Book List

JP had this great idea to pick thirty books from the top 100 novels from the mid-1900s to present. Jess, JP, and I each picked ten which are listed below. We started with the 'Cather and the Rye.' It was a witty, entertaining book. Ken T. wrote a great blog about it at http://kendlebooks.blogspot.com/2010/06/catcher-in-rye.html.


1. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
2. The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
3. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
4. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
5. All the King's Men, Robert Penn Warren
6. A Lesson Before Dying, Ernest Gaines
7. Animal Farm, George Orwell
8. Lord of the Flies, William Golding
9. A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
10. A History of Love, Nicole Krauss
11. Light in August, William Faulkner
12. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
13. The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
14. Franny and Zooey, J.D. Salinger
15. Sons and Lovers, D.H. Lawrence
16. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
17. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce
18. A Hand Full of Dust, Evelyn Waugh
19. A Passage to India, E.M. Forster
20. Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
21. Lucky Jim, Kingsley Amis
22. 1984, Orwell
23. Appointment in Samarra, John O' Hara
24. The Power and the Glory, Graham Greene
25. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
26. All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy
27. To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
28. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
29. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey
30. Ulysses, James Joyce