Listed below are ratings (1-10) in descending order. To read my review, click on the title.
THE 10’s:
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
- The Grapes Of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- U.S.A. (trilogy) by John Dos Passos
- Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
- The Studs Lonigan Trilogy by James T. Farrell
- Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm
- Death Comes For The Archbishop by Willa Cather
- A Farewill To Arms by Ernest Hemingway
- Angle Of Repose by Wallace Stegner
- Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow
- Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell
- No Longer at Ease by Chinua Achebe
- The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
- The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy
- In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- Night by Elie Wiesel
- The Color Purple by Alice Walker
- The Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells
- A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
- All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
- A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor
- The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
- The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
- The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
- The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe
THE 9’s:
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- The Way Of All Flesh by Samuel Butler
- I, Claudius by Robert Graves
- An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
- The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
- Slaughter-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- Native Son by Richard Wright
- Appointment In Samarra by John O’Hara
- A Passage To India by E.M. Forster
- Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
- A Handful Of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
- As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
- The Bridge Of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
- Go Tell It On The Mountain by James Baldwin
- The Heart Of The Matter by Graham Greene
- The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
- Nostromo by Joseph Conrad
- The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
- The Age Of Innocence by Edith Wharton
- The Wapshot Chronicles by John Cheever
- A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burges
- Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
- A High Wind In Jamaica by Richard Hughes
- Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
- A Room With A View by E.M. Forster
- The Adventures Of Augie March by Saul Bellow
- The Call Of The Wild by Jack London
- Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
- Ironweed by William Kennedy
- Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
- Under the Net by Iris Murdoch
- Sophie’s Choice by William Styron
- The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
- The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
- A Death in the Family by James Agee
- Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour an Introduction by J. D. Salinger
- God’s Little Acre by Erskine Caldwell
- The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
- In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway
- Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby, Jr.
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
- The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers
- Jennie Gerhardt by Theodore Dreiser
- I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- White Noise by Don DeLillo
- Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres
- The Wapshot Scandal by John Cheever
- Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
- In the Woods by Tana French
- Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
- The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
- The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
- Jailbird by Kurt Vonnegut
- The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
- Treasure Island by R. L. Stevenson
- Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
- The Happy Hypocrite by Sir Max Beerbohm
- Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre
- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
THE 8’s:
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
- Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
- Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
- To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
- Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
- The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- All the King’S Men by Robert Penn Warren
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- Deliverance by James Dickey
- A Question of Upbringing by Anthony Powell
- The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
- Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
- The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
- Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth
- Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
- Light in August by William Faulkner
- Parade’S End by Ford Madox Ford
- The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
- A House For Mr. Biswas by V.S. Naipaul
- The Day Of the Locust by Nathanael West
- The Prime Of Miss Jeab Brodie by Muriel Spark
- Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
- A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul
- The Death Of The Heart by Elizabeth Bowen
- The Old Wive’s Tale by Arnold Bennett
- Loving by Henry Green
- The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
- The Ginger Man by J.P. Donleavy
- Anthem by Ayn Rand
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- O Pioneers by Willa Cather
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck
- Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
- Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
- The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
- The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
- Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
- The Human Factor by Graham Greene
- The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
- Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
- Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
- Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
- Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West
- Three Soldiers by John Dos Passos
- Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
- The Iliad by Homer
- The Return by Joseph Conrad
- The Twin by Gerbrand Bakker
- Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
- The Spectator Bird by Wallace Stegner
- Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
THE 7’s:
- THE 6’s:A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man by James Joyce
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Henderson The Rain King by Saul Bellow
- Tender Is The Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Howards End by E.M. Forster
- The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
- Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
- The House Of Mirth by Edith Wharton
- Kim by Rudyard Kipling
- The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
- Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
- Dangling Man by Saul Bellow
- The Awakening by Kate Chopin
- Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
- The Grief of Others by Leah Hager Cohen
- Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe
- Billy Bathgate by E. L. Doctorow
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
- The Scarlett Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The Last Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
- My Days of Anger by James T. Farrell
- Waiting for the Barbarians by J. M. Coetzee
- Closing Time by Joseph Heller
- The Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes
- Martin Eden by Jack London
- One Day I Will Write About this Place by Binyaavanga Wainaina
THE 6’s:
- The Golden Bowl by Henry James
- The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence
- Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence
- On the Road by Jack Kerouac
- From Here To Eternity by James Jones
- Heart Of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
- Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
- The Magus by John Fowles
- A Son of the Circus by John Irving
- Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
- Poor White by Sherwood Anderson
- The Reivers by William Faulkner
- A Severed Head by Iris Murdoch
THE 5’s:
- Under The Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
- The Wings Of The Dove by Henry James
- Point Counterpoint by Aldous Huxley
- Walden by Henry David Thoreau
THE 4’s:
- The Ambassadors by Henry James
THE 3’s:
- The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durell
THE 2’s:
- Ulysses by James Joyce
THE 1’s:
- Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
- Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon