35. The Diary of a Nobody / George Grossmith
36. Jude the Obscure / Thomas Hardy
37. The Riddle of the Sands / Erskine Childers
38. The Call of the Wild / Jack London
39. The Wind in the Willows / Kenneth Grahame
40. In Search of Lost Time / Marcel Proust
41. –
42. The Good Soldier / Ford Madox Ford (Modern Library #30)
43. The Thirty-Nine Steps / John Buchan
44. -
45. Mrs Dalloway / Virginia Woolf
46. A Passage to India / E. M. Forster (Modern Library #25)
47. The Great Gatsby / F. Scott Fitzgerald (Modern Library #2)
48. The Trial / Franz Kafka
49. Men Without Women / Ernest Hemingway
50. Journey to the End of the Night / Louis-Ferdinand Celine
51. As I Lay Dying / William Faulkner (Modern Library #35)
52. –
53. Scoop / Evelyn Waugh (Modern Library #75)
54. USA (trilogy) / John Dos Passos (Modern Library #23)
55. The Big Sleep / Raymond Chandler
56. The Pursuit Of Love / Nancy Mitford
57. The Plague / Albert Camus
58. Nineteen Eighty-Four / George Orwell (Modern Library #13)
59. Malone Dies / Samuel Beckett
60. Catcher in the Rye / J.D. Salinger (Modern Library #64)
61. Wise Blood / Flannery O’Connor
62. Charlotte’s Web / E. B. White
63. The Lord Of The Rings / J. R. R. Tolkien
64. Lucky Jim / Kingsley Amis
65. Lord of the Flies / William Golding (Modern Library #41)
66. The Quiet American / Graham Greene
67. On the Road / Jack Kerouac (Modern Library #55)
68. –
69. The Tin Drum / Gunter Grass
70. Things Fall Apart / Chinua Achebe
71. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie / Muriel Spark (Modern Library #76)
72. To Kill A Mockingbird / Harper Lee
73. Catch-22 / Joseph Heller (Modern Library #7)
74. Herzog / Saul Bellow
75. One Hundred Years of Solitude / Gabriel Garcia Marquez
76. Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont / Elizabeth Taylor
77. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy / John Le Carre
78. Song of Solomon / Toni Morrison
79. The Bottle Factory Outing / Beryl Bainbridge
80. The Executioner’s Song / Norman Mailer

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Aggregation (in progress) of: (1) Nolan’s reading list, Summer 2004-Spring 2008 + (2) Modern Library 100 Best novels of the 20th century + (3) Guardian Observer: “100 greatest novels of all time.” (Robert McCrum, Sunday October 12, 2003) + (4) Random stuff on my shelf/list

• Aeschylus — The Oresteia
• Anderson, Sherwood — Winesburg, Ohio (ML #24)
• Angel, Roger — Let Me Finish
• Amis, Martin — Money (G #89)
• Astor, Paul — The New York Trilogy (G #86)
• Augustine — Confessionum libri tredecim (Latin)
• Austen, Jane — Persuasion
• Austen, Jane — Pride and Prejudice
• Austen, Jane — Sense and Sensibility
• Baldwin, James — Go Tell It On the Mountain (ML #39)
• Balzac, Honoré de — A Harlot High and Low
• Balzac, Honoré de — Lost Illusions
• Balzac, Honoré de — The Unknown Masterpiece
• Banks, Russell — Continental Drift
• Banks, Russell — The Darling
• Banks, Russell — The Sweet Hereafter
• Barkan, Leonard — Satyr Square
• Barnes, Julian — Arthur and George
• Beerbohm, Max — Zuleika Dobson (ML #59)
• *Bell, Madison Smartt — All Souls Rising
• Bell, Madison Smartt — Anything Goes
