The 100 Books I Read

Here is a list of the 100 books I read. There are actually going to be 102 books listed here; I meant to count the Pullman trilogy as one book, but I actually wrote them up separately so I included 2 more books to make up for it.

1. The Last Days of Socrates – Plato
2. Italian Popular Tales – Thomas Frederick Crane
3. Cake or Death – the Excruciating Choices of Everyday Life, a collection of essays by Heather Mallick
4. Introducing Romanticism – Duncan Heath
5. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
6. The Art of War – Sunzi
7. A Pocket Darwin – A brief introduction to his life and word – John and Mary Briggin
8. Who Moved My Cheese? – Spencer Johnson
9. Thus Spoke Zarathustra – Friedrich Nietzsche
10. The Myth of Sisyphus – Albert Camus
11. The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon
12. Arabian Nights
13. Dr Faustus – Christopher Marlowe
14. The Sea Fairies – Frank L. Baum
15. Emma – Jane Austen
16. Nine Stories – J. D. Salinger
17. Raise high the roof beam, carpenters, and Seymour: an introduction – J. D. Salinger
18. The Golden Compass – Philip Pullman
19. The Subtle Knife – Pullman
20. The Amber Spyglass – Pullman
21. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
22. Stancliffe’s Hotel – Charlotte Brontë
23. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
24. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
25. The Inimitable Jeeves – P. G. Wodehouse
26. Eggs, Beans and Crumpets – P. G. Wodehouse
27. Persuasion – Jane Austen
28. The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James
29. The Forsyte Saga: The Man of Property – John Galsworthy
30. The Forsyte Saga: In Chancery – John Galsworthy
31. Under the Tuscan Sun – Frances Mayes
32. The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy
33. The Song of Roland
34. On a Chinese Screen – Somerset Maugham
35. The House of Seven Gables – Nathaniel Hawthorne
36. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
37. Hugh Selwyn Mauberley – Ezra Pound
38. The Tower – William Butler Yeats
39. A Red Badge of Courage – Stephen Crane
40. A Girl’s Guide to Hunting and Fishing – Melissa Banks
41. Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen
42. Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
43. Aria Da Capo – Edna St. Vincent Millay
44. Complete Stories – Dorothy Parker
45. A Mencken Chrestomathy – H. L. Mencken
46. l’Ignorance – Milan Kundera
47. Selected Stories of Eudora Welty
48. The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
49. Daisy Miller – Henry James
50. Nana – Zola
51. The Group – Mary McCarthy
52. Ariel – Sylvia Plath
53. Howl & other poems – Allen Ginsberg
54. Catcher in the Rye – J. D. Salinger
55. Bliss and other stories – Katherine Mansfield
56. A Room of One’s Own – Virginia Woolf
57. The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
58. Agnes Grey – Anne Brontë
59. Sister Carrie – Theodore Dreiser
60. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Anne Brontë
61. Passage to India – E. M. Forster
62. Winesburg, Ohio – Sherwood Anderson
63. Haroun & the Sea of Stories – Salman Rushdie
64. Selected Poems – Theodore Roethke
65. Complete Poems – Dorothy Parker
66. The Good Earth – Pearl S. Buck
67. Middlemarch – George Eliot
68. Letters to a Young Poet – Rainer Maria Rilke
69. The Finishing School – Muriel Spark
70. Plays Pleasant – Bernard Shaw
71. Nemesis – Agatha Christie
72. Holy Innocents – Gilbert Adair
73. The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles
74. Madame Bovary – Flaubert
75. A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers – Xiaolu Guo
76. Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
77. The Collector – John Fowles
78. Selected Poems – Edna St. Vincent Millay
79. The Stories of Eva Luna – Isabel Allende
80. Short cuts – Raymond Carver
81. The Sorrows of Young Werther – Goethe
82. Selected Poems – Rainer Maria Rilke
83. Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
84. Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
85. A Good Man Is Hard to Find – Flannery O’Connor
86. The Magnificent Ambersons – Booth Tarkington
87. The Pearl – Steinbeck
88. Tales of Hoffmann – E.T.A. Hoffmann
89. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter – Carson McCullers
90. Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader – Anne Fadiman
91. A Mathematician’s Apology – George Hardy
92. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay – Michael Chabon
93. The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
94. Selected Poems – Marianne Moore
95. A Linnet’s Tale – Dale Willard
96. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
97. Pygmalion – Bernard Shaw
98. Selected Poems – Amy Lowell
99. Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
100. Right You Are (If You Think You Are) – Luigi Pirandello
101. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
102. Death in Venice – Thomas Mann

While I would highly recommend the books in courier font, the books in bold are the ones I enjoyed the most. My favourite book of all the books I read was #21 Vanity Fair. I was so invested in the adventures of Becky and so charmed by Thackeray's cynical narrative that I read this giant book in about 3 sittings over the course of a few days. In fact, I like this book so much that, not only do I have my own copy at home, I borrowed another copy from the university library so that I can have a copy in my office.