Friday, July 31, 2015

1,001 Books To Read Before You Die

Here is an old post I wrote . It's 1,001 Books to Read Before You Die. I need a place to dump this, and here it is again. It originally appeared on sirjorge.com but I haven't had that domain in years. My apologies for the inte


Here is a list of 1,001 books to read before you die!

  1. Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
  2. Saturday – Ian McEwan
  3. On Beauty – Zadie Smith
  4. Slow Man – J.M. Coetzee
  5. Foley Is Good – Mick Foley
  6. The Sea – John Banville
  7. The Red Queen – Margaret Drabble
  8. The Plot Against America – Philip Roth
  9. The Master – Colm Tóibín
  10. Vanishing Point – David Markson
  11. The Lambs of London – Peter Ackroyd
  12. Dining on Stones – Iain Sinclair
  13. Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
  14. Drop City – T. Coraghessan Boyle
  15. The Colour – Rose Tremain
  16. Thursbitch – Alan Garner
  17. The Light of Day – Graham Swift
  18. What I Loved – Siri Hustvedt
  19. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
  20. Islands – Dan Sleigh
  21. Elizabeth Costello – J.M. Coetzee
  22. London Orbital – Iain Sinclair
  23. Family Matters – Rohinton Mistry
  24. Fingersmith – Sarah Waters
  25. Simplicity – Mark Salomon
  26. Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer
  27. Unless – Carol Shields
  28. Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami
  29. The Story of Lucy Gault – William Trevor
  30. That They May Face the Rising Sun – John McGahern
  31. Vintage Jesus - Mark Driscoll
  32. Shroud – John Banville
  33. Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
  34. The Long Road Out of Hell - Marilyn Manson
  35. Ron Jeremy: The Hardest Working Man in Showbiz - Ron Jeremy
  36. Nowhere Man – Aleksandar Hemon
  37. Jesus Among Other gods - Ravi Zecharias
  38. Gabriel’s Gift – Hanif Kureishi
  39. Austerlitz – W.G. Sebald
  40. Platform – Michael Houellebecq
  41. Hellhouse - Richard Matheson
  42. Atonement – Ian McEwan
  43. The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen
  44. Don’t Move – Margaret Mazzantini
  45. The Freedom Manifesto - Tom Hodgkinson
  46. Fury – Salman Rushdie
  47. At Swim, Two Boys – Jamie O’Neill
  48. Choke – Chuck Palahniuk
  49. Life of Pi – Yann Martel
  50. The Feast of the Goat – Mario Vargos Llosa
  51. An Obedient Father – Akhil Sharma
  52. The Devil and Miss Prym – Paulo Coelho
  53. Spring Flowers, Spring Frost – Ismail Kadare
  54. White Teeth – Zadie Smith
  55. The Heart of Redness – Zakes Mda
  56. Under the Skin – Michel Faber
  57. Ignorance – Milan Kundera
  58. Nineteen Seventy Seven – David Peace
  59. Celestial Harmonies – Péter Esterházy
  60. City of God – E.L. Doctorow
  61. How the Dead Live – Will Self
  62. The Human Stain – Philip Roth
  63. The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
  64. After the Quake – Haruki Murakami
  65. The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri
  66. Super-Cannes – J.G. Ballard
  67. House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski
  68. Blonde – Joyce Carol Oates
  69. Pastoralia – George Saunders
  70. Timbuktu – Paul Auster
  71. The Romantics – Pankaj Mishra
  72. Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson
  73. As If I Am Not There – Slavenka Drakuli?
  74. The Omnivore's Dilemma - Michael Pollan
  75. Fear and Trembling – Amélie Nothomb
  76. The Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis
  77. Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee
  78. The Forensic Files of Batman - Doug Moench
  79. Elementary Particles – Michel Houellebecq
  80. Hardcore Zen - Brad Warner
  81. Amsterdam – Ian McEwan
  82. Cloudsplitter – Russell Banks
  83. All Souls Day – Cees Nooteboom
  84. The Talk of the Town – Ardal O’Hanlon
  85. Tipping the Velvet – Sarah Waters
  86. The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
  87. Glamorama – Bret Easton Ellis
  88. To Be The Man - Ric Flair
  89. The Hours – Michael Cunningham
  90. Veronika Decides to Die – Paulo Coelho
  91. Mason & Dixon – Thomas Pynchon
  92. The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
  93. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
  94. Batman: Year One - Frank Miller
  95. The Best of American Splendor - Harvey Pekar
  96. Insatiable - Heather Hunter
  97. Jack Maggs – Peter Carey
  98. The Life of Insects – Victor Pelevin
  99. American Pastoral – Philip Roth
  100. The Untouchable – John Banville
  101. The Misfits - James Howe
  102. Cocaine Nights – J.G. Ballard
  103. Blue Like Jazz - Donald Miller
  104. Fugitive Pieces – Anne Michaels
  105. The Ghost Road – Pat Barker
  106. My Boring Ass Life - Kevin Smith
  107. Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace
  108. American Gods - Neil Gaiman
  109. Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood
  110. The Unconsoled – Kazuo Ishiguro
  111. Morvern Callar – Alan Warner
  112. The Information – Martin Amis
  113. Thrasher Epic Spots - The Editors of Thrasher Magazine
  114. Sabbath’s Theater – Philip Roth
  115. The Rings of Saturn – W.G. Sebald
  116. The Reader – Bernhard Schlink
  117. A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
  118. The Great Divorce - C.S. Lewis
  119. Stand Against The Wind - Erwin McManus
  120. Mr. Vertigo – Paul Auster
  121. The Folding Star – Alan Hollinghurst
  122. You Are Being Lied To - The Disinformation Community
  123. Tao of Jeet Kune Do - Bruce Lee
  124. Cool Gardens - Serj Tankian
  125. The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan
  126. Pereira Declares: A Testimony – Antonio Tabucchi
  127. City Sister Silver – Jàchym Topol
  128. How Late It Was, How Late – James Kelman
  129. The Tao of Pooh - Benjamin Hoff
  130. Felicia’s Journey – William Trevor
  131. Get In The Van - Henry Rollins
  132. The Invention of Curried Sausage – Uwe Timm
  133. The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx
  134. Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh
  135. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
  136. The Big Book of Porn - Seth Grahame-Smith
  137. Operation Shylock – Philip Roth
  138. Complicity – Iain Banks
  139. Crap Jobs - Dan Kieran
  140. Stiff - Mary Roach
  141. A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
  142. The Stone Diaries – Carol Shields
  143. The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
  144. Always Running - Luis J. Rodriguez
  145. The Robber Bride – Margaret Atwood
  146. The Emigrants – W.G. Sebald
  147. Getting Off - Robert Jensen
  148. Life is a Caravanserai – Emine Özdamar
  149. The Discovery of Heaven – Harry Mulisch
  150. A Heart So White – Javier Marias
  151. Possessing the Secret of Joy – Alice Walker
  152. Failed States - Noam Chomsky
  153. Diary of a Wimpy Kid - Jeff Kinney
  154. Written on the Body – Jeanette Winterson
  155. Jazz – Toni Morrison
  156. The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
  157. Smilla’s Sense of Snow – Peter Høeg
  158. The Butcher Boy – Patrick McCabe
  159. Black Water – Joyce Carol Oates
  160. The Heather Blazing – Colm Tóibín
  161. A Year Without Made in China - Sara Bongiorni
  162. Black Coffee Blues - Henry Rollins
  163. I Know Your're Out There - Michael Beaumier
  164. Bed - Tao Lin
  165. Wild Swans – Jung Chang
  166. American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
  167. Time’s Arrow – Martin Amis
  168. Mao II – Don DeLillo
  169. Typical – Padgett Powell
  170. Regeneration – Pat Barker
  171. Blaze - Stephen King
  172. Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord – Louis de Bernieres
  173. Wise Children – Angela Carter
  174. Get Shorty – Elmore Leonard
  175. Amongst Women – John McGahern
  176. Vineland – Thomas Pynchon
  177. Vertigo – W.G. Sebald
  178. Stone Junction – Jim Dodge
  179. The Music of Chance – Paul Auster
  180. The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien
  181. Anansi Boys - Neil Gaiman
  182. Like Life – Lorrie Moore
  183. Vision Quest - Terry Davis
  184. The Buddha of Suburbia – Hanif Kureishi
  185. Kane & Abel - Jeffrey Archer
  186. The Zombie Survival Guide - Max Brooks
  187. Sexing the Cherry – Jeanette Winterson
  188. Private Parts - Howard Stern
  189. Billy Bathgate – E.L. Doctorow
  190. Crossing California - Adam Langer
  191. The Melancholy of Resistance – László Krasznahorkai
  192. The Temple of My Familiar – Alice Walker
  193. The Trick is to Keep Breathing – Janice Galloway
  194. The History of the Siege of Lisbon – José Saramago
  195. Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel
  196. A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
  197. London Fields – Martin Amis
  198. The Mutt - Rodney Mullen
  199. Cat’s Eye – Margaret Atwood
  200. Dreams of Terror and Death - H.P. Lovecraft
  201. The Beautiful Room is Empty – Edmund White
  202. Wittgenstein’s Mistress – David Markson
  203. The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie
  204. The Swimming-Pool Library – Alan Hollinghurst
  205. Searching for God Know's What - Donald Miller
  206. Libra – Don DeLillo
  207. Cheating Death, Stealing Life - Eddie Guerrero
  208. Scooter - Mick Foley
  209. Tietam Brown - Mick Foley
  210. Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Douglas Adams
  211. Che - Jon Lee Anderson
  212. Scar Tissue - Anthony Kiedis
  213. The Black Dahlia – James Ellroy
  214. The Barbarian Way - Erwin McManus
  215. Thank You For Smoking - Christopher Buckley
  216. Crank - Ellen Hopkins
  217. Cigarettes – Harry Mathews
  218. The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe
  219. The New York Trilogy – Paul Auster
  220. World Without End - Ken Follet
  221. Cabal - Clive Barker
  222. Saving Fish From Drowing - Amy Tan
  223. Beloved – Toni Morrison
  224. Anagrams – Lorrie Moore
  225. Knockemstiff - Donald Ray Pollock
  226. The Giving Tree - Shel Silverstien
  227. Watchmen – Alan Moore & David Gibbons
  228. Slash - Slash
  229. Lost Language of Cranes – David Leavitt
  230. An Artist of the Floating World – Kazuo Ishiguro
  231. The Female Brain - Louann Brizendine
  232. The Castle - Kafka
  233. The Drowned and the Saved – Primo Levi
  234. Reasons to Live – Amy Hempel
  235. I Am America - Stephen Colbert
  236. Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez
  237. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson
  238. The Cider House Rules – John Irving
  239. A Maggot – John Fowles
  240. Less Than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis
  241. Contact – Carl Sagan
  242. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
  243. Perfume – Patrick Süskind
  244. Old Masters – Thomas Bernhard
  245. White Noise – Don DeLillo
  246. Queer – William Burroughs