• *Bell, Madison Smartt — Master of the Crossroads
• *Bell, Madison Smartt — The Stone that the Builder Refused
• Bellow, Saul — Henderson the Rain King (ML #21)
• Bellow, Saul — Herzog
• Bellow, Saul — The Adventures of Augie March (Nolan; ML #81)
• Bennett, Arnold — The Old Wives’ Tale (ML #87)
• Bolano, Roberto — The Savage Detectives
• Bowen, Elizabeth — The Death of the Heart (ML #84)
• Bowles, Paul — The Sheltering Sky (ML #97)
• Bradbury, Malcolm — The History Man
• Broch, Hermann — The Death of Virgil
• Bronte, Charlotte — Jane Eyre
• Bronte, Charlotte — Shirley
• Bronte, Charlotte — Villette
• Burgess, Anthony — A Clockwork Orange (ML #65)
• Butler, Samuel — The Way of All Flesh (ML #12)
• Cain, James M. — The Postman Always Rings Twice (ML #98)
• Caldwell, Erskine — Tobacco Road (ML #91)
• Calvino, Italo — If On a Winter’s Night a Traveller (G #81)
• Capote, Truman — In Cold Blood
• Carey, Peter — His Illegitimate Self
• Carey, Peter — Oscar and Lucinda (Nolan; G #91)
• Carter, Angela — Wise Children (G #95)
• Cather, Willa — Death Comes for the Archbishop (ML #61)
• Cervantes, Miguel de — Don Quixote (G #1)
• Cheever, John — The Wapshot Chronicles (ML #63)
• Coetzee, J. M. — Waiting for the Barbarians (G #83)
• Coleman, Eliot — Four Season Harvest
• Conrad, Joseph — Heart of Darkness (ML #67)
• Conrad, Joseph — Lord Jim (ML #85)
• Conrad, Joseph — Nostromo (G #39, ML #47)
• Conrad, Joseph — The Secret Agent (ML #46) 2008
• Conrad, Joseph — Selected Shorter Fiction
• Conrad, Joseph — Under Western Eyes
• Cuno, James (Ed.) — Whose muse? Art museums and the public trust (list)
• Dahl, Roald — The BFG (G #87)
• Darwin, Charles — The Voyage of the Beagleand Origin of Species (Excerpts)
• Davis, Kathryn — The Girl Who Trod on a Loaf
• Defoe, Daniel — Moll Flanders
• Defoe, Daniel — Robinson Crusoe
• Delbanco, Andrew — Melville: His World and Work
• DeLillo, Don — Falling Man
• Diamant, Anita — The red tent (list)
• Dickens, Charles — A Tale of Two Cities
• Dickens, Charles — David Copperfield
• Dickens, Charles — Great Expectations
• Dickens, Charles — Our Mutual Friend
• Dickens, Charles — The Old Curiosity Shop
• Dickey, James — Deliverance (ML #42)
• Doctorow, E.L. — Ragtime (ML #86)
• Donleavy, J. P. — The Ginger Man (ML #99)
• Dostoyevsky, Feodor — Crime and Punishment
• Dostoyevsky, Feodor — The Brothers Karamazov
• Dreiser, Theodore — An American Tragedy (ML #16)
• Dreiser, Theodore — Sister Carrie (ML #33)
• Drucker, Peter — Management Challenges for the 21st century
• Durrell, Lawrence — The Alexandria Quartet (ML #70)
• Eisenberg, Deborah — Twilight of the Superheroes
• Ellison, Ralph — Invisible Man (ML #19)
• Ellroy, James — LA Confidential (G #94)
• Euripides (trans. Anne Carson) — Grief Lessons: Alkestis, Herakles, Hekabe and Hippolytos
• Everything is miscellaneous
• Farrell, James T. — The Studs Lonigan Trilogy (ML #29)
• *Faulkner, William — Light in August (ML #54)
• Faulkner, William — Snopes: The Hamlet, The Town, The Mansion
• Faulkner, William — The Sound and the Fury (ML #6)
• *Fielding, Henry — Tom Jones
• Fitzgerald, F. Scott — The Great Gatsby (ML #2)
• Fitzgerald, F. Scott — Tender Is the Night (ML #28)
