Catching Up to Square One

Okay, so I have been doing a lot of reading since I moved to Philadelphia and got myself a library card. I love the library. I just have not really written about my views, key points I should remember, etc. So, I'll start on square one again, but first I'll tell you that when I found the 100 Greatest American Books or whatever, I have read more on this list. The ones I've read are in Italics. For the purposes of this blog and because can I really keep up with another one at this point? I will write about almost everything I read, i.e. poetry, short stories, novels, graphic novels and knitting books. Just kidding about the knitting books.

Anyway, I finished Queen and Country by Greg Rucka on Christmas, so I hope that will be my first review.

* 1984 - George Orwell
* A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
* A Dance to the Music of Time - Anthony Powell
* A Death in the Family - James Agee
* A Handful of Dust - Evelyn Waugh
* A House for Mr. Biswas - V.S. Naipaul
* A Passage to India - E. M. Forster (read for school)
* All the King's Men - Robert Penn Warren
* American Pastoral - Philip Roth
* An American Tragedy - Theodore Dreiser
* Animal Farm - George Orwell read in 9th grade?
* Appointment in Samarra - John O'Hara
* Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret - Judy Blume haha.
* At Swim-Two-Birds - Flann O'Brien
* Atonement - Ian McEwan
* Beloved - Toni Morrison
* Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
* Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
* Call It Sleep - Henry Roth
* Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
* Death Comes for the Archbishop - Willa Cather
* Deliverance - James Dickey
* Dog Soldiers - Robert Stone
* Falconer - John Cheever
* Go Tell it on the Mountain - James Baldwin
* Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
* Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
* Herzog - Saul Bellow
* Housekeeping - Marilynne Robinson
* I, Claudius - Robert Graves
* Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
* Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
* Light in August - William Faulkner
* Lolita - Vladimir Nabakov
* Lord of the Flies - William Golding
* Loving - Henry Green
* Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis
* Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
* Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
* Naked Lunch - William Burroughs
* Native Son - Richard Wright
* Neuromancer - William Gibson
* Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
* One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
* Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov
* Play It As It Lays - Joan Didion
* Portnoy's Complaint - Philip Roth
* Possession - A.S. Byatt
* Rabbit, Run - John Updike
* Ragtime - E.L. Doctorow
* Red Harvest - Dashiell Hammett
* Revolutionary Road - Richard Yates
* Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
* Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
* The Adventures of Augie March - Saul Bellow
* The Assistant - Bernard Malamud
* The Berlin Stories - Christopher Isherwood
* The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
* The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
* The Bridge of San Luis Rey - Thornton Wilder
* The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
* The Confessions of Natt Turner - William Styron
* The Corrections - Johnathan Franzen
* The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
* The Day of the Locust - Nathanael West
* The Death of the Heart - Elizabeth Bowen
* The French Lieutenant's Woman - John Fowles
* The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing
* The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
* The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
* The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers
* The Heart of the Matter - Graham Greene
* The Lion, the With, and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
* The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
* The Man Who Loves Children - Christina Stead
* The Moviegower - Walker Percy
* The Painted Bird - Jerzy Kosinski
* The Power and the Glory - Graham Greene
* The Prime of MIss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
* The Recognitions - William Gaddis
* The Sheltering Sky - Paul Bowles
* The Sot-Weed Factor - John Barth
* The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
* The Sportswriter - Richard Ford
* The Spy Who Came in From the Cold - John le Carre
* The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
* Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
* Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
* To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
* To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
* Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller
* Ubik - Philip K. Dick
* Under the Net - Irish Murdoch
* Under the Volcano - Malcolm Lowry
* Watchmen - Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
* White Noise - Don DeLillo
* White Teeth - Zadie Smith
* Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys

Oh, I'm probably not going to use this list much, but I like it for some reason.