The Book Challenge

I’m reading my way through Goodread’s 100 Best Books of the 20th Century. No time limit – I’m going to take my sweet time and savor every word. Wish me luck!

(Started in December 2013)

#	Title	Author	Completed
1	To Kill a Mockingbird	Harper Lee
2	1984	George Orwell
3	The Lord of the Rings (1-3)	J.R.R. Tolkien
4	The Catcher in the Rye	J.D. Salinger
5	The Great Gatsby	F. Scott Fitzgerald
6	Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone	J.K. Rowling
7	The Diary of a Young Girl	Anne Frank
8	The Little Prince	Antoine de Saint-Exupery
9	Animal Farm	George Orwell	12/18/13
10	The Hobbit	J.R.R. Tolkien
11	The Grapes of Wrath	John Steinbeck
12	Fahrenheit 451	Ray Bradbury
13	The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe	C.S. Lewis
14	One Hundred Years of Solitude	Gabriel Garcia Marquez
15	Brave New World	Aldous Huxley
16	Gone with the Wind	Margaret Mitchell
17	Catch-22	Joseph Heller
18	Lord of the Flies	William Golding
19	Of Mice and Men	John Steinbeck
20	The Giver	Lois Lowry
21	Lolita	Vladimir Nabokov
22	Slaughterhouse-Five	Kurt Vonnegut
23	Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban	J.K. Rowling
24	East of Eden	John Steinbeck
25	One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest	Ken Kesey
26	The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy	Douglas Adams
27	A Wrinkle in Time	Madeleine L’Engle
28	Memoirs of a Geisha	Arthur Golden
29	The Handmaid’s Tale	Margaret Atwood
30	The Stranger	Albert Camus
31	The Fellowship of the Ring	J.R.R. Tolkien
32	The Chronicle of Narnia (1-7)	C.S. Lewis
33	Charlotte’s Webb	E.B. White
34	Ender’s Game	Orson Scott Card
35	A Tree Grows in Brooklyn	Betty Smith
36	The Old Man and the Sea	Ernest Hemmingway
37	The Giving Tree	Shel Silverstein
38	Night	Elie Wiesel
39	The Return of the King	J.R.R. Tolkien
40	Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets	J.K. Rowling
41	Watership Down	Richard Adams
42	The Two Towers	J.R.R. Tolkien
43	Atlas Shrugged	Ayn Rand
44	The Bell Jar	Sylvia Plath
45	The Poisonwood Bible	Barbara Kingsolver
46	In Cold Blood	Truman Capote
47	Green Eggs and Ham	Dr. Seuss
48	A Prayer of Owen Meany	John Irving
49	Love in the Time of Cholera	Gabriel Garcia Marquez
50	The Alchemist	Paulo Coelho
51	The Lorax	Dr. Seuss
52	Anne of Green Gables	L.M. Montgomery
53	The Color Purple	Alice Walker
54	The Stand	Stephen King
55	The Unbearable Lightness of Being	Milan Kundera
56	Where the Wild Things Are	Maurice Sendak
57	Siddhartha	Hermann Hesse
58	Charlie and the Chocolate Factory	Roald Dahl
59	On the Road	Jack Kerouac
60	The Sun Also Rises	Ernest Hemmingway
61	Rebecca	Daphne du Mauier
62	The Name of the Rose	Umberto Eco
63	The Complete Sherlock Holmes	Arthur Conan Doyle
64	Ulysses	James Joyce
65	The Pillars of the Earth	Ken Follett
66	A Clockwork Orange	Anthony Burgess
67	The Metamorphosis	Franz Kafka
68	The Secret Garden	Frances Hodgson Burnett
69	The Good Earth	Pearl S. Buck
70	Dune	Frank Herbert
71	A Confederacy of Dunces	John Kennedy Toole
72	Beloved	Toni Morrison
73	The Master of Margarita	Mikhail Bulgakov
74	The Fountainhead	Ayn Rand
75	The Sound of the Fury	William Faulkner
76	The Joy Luck Club	Amy Tan
77	All Quiet on the Western Front	Erich Maria Remarque
78	The Outsiders	S.E. Hinton
79	For Whom the Bell Tolls	Ernest Hemmingway
80	Angela’s Ashes	Frank McCourt
81	The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy	Douglas Adams
82	The World According to Garp	John Irving
83	Their Eyes Were Watching God	Zora Neale Hurston
84	Invisible Man	Ralph Ellison
85	Little House of the Prairie	Laura Ingall Wilder
86	A Farewell to Arms	Ernest Hemmingway
87	Where the Red Fern Grows	Wilson Rawls
88	Mere Christianity	C.S. Lewis
89	Waiting for Godot	Samuel Beckett
90	The Red Tent	Anita Diamant
91	Fanny and Zooey	J.D. Salinger
92	Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas	Hunter S. Thompson
93	Sophie’s Choice	William Styron
94	The Things They Carried	Tim O’Brien
95	Lonesome Dove	Larry McMurty
96	A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	James Joyce
97	Blindness	Jose Saramago
98	To the Lighthouse	Virginia Wolf
99	Cat’s Cradle	Kurt Vonnegut
100	She’s Come Undone	Wally Lamb	1/10/14