  247. Dishwasher - Pete Jordan
  248. Tomb of Dracula - Gerry Conway & Others
  249. The Indian Clerk - David Leavitt
  250. Then We Came To An End - Joshua Ferris
  251. The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis – José Saramago
  252. Nickel and Dimed - Barbara Ehrenreich
  253. Empire of the Sun – J.G. Ballard
  254. Hellblazer: Original Sins - Jamie Delano
  255. Nights at the Circus – Angela Carter
  256. The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
  257. Blood and Guts in High School – Kathy Acker
  258. Neuromancer – William Gibson
  259. Flaubert’s Parrot – Julian Barnes
  260. Snuff - Chuck Palahniuk
  261. Pagan Christianity - Frank Viola
  262. They Like Jesus But Not The Church - Dan Kimball
  263. Fools of Fortune – William Trevor
  264. The Irresistable Revolution - Shane Claiborne
  265. Waterland – Graham Swift
  266. The Last Christmas - Brian Posehn
  267. Let The Fury Have The Hour - Nation Books (Joe Strummer Politico Book)
  268. The Piano Teacher – Elfriede Jelinek
  269. Hulk Hogan - Hulk Hogan
  270. If Not Now, When? – Primo Levi
  271. A Boy’s Own Story – Edmund White
  272. Assata - Assata Shakur
  273. The Loser – Thomas Bernhard
  274. A Pale View of Hills – Kazuo Ishiguro
  275. The Last Lion - William Manchester
  276. The Oath - Frank Peretti
  277. The Newton Letter – John Banville
  278. Liberal Fascism - Jonah Goldberg
  279. Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
  280. The Lottery - Shirley Jackson
  281. Rabbit is Rich – John Updike
  282. Lanark: A Life in Four Books – Alasdair Gray
  283. The Comfort of Strangers – Ian McEwan
  284. July’s People – Nadine Gordimer
  285. Summer in Baden-Baden – Leonid Tsypkin
  286. Broken April – Ismail Kadare
  287. Waiting for the Barbarians – J.M. Coetzee
  288. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
  289. Rites of Passage – William Golding
  290. Rituals – Cees Nooteboom
  291. Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
  292. City Primeval – Elmore Leonard
  293. The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco
  294. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting – Milan Kundera
  295. Smiley’s People – John Le Carré
  296. Shikasta – Doris Lessing
  297. A Bend in the River – V.S. Naipaul
  298. Burger’s Daughter - Nadine Gordimer
  299. A Lion's Tale - Chris Jericho
  300. The Stone Cold Truth - Steve Austin
  301. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
  302. The Cement Garden – Ian McEwan
  303. The World According to Garp – John Irving
  304. No Logo - Naomi Klein
  305. The Sea, The Sea – Iris Murdoch
  306. The Singapore Grip – J.G. Farrell
  307. Yes – Thomas Bernhard
  308. The Virgin in the Garden – A.S. Byatt
  309. In the Heart of the Country – J.M. Coetzee
  310. The Passion of New Eve – Angela Carter
  311. Delta of Venus – Anaïs Nin
  312. The Shining – Stephen King
  313. Deer Hunting With Jesus - Joe Bageant
  314. Petals of Blood – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
  315. Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison
  316. The Hour of the Star – Clarice Lispector
  317. The Black Swan - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  318. Tales of the Fourth Grade Nothing - Judy Blume
  319. The Public Burning – Robert Coover
  320. Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice
  321. Cutter and Bone – Newton Thornburg
  322. Hawk: Occupation Skateboarder - Tony Hawk
  323. Patterns of Childhood – Christa Wolf
  324. Autumn of the Patriarch – Gabriel García Márquez
  325. W, or the Memory of Childhood – Georges Perec
  326. A Dance to the Music of Time – Anthony Powell
  327. Grimus – Salman Rushdie
  328. The Dead Father – Donald Barthelme
  329. Thin - Lauren Greenfield
  330. Cash - Johnny Cash
  331. The Reagan Diaries - Ronald Reagan
  332. Humboldt’s Gift – Saul Bellow
  333. Dead Babies – Martin Amis
  334. Correction – Thomas Bernhard
  335. Ragtime – E.L. Doctorow
  336. The Fan Man – William Kotzwinkle
  337. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
  338. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum – Heinrich Böll
  339. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – John Le Carré
  340. Breakfast of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
  341. Ska'd For Life - Horace Panter
  342. A Question of Power – Bessie Head
  343. The Siege of Krishnapur – J.G. Farrell
  344. The Castle of Crossed Destinies – Italo Calvino
  345. Crash – J.G. Ballard
  346. The Honorary Consul – Graham Greene
  347. Gravity’s Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon
  348. The Black Prince – Iris Murdoch
  349. The Jewish War - Josephus
  350. Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino
  351. The Breast – Philip Roth
  352. The Summer Book – Tove Jansson
  353. G – John Berger
  354. Surfacing – Margaret Atwood
  355. House Mother Normal – B.S. Johnson
  356. In A Free State – V.S. Naipaul
  357. The Book of Daniel – E.L. Doctorow
  358. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson
  359. How To Make Love Like A Pornstar - Jenna Jameson
  360. The Wild Boys – William Burroughs
  361. Charlie and The Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
  362. House of Sand and Fog - Andre Dubus III
  363. The Driver’s Seat – Muriel Spark
  364. Eric Bischoff: Controversy Creates Cash - Eric Bischoff

