reading material

The Observer's Top 100 Novels. i want to read them all in 2009! i haven't read any. woo.

BFG I’ve read… and high school readings don't really count.

Don Quixote - Miguel De Cervantes
The Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan
Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
Tom Jones - Henry Fielding
Clarissa - Samuel Richardson
Tristram Shandy - Laurence Sterne
Dangerous Liaisons - Pierre Choderlos De Laclos
Emma - Jane Austen
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Nightmare Abbey - Thomas Love
The Black Sheep - Honore De Balzac
The Charterhouse of Parma - Stendhal
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
Sybil - Benjamin Disraeli
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
Little Women - Louisa M. Alcott
The Way We Live Now - Anthony Trollope
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
Daniel Deronda - George Eliot
The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
Three Men in a Boat - Jerome K. Jerome
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
The Diary of a Nobody - George Grossmith
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
The Riddle of the Sands - Erskine Childers
The Call of the Wild - Jack London
Nostromo - Joseph Conrad
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
In Search of Lost Time - Marcel Proust
The Rainbow - D.H. Lawrence
The Good Soldier - Ford Madox Ford
The Thirty-Nine Steps - John Buchan
Ulysses - James Joyce
Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
A Passage to India - E.M. Forster
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Trial - Franz Kafka
Men Without Women - Ernest Hemingway
Journey to the End of the Night - Louis-Ferdinand Celine
As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Scoop - Evelyn Waugh
USA - John Dos Passos
The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
The Pursuit of Love - Nancy Mitford
The Plague - Albert Camus
Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
Malone Dies - Samuel Beckett
Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
Wise Blood - Flannery O'Connor
Charlotte's Web - E.B. White
The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
The Quiet American - Graham Greene
On the Road - Jack Kerouac
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
The Tin Drum - Gunter Grass
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
Herzog - Saul Bellow
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont - Elizabeth Taylor
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - John Le Carre
Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
The Bottle Factory Outing - Beryla Bainbridge
The Executioner's Song - Norman Mailer
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler - Italo Calvino
A Bend in the River - V.S. Naipaul
Waiting for the Barbarians - J.M. Coetzee
Housekeeping - Marilynne Robinson
Lanark - Alasdair Gray
The New York Trilogy - Paul Auster
The BFG - Roald Dahl
The Periodic Table - Primo Levi
Money - Martin Amis
An Artist of the Floating World - Kazuo Ishiguro
Oscar and Lucinda - Peter Carey
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting - Milan Kundera
Haroun and the Sea of Stories - Salman Rushdie
LA Confidential - James Ellroy
Wise Children - Angela Carter
Atonement - Ian McEwan
Northern Lights - Philip Pullman
American Pastoral - Philip Roth
Austerlitz - W.G. Sebald