Friday, May 12, 2017

Knowledge: Top novels of all times...

I was looking for the top novels of all times............the list went like this

ULYSSES: by James Joyce
THE GREAT GATSBY: by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN :by James Joyce
LOLITA:by Vladimir Nabokov
BRAVE NEW WORLD: by Aldous Huxley
THE SOUND AND THE FURY: by William Faulkner
CATCH-22: by Joseph Heller
DARKNESS AT NOON: by Arthur Koestler
SONS AND LOVERS: by D.H. Lawrence
THE GRAPES OF WRATH: by John Steinbeck
UNDER THE VOLCANO: by Malcolm Lowry
THE WAY OF ALL FLESH: by Samuel Butler
1984: by George Orwell
I, CLAUDIUS: by Robert Graves
TO THE LIGHTHOUSE: by Virginia Woolf
AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY: by Theodore Dreiser
THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER: by Carson McCullers
SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE: by Kurt Vonnegut
INVISIBLE MAN: by Ralph Ellison
NATIVE SON: by Richard Wright
HENDERSON THE RAIN KING: by Saul Bellow
APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA: by John O’Hara
U.S.A.(trilogy): by John Dos Passos
WINESBURG, OHIO: by Sherwood Anderson
A PASSAGE TO INDIA: by E.M. Forster
THE WINGS OF THE DOVE: by Henry James
THE AMBASSADORS: by Henry James
TENDER IS THE NIGHT: by F. Scott Fitzgerald
THE STUDS LONIGAN TRILOGY: by James T. Farrell
THE GOOD SOLDIER: by Ford Madox Ford
ANIMAL FARM: by George Orwell
THE GOLDEN BOWL: by Henry James
SISTER CARRIE: by Theodore Dreiser
A HANDFUL OF DUST: by Evelyn Waugh
AS I LAY DYING: by William Faulkner
ALL THE KING’S MEN: by Robert Penn Warren
THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY: by Thornton Wilder
HOWARDS END: by E.M. Forster
GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN: by James Baldwin
THE HEART OF THE MATTER: by Graham Greene
LORD OF THE FLIES: by William Golding
DELIVERANCE: by James Dickey
A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME (series): by Anthony Powell
POINT COUNTER POINT: by Aldous Huxley
THE SUN ALSO RISES: by Ernest Hemingway
THE SECRET AGENT: by Joseph Conrad
NOSTROMO: by Joseph Conrad
THE RAINBOW: by D.H. Lawrence
WOMEN IN LOVE: by D.H. Lawrence
TROPIC OF CANCER: by Henry Miller
THE NAKED AND THE DEAD: by Norman Mailer
PORTNOY’S COMPLAINT: by Philip Roth
PALE FIRE: by Vladimir Nabokov
LIGHT IN AUGUST: by William Faulkner
ON THE ROAD: by Jack Kerouac
THE MALTESE FALCON: by Dashiell Hammett
PARADE’S END: by Ford Madox Ford
THE AGE OF INNOCENCE: by Edith Wharton
ZULEIKA DOBSON: by Max Beerbohm
THE MOVIEGOER: by Walker Percy
DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP: by Willa Cather
FROM HERE TO ETERNITY; by James Jones
THE WAPSHOT CHRONICLES: by John Cheever
THE CATCHER IN THE RYE: by J.D. Salinger
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE: by Anthony Burgess
OF HUMAN BONDAGE: by W. Somerset Maugham
HEART OF DARKNESS: by Joseph Conrad
MAIN STREET: by Sinclair Lewis
THE HOUSE OF MIRTH: by Edith Wharton
THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTET: by Lawrence Durell
A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA: by Richard Hughes
A HOUSE FOR MR BISWAS: by V.S. Naipaul
THE DAY OF THE LOCUST: by Nathanael West
A FAREWELL TO ARMS: by Ernest Hemingway
SCOOP: by Evelyn Waugh
THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE: by Muriel Spark
FINNEGANS WAKE: by James Joyce
KIM: by Rudyard Kipling
A ROOM WITH A VIEW: by E.M. Forster
BRIDESHEAD REVISITED: by Evelyn Waugh
THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH: by Saul Bellow
ANGLE OF REPOSE: by Wallace Stegner
A BEND IN THE RIVER: by V.S. Naipaul
THE DEATH OF THE HEART: by Elizabeth Bowen
LORD JIM: by Joseph Conrad
RAGTIME: by E.L. Doctorow
THE OLD WIVES’ TALE: by Arnold Bennett
THE CALL OF THE WILD: by Jack London
LOVING: by Henry Green
MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN: by Salman Rushdie
TOBACCO ROAD: by Erskine Caldwell
IRONWEED: by William Kennedy
THE MAGUS: by John Fowles
WIDE SARGASSO SEA: by Jean Rhys
UNDER THE NET: by Iris Murdoch
SOPHIE’S CHOICE: by William Styron
THE SHELTERING SKY: by Paul Bowles
THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE: by James M. Cain
THE GINGER MAN: by J.P. Donleavy
THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS: by Booth Tarkington

Out of these 100, I have read only a few..or watched movies based on them..such as THE GREAT GATSBY; LOLITA..........

All of them might not interest me or I may not get time to read them all..
But, I would like to know their synopsis..

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