  365. The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
  366. Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick – Peter Handke
  367. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
  368. Water For Elephants - Sara Gruen
  369. Troubles – J.G. Farrell
  370. Veganomicon - Isa Chandra
  371. Do Hard Things - Alex & Brett Harris
  372. Tent of Miracles – Jorge Amado
  373. Pricksongs and Descants – Robert Coover
  374. Blind Man With a Pistol – Chester Hines
  375. Slaughterhouse-five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
  376. The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles
  377. Journals - Kurt Cobain
  378. Chelsea Horror Hotel - Dee Dee Ramone
  379. The Godfather – Mario Puzo
  380. Ada – Vladimir Nabokov
  381. Them – Joyce Carol Oates
  382. The Master Cleanser - Stanley Burroughs
  383. Eva Trout – Elizabeth Bowen
  384. Secrets of a Gay Marine Porn Star - Rich Merritt
  385. The Nice and the Good – Iris Murdoch
  386. Don't Eat This Book - Morgan Spurlock
  387. Cancer Ward – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
  388. The Little Book of Pandemics - Peter Moore
  389. 2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke
  390. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick
  391. Son of a Preacher Man - Jay Bakker
  392. I Was Wrong - Jim Bakker
  393. The God Makers - Ed Decker, Dave Hunt
  394. A Kestrel for a Knave – Barry Hines
  395. The Quest for Christa T. – Christa Wolf
  396. Unforgivable Blackness - Geoffrey C. Ward
  397. Seductive Poison - Deborah Layton
  398. The Cubs and Other Stories – Mario Vargas Llosa
  399. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
  400. The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
  401. Wake - Lisa McMann
  402. The Joke – Milan Kundera
  403. Babylon by Bus - Ray LeMoine
  404. The Third Policeman – Flann O’Brien
  405. Save Me From Myself - Brian "Head" Welch
  406. The Necronomicon - Simon
  407. Out of Sight Out of Mind - Yvonne Vissing
  408. In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
  409. The Magus – John Fowles
  410. The House at Pooh Corner - A.A. Milne
  411. Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
  412. Giles Goat-Boy – John Barth
  413. The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon
  414. The Shape of Things To Come - H.G. Wells
  415. The River Between Us – Richard Peck
  416. The Feminine Mystique - Betty Friedan
  417. The Rise and Fall of ECW - Thom Loverro
  418. Everything That Rises Must Converge – Flannery O’Connor
  419. The Passion According to G.H. – Clarice Lispector
  420. Sometimes a Great Notion – Ken Kesey
  421. Wrestlecrap - R.D. Reynolds
  422. John Adams - David McCullough
  423. Arrow of God – Chinua Achebe
  424. The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein – Marguerite Duras
  425. Herzog – Saul Bellow
  426. V. – Thomas Pynchon
  427. Broken Music - Sting
  428. The Graduate – Charles Webb
  429. The Year of Living Biblically - A.J. Jacobs
  430. Great Wave - Christopher Benfey
  431. The Girls of Slender Means – Muriel Spark
  432. The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield
  433. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
  434. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
  435. The Collector – John Fowles
  436. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
  437. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
  438. Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov
  439. Not Yet Drown'd - Peg Kingman
  440. The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing
  441. Labyrinths – Jorge Luis Borges
  442. Fever Pitch - Nick Hornby
  443. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis – Giorgio Bassani
  444. Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert Heinlein
  445. Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger
  446. A Severed Head – Iris Murdoch
  447. Faces in the Water – Janet Frame
  448. Solaris – Stanislaw Lem
  449. The Mouse and The Motorcycle - Beverly Cleary
  450. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark
  451. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
  452. The Violent Bear it Away – Flannery O’Connor
  453. How It Is – Samuel Beckett
  454. See A Grown Man Cry, Now See Him Die - Henry Rollins
  455. Stealing A Network - Johnny Long
  456. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
  457. Rabbit, Run – John Updike
  458. Promise at Dawn – Romain Gary
  459. Tuesdays With Morrie - Mitch Albom
  460. Wide Awake - Erwin McManus
  461. Naked Lunch – William Burroughs
  462. The Tin Drum – Günter Grass
  463. Abmormal Psychology - Ronald J. Comer
  464. Henderson the Rain King – Saul Bellow
  465. Memento Mori – Muriel Spark
  466. Billiards at Half-Past Nine – Heinrich Böll
  467. Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote
  468. No Country For Old Men - Cormac McCarthy
  469. The Art of War - Sun Tzu
  470. Lush Life - Richard Price
  471. While America Aged - Roger Lowenstein
  472. Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
  473. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning – Alan Sillitoe
  474. The Betrayal - R.L. Stine
  475. Borstal Boy – Brendan Behan
  476. The End of the Road – John Barth
  477. The Once and Future King – T.H. White
  478. The Bell – Iris Murdoch
  479. Jealousy – Alain Robbe-Grillet
  480. 3:16 The Numbers of Hope - Max Lucado
  481. Lying on the Couch - Irvin D. Yalom
  482. Blue Noon – Georges Bataille
  483. Homo Faber – Max Frisch
  484. On the Road – Jack Kerouac
  485. Pnin – Vladimir Nabokov
  486. Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak
  487. Othello - William Shakespeare
  488. Justine – Lawrence Durrell
  489. Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin
  490. The Lonely Londoners – Sam Selvon
  491. The Weight of Glory - C.S. Lewis
  492. Seize the Day – Saul Bellow
  493. The Floating Opera – John Barth
  494. The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
  495. The Talented Mr. Ripley – Patricia Highsmith
  496. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
  497. A World of Love – Elizabeth Bowen
  498. Fever 1793 - Laurie Halse Anderson
  499. The Quiet American – Graham Greene
  500. The Last Temptation of Christ – Nikos Kazantzákis
  501. The Recognitions – William Gaddis
  502. The Ragazzi – Pier Paulo Pasolini
  503. Bonjour Tristesse – Françoise Sagan
  504. I’m Not Stiller – Max Frisch
  505. Self Condemned – Wyndham Lewis
  506. Punk 365 - Holly George Warren
  507. The Total Money Makeover - Dave Ramsey
  508. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
  509. Under the Net – Iris Murdoch
  510. The Go-Between – L.P. Hartley
  511. The Long Goodbye – Raymond Chandler
  512. The Unnamable – Samuel Beckett
  513. Watt – Samuel Beckett
  514. Lucky Jim – Kingsley Amis
  515. Killer Clown - Terry Sullivan
  516. The Adventures of Augie March – Saul Bellow
  517. Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin
  518. Casino Royale – Ian Fleming
  519. The Judge and His Hangman – Friedrich Dürrenmatt
  520. Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
  521. The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
