TIME Magazine’s 100 Best All-Time Novels

being the dedicated bookworm that i am, i was delighted to see this list. especially to find my two most beloved book included. of course i'm talking about the books written by the two greatest author of all-time, BFFs JRR Tolkien & CS Lewis. who else? anyway, i've only read few in this list (those in bold). some i want to read (those italicized). most i haven't even heard of. so i guess i'm not that much of a bookworm. but hopefully, before i die i'd be able to read all of these great books. then maybe, i'll just make a list of my own. haha.

so here's the list, in alphabetical order. i've got it from here:
http://tinyurl.com/time100books

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? It's Me, Margaret
Judy Blume

The Assistant
Bernard Malamud

At Swim-Two-Birds
Flann O'Brien

Atonement
Ian McEwan

Beloved
Toni Morrison

The Berlin Stories
Christopher Isherwood

The Big Sleep
Raymond Chandler

The Blind Assassin
Margaret Atwood

Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy

Brideshead Revisited
Evelyn Waugh

The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Thornton Wilder

Call It Sleep
Henry Roth

Catch-22
Joseph Heller

The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger

A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess

The Confessions of Nat Turner
William Styron

The Corrections
Jonathan Franzen

The Crying of Lot 49
Thomas Pynchon

A Dance to the Music of Time
Anthony Powell

The Day of the Locust
Nathanael West

Death Comes for the Archbishop
Willa Cather

A Death in the Family
James Agee

The Death of the Heart
Elizabeth Bowen

Deliverance
James Dickey

Dog Soldiers
Robert Stone

Falconer
John Cheever

The French Lieutenant's Woman
John Fowles

The Golden Notebook
Doris Lessing

Go Tell it on the Mountain
James Baldwin

Gone With the Wind
Margaret Mitchell

The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck

Gravity's Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon

The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald

A Handful of Dust
Evelyn Waugh

The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter
Carson McCullers

The Heart of the Matter
Graham Greene

Herzog
Saul Bellow

Housekeeping
Marilynne Robinson


A House for Mr. Biswas
V.S. Naipaul

I, Claudius
Robert Graves

Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace

Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison

Light in August
William Faulkner

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

Loving
Henry Green

Lucky Jim
Kingsley Amis

The Man Who Loved Children
Christina Stead

Midnight's Children
Salman Rushdie

Money
Martin Amis

The Moviegoer
Walker Percy

Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf

Naked Lunch
William Burroughs

Native Son
Richard Wright

Neuromancer
William Gibson

Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro

1984
George Orwell

On the Road
Jack Kerouac

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey

The Painted Bird
Jerzy Kosinski

Pale Fire
Vladimir Nabokov

A Passage to India
E.M. Forster

Play It As It Lays
Joan Didion

Portnoy's Complaint
Philip Roth

Possession
A.S. Byatt

The Power and the Glory
Graham Greene

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Muriel Spark

Rabbit, Run
John Updike

Ragtime
E.L. Doctorow

The Recognitions
William Gaddis

Red Harvest
Dashiell Hammett

Revolutionary Road
Richard Yates

The Sheltering Sky
Paul Bowles

Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut

Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson

The Sot-Weed Factor
John Barth

The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner

The Sportswriter
Richard Ford

The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
John le Carre

The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway

Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston

Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe

To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee

To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf

Tropic of Cancer
Henry Miller

Ubik
Philip K. Dick

Under the Net
Iris Murdoch

Under the Volcano
Malcolm Lowry

Watchmen
Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons

White Noise
Don DeLillo

White Teeth
Zadie Smith

Wide Sargasso Sea
Jean Rhys

*if you've read some of the titles here, share with me what's the books about...

cheers to books, to the people who write them, to us who read them, and to people who makes list like this! :)

Addicted much?

*a list compiled by Arwen Evenstar, and reposted here by Eowyn of Rohan.

You know you're addicted to the Lord of the Rings when...

• You’ve read The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Books of Lost Tales, The Silmarillion and everything else Tolkien has written – heck, everything he’s even touched – more than ten times.
• No one in your family is allowed to speak, breathe, or otherwise suggest their existence while you’re watching the trilogy for the 57th time.
• You know exactly what the characters in the movies are going to say next because a) you’ve watched them 57 times, b) you actually have the script and have read it over and over again, and c) you recorded the sounds with your mp3 player and keep listening to it all day.
• You’ve been caught talking to trees and sympathizing that “nobody cares for the woods anymore”.
• You want to petition your school to add Elvish 101 and The History of Middle Earth to your curriculum.
• Anyone who dares to criticize, or heaven forbid, compare The Lord of the Rings to Harry Potter gets treated to a passionate two-hour rebuttal from you.
• You’ve memorized quotes from the books.
• You’ve memorized quotes from the movies.
• You’ve memorized Elvish phrases.
• You’ve memorized EVERYTHING connected to Tolkien!
• You use “mellon” as your password.
• You take more notes and pay more rapt attention when reading The Books of Lost Tales than when studying for your final History of Civilization exam.
• Your mom warns visitors who have limited time to never mention “Tolkien”, “The Lord of the Rings”, and other similar words to you.
• You start saying “eleventy-one” instead of “one hundred eleven” and refer to potatoes as “taters”.
• There are more Lord of the Rings posters in your room than pictures of your family and friends.
• You try to convince your married friends to throw their wedding rings into the fire.
• All your favorite things are your “preciousssss”.
• You decide whether the people you meet have good taste or not by asking them what they think of The Lord of the Rings.
• You refer to your friends as your “Fellowship”.
• You feel proud that you’re only five feet tall, because even the smallest person can change the course of the future.
• You refer to meetings as “councils” and “Entmoots”.
• You are seriously considering plastic surgery on your ears.
• You think the world has changed. You feel it in the water. You feel it in the earth. You smell it in the air.
• You know who Glorfindel is.
• You seriously consider wearing green on your wedding day and walking down the aisle holding a banner.
• You try to buy lembas bread at the bakery.
• You know what LOTR, FOTR, TTT, ROTK, BOLT and Sil stand for and use them often.
• You know exactly where and how the movies deviate from the books.
• When you have no load or you’re in a place where there’s no network coverage, you try use beacons to communicate long distance.
• You’ve memorized Middle Earth geography while you can’t quite remember whether Samar is in Visayas or
  Mindanao.
• You’ve spent hours looking for “There and Back Again – A Hobbit’s Tale” in the library.
• Fifty percent of the sites on your bookmarks are about The Lord of the Rings.
• You know what happened in the Second Age of Middle Earth but don’t know the year that the Japanese landed on Philippine shores.
• When you’re worried, you say that “a shadow and a threat is growing in your mind”.
• When you’re sick, you ask for athelas, or kingsfoil. You’re also convinced that the doctor is a king in disguise, because “the hands of the king are the hands of a healer”.
• You can relate to this list and…
• You make lists like this.

*from: www.arwenevenstar.wordpress.com