[honeychile]

I've read the following, both for class and on my own:

All the King's Men
Robert Penn Warren

An American Tragedy
Theodore Dreiser

Animal Farm
George Orwell

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
Judy Blume

Beloved
Toni Morrison

Catch-22
Joseph Heller

The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger

A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess

The Day of the Locust
Nathanael West

A Death in the Family
James Agee

Deliverance
James Dickey

Falconer
John Cheever

Go Tell it on the Mountain
James Baldwin

Gone With the Wind
Margaret Mitchell

The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck

The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Heart of the Matter
Graham Greene

The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
C.S. Lewis

Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov

Lord of the Flies
William Golding

The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien

Naked Lunch
William Burroughs

Native Son
Richard Wright

1984
George Orwell

On the Road
Jack Kerouac

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey

The Painted Bird
Jerzy Kosinski

Portnoy's Complaint
Philip Roth

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Muriel Spark

Rabbit, Run
John Updike

Ragtime
E.L. Doctorow

Red Harvest
Dashiell Hammett

Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut

The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
John le Carre

The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway

To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee

Tropic of Cancer
Henry Miller


I agree with Buttonz; both Night and Brave New World both deserved a mention. The Painted Bird has to be one of THE sickest books I've ever read, and I don't care if it's somewhat of a biography of Roman Polanski! I don't know if Dr. Zhivago could be included, as it was first written in Russian, but it would be a better contender than many of the above. I would've expected to see In Cold Blood, too.