  522. Wise Blood – Flannery O’Connor
  523. The Killer Inside Me – Jim Thompson
  524. Memoirs of Hadrian – Marguerite Yourcenar
  525. Malone Dies – Samuel Beckett
  526. Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham
  527. Foundation – Isaac Asimov
  528. Team of Rivals - Doris Kearns Goodwin
  529. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
  530. The Rebel – Albert Camus
  531. The Year of The Hangman - Gary Backwood
  532. The End of the Affair – Graham Greene
  533. The Story of The Eye – Georges Bataille
  534. The Labyrinth of Solitude – Octavio Paz
  535. The Third Man – Graham Greene
  536. The 13 Clocks – James Thurber
  537. Gormenghast – Mervyn Peake
  538. The Grass is Singing – Doris Lessing
  539. I, Robot – Isaac Asimov
  540. The Moon and the Bonfires – Cesare Pavese
  541. The Garden Where the Brass Band Played – Simon Vestdijk
  542. Get That Goat - Michael Aushenker
  543. The Case of Comrade Tulayev – Victor Serge
  544. The Heat of the Day – Elizabeth Bowen
  545. Kingdom of This World – Alejo Carpentier
  546. The Man With the Golden Arm – Nelson Algren
  547. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
  548. All About H. Hatterr – G.V. Desani
  549. Walden and Civil Disobedience – Henry David Thoreau
  550. Death Sentence – Maurice Blanchot
  551. The Heart of the Matter – Graham Greene
  552. Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton
  553. Doctor Faustus – Thomas Mann
  554. The Victim – Saul Bellow
  555. Exercises in Style – Raymond Queneau
  556. Then We Came To The End - Joshua Ferris
  557. Under the Volcano – Malcolm Lowry
  558. The Path to the Nest of Spiders – Italo Calvino
  559. The Plague – Albert Camus
  560. The Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith
  561. Titus Groan – Mervyn Peake
  562. The Bridge on the Drina – Ivo Andri?
  563. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
  564. Animal Farm – George Orwell
  565. Cannery Row – John Steinbeck
  566. The Pursuit of Love – Nancy Mitford
  567. Loving – Henry Green
  568. Arcanum 17 – André Breton
  569. Christ Stopped at Eboli – Carlo Levi
  570. The Razor’s Edge – William Somerset Maugham
  571. The Poe Shadow - Matthew Pearl
  572. Ficciones – Jorge Luis Borges
  573. Dangling Man – Saul Bellow
  574. The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
  575. Love The One You're With - Emily Giffin
  576. The Glass Bead Game – Herman Hesse
  577. Embers – Sandor Marai
  578. Go Down, Moses – William Faulkner
  579. The Opposite of Faith - Amy Tan
  580. Conversations in Sicily – Elio Vittorini
  581. The Poor Mouth – Flann O’Brien
  582. Waking the Dead - John Eldredge
  583. Hangover Square – Patrick Hamilton
  584. Between the Acts – Virginia Woolf
  585. The Hamlet – William Faulkner
  586. Farewell My Lovely – Raymond Chandler
  587. For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
  588. Native Son – Richard Wright
  589. The Power and the Glory – Graham Greene
  590. The Tartar Steppe – Dino Buzzati
  591. Party Going – Henry Green
  592. Walk On - Steve Stockman
  593. Finnegans Wake – James Joyce
  594. At Swim-Two-Birds – Flann O’Brien
  595. Coming Up for Air – George Orwell
  596. Goodbye to Berlin – Christopher Isherwood
  597. Tropic of Capricorn – Henry Miller
  598. Good Morning, Midnight – Jean Rhys
  599. The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler
  600. The Shack - William P. Young
  601. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day – Winifred Watson
  602. Nausea – Jean-Paul Sartre
  603. Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
  604. Cause for Alarm – Eric Ambler
  605. Brighton Rock – Graham Greene
  606. U.S.A. – John Dos Passos
  607. Murphy – Samuel Beckett
  608. The Indian in the Cupboard - Lynn Reid Banks
  609. Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
  610. The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
  611. The Years – Virginia Woolf
  612. In Parenthesis – David Jones
  613. Insomniac - Gayle Greene
  614. Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
  615. To Have and Have Not – Ernest Hemingway
  616. The Pythons - The Pythons
  617. Occupied Voices - Wendy Pearlman
  618. I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell - Tucker Max
  619. Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
  620. The Grand Weaver - Ravi Zacharias
  621. Wild Harbour – Ian MacPherson
  622. When You Are Engulfed In Flames - David Sedaris
  623. A Golden Retelling of Repunzel - Cameron Dokey
  624. Nightwood – Djuna Barnes
  625. Independent People – Halldór Laxness
  626. Auto-da-Fé – Elias Canetti
  627. The Last of Mr. Norris – Christopher Isherwood
  628. They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? – Horace McCoy
  629. The House in Paris – Elizabeth Bowen
  630. England Made Me – Graham Greene
  631. Burmese Days – George Orwell
  632. The Nine Tailors – Dorothy L. Sayers
  633. What Is What - Dave Eggers
  634. Novel With Cocaine – M. Ageyev
  635. The Postman Always Rings Twice – James M. Cain
  636. Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller
  637. A Handful of Dust – Evelyn Waugh
  638. Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald
  639. Thank You, Jeeves – P.G. Wodehouse
  640. Call it Sleep – Henry Roth
  641. Miss Lonelyhearts – Nathanael West
  642. Murder Must Advertise – Dorothy L. Sayers
  643. The Heroin Diaries - Nikki Sixx
  644. Testament of Youth – Vera Brittain
  645. Gotcha Capitalism - Bob Sullivan
  646. The Man Without Qualities – Robert Musil
  647. A Scots Quair (Sunset Song) – Lewis Grassic Gibbon
  648. Journey to the End of the Night – Louis-Ferdinand Céline
  649. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
  650. Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
  651. To the North – Elizabeth Bowen
  652. The Thin Man – Dashiell Hammett
  653. The Radetzky March – Joseph Roth
  654. No Wave - Thurston Moore
  655. The Glass Key – Dashiell Hammett
  656. Cakes and Ale – W. Somerset Maugham
  657. The Chris Farley Show - Tom Farley
  658. Her Privates We – Frederic Manning
  659. Vile Bodies – Evelyn Waugh
  660. The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett
  661. Hebdomeros – Giorgio de Chirico
  662. Passing – Nella Larsen
  663. A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
  664. Red Harvest – Dashiell Hammett
  665. Living – Henry Green
  666. The Time of Indifference – Alberto Moravia
  667. All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
  668. Berlin Alexanderplatz – Alfred Döblin
  669. The Last September – Elizabeth Bowen
  670. Harriet The Spy - Louise Fitzhugh
  671. The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
  672. Les Enfants Terribles – Jean Cocteau
  673. Look Homeward, Angel – Thomas Wolfe
  674. Story of the Eye – Georges Bataille
  675. Infected - Scott Sigler
  676. The Glass Castle - Jeanette Walls
  677. The Well of Loneliness – Radclyffe Hall
  678. The Art of Racing in The Rain - Garth Stein
  679. Dictation - Cynthia Ozick
  680. Decline and Fall – Evelyn Waugh
  681. Quicksand – Nella Larsen
  682. Parade’s End – Ford Madox Ford
  683. Nadja – André Breton
  684. Steppenwolf – Herman Hesse
