Add more to the Best Novels column

I thought to publish it in my mind long way back. Since I am famous for hiding nothing, I have emptied my bag in the long run. I have returned to my blog with a pledge that I shall keep this blog on the move. Whatever (except death) may happen to me, I shall not stop my fingers. I love this blog. I love my readers. For them, here is a list of novels. No doubt, peeping and peering have solved my problem. Still I believe, you would contribute to it your own picks and have some say. Yours bloggingly...

1. 1984 by George Orwell
2. A BEND IN THE RIVER by V.S. Naipaul
3. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess
4. A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME (series) by Anthony Powell
5. A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway
6. A HANDFUL OF DUST by Evelyn Waugh
7. A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA by Richard Hughes
8. A HOUSE FOR MR BISWAS by V.S. Naipaul
9. A PASSAGE TO INDIA by E.M. Forster
10. A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce
11. A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY by John Irving
12. A ROOM WITH A VIEW by E.M. Forster
13. A TOWN LIKE ALICE by Nevil Shute
14. ABSALOM, ABSALOM! by William Faulkner
15. ALL THE KING'S MEN by Robert Penn Warren
16. AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY by Theodore Dreiser
17. ANGLE OF REPOSE by Wallace Stegner
18. ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell
19. ANTHEM by Ayn Rand
20. APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA by John O'Hara
21. ARROWSMITH by Sinclair Lewis
22. AS I LAY DYING by William Faulkner
23. AT SWIM-TWO-BIRDS by Flann O'Brien
24. AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS by H.P. Lovecraft
25. ATLAS SHRUGGED by Ayn Rand
26. BATTLEFIELD EARTH by L. Ron Hubbard
27. BELOVED by Toni Morrison
28. BLOOD MERIDIAN by Cormac McCarthy
29. BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley
30. BRIDESHEAD REVISITED by Evelyn Waugh
31. CATCH-22 by Joseph Heller
32. CITIZEN OF THE GALAXY by Robert Heinlein
33. DARKNESS AT NOON by Arthur Koestler
34. DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP by Willa Cather
35. DELIVERANCE by James Dickey
36. DOUBLE STAR by Robert Heinlein
37. DUNE by Frank Herbert
38. ENDER'S GAME by Orson Scott Card
39. FARENHEIT 451 by Ray Bradbury
40. FEAR by L. Ron Hubbard
41. FIFTH BUSINESS by Robertson Davies
42. FINNEGANS WAKE by James Joyce
43. FROM HERE TO ETERNITY by James Jones
44. GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN by James Baldwin
45. GONE WITH THE WIND by Margaret Mitchell
46. GRAVITY'S RAINBOW by Thomas Pynchon
47. GREENMANTLE by Charles de Lint
48. GUILTY PLEASURES by Laurell K. Hamilton
49. HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad
50. HENDERSON THE RAIN KING by Saul Bellow
51. HOWARDS END by E.M. Forster
52. I, CLAUDIUS by Robert Graves
53. ILLUSIONS by Richard Bach
54. INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison
55. IRONWEED by William Kennedy
56. IT by Stephen King
57. KIM by Rudyard Kipling
58. LIGHT IN AUGUST by William Faulkner
59. LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov
60. LORD JIM by Joseph Conrad
61. LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding
62. LOVING by Henry Green
63. MAIN STREET by Sinclair Lewis
64. MEMORY AND DREAM by Charles de Lint
65. MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN by Salman Rushdie
66. MISSION EARTH by L. Ron Hubbard
67. MOONHEART by Charles de Lint
68. MULENGRO by Charles de Lint
69. MY ANTONIA by Willa Cather
70. MY SISTER'S KEEPER by Picoult, Jodi (Simon & Schuster)
71. MYTHAGO WOOD by Robert Holdstock
72. NAKED LUNCH by William S. Burroughs
73. NATIVE SON by Richard Wright
74. NOSTROMO by Joseph Conrad
75. OF HUMAN BONDAGE by W. Somerset Maugham
76. ON THE BEACH by Nevil Shute
77. ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac
78. ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST by Ken Kesey
79. ONE LONELY NIGHT by Mickey Spillane
80. PALE FIRE by Vladimir Nabokov
81. PARADE'S END by Ford Madox Ford
82. POINT COUNTER POINT by Aldous Huxley
83. PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT by Philip Roth
84. RAGTIME by E.L. Doctorow
85. SCOOP by Evelyn Waugh
86. SHANE by Jack Schaefer
87. SISTER CARRIE by Theodore Dreiser
88. SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut
89. SOMEPLACE TO BE FLYING by Charles de Lint
90. SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES by Ray Bradbury
91. SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION by Ken Kesey
92. SONS AND LOVERS by D.H. Lawrence
93. SOPHIE'S CHOICE by William Styron
94. STARSHIP TROOPERS by Robert Heinlein
95. STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND by Robert Heinlein
96. SUTTREE by Cormac McCarthy
97. TENDER IS THE NIGHT by F. Scott Fitzgerald
98. THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH by Saul Bellow
99. THE AGE OF INNOCENCE by Edith Wharton
100. THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTET by Lawrence Durell
101. THE AMBASSADORS by Henry James
102. THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY by Thornton Wilder
103. THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London
104. THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger
105. THE CUNNING MAN by Robertson Davies
106. THE DAY OF THE LOCUST by Nathanael West
107. THE DEATH OF THE HEART by Elizabeth Bowen
108. THE DOOR INTO SUMMER by Robert Heinlein
109. THE FIRST APOSTLE by Becker, James
110. THE FOUNTAINHEAD by Ayn Rand
111. THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN by John Fowles
112. THE GINGER MAN by J.P. Donleavy
113. THE GOLDEN BOWL by Henry James
114. THE GOOD SOLDIER by Ford Madox Ford
115. THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck
116. THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald
117. THE HANDMAID'S TALE by Margaret Atwood
118. THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE by Shirley Jackson
119. THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by Carson McCullers
120. THE HEART OF THE MATTER by Graham Greene
121. THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY by Douglas Adams
122. THE HOUSE OF MIRTH by Edith Wharton
123. THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER by Tom Clancy
124. THE LITTLE COUNTRY by Charles de Lint
125. THE LORD OF THE RINGS by J.R.R. Tolkien
126. THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS by Booth Tarkington
127. THE MAGUS by John Fowles
128. THE MALTESE FALCON by Dashiell Hammett
129. THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS by Robert Heinlein
130. THE MOVIEGOER by Walker Percy
131. THE NAKED AND THE DEAD by Norman Mailer
132. THE OLD WIVES' TALE by Arnold Bennett
133. THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE by James M. Cain
134. THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE by Muriel Spark
135. THE PUPPET MASTERS by Robert Heinlein
136. THE RAINBOW by D.H. Lawrence
137. THE RECOGNITIONS by William Gaddis
138. THE SATANIC VERSES by Salman Rushdie
139. THE SECRET AGENT by Joseph Conrad
140. THE SHELTERING SKY by Paul Bowles
141. THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner
142. THE STAND by Stephen King
143. THE STUDS LONIGAN TRILOGY by James T. Farrell
144. THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway
145. THE WAPSHOT CHRONICLES by John Cheever
146. THE WAY OF ALL FLESH by Samuel Butler
147. THE WINGS OF THE DOVE by Henry James
148. THE WOOD WIFE by Terri Windling
149. THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP by John Irving
150. THE WORM OUROBOROS by E.R. Eddison
151. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee
152. TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf
153. TOBACCO ROAD by Erskine Caldwell
154. TRADER by Charles de Lint
155. TROPIC OF CANCER by Henry Miller
156. TRUSTEE FROM THE TOOLROOM by Nevil Shute
157. U.S.A. (trilogy) by John Dos Passos
158. ULYSSES by James Joyce
159. UNDER THE NET by Iris Murdoch
160. UNDER THE VOLCANO by Malcolm Lowry
161. V. by Thomas Pynchon
162. WATERSHIP DOWN by Richard Adams
163. WE THE LIVING by Ayn Rand
164. WIDE SARGASSO SEA by Jean Rhys
165. WINESBURG, OHIO by Sherwood Anderson
166. WISE BLOOD by Flannery O'Connor
167. WOMEN IN LOVE by D.H. Lawrence
168. YARROW by Charles de Lint
169. ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE by Robert Pirsig
170. ZULEIKA DOBSON by Max Beerbohm

1 comment:

findingmywingsinlife said...

Its going to take me a long time to read all the ones on this list that I haven't yet... but I will.

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