The Hoarded and New To Be

I know this will be rather similar to the GoodRead’s categories, but I hope to eventually link my thoughts and reviews to each individual novel on here. I will also categorize by genre and mark if I own them already. Good way to remember which ones to pick off the list to go buy and add to my problem. 😀 It will be a massive list, but my lofty goal is to try and get through as much as I possibly can and be better for it. If anything, this will be an archive to reference if you want to read my various ramblings and possibly semi-medicated thoughts. 😛

**EDIT** Since keeping up with cataloging books in multiple places is a pain, this will be mainly for my book challenges (specifically TIME Top 100 and NPR’s Sci-Fi/Fantasy). If you want to see more of what I’m hoarding, please visit my Goodreads page.

RULE: A good amount of these books are series/belong to a series. If I dislike the first novel of the series enough, I am not going to continue. There’s too many books to read, too much to do, like actually leaving my house…

Note: You guys can also suggest more to add and which ones I should read next! Or, contrarily, avoid at all costs. I would love for this to be an interactive, growing list to share thoughts~

TIME Top 100

Since I’ve actually read some of these and will only go back to the ones I didn’t finish in high school because of procrastination and hating assigned books, I will not actually have a hundred books in this list, though it may come close.

Key: ** = already own ~~ = currently reading xx = finished

Alphabetically:

~~Things Fall Apart~~ ~~— Chinua Achebe~~
A Death in the Family – James Agee
Lucky Jim – Kingsley Amis
Money – Martin Amis
The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
Go Tell it on the Mountain – James Baldwin
The Sot-Weed Factor – John Barth
The Adventures of Augie March – Saul Bellow
Herzog – Saul Bellow
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret – Judy Blume
The Death of the Heart – Elizabeth Bowen
The Sheltering Sky – Paul Bowles
A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
Naked Lunch – William S. Burroughs
Possession – A.S. Byatt
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold – John le Carré
Death Comes for the Archbishop – Willa Cather
The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler
Falconer – John Cheever **
White Noise – Don DeLillo
~~Ubik~~ ~~— Philip K. Dick~~
Deliverance – James Dickey
Play It as It Lays – Joan Didion
Ragtime – E.L. Doctorow
An American Tragedy – Theodore Dreiser **
Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
Light in August – William Faulkner
The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald **
The Sportswriter – Richard Ford
A Passage to India – E.M. Forster
The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles
The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen **
The Recognitions – William Gaddis
Neuromancer – William Gibson **
~~Lord of the Flies~~ ~~— William Golding~~
I, Claudius – Robert Graves
Loving – Henry Green
The Heart of the Matter – Graham Greene
The Power and the Glory – Graham Greene
Red Harvest – Dashiell Hammett
Catch-22 – Joseph Heller **
The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
The Berlin Stories: The Last of Mr. Norris & Goodbye to Berlin – Christopher Isherwood
Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro **
On the Road – Jack Keruac
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey **
The Painted Bird – Jerzy Kosiński
To Kill a Mockingbird — Harper Lee
The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe — C.S. Lewis
Under the Volcano – Malcolm Lowry
The Assistant – Bernard Malamud
Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West – Cormac McCarthy
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter – Carson McCullers
Atonement – Ian McEwan
Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller
Gone with the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
Watchmen – Alan Moore
Beloved – Toni Morrison
Under the Net – Iris Murdoch
Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov xx
Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov
A House for Mr Biswas – V.S. Naipaul
At Swim-Two-Birds – Flan O’Brien
Appointment in Samarra – John O’Hara
1984 – George Orwell **
Animal Farm — George Orwell
The Moviegoer – Walker Percy
A Dance to the Music of Time: 1^st Movement – Anthony Powell
The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon
Gravity’s Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon
Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
Housekeeping – Marilynne Robinson
Call it Sleep – Henry Roth
American Pastoral – Philip Roth
Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth
Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger **
White Teeth – Zadie Smith
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark
The Man Who Loved Children – Christina Stead
The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
Snow Crash – Neal Stephenson **
Dog Soldiers – Robert Stone
The Confessions of Nat Turner – William Styron
The Lord of the Rings (Series) – J.R.R. Tolkien **
Rabbit, Run – John Updike
Slaughterhouse-Five — Kurt Vonnegut
Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace **
All the King’s Men – Robert Penn Warren **
Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
A Handful of Dust – Evelyn Waugh
The Day of the Locust – Nathanael West
The Bridge of San Luis Rey – Thornton Wilder
Native Son – Richard Wright
Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf **
To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf **
Revolutionary Road – Richard Yates **

