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Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison Slaughterhouse-5 by Kurt Vonnegut 1984 by George Orwell To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee The Su
by cabbeer 13y ago
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Slaughterhouse-5 by Kurt Vonnegut
1984 by George Orwell
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
My Antonia by Willa Cather (1918)
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
The Heart is A Lonely Hunter by Carson Mccullers
The Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller (1934)
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Ulysses by James Joyce
- waqasx 13y agoyou read all this in 2013? I call bullshit.
- p1esk 13y agoWhy? 20 books, 500 pages each on average, that's 10k pages. Divide by 300 days, that's about 30 pages a day. Certainly doable for fiction.
- waqasx 13y agoits not the question of "is it possible?", its just that these are always listed amongst the 'top 100 books of all time' and each needs more than just 'reading time' you cannot read Ulysses and 1984 the same month, physically you can, but that would be useless.
- mindcrime 13y agoWhy? One of the years I bothered keeping track[1], I read a hair over 50 novels (I think the actual number was 51 or 52), and a handful of non-fiction books I didn't bother counting. And one of those was Moby Dick which isn't exactly a fast read. For somebody who likes to read and has time to read, that list doesn't seem outlandish to me at all. shrug [1]: http://www.jroller.com/mindcrime/entry/fictionlist http://www.jroller.com/mindcrime/entry/fictionlist