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- (06/28/10) ULYSSES by James Joyce
- (07/05/10) THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- (07/12/10) A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce
- (07/19/10) LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov
- (07/26/10) BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley
- (08/02/10) THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner
- (08/09/10) CATCH-22 by Joseph Heller
- (08/16/10) DARKNESS AT NOON by Arthur Koestler
- (08/23/10) SONS AND LOVERS by D.H. Lawrence
- (08/30/10) THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck
- (09/06/10) UNDER THE VOLCANO by Malcolm Lowry
- (09/13/10) THE WAY OF ALL FLESH by Samuel Butler
- (09/20/10) 1984 by George Orwell
- (09/27/10) I, CLAUDIUS by Robert Graves
- (10/04/10) TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf
- (10/12/10) AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY by Theodore Dreiser
- (10/18/10) THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by Carson McCullers
- (10/25/10) SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut
- (11/01/10) INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison
- (11/08/10) NATIVE SON by Richard Wright
- (11/15/10) HENDERSON THE RAIN KING by Saul Bellow
- (11/22/10) APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA by John O’Hara
- (12/01/10) U.S.A. (trilogy) by John Dos Passos
- (12/06/10) WINESBURG, OHIO by Sherwood Anderson
- (12/13/10) A PASSAGE TO INDIA by E.M. Forster
- (12/20/10) THE WINGS OF THE DOVE by Henry James
- (12/27/10) THE AMBASSADORS by Henry James
- (01/03/11) TENDER IS THE NIGHT by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- (01/11/11) THE STUDS LONIGAN TRILOGY by James T. Farrell
- (01/17/11) THE GOOD SOLDIER by Ford Madox Ford
- (01/24/11) ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell
- (01/31/11) THE GOLDEN BOWL by Henry James
- (02/07/11) SISTER CARRIE by Theodore Dreiser
- (02/14/11) A HANDFUL OF DUST by Evelyn Waugh
- (02/21/11) AS I LAY DYING by William Faulkner
- (02/28/11) ALL THE KING’S MEN by Robert Penn Warren
- (03/07/11) THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY by Thornton Wilder
- (03/14/11) HOWARDS END by E.M. Forster
- (03/21/11) GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN by James Baldwin
- (03/28/11) THE HEART OF THE MATTER by Graham Greene
- (04/04/11) LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding
- (04/11/11) DELIVERANCE by James Dickey
- (04/18/11) A QUESTION OF UPBRINGING by Anthony Powell
- (04/25/11)POINT COUNTER POINT by Aldous Huxley
- (05/02/11) THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway
- (05/09/11) THE SECRET AGENT by Joseph Conrad
- (05/16/11) NOSTROMO by Joseph Conrad
- (05/23/11) THE RAINBOW by D.H. Lawrence
- (05/30/11) WOMEN IN LOVE by D.H. Lawrence
- (06/06/11) TROPIC OF CANCER by Henry Miller
- (06/13/11) THE NAKED AND THE DEAD by Norman Mailer
- (06/20/11) PORTNOY’S COMPLAINT by Philip Roth
- (06/27/11) PALE FIRE by Vladimir Nabokov
- (07/04/11) LIGHT IN AUGUST by William Faulkner
- (07/11/11) ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac
- (07/18/11) THE MALTESE FALCON by Dashiell Hammett
- (07/25/11) PARADE’S END by Ford Madox Ford
- (08/01/11) THE AGE OF INNOCENCE by Edith Wharton
- (08/08/11) ZULEIKA DOBSON by Max Beerbohm
- (08/15/11) THE MOVIEGOER by Walker Percy
- (08/22/11) DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP by Willa Cather
- (08/29/11) FROM HERE TO ETERNITY by James Jones
- (09/05/11) THE WAPSHOT CHRONICLES by John Cheever
- (09/12/11) THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger
- (09/19/11) A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess
- (09/26/11) OF HUMAN BONDAGE by W. Somerset Maugham
- (10/03/11) HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad
- (10/10/11) MAIN STREET by Sinclair Lewis
- (10/17/11) THE HOUSE OF MIRTH by Edith Wharton
- (10/24/11) THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTET by Lawrence Durell
- (10/31/11) A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA by Richard Hughes
- (11/07/11) A HOUSE FOR MR. BISWAS by V.S. Naipaul
- (11/14/11) THE DAY OF THE LOCUST by Nathanael West
- (11/21/11) A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway
- (11/28/11) SCOOP by Evelyn Waugh
- (12/05/11) THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE by Muriel Spark
- (12/12/11) FINNEGANS WAKE by James Joyce
- (12/19/11) KIM by Rudyard Kipling
- (12/26/11) A ROOM WITH A VIEW by E.M. Forster
- (01/02/12) BRIDESHEAD REVISITED by Evelyn Waugh
- (01/09/12) THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH by Saul Bellow
- (01/16/12) ANGLE OF REPOSE by Wallace Stegner
- (01/23/12) A BEND IN THE RIVER by V.S. Naipaul
- (01/30/12) THE DEATH OF THE HEART by Elizabeth Bowen
- (02/06/12) LORD JIM by Joseph Conrad
- (02/13/12) RAGTIME by E.L. Doctorow
- (02/20/12) THE OLD WIVES’ TALE by Arnold Bennett
- (02/27/12) THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London
- (03/05/12) LOVING by Henry Green
- (03/12/12) MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN by Salman Rushdie
- (03/19/12) TOBACCO ROAD by Erskine Caldwell
- (03/26/12) IRONWEED by William Kennedy
- (04/02/12) THE MAGUS by John Fowles
- (04/09/12) WIDE SARGASSO SEA by Jean Rhys
- (04/16/12) UNDER THE NET by Iris Murdoch
- (04/23/12) SOPHIE’S CHOICE by William Styron
- (04/30/12) THE SHELTERING SKY by Paul Bowles
- (05/07/12) THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE by James M. Cain
- (05/14/12) THE GINGER MAN by J.P. Donleavy
- (05/21/12) THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS by Booth Tarkington
100 Books in 100 Weeks 
Hi Ronnie,
I see you are moving down the list. Wow, and Award? You are not a cyber celebrity. I see you made it through sound and the Fury. I tried this about a year ago, but bailed out. Could not get into it. Is it worth trying again?
It there a place on this web site to see your review/comments related to these books? Could not find any place that has your comments.
Love, Jonathan
PS, I am starting to read a J Frank Dobie book. He is a cowboy writer.
I am enjoying the books and am progressing only because I’ve given myself a clearly defined schedule. Without that, I’d still be on book #1…Ulysses, ugh!
If you want to see my review of The Sound and the Fury, go to the Home section and scroll down to Book #6. Take a look at the comments as well as another reader shared that Faulkner had written four versions which ended up at the final one. If you can put aside the distractions, I think you’d enjoy it.
Dobie is a fellow Texan I see. I’m not sure I’d enjoy him, but you could convince me with your comments after you finish reading.
Wow you’ve read so many great books!
I only wish that in two years that I will have read at least half as much as you.
Thanks for the visit. Although I love reading, I still find I must be disciplined in order to keep up with all that I want to enjoy. I’m sure you’ll read many great ones as well. Love your blog and great photos!