Robert started 101 Books as a way to document his goal of reading Time Magazine's Top 100 Novels (since 1923). I decided this was a worthwhile reading challenge to add to my perpetual challenges. I will be adding this challenge to my Perpetual Reading Challenges page. Out of the 100 novels, I have already read 18. Here's the complete list:
- The Adventures of Augie March (1953) by Saul Bellow
- All the King’s Men (1946) by Robert Penn Warren
- American Pastoral (1997) by Philip Roth
- An American Tragedy (1925) by Theodore Dreiser
- Animal Farm (1946) by George Orwell
- Appointment in Samarra (1934) by John O’Hara
- Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret (1970) by Judy Blume
- The Assistant (1957) by Bernard Malamud
- At Swim-Two-Birds (1938) Flann O’ Brien
- Atonement (2002) by Ian McEwan
- Beloved (1987) by Toni Morrison
- The Berlin Stories (1946) by Christopher Isherwood
- The Big Sleep (1939) by Raymond Chandler
- The Blind Assassin (2000) by Margaret Atwood
- Blood Meridian (1986) by Cormac McCarthy
- Brideshead Revisited (1946) by Evelyn Waugh
- The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927) by Thornton Wilder
- Call it Sleep (1935) by Henry Roth
- Catch 22 (1961) by Joseph Heller
- The Catcher in the Rye (1951) by J.D. Salinger
- A Clockwork Orange (1963) by Anthony Burgess
- The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967) by William Styron
- The Corrections (2001) by Jonathan Franzen
- The Crying of Lot 49 (1966) by Thomas Pynchon
- A Dance to the Music of Time (1951) by Anthony Powell
- The Day of the Locust (1939) by Nathanael West
- Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) by Willa Cather
- A Death in the Family (1958) by James Agee
- The Death of the Heart (1958) by Elizabeth Bowen
- Deliverance (1970) by James Dickey
- Dog Soldiers (1974) by Robert Stone
- Falconer (1977) by John Cheever
- The French Lieutenant’s (1969) by John Fowles
- The Golden Notebook (1962) by Doris Lessing
- Go Tell it on the Mountain (1953) by James Baldwin
- Gone With The Wind (1936) by Margaret Mitchell
- The Grapes of Wrath (1939) by John Steinbeck
- Gravity’s Rainbow (1973) by Thomas Pynchon
- The Great Gatsby (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- A Handful of Dust (1935) by Evelyn Waugh
- The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940) by Carson McCullers
- The Heart of the Matter (1948) by Graham Greene
- Herzog (1964) by Saul Bellow
- Housekeeping (1981) by Marilynne Robinson
- A House for Mr. Biswas (1962) by V.S. Naipaul
- I, Claudius (1934) by Robert Graves
- Infinite Jest (1996) by David Foster Wallace
- Invisible Man (1952) by Ralph Ellison
- Light in August (1932) by William Faulkner
- The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe (1950) by C.S. Lewis
- Lolita (1955) by Vladimir Nabokov
- Lord of the Flies (1955) by William Golding
- The Lord of the Rings (1954) by J.R.R. Tolkien
- Loving (1945) by Henry Green
- Lucky Jim (1954) by Kingsley Amis
- The Man Who Loved Children (1940) by Christina Stead
- Midnight’s Children (1981) by Salman Rushdie
- Money (1984) by Martin Amis
- The Moviegoer (1964) by Walker Percy
- Mrs. Dalloway (1925) by Virginia Woolf
- Naked Lunch (1959) by William Burroughs
- Native Son (1940) by Richard Wright
- Neuromancer (1984) by William Gibson
- Never Let Me Go (2005) by Kazuo Ishiguro
- 1984 (1948) by George Orwell
- On the Road (1957) by Jack Kerouac
- One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (1962) by Ken Kesey
- The Painted Bird (1965) by Jerzy Kosinski
- Pale Fire (1962) by Vladimir Nabokov
- A Passage to India (1924) by E.M. Forster
- Play It As It Lays (1970) by Joan Didion
- Portnoy’s Complaint (1969) by Philip Roth
- Possession (1990) by A.S. Byatt
- The Power and the Glory (1939) by Graham Greene
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) by Muriel Spark
- Rabbit, Run (1960) by John Updike
- Ragtime (1975) E.L. Doctorow
- The Recognitions (1955) by William Gaddis
- Red Harvest (1929) by Dashiell Hammett
- Revolutionary Road (1961) by Richard Yates
- The Sheltering Sky (1949) by Paul Bowles
- Slaughterhouse Five (1969) by Kurt Vonnegut
- Snow Crash (1992) by Neal Stephenson
- The Sot-Weed Factor (1960) by John Barth
- The Sound and the Fury (1929) by William Faulkner
- The Sportswriter (1986) by Richard Ford
- The Spy Who Came In From The Cold (1964) by John Le Carre
- The Sun Also Rises (1926) by Ernest Hemingway
- Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) by Zora Neale Hurston
- Things Fall Apart (1959) by Chinua Achebe
- To Kill A Mockingbird (1960) by Harper Lee
- To The Lighthouse (1927) by Virginia Woolf
- Tropic of Cancer (1934) by Henry Miller
- Ubik (1969) by Philip K. Dick
- Under the Net (1954) by Iris Murdoch
- Under the Volcano (1947) by Malcom Lowry
- Watchmen (1986) by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
- White Noise (1985) by Don DeLillo
- White Teeth (2000) by Zadie Smith
- Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) Jean Rhys