I have read four of those: Lonesome Dove, Humboldt's Gift, To Kill a Mockingbird and The Grapes of Wrath. Lonesome Dove was good.
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I have read four of those: Lonesome Dove, Humboldt's Gift, To Kill a Mockingbird and The Grapes of Wrath. Lonesome Dove was good.
Those are just the ones I have read so far, of course. The complete list is on the first page of this thread.
Here is my current list for what I have read
2013 Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson (I read this one before it became a Pulitzer)
2009 Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
2013 Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson
2007 The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf)
2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar)
2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (Random House)
1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison (Alfred A. Knopf)
1986 Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (Simon & Schuster)
1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace)
1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole (a
posthumous publication) (Louisiana State U. Press)
1969 House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday (Harper)
1961 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Lippincott)
1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Scribner)
1947 All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (Harcourt)
1940 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (Viking)
1932 The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (John Day)
1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Appleton)
1919 The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday)
Id try Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge, of everything on the list.
Some of these older books are so difficult to find. I am at 58/89 at the moment. Will post the updated list soon.
Another update... 68/90, I believe.
2017 The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
2016 The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
2015 All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
2014 The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
2013 Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson
2011 A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
2010 Tinkers by Paul Harding
2009 Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
2008 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (Riverhead Books)
2007 The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf)
2006 March by Geraldine Brooks (Viking)
2005 Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (Farrar)
2004 The Known World by Edward P. Jones (Amistad/ HarperCollins)
2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar)
2002 Empire Falls by Richard Russo (Alfred A. Knopf)
2000 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin)
1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin)
1997 Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser (Crown)
1996 Independence Day by Richard Ford (Alfred A. Knopf)
1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (Viking)
1994 The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (Charles Scribner's Sons)
1993 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler (Henry Holt)
1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (Alfred A. Knopf)
1991 Rabbit At Rest by John Updike (Alfred A. Knopf)
1990 The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos (Farrar)
1989 Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (Alfred A. Knopf)
1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison (Alfred A. Knopf)
1987 A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor (Alfred A. Knopf)
1986 Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (Simon & Schuster)
1985 Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie (Random House)
1984 Ironweed by William Kennedy (Viking)
1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace)
1982 Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike (Knopf)
1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole (a
posthumous publication) (Louisiana State U. Press)
1976 Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow (Viking)
1975 The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara (McKay)
1973 The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty (Random)
1972 Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner (Doubleday)
1969 House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday (Harper)
1968 The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron (Random)
1967 The Fixer by Bernard Malamud (Farrar)
1965 The Keepers Of The House by Shirley Ann Grau (Random)
1963 The Reivers by William Faulkner (Random)
1961 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Lippincott)
1960 Advise and Consent by Allen Drury (Doubleday)
1958 A Death In The Family by the late James Agee (a posthumous publication) (McDowell, Obolensky)
1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Scribner)
1952 The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk (Doubleday)
1947 All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (Harcourt)
1945 A Bell for Adano by John Hersey (Knopf)
1942 In This Our Life by Ellen Glasgow (Harcourt)
1940 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (Viking)
1938 The Late George Apley by John Phillips Marquand (Little)
1937 Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (Macmillan)
1935 Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson (Simon & Schuster)
1934 Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller (Harper)
1932 The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (John Day)
1930 Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge (Houghton)
1929 Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin (Bobbs)
1928 The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder (Boni)
1927 Early Autumn by Louis Bromfield (Stokes)
1926 Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis (Harcourt)
1923 One of Ours by Willa Cather (Knopf)
1922 Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday)
1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Appleton)
1919 The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday)
1918 His Family by Ernest Poole (Macmillan)
These are the ones I need to read yet... By the end of this year. Some of them are either too experience or not available at all, unfortunately.
1970 Collected Stories by Jean Stafford (Farrar)
1966 Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter (Harcourt)
1959 The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor (Doubleday)
1956 Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor (World)
1955 A Fable by William Faulkner (Random)
1950 The Way West by A. B. Guthrie (Sloane)
1949 Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens (Harcourt)
1948 Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener (Macmillan)
1944 Journey in the Dark by Martin Flavin (Harper)
1936 Honey in the Horn by Harold L. Davis (Harper)
1933 The Store by T. S. Stribling (Doubleday)
My list isn't too impressive, but I haven't ever read with this list in mind (though it has turned me on to a couple I've read/want to read).
I've read, as an engaged adult:
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (liked it)
The Road by Cormac McCarthy (loved it)
Ironweed by William Kennedy (loved it)
A Confederacy of Dunces (really liked it)
The Old Man and the Sea (loved it)
I read in high school but that was a long time ago and I didn't pay them proper attention; I'd like to go back and re-read both in the next two or three years:
Beloved
The Grapes of Wrath
I've never read but have a genuine interest in reading in the next few years:
The Sympathizer
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
American Pastoral
To Kill a Mockingbird