  685. Three Cups of Tea - Greg Mortenson
  686. To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
  687. The Nine - Jeffrey Toobin
  688. Amerika – Franz Kafka
  689. The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
  690. Willful Blindness - Andrew C. McCarthy
  691. The Chalupa Rules - Mario Bosquez
  692. The Good Soldier Švejk – Jaroslav Hašek
  693. The Plumed Serpent – D.H. Lawrence
  694. One, None and a Hundred Thousand – Luigi Pirandello
  695. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie
  696. The Making of Americans – Gertrude Stein
  697. Manhattan Transfer – John Dos Passos
  698. Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
  699. I Love You Beth Cooper - Larry Doyle
  700. The Counterfeiters – André Gide
  701. The Trial – Franz Kafka
  702. The Artamonov Business – Maxim Gorky
  703. The Professor’s House – Willa Cather
  704. Me of Little Faith - Lewis Black
  705. The Green Hat – Michael Arlen
  706. The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann
  707. We – Yevgeny Zamyatin
  708. A Passage to India – E.M. Forster
  709. The Devil in the Flesh – Raymond Radiguet
  710. Zeno’s Conscience – Italo Svevo
  711. Cane – Jean Toomer
  712. Antic Hay – Aldous Huxley
  713. Amok – Stefan Zweig
  714. The Garden Party – Katherine Mansfield
  715. The Enormous Room – E.E. Cummings
  716. Jacob’s Room – Virginia Woolf
  717. Siddhartha – Herman Hesse
  718. The Glimpses of the Moon – Edith Wharton
  719. Life and Death of Harriett Frean – May Sinclair
  720. Deadwood - Pete Dexter
  721. Aaron’s Rod – D.H. Lawrence
  722. Babbitt – Sinclair Lewis
  723. Ulysses – James Joyce
  724. The Fox – D.H. Lawrence
  725. Crome Yellow – Aldous Huxley
  726. The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton
  727. Main Street – Sinclair Lewis
  728. Women in Love – D.H. Lawrence
  729. Night and Day – Virginia Woolf
  730. The Scar - China Mieville
  731. The Return of the Soldier – Rebecca West
  732. The Shadow Line – Joseph Conrad
  733. Summer – Edith Wharton
  734. Growth of the Soil – Knut Hamsen
  735. Bunner Sisters – Edith Wharton
  736. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
  737. Under Fire – Henri Barbusse
  738. Rashomon – Akutagawa Ryunosuke
  739. The Good Soldier – Ford Madox Ford
  740. The Voyage Out – Virginia Woolf
  741. Of Human Bondage – William Somerset Maugham
  742. The Rainbow – D.H. Lawrence
  743. The Thirty-Nine Steps – John Buchan
  744. Kokoro – Natsume Soseki
  745. City of the Dead - Brian Keene
  746. Mister B Gone - Clive Barker
  747. Tarzan of the Apes – Edgar Rice Burroughs
  748. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists – Robert Tressell
  749. Sons and Lovers – D.H. Lawrence
  750. Death in Venice – Thomas Mann
  751. The Charwoman’s Daughter – James Stephens
  752. Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton
  753. Fantômas – Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre
  754. Howards End – E.M. Forster
  755. Broken Summers - Henry Rollins
  756. Three Lives – Gertrude Stein
  757. Martin Eden – Jack London
  758. Strait is the Gate – André Gide
  759. Tono-Bungay – H.G. Wells
  760. The Inferno – Henri Barbusse
  761. A Room With a View – E.M. Forster
  762. The Iron Heel – Jack London
  763. The Old Wives’ Tale – Arnold Bennett
  764. The House on the Borderland – William Hope Hodgson
  765. Mother – Maxim Gorky
  766. The Secret Agent – Joseph Conrad
  767. The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
  768. Young Törless – Robert Musil
  769. Design Anarchy - Kalle Lasn
  770. The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton
  771. Professor Unrat – Heinrich Mann
  772. Where Angels Fear to Tread – E.M. Forster
  773. Nostromo – Joseph Conrad
  774. Hadrian the Seventh – Frederick Rolfe
  775. The Golden Bowl – Henry James
  776. The Ambassadors – Henry James
  777. The Riddle of the Sands – Erskine Childers
  778. The Immoralist – André Gide
  779. The Wings of the Dove – Henry James
  780. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
  781. The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  782. Buddenbrooks – Thomas Mann
  783. Kim – Rudyard Kipling
  784. Sister Carrie – Theodore Dreiser
  785. Lord Jim – Joseph Conrad
  786. Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. – Somerville and Ross
  787. The Stechlin – Theodore Fontane
  788. The Awakening – Kate Chopin
  789. The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
  790. The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells
  791. The Invisible Man – H.G. Wells
  792. What Maisie Knew – Henry James
  793. The Giver - Lois Lowry
  794. Dracula – Bram Stoker
  795. Quo Vadis – Henryk Sienkiewicz
  796. The Island of Dr. Moreau – H.G. Wells
  797. The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
  798. Effi Briest – Theodore Fontane
  799. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
  800. Why Men Hate Going To Church - David Murrow
  801. The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  802. Born in Exile – George Gissing
  803. Diary of a Nobody – George & Weedon Grossmith
  804. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  805. News from Nowhere – William Morris
  806. New Grub Street – George Gissing
  807. Gösta Berling’s Saga – Selma Lagerlöf
  808. The Killing Joke - Alan Moore
  809. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
  810. The Kreutzer Sonata – Leo Tolstoy
  811. Scalped - Jason Aaron
  812. 100 Bullets - Brian Azzarello
  813. Hunger – Knut Hamsun
  814. The Master of Ballantrae – Robert Louis Stevenson
  815. Pierre and Jean – Guy de Maupassant
  816. Supercapitalism - Robert B. Reich
  817. American Sphinx - Joseph Ellis
  818. The Woodlanders – Thomas Hardy
  819. She – H. Rider Haggard
  820. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
  821. The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy
  822. Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson
  823. King Solomon’s Mines – H. Rider Haggard
  824. Germinal – Émile Zola
  825. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
  826. Bel-Ami – Guy de Maupassant
  827. Marius the Epicurean – Walter Pater
  828. Against the Grain – Richard Manning
  829. The Death of Ivan Ilyich – Leo Tolstoy
  830. Peony In Love - Lisa See
  831. Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
  832. The Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell
  833. Girls Like Us - Sheila Weller
  834. Bouvard and Pécuchet – Gustave Flaubert
  835. Ben-Hur – Lew Wallace
  836. Nana – Émile Zola
  837. The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky
  838. The Guns of August - Barbara Tuchman
  839. Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy
  840. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
  841. Drunkard - Neil Steinberg
  842. Virgin Soil – Ivan Turgenev
  843. Daniel Deronda – George Eliot
  844. The Hand of Ethelberta – Thomas Hardy
  845. The Temptation of Saint Anthony – Gustave Flaubert
  846. Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
  847. The Enchanted Wanderer – Nicolai Leskov
  848. Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne
  849. In a Glass Darkly – Sheridan Le Fanu
