The 2nd 100


  1. (07/02/12)  No Longer at Ease by Chinua Achebe
  2.  (07/23/12) A Death in the Family by James Agee
  3. (08/06/12) The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
  4. (05/05/14) Poor White by Sherwood Anderson
  5. (09/10/12) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
  6. (08/13/12)  Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
  7. (05/12/14) The Twin by Gerbrand Bakker
  8. (04/14/14) The Happy Hypocrite by Sir Max Beerbohm
  9. (11/05/12)  Dangling Man by Saul Bellow
  10. (10/22/12) Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury  
  11. (10/01/12) Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
  12. (12/10/12)  Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
  13. (09/24/12)  The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
  14. (09/03/12)  God’s Little Acre by Erskine Caldwell
  15. (12/03/12) In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
  16. (04/15/13) Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
  17. (08/27/12) O Pioneers by Willa Cather
  18. (02/23/15) The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
  19. (04/01/13) The Wapshot Scandal by John Cheever
  20. (11/26/12) The Awakening by Kate Chopin
  21. (08/05/13) The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
  22. (06/09/14) Waiting for the Barbarians by J. M. Coetzee
  23. (04/22/13) The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
  24. (04/21/14) The Return by Joseph Conrad
  25. (09/17/12) The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
  26. (03/25/12) Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres
  27. (07/01/13) Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
  28. (12/17/12) A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
  29. (03/18/13) White Noise by Don DeLillo
  30. (06/17/13) Billy Bathgate by E. L. Doctorow
  31. (01/27/14) Three Soldiers by John Dos Passos
  32. (04/08/13) Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  33. (01/07/13) Jennie Gerhardt by Theodore Dreiser
  34. (07/28/14) The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
  35. (07/29/13) The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
  36. (06/10/13) Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
  37. (01/13/14) My Days of Anger  by James T. Farrell
  38. (05/19/14) The Reivers  by William Faulkner
  39. (11/18/13) The Last Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  40. (04/29/13) Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
  41. (05/06/13) In the Woods by Tana French
  42. (11/24/14) The Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes
  43. (07/22/13) The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
  44. (07/15/13) The Human Factor by Graham Greene
  45. (08/12/13) Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
  46. (01/14/13) The Grief of Others by Leah Hager Cohen
  47. (12/24/12) Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
  48. (09/02/13) The Scarlett Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  49. (11/10/14) Closing Time by Joseph Heller
  50. (10/08/12) In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway
  51. (10/29/12) The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
  52. (04/07/14) The Iliad by Homer
  53. (10/14/13) The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
  54. (11/11/13) A Son of the Circus by John Irving
  55. (08/26/13) The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
  56. (09/30/13) One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
  57. (10/15/12) Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
  58. (02/25/13) To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  59. (12/29/14) Martin Eden by Jack London
  60. (12/02/13) Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
  61. (03/11/13) Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  62. (11/19/12) One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  63. (12/31/12) The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers
  64. (03/10/14) Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
  65. (01/21/13) Beloved by Toni Morrison
  66. (08/25/14) A Severed Head by Iris Murdoch
  67. (10/07/13) Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov
  68. (11/25/13) A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor
  69. (12/09/13) Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
  70. (02/17/14) Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
  71. (07/16/12) The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
  72. (07/08/13) Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
  73. (07/09/12) Anthem by Ayn Rand
  74. (09/23/13) All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
  75. (08/11/14) Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys
  76. (07/30/12) Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour an Introduction
    by J. D. Salinger
  77. (02/03/14) Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
  78. (11/12/12) Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby, Jr.
  79. (09/09/13) Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
  80. (06/03/13) The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
  81. (02/11/13) I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
  82. (12/08/14) The Spectator Bird by Wallace Stegner
  83. (01/28/13) Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck
  84. (12/16/13) Treasure Island by R. L. Stevenson
  85. (12/30/13) Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
  86. (12/23/13) Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
  87. (05/27/13) The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
  88. (12/01/14) Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
  89. (02/04/13) Walden by Henry David Thoreau
  90. (08/20/12) The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy
  91. (09/16/13) A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
  92. (03/17/14) Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
  93. (08/19/13) Jailbird by Kurt Vonnegut
  94. (03/26/15) One Day I Will Write About this Place by Binyaavanga Wainaina
  95. (05/13/13) The Color Purple by Alice Walker
  96. (05/20/13) The Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells
  97. (01/06/14) Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West
  98. (03/04/13) Night by Elie Wiesel
  99. (06/24/13) The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
  100. (02/18/13) Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe

8 responses to “The 2nd 100

  1. This is a really good list. Has quite a few favorites of mine. Look forward to your bulletins from the front.
    – By the way Swann’s War sounds a bit more action packed than Swann’s Way ; )

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  3. Wow, what an impressive list! Some of these are personal favorites of mine and it’s always nice to know that someone else is going to give them a chance. Wuthering Heights is beautiful and brilliant, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is magical and eye-opening (for some reason, I didn’t expect it to be as funny as it was), and the Hunger Games is simply powerful and just…wow, so much more than I expected. Many books on this list are wonderfully thrilling reads, I hope you enjoy them!

  4. The book never kept me too interested. I did like this book and the characters, but I find that there are other books I’d rather read.

  5. Any chance you could fix the link for your review of “Dangling Man” by Bellow?

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