Armed with a Nook and inspired by Cassie's 2012 resolution to read all of Radcliffe's Rival 100 Best Novels of the Twentieth Century, I'm working my way through a similar list. Why this one? No real reason. I just like the looks of it. Thanks to a literary childhood and high school English, I've already knocked 19 off the list.
1. The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkein (thanks to my dad, explored it for the first time in 2nd grade)
2. 1984 by George Orwell
3. Animal Farm by George Orwell (This one's thanks to getting locked in a dorm room at UWCiM with nothing to do but read this book.)
4. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
5. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
6. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
7. The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
8. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
9. Brave New World by Alduous Huxley
10. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
11. The Hobbit by JRR Tolkein
12. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
13. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis
14. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (although I think I'd already heard it quoted in it's entirety over the course of my childhood--again, thanks, Dad.)
15. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
16. 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke (and I must say, I'm glad that one's out of the way)
17. A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
18. Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
19. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
We'll see what's next. :)
