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The Board's List:

Yes ULYSSES by James Joyce
Yes THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald
No A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce
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Partial LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov
Yes BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley
No THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner
Partial CATCH-22
No DARKNESS AT NOON by Arthur Koestler
Yes SONS AND LOVERS by D.H. Lawrence
Yes THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck
No UNDER THE VOLCANO by Malcolm Lowry
No THE WAY OF ALL FLESH by Samuel Butler
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Yes 1984 by George Orwell
No I, CLAUDIUS by Robert Graves
No TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf
No AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY by Theodore Dreiser
No THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by Carson McCullers
Yes SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut
Partial INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison
Partial NATIVE SON by Richard Wright
Yes HENDERSON THE RAIN KING by Saul Bellow
No APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA by John O'Hara
No U.S.A. (trilogy) by John Dos Passos
No WINESBURG, OHIO by Sherwood Anderson
No A PASSAGE TO INDIA by E.M. Forster
No THE WINGS OF THE DOVE by Henry James
No THE AMBASSADORS by Henry James
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No TENDER IS THE NIGHT by F. Scott Fitzgerald
No THE STUDS LONIGAN TRILOGY by James T. Farrell
No THE GOOD SOLDIER by Ford Madox Ford
Yes ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell
No THE GOLDEN BOWL by Henry James
No SISTER CARRIE by Theodore Dreiser
No A HANDFUL OF DUST by Evelyn Waugh
No AS I LAY DYING by William Faulkner
No ALL THE KING'S MEN by Robert Penn Warren
No THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY by Thornton Wilder
No HOWARDS END by E.M. Forster
No GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN by James Baldwin
No THE HEART OF THE MATTER by Graham Greene
Yes LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding
...saw the movie? DELIVERANCE by James Dickey
No A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME (series) by Anthony Powell
Yes! POINT COUNTER POINT by Aldous Huxley
Yes THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway
Partial THE SECRET AGENT by Joseph Conrad
No NOSTROMO by Joseph Conrad
No THE RAINBOW by D.H. Lawrence
No WOMEN IN LOVE by D.H. Lawrence
..partial TROPIC OF CANCER by Henry Miller
Yes THE NAKED AND THE DEAD by Norman Mailer
No PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT by Philip Roth
No PALE FIRE by Vladimir Nabokov
No LIGHT IN AUGUST by William Faulkner
Yes ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac
No THE MALTESE FALCON by Dashiell Hammett
No PARADE'S END by Ford Madox Ford
No THE AGE OF INNOCENCE by Edith Wharton
No ZULEIKA DOBSON by Max Beerbohm
No THE MOVIEGOER by Walker Percy
No DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP by Willa Cather
No FROM HERE TO ETERNITY by James Jones
No THE WAPSHOT CHRONICLES by John Cheever
Yes THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger
Yes A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess
No OF HUMAN BONDAGE by W. Somerset Maugham
partial HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad
No MAIN STREET by Sinclair Lewis
No THE HOUSE OF MIRTH by Edith Wharton
No THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTET by Lawrence Durell
No A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA by Richard Hughes
No A HOUSE FOR MR BISWAS by V.S. Naipaul
No THE DAY OF THE LOCUST by Nathanael West
Yes A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway
No SCOOP by Evelyn Waugh
No THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE by Muriel Spark
No FINNEGANS WAKE by James Joyce
No KIM by Rudyard Kipling
No A ROOM WITH A VIEW by E.M. Forster
No BRIDESHEAD REVISITED by Evelyn Waugh
No THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH by Saul Bellow
No ANGLE OF REPOSE by Wallace Stegner
No A BEND IN THE RIVER by V.S. Naipaul
No THE DEATH OF THE HEART by Elizabeth Bowen
Partial LORD JIM by Joseph Conrad
No RAGTIME by E.L. Doctorow
No THE OLD WIVES' TALE by Arnold Bennett
Yes THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London
No LOVING by Henry Green
No MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN by Salman Rushdie
No TOBACCO ROAD by Erskine Caldwell
No IRONWEED by William Kennedy
No THE MAGUS by John Fowles
No WIDE SARGASSO SEA by Jean Rhys
No UNDER THE NET by Iris Murdoch
No SOPHIE'S CHOICE by William Styron
No THE SHELTERING SKY by Paul Bowles
No THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE by James M. Cain
No THE GINGER MAN by J.P. Donleavy
No THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS by Booth Tarkington

Well that's just awful. 22 out of 100. Wife read 31. She's read more because in her high school they made you read books. Also I bet I've just totally forgotten at least 5 that I actually did read. Possibly as many as ten. I've been thinking about getting Kindle 2. Was holding back because the selection wasn't so great. Maybe this is enough reason to go ahead and get it. I've been an extreme bookworm at times in my life but not so much with the classics.