• Flaubert, Gustave — Madame Bovary
• Ford, Ford Madox — Parade’s End (ML #57)
• Ford, Richard — Independence Day
• Ford, Richard — The Lay of the Land (Nolan; list)
• Ford, Richard — The Sportswriter
• Forster, E. M. — A Room with a View (Nolan; ML #79)
• Forster, E. M. — Howard’s End (Nolan; ML #38)
• Forster, E. M. — Where Angels Fear to Tread
• Forster, E. M. — The Longest Journey
• Fowles, John — The Magus, (ML #93)
  
• Fuller, Alexandra — Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight
• Gluck, Louise — Averno
• Gogol, Nikokai — Dead Souls
• Goodwin, Doris Kearns — A Team of Rivals
• Goodwin, Doris Kearns — No Ordinary Times
• Gordon, Mary — Circling My Mother
• Graves, Robert — Claudius the God
• Graves, Robert — I, Claudius (Nolan; ML # 14)
• Gray, Alasdair — Lanark (G #85)
• Green, Henry — Loving (ML #89)
• Greene, Graham — The Heart of the Matter (ML #40)
• Greenblatt, Steven — Will in the World
• Hall, Donald — (list
• Hammett, Dashiell — The Maltese Falcon (ML #56)
• Hazzard, Shirley — The Great Fire
• Hazzard, Shirley — The Transit of Venus
• Hegi, Ursula — Sacred Time
• Hegi, Ursula — Stones from the River
• Helprin, Mark — Freddy and Fredericka
• Hemingway, Ernest — A Farewell to Arms (ML #74)
• Hemingway, Ernest — The Sun Also Rises (ML #45)
• Hendra, Tony — Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul
• Hochschild, Adam — King Leopold’s Ghost
• Homer — The Iliad (Fagles, trans.)
• Homer — The Iliad (Lombardo, trans.)
• Homer — The Odyssey (Fagles, trans.)
• Hughes, Richard — A High Wind in Jamaica (ML #71)
• Huxley, Aldous — Brave New World (G #52; ML #5)
• Huxley, Aldous — Point Counter Point (ML #44)
• Ishiguro, Kazuo — An Artist of the Floating World (G #90)
• James, Henry — Daisy Miller
• *James, Henry — The Ambassadors (Nolan; ML #27)
• James, Henry — The Awkward Age
• James, Henry — The Europeans
• James, Henry — The Golden Bowl (ML #32)
• *James, Henry — The Portrait of a Lady
• James, Henry — The Princess Cassimasima
• *James, Henry — The Spoils of Poynton
• James, Henry — Washington Square
• James, Henry — What Maisie Knew
• James, Henry — The Wings of the Dove (ML #26)
• Johnson, Denis — Jesus’ Son
• Johnson, Denis — Tree of Smoke
• Jones, James — From Here to Eternity (ML #62)
• Joyce, James — Finnegans Wake (ML #77) — will not finish
• Joyce, James — A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (ML #3)
• Joyce, James — Ulysses (G #44, ML #1)
• Kemal, Yashar — Memed, My Hawk
• Kennedy, William — Ironweed (ML #92)
• Kertesz, Imré — Fateless
• Kingsolver, Barbara — The Poisonwood Bible
• Kipling, Rudyard — Kim (ML #62)
• Klinkenborg, Verlyn — Timothy: Or Notes of an Abject Reptile
• Koestler, Arthur — Darkness at Noon (ML #8)
• Kundera, Milan — The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (G #92)
• Lawrence, D. H. — The Rainbow (G #41; ML #48)
• Lawrence, D. H. — Sons and Lovers (ML #9)
• Lawrence, D. H. — Women in Love (ML #49)
• Levi, Primo — The Periodic Table (G #88)
• Levy, Andrea — Small Island
• Lewis, Sinclair — Main Street (ML #68)
• Lipton, James — An exaltation of larks (list)
• Lloyd, David — Mr. Pip
• Logan, William Bryant — Oak: The Frame of Civilization