  850. The Devils – Fyodor Dostoevsky
  851. Erewhon – Samuel Butler
  852. Spring Torrents – Ivan Turgenev
  853. Middlemarch – George Eliot
  854. Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll
  855. King Lear of the Steppes – Ivan Turgenev
  856. He Knew He Was Right – Anthony Trollope
  857. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
  858. Sentimental Education – Gustave Flaubert
  859. Phineas Finn – Anthony Trollope
  860. Maldoror – Comte de Lautréaumont
  861. The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoevsky
  862. The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins
  863. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
  864. Thérèse Raquin – Amile Zola
  865. The Last Chronicle of Barset – Anthony Trollope
  866. Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne
  867. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
  868. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
  869. Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens
  870. Uncle Silas – Sheridan Le Fanu
  871. Notes from the Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky
  872. The Water-Babies – Charles Kingsley
  873. Les Misérables – Victor Hugo
  874. Fathers and Sons – Ivan Turgenev
  875. Silas Marner – George Eliot
  876. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
  877. On the Eve – Ivan Turgenev
  878. Castle Richmond – Anthony Trollope
  879. The Mill on the Floss – George Eliot
  880. The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
  881. The Marble Faun – Nathaniel Hawthorne
  882. Max Havelaar – Multatuli
  883. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
  884. The Monster of Venice - Douglas Preston
  885. Adam Bede – George Eliot
  886. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
  887. North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell
  888. Hard Times – Charles Dickens
  889. Walden – Henry David Thoreau
  890. Bleak House – Charles Dickens
  891. What's Your Poo Telling You? - M.D., Anish Sheth, Josh Richman
  892. Cranford – Elizabeth Gaskell
  893. Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe
  894. The Blithedale Romance – Nathaniel Hawthorne
  895. The House of the Seven Gables – Nathaniel Hawthorne
  896. Moby Dick – Herman Melville
  897. The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
  898. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
  899. Shirley – Charlotte Brontë
  900. Mary Barton – Elizabeth Gaskell
  901. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Anne Brontë
  902. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
  903. Agnes Grey – Anne Brontë
  904. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
  905. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
  906. The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
  907. La Reine Margot – Alexandre Dumas
  908. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
  909. The Purloined Letter – Edgar Allan Poe
  910. Martin Chuzzlewit – Charles Dickens
  911. The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe
  912. Lost Illusions – Honoré de Balzac
  913. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
  914. Dead Souls – Nikolay Gogol
  915. The Charterhouse of Parma – Stendhal
  916. The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe
  917. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby – Charles Dickens
  918. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
  919. The Nose – Nikolay Gogol
  920. Le Père Goriot – Honoré de Balzac
  921. Eugénie Grandet – Honoré de Balzac
  922. The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo
  923. The Red and the Black – Stendhal
  924. The Betrothed – Alessandro Manzoni
  925. Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper
  926. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner – James Hogg
  927. The Discworld Mapp - Terry Pratchett
  928. Melmoth the Wanderer – Charles Robert Maturin
  929. The Monastery – Sir Walter Scott
  930. Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott
  931. Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  932. Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen
  933. Persuasion – Jane Austen
  934. Ormond – Maria Edgeworth
  935. Rob Roy – Sir Walter Scott
  936. Emma – Jane Austen
  937. Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
  938. The Stone Cold Truth - Steve Austin
  939. The Absentee – Maria Edgeworth
  940. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
  941. Elective Affinities – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  942. Castle Rackrent – Maria Edgeworth
  943. Hyperion – Friedrich Hölderlin
  944. The Nun – Denis Diderot
  945. Camilla – Fanny Burney
  946. Nixonland - Rick Perlstein
  947. Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  948. The Mysteries of Udolpho – Ann Radcliffe
  949. The Interesting Narrative – Olaudah Equiano
  950. Identity Crisis - Brad Meltzer
  951. Justine – Marquis de Sade
  952. Vathek – William Beckford
  953. The 120 Days of Sodom – Marquis de Sade
  954. White Widow - Jim Lehrer
  955. Confessions – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  956. The Secret Lives of Men and Women - Frank Warren
  957. The Supremacy of Christ in a Post Modern World - John Piper
  958. Evelina – Fanny Burney
  959. The Sorrows of Young Werther – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  960. Roomanitarian - Henry Rollins
  961. The Man of Feeling – Henry Mackenzie
  962. A Sentimental Journey – Laurence Sterne
  963. Tristram Shandy – Laurence Sterne
  964. The Vicar of Wakefield – Oliver Goldsmith
  965. The Castle of Otranto – Horace Walpole
  966. The Skateboard Art of Jim Phillips - Jim Phillips
  967. Rameau’s Nephew – Denis Diderot
  968. The Sleeping Doll - Jeffrey Deaver
  969. Rasselas – Samuel Johnson
  970. Candide – Voltaire
  971. The Female Quixote – Charlotte Lennox
  972. Amelia – Henry Fielding
  973. The Cubicle Next Door - Siri L. Mitchell
  974. Fanny Hill – John Cleland
  975. Tom Jones – Henry Fielding
  976. Roderick Random – Tobias George Smollett
  977. Clarissa – Samuel Richardson
  978. Jesus Freaks - Dc talk
  979. Jacques the Fatalist – Denis Diderot
  980. Helter Skelter - Vincent Bugliosi
  981. Joseph Andrews – Henry Fielding
  982. A Modest Proposal – Jonathan Swift
  983. Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
  984. Roxana – Daniel Defoe
  985. Moll Flanders – Daniel Defoe
  986. Love in Excess – Eliza Haywood
  987. Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
  988. A Tale of a Tub – Jonathan Swift
  989. Oroonoko – Aphra Behn
  990. The Princess of Clèves – Marie-Madelaine Pioche de Lavergne, Comtesse de La Fayette
  991. The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan
  992. Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
  993. The Unfortunate Traveller – Thomas Nashe
  994. Oil! - Upton Sinclair
  995. Gargantua and Pantagruel – Françoise Rabelais
  996. Lies My Teacher Told Me - James W. Loewen
  997. The Golden Ass – Lucius Apuleius
  998. Sit Down and Shut Up - Brad Warner
  999. The Yes Men - The Yes Men
  1000. The Apologetics Study Bible - Many Writers
  1001. Aesop’s Fables – Aesopus

