Challenges for 2009
Challenges for 2009
Filed under 1 | Comment (0)Library Journal’s Most Influential Fiction of the 20th Century
1 Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird 1960 2 J.D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye 1945 3 J.R.R. Tolkien Lord of the Rings 1956 4 Margaret Mitchell Gone with the Wind 1936 5 Toni Morrison Beloved 1987 6 Alice Walker The Color Purple 1982 7 George Orwell Nineteen Eighty Four 1949 8 George [...]
Filed under 1 | Comment (0)Great Books Foundation’s Reading List
Henry Adams The Education of Henry Adams. 1907 Aeschylus Agamemnon. 458 B.C. Aristotle Politics. “On Happiness” (excerpt from Nicomachean Ethics). “On Tragedy” 4th Century B.C. Saint Augustine The City of God. 413-26 Bible Genesis. Exodus. Job. Ecclesiastes. The Gospel of Mark Edmund Burke Reflections on the Revolution in France. 1790 Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury [...]
Filed under 1 | Comment (0)Book Smart Challenge
Book Smart by Jane Mallison Works in Translations Beowulf Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer Inferno by Dante Alighieri The Odyssey by Homer The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu Tales from Ovid Oedipus Rex by Sophocles The Aeneid by Virgil Some Notable Biographies [...]
Filed under 1 | Comment (0)EW’s 100 Modern Classics Challenge
EW 100: New Classics (50/100) The 100 best reads from 1983 to 2008 1. The Road , Cormac McCarthy (2006) 2. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling (2000) 3. Beloved, Toni Morrison (1987) 4. The Liars’ Club, Mary Karr (1995) 5. American Pastoral, Philip Roth (1997) 6. Mystic River, Dennis Lehane (2001) [...]
Filed under 1 | Comment (0)College Board’s 100 Best Challenge
101 Great Books (32/101) Recommended for College-Bound Readers Author Title – Beowulf Achebe, Chinua Things Fall Apart Agee, James A Death in the Family Austen, Jane Pride and Prejudice Baldwin, James Go Tell It on the Mountain Beckett, Samuel Waiting for Godot Bellow, Saul The Adventures of Augie March Brontë, Charlotte Jane Eyre Brontë, [...]
Filed under 1 | Comments (3)Modern Library’s 100 Novels Challenge
Modern Library’s 100 Best Novels Editors’ Choices (24/100) 1. ULYSSES by James Joyce 2. THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald 3. A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce 4. LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov 5. BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley 6. THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner [...]
Filed under 1 | Comment (0)Time’s 100 Best Novels Challenge
Time Magazine’s 100 All-Time Best Novels (32/100) The Adventures of Augie March - Saul Bellow All the King’s Men - Robert Penn Warren American Pastoral - Philip Roth An American Tragedy - Theodore Dreiser Animal Farm - George Orwell Appointment in Samarra - John O’Hara Are You There God? [...]
Filed under 1 | Comment (0)Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction Challenge
General Non-Fiction 1962 The Making of the President 1960 by Theodore H. White (Atheneum) 1963 The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman (Macmillan) 1964 Anti-Intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter (Random) 1965 O Strange New World by Howard Mumford Jones (Viking) 1966 Wandering Through Winter by Edwin Way Teale (Dodd) 1967 The Problem [...]
Filed under 1 | Comment (0)Pen Faulkner Award Challenge
Pen/Faulkner Award (15/130) 2008 Kate Christensen, The Great Man Annie Dillard, The Maytrees David Leavitt, The Indian Clerk T.M. McNally, The Gateway: Stories Ron Rash, Chemistry and Other Stories 2007 Philip Roth, Everyman Charles D’Ambrosio, The Dead Fish Museum Deborah Eisenberg, Twilight of the Superheroes Amy Hempel, The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel Edward [...]
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