Listology
So, I guess this is supposed to be, like "The Canon or something. I'm only going to count specific books I've read, rather than other titles by the same author.
2000s
24. Fingersmith – Sarah Waters
61. How the Dead Live – Will Self
63. The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
1900s
85. Tipping the Velvet – Sarah Waters
86. The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
87. Glamorama – Bret Easton Ellis
94. Great Apes – Will Self
102. Cocaine Nights – J.G. Ballard
109. Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood
111. Morvern Callar – Alan Warner
125. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami
129. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres
134. Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh
143. The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
144. The House of Doctor Dee – Peter Ackroyd
145. The Robber Bride – Margaret Atwood
157. Smilla’s Sense of Snow – Peter Høeg
166. American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
167. Time’s Arrow – Martin Amis
171. Downriver – Iain Sinclair
183. Possession – A.S. Byatt
184. The Buddha of Suburbia – Hanif Kureishi
190. Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
197. London Fields – Martin Amis
199. Cat’s Eye – Margaret Atwood
200. Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco
218. The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe
240. Less Than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis
242. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
247. Hawksmoor – Peter Ackroyd
256. The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
272. The Color Purple – Alice Walker
289. Rites of Passage – William Golding
291. Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
293. The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco
301. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
303. The World According to Garp – John Irving
308. The Virgin in the Garden – A.S. Byatt
311. Delta of Venus – Anaïs Nin
312. The Shining – Stephen King
320. Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice
345. Crash – J.G. Ballard
354. Surfacing – Margaret Atwood
358. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson
389. 2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke
400. The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
408. In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
413. The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon
426. V. – Thomas Pynchon
427. Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut
428. The Graduate – Charles Webb
433. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
437. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
439. The Drowned World – J.G. Ballard
456. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
460. Billy Liar – Keith Waterhouse
461. Naked Lunch – William Burroughs
463. Absolute Beginners – Colin MacInnes
467. Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote
477. The Once and Future King – T.H. White
484. On the Road – Jack Kerouac
487. The Wonderful “O” – James Thurber
494. The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
506. The Story of O – Pauline Réage
508. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
515. Junkie – William Burroughs
518. Casino Royale – Ian Fleming
529. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
536. The 13 Clocks – James Thurber
537. Gormenghast – Mervyn Peake
547. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
559. The Plague – Albert Camus
561. Titus Groan – Mervyn Peake
563. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
564. Animal Farm – George Orwell
574. The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
593. Finnegans Wake – James Joyce (phew!)
602. Nausea – Jean-Paul Sartre
605. Brighton Rock – Graham Greene
608. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
610. The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
617. Eyeless in Gaza – Aldous Huxley
620. Keep the Aspidistra Flying – George Orwell
637. A Handful of Dust – Evelyn Waugh
638. Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald
649. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
650. Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
659. Vile Bodies – Evelyn Waugh
667. All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
677. The Well of Loneliness – Radclyffe Hall
680. Decline and Fall – Evelyn Waugh
684. Steppenwolf – Herman Hesse
686. To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
699. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
700. The Counterfeiters – André Gide
701. The Trial – Franz Kafka
708. A Passage to India – E.M. Forster
717. Siddhartha – Herman Hesse
725. Crome Yellow – Aldous Huxley
741. Of Human Bondage – William Somerset Maugham
750. Death in Venice – Thomas Mann
752. Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton
754. Howards End – E.M. Forster
758. Strait is the Gate – André Gide
761. A Room With a View – E.M. Forster
767. The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
772. Where Angels Fear to Tread – E.M. Forster
778. The Immoralist – André Gide
1800s
794. Dracula – Bram Stoker
797. The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
800. The Real Charlotte – Somerville and Ross
801. The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
808. Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
809. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
821. The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy
835. Ben-Hur – Lew Wallace
839. Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy
846. Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
854. Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll
858. Sentimental Education – Gustave Flaubert
860. Maldoror – Comte de Lautréaumont
866. Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne
867. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
868. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
871. Notes from the Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky
876. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
879. The Mill on the Floss – George Eliot
886. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
893. Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely – Harriet Beecher Stowe
895. The House of the Seven Gables – Nathaniel Hawthorne
896. Moby-Dick – Herman Melville
897. The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
902. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
904. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
905. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
911. The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe
913. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
916. The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe
930. Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott
931. Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
932. Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen
933. Persuasion – Jane Austen
936. Emma – Jane Austen
937. Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
938. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
940. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
1700s
951. Justine – Marquis de Sade
970. Candide – Voltaire
982. A Modest Proposal – Jonathan Swift
983. Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
987. Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
Pre-1700s
991. The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan
152 out of 1001 - that's what, 15%?
Well, as far as Dead White Males go, it's not a bad list. I thought the worst omission was Dodie Smith - I Capture The Castle. And the pre-Modern omissions were inexcusable. No Mallory? No Shakespeare? No Chaucer?
Still, not a bad waste of a morning.
