Though still a work in progress, here are the novels that I’ll be reading in 2011.
Struck through titles have been completed.
Bold titles are presently being read.
* indicates reread.
1984-1948-George OrwellThe Adventures of Augie March-1953-Saul Bellow- All The King’s Men-1946-Robert Penn Warren
- American Pastoral-1997-Philip Roth
An American Tragedy-1925-Theodore DreiserAnimal Farm-1946-George Orwell*Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret-1970-Judy BlumeAt Swim-Two-Birds-1938-Flann O’BrienAtonement-2002-Ian McEwanBeloved-1987-Toni Morrison*The Big Sleep-1939-Raymond ChandlerThe Blind Assassin-2000-Margaret AtwoodBlood Meridian-1986-Cormac McCarthyCatch-22-1961-Joseph HellerThe Catcher in the Rye-1951-J.D. Salinger*A Clockwork Orange-1963-Anthony BurgessThe Corrections-2001-Jonathan FranzenThe Death of the Heart-1958-Elizabeth Bowen- The French Lieutenant’s Woman-1969-John Fowles
- Go Tell it on the Mountain-1953-James Baldwin
- The Grapes of Wrath-1939-John Steinbeck
The Great Gatsby-1925-F. Scott FitzgeraldA Handful of Dust-1934-Evelyn Waugh- The Heart is A Lonely Hunter-1940-Carson McCullers
- The Heart of the Matter-1948-Graham Greene
- Herzog-1964-Saul Bellow
- Housekeeping-1981-Marilynne Robinson
- I, Claudius-1934-Robert Graves
- The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe-1950-C. S. Lewis
- Lolita-1955-Vladimir Nabokov*
- Lord of the Flies-1955-William Golding
- Lucky Jim-1954-Kingsley Amis
- The Man Who Loved Children-1940-Christina Stead
- Midnight’s Children-1981-Salman Rushdie
- Mrs. Dalloway-1925-Virginia Woolf
- Naked Lunch-1959-William Burroughs
- Never Let Me Go-2005-Kazuo Ishiguro
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest-1962-Ken Kesey
- The Painted Bird-1965-Jerzy Kosinski
- A Passage to India-1924-E. M. Forster
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie-1961-Muriel Sparks
- Snow Crash-1992-Neal Stephenson
- The Sound and the Fury-1929-William Faulkner
- The Sun Also Rises-1926-Ernest Hemingway
- Super Sad True Love Story-2010-Gary Shteyngart
- Things Fall Apart-1959-Chinua Achebe*
- To the Lighthouse-1927-Virginia Woolf
- Ubik-1969-Phillip Dick
Ulysses-1922-James Joyce- Under The Net-1954-Iris Murdoch
- Under The Volcano-1947-Malcolm Lowry
- Watchmen-1986-Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons*
- White Teeth-2000-Zadie Smith*
- Wide Sargasso Sea-1966-Jean Rhys*