• London, Jack — Call of the Wild (ML #88)
• Lorenz, Konrad — Civilized man’s eight deadly sins (list)
• Lowry, Malcolm — Under the Volcano (ML #11)
• Lucretius — De Rerum Natura (Latin)
• Maeterlinck, Maurice — The Life of the Bee
• Mahfouz, Naguib — The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, The Palace of Desire, Sugar Street
• Mailer, Norman — The Naked and the Dead (ML #51)
• Malouf, David — An Imaginary Life
• Marai, Sandor — Casanova in Bolzano
• Marai, Sandor — Memoir of Hungary 1944-1948
• Marquez, Gabriel Garcia — Living to Tell the Tale
• Maugham, W. Somerset — Of Human Bondage (ML #66)
• McCarthy, Cormac — Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West
• McCarthy, Cormac — No Country for Old Men
• McCarthy, Cormac — Suttree
• McCarthy, Cormac — The Road
• McCullers, Carson — The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (ML #17)
• McEwan, Ian — Atonement (G #96)
• McEwan, Ian — On Chesil Beach
• McEwan, Ian — Saturday
• MCracken, Elizabeth — The Giant’s House
• Melville, Herman — Bartleby, the Scrivener
• Melville, Herman — Benito Cereno
• Melville, Herman — Billy Budd
• Melville, Herman — Moby Dick
• Melville, Herman — The Encantadas, or The Enchanted Isles
• Mendelsohn, Edward — The Things that Matter: What Seven Classic Novels Have to Say about the Stages of Life
• Miller, Henry — Tropic of Cancer (ML #50)
• Morrison, Toni — The Song of Solomon
• Murdoch, Iris — Under the Net (ML #95)
• Nabokov, Vladimir — Lolita (G #68; ML #4)
• Nabokov, Vladimir — Pale Fire (ML #53)
• Nadeem Aslan — Maps for Lost Lovers
• Nadeem Aslan — Season of the Rainbirds
• Nafisi, Azir — Reading Lolita in Tehran
• Naipaul, V. S. — A Bend in the River (G #82; ML #83)
• Naipaul, V. S. — A House for Mr. Biswas (ML #72)
• Nemirovsky, Irene — Suite Francaise
• O’Hagan, Andrew — Be Near Me
• O’Hara, John — Appointment in Samarra (ML #22)
• O’Nan, Stewart — Last Night at the Lobster
• O’Nan, Stewart — Snow Angels
• O’Nan, Stewart — The Good Wif
• Orwell, George — Animal Farm (ML #31)
• Ovid — Metamorphoses (Latin)
• Pamuk, Orhan — My Name is Red
• Pamuk, Orhan — Snow
• Pazstory, Esther — Thinking With Things: Toward a New Vision of Art (list)
• Peattie, Donald Cuthross — An Almanac for Moderns
• Peattie, Donald Cuthross — Flowering Earth
• Peery, Janet — What the Thunder Said
• Percy, Walker — The Moviegoer (ML #60)
• Pollan, Michael — Second Nature
• Pollan, Michael — The Botany of Desire
• Pouncey, Peter — Rules for Old Men Waiting
• Powell, Anthony — A Dance to the Music of Time (series) (ML #43)
• Powers, JK — Morte D’Urban 2006
  
• Pullman, Philip — Northern Lights (G #97)
• Putnam, Robert — Bowling Alone
• Quammen, David — The Reluctant Mr. Darwin
• Rhys, Jean — Wide Sargasso Sea (ML #94)
• Richardson, John — Picasso: The Triumphant Years 1917-1932
• Robinson, Marilyn — Gilead
• Robinson, Marilyn — Housekeeping (Nolan; G #84)
• Robinson, Marilyn — The Death of Adam
• Roth, Joseph — Job: The Story of a Simple Man
• Roth, Joseph — The Emperor’s Tomb
• *Roth, Joseph — The Radetzky March
• *Roth, Philip — American Pastoral (Nolan; G #98)
• Roth, Philip — Everyman
• Roth, Philip — Exit, Ghost