Thursday, July 30, 2015

A Good Marriage Review

I admit, I haven’t read nearly as much Stephen King as I’d like to pretend that I have. I have worked on several of his novels, and listened to a lot of different audio books. This is a movie that I didn’t really search out until now. I had some free time and wanted to see what it was all about. While I cannot speak to the collection of “Full Dark, No Stars”, I can at least talk about the movie as a whole, and well, it wasn’t what I thought. The marketing made it seem far more sinister than it really was, and while this is classified as a “psychological thriller”, I wanted it to be a full-fledged horror movie.

The lines are blurred in regards to horror movies today. “A Good Marriage” was marketed as something of a horror movie, but it’s ridiculous how neutered this movie seemed. The movie is a tightly wound film that really is fascinating at first glance. I tried to give it a lot of attention, and some serious thought, but it was a slow moving train that led to nowhere.

The premise is interesting enough. A wife finds out that her husband has a creepy secret. She figures out that he’s a serial killer and now must do one of two things. Tell the authorities or keep it in and just roll with it. The movie moves slowly into a psychological push, and eventually the climax reveals so much more. The most interesting part of this movie was the private eye that is on to the wife’s secret, or rather the husband’s secret.

The movie parts of this movie are slow. The processing seems a lot like a “lifetime” movie, rather than something that is supposed to be for theaters. Even though this was released to movie theaters, it isn’t really on par with the best in the business. This is NOT Stephen King’s best adaptation. “A Good Marriage” has some good moments, but more than ever, this seems like cash grab.

You can take your chances with “A Good Marriage” blu ray, or you could pick up “Full Dark, No Stars” for cheap. Either way, you can figure this one out on your own. I’m not a big fan of this movie. It just didn’t hit me like I thought it would. Joan Allen, Anthony LaPaglia, and Kristen Connolly do well enough, but there just seems to be something missing, and I can’t really put my finger on it. It happens from time to time.

Monday, July 27, 2015

Why Watch Movies Then?

Recently I had a conversation with a so called movie fan. It reminded me of the time I made fun of Vincent Price and someone decided not to be my friend over it. There’s a lot of movie fans out there, and then there are some that deliberately want to make you feel as though you’re wrong for liking something. Furthermore, they want you to know that they are SO sure that the director and the cast are “blow hards” and are trying too hard.

They say that they are “bored” and they keep watching. They want you to join in their misery and try to shoehorn the notion that you’re an idiot if you disagree. But they do so in a passive aggressive manner, to the point where you ask yourself:

“Why watch movies then?”

Seriously. If you’re bored, if you hate the director, if you’re going to call someone pretentious, why not look in the mirror? Where is your movie? Honestly, if you’re such a grand critic, where is the movie you made?

Oh? You didn’t ever make one? You’re an entitled viewer aka a consumer? I hate movie buffs. Those that don’t even know what they are talking about because they haven’t seen half of the things that they think they have, or should. They’ll wax poetic about nonsense, and then when you ask if they have seen anything remotely interesting, they clam up or move onto something that they are an expert. Obscure television movies? Yeah, I can’t see them, but you have? And you’re an expert so you want to make the world feel bad for not doing so?

Screw you.

I’m glad I have this blog, and I’ve made some claims. But at least I back them up with a lot of effort. I have been in the business, I have made movies, I have ghost written, and I have spoken with so called “blow hard” directors. I have tried my best to see past the idea of pretense. But I’m wrong, right? I’m just a dude, that is supposed to let it go.

My apologies for the rant. I’ll get back to watching and reviewing horror movies, of course, I’m a critic but at least I’ve tried my hand at movie making. My apologies for the negativity I’ve shown in the past, I try to watch and love everything, sometimes it’s just hard to sit through the latest schlock fest, though. You can, you can love it, but don’t trash the efforts of the artists, maybe they are trying really hard because it’s their passion. Why piss on the passion of others and call people out personally? You don’t even know them?

Sorry. I’ll shut up now.

Simmer Down!

Thursday, July 16, 2015

Deep Blue Sea Review

I know I promised to talk about the Leprechaun series, but I have been having a hard time transitioning. I moved from Los Angeles to Indianapolis, and my hopes of meeting new people, and having a different life has really been thwarted by the same issues I’ve always seemed to have. If you want to help me out in any way, make sure that you use the Amazon options that I recommend to pick up movies. Each sale helps me out a little bit. That’s partially the reason why I am not writing as many reviews, as I don’t have a way to watch more movies, now that I do not have Netflix. I did manage to catch “Deep Blue Sea” so here I go, giving you another shot in the arm from the longest running horror blog that I know of, because I don’t know about a lot of others!

This movie takes the concepts that you may have seen in first person shooters and takes on “Jaws”. There’s a secret lab where scientists are working with sharks, helping them get smarter, in order to cure human disease. However, during the course of their work, they have caused a great deal of problems. Mainly, the sharks are now getting mad and know how to fight back, or whatever. The movie doesn’t really take off until the sharks starts to go mad and traps a research team. The team must escape, and overcome their own personal issues to rise through the flooded research center.

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So while this movie isn’t scary, it has horror elements that are supposed to “thrill”. It’s listed as science fiction, and it truly does put on a showcase. I can see this as a pulp novel, and it truly works well in that regards. The characters are all archetypes. Thomas Jane, Michael Rapaport, LL Cool J, and Samuel L. Jackson are the stand outs, especially the ultimate death scene! The biggest death scene here is of course Jackson throwing down an amazing speech, only to get eaten by a shark! I loved it, you loved it and the internet meme’d the crap out of it.

Breaking down this film into anything other than just a throwaway blockbuster is disingenuous. I can’t really say that this is a bad movie, because it’ not “bad”. But it’s not exactly great, or good either. It’s a nice romp through a very isolated area. It’s nice to get a throwback to that classic science fiction style that made the 1960s so grand. However, outside of some shining lights from Jackson and LL Cool J, this is a trope that is so predictable, you get tired.

You either love “Deep Blue Sea” or you don’t, it’s that simple. I found it to be funny, and enjoyable. However, it may be fueled by the fact that I’m having a hard time financially, so it was nice to have a distraction for a couple of hours. You can pick up “Deep Blue Sea” on BLU RAY here, or don’t, no one ever listens to me anyways.