{"id":406,"date":"2003-10-14T10:10:02","date_gmt":"2003-10-14T17:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/?p=406"},"modified":"2003-10-14T10:10:02","modified_gmt":"2003-10-14T17:10:02","slug":"its-a-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2003\/10\/its-a-list\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s a list"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s a list<\/a>From London. They are naming the 100 greatest novels. Naturally, they miss all kinds of good ones and elevate some ones I don’t think deserve it.<\/p>\n

But here’s my score of which ones I’ve read:<\/p>\n

1. Don Quixote Miguel De Cervantes YES<\/p>\n

2. Pilgrim’s Progress John Bunyan YES<\/p>\n

3. Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe YES<\/p>\n

4. Gulliver’s Travels Jonathan Swift YES<\/p>\n

5. Tom Jones Henry Fielding NOPE<\/p>\n

6. Clarissa Samuel Richardson NOPE<\/p>\n

7. Tristram Shandy Laurence Sterne NOPE<\/p>\n

8. Dangerous Liaisons Pierre Choderlos De Laclos NOPE<\/p>\n

9. Emma Jane Austen NOPE, but read others byher<\/p>\n

10. Frankenstein Mary Shelley YES<\/p>\n

11. Nightmare Abbey Thomas Love Peacock NOPE<\/p>\n

12. The Black Sheep Honore De Balzac NOPE<\/p>\n

13. The Charterhouse of Parma Stendhal NOPE<\/p>\n

14. The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas NOPE, I could live without Dumas<\/p>\n

15. Sybil Benjamin Disraeli NOPE<\/p>\n

16. David Copperfield Charles Dickens NOPE, but read others by him<\/p>\n

17. Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte NOPE<\/p>\n

18. Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte YES<\/p>\n

19. Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray OWN IT, haven’t read it yet<\/p>\n

20. The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne YES<\/p>\n

21. Moby-Dick Herman Melville YES<\/p>\n

22. Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert YES, love it<\/p>\n

23. The Woman in White Wilkie Collins NOPE<\/p>\n

24. Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland Lewis Carroll YES, pure genius<\/p>\n

25. Little Women Louisa M. Alcott YES<\/p>\n

26. The Way We Live Now Anthony Trollope NOPE<\/p>\n

27. Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy IN PROGRESS<\/p>\n

28. Daniel Deronda George Eliot NOPE<\/p>\n

29. The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky NOPE, but read others by him<\/p>\n

30. The Portrait of a Lady Henry James YES, I love this novel<\/p>\n

31. Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain YES<\/p>\n

32. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson NOPE<\/p>\n

33. Three Men in a Boat Jerome K. Jerome NOPE<\/p>\n

34. The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde NOPE<\/p>\n

35. The Diary of a Nobody George Grossmith NOPE<\/p>\n

36. Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy NOPE<\/p>\n

37. The Riddle of the Sands Erskine Childers NOPE<\/p>\n

38. The Call of the Wild Jack London NOPE, but read others by him<\/p>\n

39. Nostromo Joseph Conrad NOPE, but read others by him<\/p>\n

40. The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame YES<\/p>\n

41. In Search of Lost Time Marcel Proust NOPE<\/p>\n

42. The Rainbow D. H. Lawrence NOPE, but read others by him<\/p>\n

43. The Good Soldier Ford Madox Ford NOPE<\/p>\n

44. The Thirty-Nine Steps John Buchan YES<\/p>\n

45. Ulysses James Joyce STILL IN PROGRESS<\/p>\n

46. Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf YES<\/p>\n

47. A Passage to India E. M. Forster NOPE<\/p>\n

48. The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald YES<\/p>\n

49. The Trial Franz Kafka NOPE<\/p>\n

50. Men Without Women Ernest Hemingway NOPE<\/p>\n

51. Journey to the End of the Night Louis-Ferdinand Celine NOPE<\/p>\n

52. As I Lay Dying William Faulkner NOPE, but read others by him<\/p>\n

53. Brave New World Aldous Huxley NOPE<\/p>\n

54. Scoop Evelyn Waugh NOPE<\/p>\n

55. USA John Dos Passos NOPE<\/p>\n

56. The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler YES<\/p>\n

57. The Pursuit Of Love Nancy Mitford NOPE<\/p>\n

58. The Plague Albert Camus NOPE<\/p>\n

59. Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell YES<\/p>\n

60. Malone Dies Samuel Beckett NOPE, but read others by him<\/p>\n

61. Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger YES<\/p>\n

62. Wise Blood Flannery O’Connor NOPE, but read others by him<\/p>\n

63. Charlotte’s Web E. B. White YES<\/p>\n

64. The Lord Of The Rings J. R. R. Tolkien YES<\/p>\n

65. Lucky Jim Kingsley Amis NOPE<\/p>\n

66. Lord of the Flies William Golding NOPE<\/p>\n

67. The Quiet American Graham Greene NOPE<\/p>\n

68 On the Road Jack Kerouac YES<\/p>\n

69. Lolita Vladimir Nabokov YES<\/p>\n

70. The Tin Drum Gunter Grass NOPE<\/p>\n

71. Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe YES<\/p>\n

72. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Muriel Spark NOPE<\/p>\n

73. To Kill A Mockingbird Harper Lee YES<\/p>\n

74. Catch-22 Joseph Heller YES<\/p>\n

75. Herzog Saul Bellow NOPE, but read others by him<\/p>\n

76. One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez YES, LOVE IT<\/p>\n

77. Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont Elizabeth Taylor NOPE<\/p>\n

78. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy John Le Carre NOPE<\/p>\n

79. Song of Solomon Toni Morrison NOPE, but read others by her<\/p>\n

80. The Bottle Factory Outing Beryl Bainbridge NOPE<\/p>\n

81. The Executioner’s Song Norman Mailer NOPE<\/p>\n

82. If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller Italo Calvino YES, it was very highbrow<\/p>\n

83. A Bend in the River V. S. Naipaul NOPE<\/p>\n

84. Waiting for the Barbarians J.M. Coetzee NOPE<\/p>\n

85. Housekeeping Marilynne Robinson NOPE<\/p>\n

86. Lanark Alasdair Gray NOPE<\/p>\n

87. The New York Trilogy Paul Auster NOPE<\/p>\n

88. The BFG Roald Dahl NOPE, but read other by him<\/p>\n

89. The Periodic Table Primo Levi NOPE<\/p>\n

90. Money Martin Amis NOPE<\/p>\n

91. An Artist of the Floating World Kazuo Ishiguro NOPE<\/p>\n

92. Oscar And Lucinda Peter Carey NOPE<\/p>\n

93. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting Milan Kundera NOPE, but read others by him<\/p>\n

94. Haroun and the Sea af Stories Salman Rushdie READ IT, own it, love it<\/p>\n

95. La Confidential James Ellroy NOPE<\/p>\n

96. Wise Children Angela Carter NOPE<\/p>\n

97. Atonement Ian McEwan NOPE<\/p>\n

98. Northern Lights Philip Pullman NOPE<\/p>\n

99. American Pastoral Philip Roth NOPE, but read others by him<\/p>\n

100. Austerlitz W. G. Sebald NOPE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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