• Roth, Philip — Goodbye, Columbus
• *Roth, Philip — I Married A Communist
• Roth, Philip — Portnoy’s Complaint (ML #52)
  
• Roth, Philip — Sabbath’s Theater
• *Roth, Philip — The Human Stain
• *Roth, Philip — The Plot Against America
• Roth, Philip — Zuckerman Bound: The Ghost Writer,
• Roth, Philip — Zuckerman Unbound: The Anatomy Lesson
• Rushdie, Salman — Haroun and the Sea of Stories (G #93)
• Rushdie, Salman — Midnight’s Children (ML #90)
• Saramago, José — Blindness
• Saramago, José — Journey to Portugal (shelf)
  
• Saramago, José — Seeing 2008
• Sebald, W. G. — Austerlitz (G #99)
• Shakespeare, William — As You Like It
• Shakespeare, William — King Lear
• Shakespeare, William — The Merchant of Venice
• Shakespeare, William — Twelfth Night
• Shelley, Mary — Frankenstein
• Smith, Zadie — On Beauty
• Souder, William — Under a wild sky (shelf)
• Spurling, Hilary — The Unknown Matisse: 1869-1908 2007
  
• Spurling, Hilary — Matisse the Master: 1909-1954 2008
• Stegner, Wallace — Angle of Repose (ML #82)
• Steinbeck, John — The Grapes of Wrath (ML #10)
• Stone, Robert — Bay of Souls
• Stutchbury, Bridget — Silence of the songbirds (list)
• Styron, William — Sophie’s Choice (ML #96)
• Tarkington, Booth — The Magnificent Ambersons (ML #100)
• Teale, Edwin Way — The Golden Throng
• Toibin, Colm — The Master
• *Tolstoy, Leo — Anna Karenina (Pevear & Volkhonsky trans.)
• Tolstoy, Leo — Resurrection
• Tolstoy, Leo — War and Peace
• Tomalin, Claire — Jane Austen: A Life
• Tomalin, Claire — Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self
• Trollope, Anthony — An Autobiography
• Trollope, Anthony — Phineas Finn
• Trollope, Anthony — Phineas Redux
• Trollope, Anthony — The Claverings
• Trollope, Anthony — The Duke’s Children
• *Trollope, Anthony — The Eustace Diamonds
• Trollope, Anthony — The Last Chronicle of Barset
• Trollope, Anthony — The Small House at Allington
• Trollope, Anthony — The Three Clerks
• *Trollope, Anthony — The Way We Live Now (G #26)
• Turgenev, Ivan — A Huntsman’s Sketches
• Turgenev, Ivan — Fathers and Sons
• Twain, Mark — The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• Virgil — Aeneid (Fagles, trans.)
• Virgil — Aeneid (Lattimore, trans.)
• Virgil — Georgics (Latin)
• Vonnegut, Kurt — Slaughterhouse Five (ML #18)
• Walser, Robert — Selected Stories
• Warren, Robert Penn — All the King’s Men (Nolan; ML #36)
• Waugh, Evelyn — A Handful of Dust (ML #34)
• Waugh, Evelyn — Brideshead Revisited (ML #80)
• Weil, Simone and Bespaloff, Rachel — War and The Iliad
• West, Nathaniel — The Day of the Locust (ML #73)
• Wharton, Edith — The Age of Innocence (ML #58)
• Wharton, Edith — The House of Mirth (ML #69)
• White, Edmund — Fanny: A Memoir
• White, Gilbert — A Natural History of Selbourne
• Wilder, Thornton — The Bridge of San Luis Rey (ML #37)
• Williams, John — Augustus
• Williams, John — Butcher’s Crossing
• *Williams, John — Stoner
• Wilson, Edward O. — Naturalist
• Woolf, Virginia — Between the Acts
• Woolf, Virginia — Mrs. Dalloway
• Woolf, Virginia — To the Lighthouse (ML #15)
• Wright, Richard — Native Son (ML #20)
• *Zola, Emile — Germinal
• Zola, Emile — L’Assommoir
• Zola, Emile — Nana