1 ATLAS SHRUGGED by Ayn Rand
2 THE FOUNTAINHEAD by Ayn Rand
3 BATTLEFIELD EARTH by L. Ron Hubbard
4 THE LORD OF THE RINGS by J.R.R. Tolkien
5 TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee
6 1984 by George Orwell
7 ANTHEM by Ayn Rand
8 WE THE LIVING by Ayn Rand
9 MISSION EARTH by L. Ron Hubbard
FEAR by L. Ron Hubbard
10 ULYSSES by James Joyce
11 CATCH-22 by Joseph Heller
12 THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald
13 DUNE by Frank Herbert
14 THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS by Robert Heinlein
15 STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND by Robert Heinlein
A TOWN LIKE ALICE by Nevil Shute
16 BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley
17 THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger
18 ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell
18.5 GRAVITY'S RAINBOW by Thomas Pynchon
THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck
19.5 SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut
GONE WITH THE WIND by Margaret Mitchell
20.5 LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding
SHANE by Jack Schaefer
TRUSTEE FROM THE TOOLROOM by Nevil Shute
A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY by John Irving
21.5 THE STAND by Stephen King
THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN by John Fowles
22 BELOVED by Toni Morrison
THE WORM OUROBOROS by E.R. Eddison
THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner
LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov
MOONHEART by Charles de Lint
ABSALOM, ABSALOM! by William Faulkner
OF HUMAN BONDAGE by W. Somerset Maugham
WISE BLOOD by Flannery O'Connor
UNDER THE VOLCANO by Malcolm Lowry
FIFTH BUSINESS by Robertson Davies
SOMEPLACE TO BE FLYING by Charles de Lint
23 ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac
24 HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad
YARROW by Charles de Lint
41 AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS by H.P. Lovecraft
ONE LONELY NIGHT by Mickey Spillane
MEMORY AND DREAM by Charles de Lint
TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf
THE MOVIEGOER by Walker Percy
TRADER by Charles de Lint
25 THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY by Douglas Adams
THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by Carson McCullers
THE HANDMAID'S TALE by Margaret Atwood
BLOOD MERIDIAN by Cormac McCarthy
26 A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess
ON THE BEACH by Nevil Shute
A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce
GREENMANTLE by Charles de Lint
27 ENDER'S GAME by Orson Scott Card
THE LITTLE COUNTRY by Charles de Lint
THE RECOGNITIONS by William Gaddis
28 STARSHIP TROOPERS by Robert Heinlein
29 THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway
THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP by John Irving
30 SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES by Ray Bradbury
THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE by Shirley Jackson
AS I LAY DYING by William Faulkner
TROPIC OF CANCER by Henry Miller
31 INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison
THE WOOD WIFE by Terri Windling
THE MAGUS by John Fowles
THE DOOR INTO SUMMER by Robert Heinlein
ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE by Robert Pirsig
I, CLAUDIUS by Robert Graves
32 THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London
AT SWIM-TWO-BIRDS by Flann O'Brien
33 FARENHEIT 451 by Ray Bradbury
ARROWSMITH by Sinclair Lewis
34 WATERSHIP DOWN by Richard Adams
35 NAKED LUNCH by William S. Burroughs
THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER by Tom Clancy
GUILTY PLEASURES by Laurell K. Hamilton
36 THE PUPPET MASTERS by Robert Heinlein
37 IT by Stephen King
V. by Thomas Pynchon
42 DOUBLE STAR by Robert Heinlein
43 CITIZEN OF THE GALAXY by Robert Heinlein
BRIDESHEAD REVISITED by Evelyn Waugh
LIGHT IN AUGUST by William Faulkner
38 ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST by Ken Kesey
39 A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway
THE SHELTERING SKY by Paul Bowles
SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION by Ken Kesey
MY ANTONIA by Willa Cather
MULENGRO by Charles de Lint
SUTTREE by Cormac McCarthy
MYTHAGO WOOD by Robert Holdstock
ILLUSIONS by Richard Bach
THE CUNNING MAN by Robertson Davies
40 THE SATANIC VERSES by Salman Rushdie

43. Wife had 29. Definitely I've forgotten some there I actually did read. I've read a few by Charles De Lint but have no idea what they were called. Had no idea he was that popular. Where's Herman Hesse? 7 out of the top ten are Ayn Rand and L. Ron Hubbard. Makes me shudder yet I've read 6 of the 7 of them. Oh well. I once reread an entire book without remembering I had already read it. So, I'm sure I've forgotten plenty I read here.

Ayn Rand is the most wonderful panglossist in history. Read her books and learn how to love this hell we're stuck in.
Hubbard that one time at least showed he knew how to keep it light while you still bothered to turn the pages. Dianetics showed him clearly to be a nut.
Tolkien nailed that middle earth setting. Light plot, light characters. All about the setting. Perfect invoking of another world.
Ulysses mostly defeated me.
Dune: political intrigue. Not really all that interesting actually. David Lynch's movie was good.
Huxley was pretty good.
Fitzgerald did nothing for me.
I had forgotten Heinlein wrote Stranger in a Strange Land. That one at least was a good book. He wrote a lot of books that weren't any good.
Bradbury was OK.
Salinger seems tremendously overrated to me.
Orwell was very good.
Pynchon did nothing for me.
Vonnegut was very good.
Lord of the Flies was pretty good.
Disliked Kerouac.
Douglas Adams was good fun.
Ender's Game is a complete gimmick book written by a rightwing raving loony.
Richard Adams is an eclectic writer. Downs was pretty good.
Stephen King needs a new hobby.
Hemingway certainly had a distinct voice.

Huxley, Vonnegut, and Orwell stand out to me on this list. No Jack Vance or Milan Kundera of course. I can't actually recommend a single Kundera that would quite belong. It's more the accumulation while patiently plodding through the awful parts. Vance was a strange habit. Definitely one of a kind.