2000s
24. Fingersmith – Sarah Waters
61. How the Dead Live – Will Self
63. The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
1900s
85. Tipping the Velvet – Sarah Waters
86. The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
87. Glamorama – Bret Easton Ellis
94. Great Apes – Will Self
102. Cocaine Nights – J.G. Ballard
109. Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood
111. Morvern Callar – Alan Warner
125. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami
129. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres
134. Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh
143. The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
144. The House of Doctor Dee – Peter Ackroyd
145. The Robber Bride – Margaret Atwood
157. Smilla’s Sense of Snow – Peter Høeg
166. American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
167. Time’s Arrow – Martin Amis
171. Downriver – Iain Sinclair
183. Possession – A.S. Byatt
184. The Buddha of Suburbia – Hanif Kureishi
190. Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
197. London Fields – Martin Amis
199. Cat’s Eye – Margaret Atwood
200. Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco
218. The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe
240. Less Than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis
242. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
247. Hawksmoor – Peter Ackroyd
256. The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
272. The Color Purple – Alice Walker
289. Rites of Passage – William Golding
291. Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
293. The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco
301. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
303. The World According to Garp – John Irving
308. The Virgin in the Garden – A.S. Byatt
311. Delta of Venus – Anaïs Nin
312. The Shining – Stephen King
320. Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice
345. Crash – J.G. Ballard
354. Surfacing – Margaret Atwood
358. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson
389. 2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke
400. The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
408. In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
413. The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon
426. V. – Thomas Pynchon
427. Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut
428. The Graduate – Charles Webb
433. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
437. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
439. The Drowned World – J.G. Ballard
456. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
460. Billy Liar – Keith Waterhouse
461. Naked Lunch – William Burroughs
463. Absolute Beginners – Colin MacInnes
467. Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote
477. The Once and Future King – T.H. White
484. On the Road – Jack Kerouac
487. The Wonderful “O” – James Thurber
494. The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
506. The Story of O – Pauline Réage
508. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
515. Junkie – William Burroughs
518. Casino Royale – Ian Fleming
529. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
536. The 13 Clocks – James Thurber
537. Gormenghast – Mervyn Peake
547. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
559. The Plague – Albert Camus
561. Titus Groan – Mervyn Peake
563. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
564. Animal Farm – George Orwell
574. The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
593. Finnegans Wake – James Joyce (phew!)
602. Nausea – Jean-Paul Sartre
605. Brighton Rock – Graham Greene
608. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
610. The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
617. Eyeless in Gaza – Aldous Huxley
620. Keep the Aspidistra Flying – George Orwell
637. A Handful of Dust – Evelyn Waugh
638. Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald
649. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
650. Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
659. Vile Bodies – Evelyn Waugh
667. All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
677. The Well of Loneliness – Radclyffe Hall
680. Decline and Fall – Evelyn Waugh
684. Steppenwolf – Herman Hesse
686. To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
699. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
700. The Counterfeiters – André Gide
701. The Trial – Franz Kafka
708. A Passage to India – E.M. Forster
717. Siddhartha – Herman Hesse
725. Crome Yellow – Aldous Huxley
741. Of Human Bondage – William Somerset Maugham
750. Death in Venice – Thomas Mann
752. Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton
754. Howards End – E.M. Forster
758. Strait is the Gate – André Gide
761. A Room With a View – E.M. Forster
767. The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
772. Where Angels Fear to Tread – E.M. Forster
778. The Immoralist – André Gide
1800s
794. Dracula – Bram Stoker
797. The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
800. The Real Charlotte – Somerville and Ross
801. The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
808. Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
809. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
821. The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy
835. Ben-Hur – Lew Wallace
839. Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy
846. Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
854. Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll
858. Sentimental Education – Gustave Flaubert
860. Maldoror – Comte de Lautréaumont
866. Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne
867. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
868. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
871. Notes from the Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky
876. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
879. The Mill on the Floss – George Eliot
886. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
893. Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely – Harriet Beecher Stowe
895. The House of the Seven Gables – Nathaniel Hawthorne
896. Moby-Dick – Herman Melville
897. The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
902. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
904. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
905. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
911. The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe
913. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
916. The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe
930. Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott
931. Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
932. Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen
933. Persuasion – Jane Austen
936. Emma – Jane Austen
937. Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
938. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
940. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
1700s
951. Justine – Marquis de Sade
970. Candide – Voltaire
982. A Modest Proposal – Jonathan Swift
983. Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
987. Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
Pre-1700s
991. The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan
152 out of 1001 - that's what, 15%?
Well, as far as Dead White Males go, it's not a bad list. I thought the worst omission was Dodie Smith - I Capture The Castle. And the pre-Modern omissions were inexcusable. No Mallory? No Shakespeare? No Chaucer?
Still, not a bad waste of a morning.
posted by Masonic Boom | 11:55 am
7 Comments:
Shakespeare is kind of an obvious exclusion: didn't write many books.
Also, I quite like her, but two Sarah Waters books in the top 1001 is taking the piss.
There's more than one joke on that list, though "Tipping the Velvet" might be the lamest.
I think ukaunz just put in every book he or she had read with the *really* trashy ones left out.
I think he/she was desperately trying to put more womming in and failing desperately to think of any others.
Then they should have stuck in the first novel ever, by Lady Murasaki.
I thought Gilgamesh was... or am I thinking of Epics?
No Beowulf, no credibility.
I've always been a little confused about the line between epic and novel. I mean, people say novels have the intimacy, but Gilgamesh has some intimacy. But then was Gilgamesh prose? The translation we read in first year was prose but it was also crap.
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