8/100 Read, 1 Reviewed

NPR Top 100 Reader’s Choice Sci-Fi/Fantasy

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
Watership Down – Richard Adams
The Xanth series – Piers Anthony
The Caves of Steel – Isaac Asimov
I, Robot – Isaac Asimov **
Foundation trilogy – Isaac Asimov **
The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood **
The Culture series – Iain Banks **
The Last Unicorn – Peter S. Beagle
~~Fahrenheit 451~~ ~~— Ray Bradbury~~
The Illustrated Man – Ray Bradbury
The Martian Chronicles – Ray Bradbury
Something Wicked This Way Comes – Ray Bradbury
The Mists of Avalon – Marion Zimmer Bradley
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War – Max Brooks **
The Sword of Shannara Trilogy – Terry Brooks
The Vorkosigan Saga – Lois McMaster Bujold
A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
The Codex Alera – Jim Butcher
Ender’s Game – Orson Scott Card xx
The Kushiel’s Legacy Series – Jacqueline Carey
2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke **
Childhood’s End – Arthur C. Clarke
Rendezvous With Rama – Arthur C. Clarke
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell – Susanna Clarke
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick xx
The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever – Stephen R. Donaldson
The Belgariad – David Eddings
The Malazan Book Of The Fallen series – Steven Erikson **
The Riftwar Saga – Raymond E. Feist
The Eyre Affair – Jasper Fforde
Outlander series – Diana Gabaldon **
American Gods – Neil Gaiman **
Neverwhere – Neil Gaiman **
The Sandman series – Neil Gaiman
Stardust – Neil Gaiman **
Neuromancer — William Gibson **
The Princess Bride – William Goldman
The Sword of Truth Series – Terry Goodkind
The Dispossessed – Ursula K. Le Guin **
The Left Hand of Darkness – Ursula K. Le Guin **
The Forever War – Joe Haldeman **
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress – Robert A. Heinlein **
Starship Troopers – Robert A. Heinlein **
Stranger in a Strange Land — Robert A. Heinlein
Dune – Frank Herbert **
The Farseer trilogy – Robin Hobb **
The Complete Chronicles of Conan — Robert E. Howard
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
The Wheel of Time Series – Robert Jordan **
Flowers for Algernon – Daniel Keyes
The Dark Tower Series – Stephen King **
The Stand – Stephen King **
The Space trilogy – C.S. Lewis
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West – Gregory Maguire **
A Song of Ice and Fire Series – George R.R. Martin ** (Note – Have finished A Game of Thrones)
I Am Legend – Richard Matheson **
Dragonflight (Pern) – Anne McCaffrey
The Road – Cormac McCarthy **
Sunshine – Robin McKinley
Perdido Street Station – China Miéville **
A Canticle for Leibowitz – Walter M. Miller Jr.
The Elric saga – Michael Moorcock
The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
Ringworld – Larry Niven
Lucifer’s Hammer – Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
The Mote in God’s Eye – Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle **
1984 – George Orwell **
Animal Farm — George Orwell
Small Gods — Terry Pratchett
Going Postal — Terry Pratchett
The Mars trilogy – Kim Stanley Robinson
The Name of the Wind (Kingkiller Chronicles) – Patrick Rothfuss **
Contact – Carl Sagan **
Forgotten Realms: The Dark Elf Trilogy — R.A. Salvatore
Mistborn trilogy – Brandon Sanderson **
The Way of Kings – Brandon Sanderson **
Old Man’s War series – John Scalzi
Conan the Barbarian – Robert E. Howard and Mark Schultz
Frankenstein – Mary Shelley **
The Hyperion Cantos – Dan Simmons **
Anathem – Neal Stephenson
Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson **
The Diamond Age – Neal Stephenson
Snow Crash — Neal Stephenson **
The Crystal Cave – Mary Stewart
The Lord of the Rings (Trilogy) — J.R.R. Tolkien
The Silmarillion – J.R.R. Tolkien
Journey To The Center Of The Earth – Jules Verne **
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea – Jules Verne **
A Fire Upon the Deep – Vernor Vinge **
Cat’s Cradle — Kurt Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse-Five — Kurt Vonnegut
The Time Machine – H.G. Wells **
The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells **
The Once and Future King – T.H. White
Doomsday Book – Connie Willis
The Book of the New Sun – Gene Wolfe
Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy — Timothy Zahn
The Amber Chronicles – Roger Zelazny

9/100 Read, 2 Reviewed

CLASSICS ON MY TO READ LIST

This will be a growing list as more suggestions come in. I’m nervous and don’t know where to exactly start… These are the titles that have most interested me (though Ulysses I am considering a personal challenge more than anything else).

Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen **
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass – Lewis Carroll **
Heart of Darkness — Joseph Conrad **
The Brothers Karamazov — Fyodor Dostoyevsky **
The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas **
The Man in the Iron Mask – Alexandre Dumas **
The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo **
Les Misérables – Victor Hugo **
Ulysses – James Joyce **
The Trial – Franz Kafka **
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson **
Dracula — Bram Stoker **
Anna Karenina — Leo Tolstoy **
The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde **

NOVELS OF DISCWORLD

I am only going to list the current ones I own here. I’ve read Wyrd Sisters for my class last semester already, and highly enjoyed it, so I want to read as many of Sir Pratchett’s novels as I possibly can.