laughsandlaughs r u there?

[matt]

I saw your posting on your bookclub and i was wondering if you could email me the 100 greatest books printed thanks matt here is me email address rearden50@hotmail.com thanks again

[sushibones]

matt--

The second link in laughsandlaughs post takes you right to the list.

[laughsandlaughs]

I copied this off the other thread about books we're reading and am attaching the list at the bottom.

"I decided in the summer that I didn't read enough of the true classics, so I formed an online bookclub to read the Modern Library's 100 Greatest Classics of the 20th Century. When I saw this list I was horrified that for a person who considers herself pretty well read, I'd only ever read about 10% of those listed. So for the past 6 months this club has been reading the books one by one. It's really informal and everyone is welcome to join and read as much or as little as you'd like.

Here's the URL for the club: http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/modernlibrary100greatestbooks

Here's a link to the list: http://www.literarycritic.com/modern1.htm

Right now we're reading Loving by Henry Green. We'd love to have you!!"

Modern Library 100

In 1998 the Modern Library, a division of Random House, New York, released this list of "the 100 best novels written in the English language and published since 1900." The jurors were Daniel J. Boorstin, A.S. Byatt, Christopher Cerf, Shelby Foote, Vartan Gregorian, Edmund Morris, John Richardson, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., William Styron, and Gore Vidal. Often referred to as the "100 Best Novels" (for instance, on the Modern Library's site), or, better yet, as the "100 Best Books" (for instance on National Public Radio's site).

The NPR page also links to an audio transcript of NPR's "Talk of the Nation" show from July 22, 1998, which was a roundtable discussion about the Modern Library list, on July 22, 1998, with Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.; Jeffrey O'Brian, editor-in-chief of the Library of America; and Sven Birkerts, critic.

"Amazon.com, the online bookseller, says the list 'sparked instant comeback' for some of the titles. Ulysses is #2 on its paperback bestseller list, while Brave New World is #7, Lolita #8, and The Great Gatsby #10." Reported by The Washington Post, August 5th.

1. Joyce, James. Ulysses
2. Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby
3. Joyce, James. A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man
4. Nabokov, Vladimir. Lolita
5. Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World
6. Faulkner, William. The Sound And The Fury
7. Heller, Joseph. Catch-22
8. Koestler, Arthur. Darkness At Noon
9. D. H. Lawrence. Sons And Lovers
10. Steinbeck, John. The Grapes Of Wrath
11. Lowry, Malcolm. Under The Volcano
12. Butler, Samuel. The Way Of All Flesh
13. Orwell, George. 1984
14. Graves, Robert. I, Claudius
15. Woolf, Virginia. To The Lighthouse
16. Dreiser, Theodore. An American Tragedy
17. Mccullers, Carson. The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter
18. Vonnegut, Kurt. Slaughterhouse-Five
19. Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man
20. Wright, Richard. Native Son
21. Bellow, Saul. Henderson The Rain King
22. John O'Hara. Appointment In Samarra
23. Passos, John Dos. U.S.A.
24. Anderson, Sherwood. Winesburg, Ohio
25. E. M. Forster. A Passage To India
26. James, Henry. The Wings Of The Dove
27. James, Henry. The Ambassadors
28. Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Tender Is The Night
29. James T. Farrell. The Studs Lonigan Trilogy
30. Ford, Ford Madox. The Good Soldier
31. Orwell, George. Animal Farm
32. James, Henry. The Golden Bowl
33. Dreiser, Theodore. Sister Carrie
34. Waugh, Evelyn. A Handful Of Dust
35. Faulkner, William. As I Lay Dying
36. Warren, Robert Penn. All The King's Men
37. Wilder, Thornton. The Bridge Of San Luis Rey
38. E. M. Forster. Howards End
39. Baldwin, James. Go Tell It On The Mountain
40. Greene, Graham. The Heart Of The Matter
41. Golding, William. Lord Of The Flies
42. Dickey, James. Deliverance
43. Powell, Anthony. A Dance To The Music Of Time
44. Huxley, Aldous. Point Counter Point
45. Hemingway, Ernest. The Sun Also Rises
46. Conrad, Joseph. The Secret Agent
47. Conrad, Joseph. Nostromo
48. D. H. Lawrence The Rainbow
49. D. H. Lawrence Women In Love
50. Miller, Henry. Tropic Of Cancer
51. Mailer, Norman. The Naked And The Dead
52. Roth, Philip. Portnoy's Complaint
53. Nabokov, Vladimir. Pale Fire
54. Faulkner, William. Light In August
55. Kerouac, Jack. On The Road
56. Hammett, Dashiell. The Maltese Falcon
57. Ford, Ford Madox. Parade's End
58. Wharton, Edith. The Age Of Innocence
59. Beerbohm, Max. Zuleika Dobson
60. Percy, Walker. The Moviegoer
61. Cather, Willa. Death Comes For The Archbishop
62. Jones, James. From Here To Eternity
63. Cheever, John. The Wapshot Chronicles
64. J. D. Salinger. The Catcher In The Rye
65. Burgess, Anthony. A Clockwork Orange
66. Maugham, W. Somerset. Of Human Bondage
67. Conrad, Joseph. Heart Of Darkness 68. Lewis, Sinclair. Main Street
69. Wharton, Edith. The House Of Mirth
70. Durell, Lawrence. The Alexandria Quartet
71. Hughes, Richard. A High Wind In Jamaica
72. V. S. Naipaul. A House For Mr Biswas
73. West, Nathanael. The Day Of The Locust
74. Hemingway, Ernest. A Farewell To Arms
75. Waugh, Evelyn. Scoop
76. Spark, Muriel. The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie
77. Joyce, James. Finnegans Wake
78. Kipling, Rudyard. Kim
79. E. M. Forster. A Room With A View
80. Waugh, Evelyn. Brideshead Revisited
81. Bellow, Saul. The Adventures Of Augie March
82. Stegner, Wallace. Angle Of Repose
83. V. S. Naipaul. A Bend In The River
84. Bowen, Elizabeth. The Death Of The Heart
85. Conrad, Joseph. Lord Jim
86. E. L. Doctorow. Ragtime
87. Bennett, Arnold. The Old Wives' Tale
88. London, Jack. The Call Of The Wild
89. Green, Henry. Loving
90. Rushdie, Salman. Midnight's Children
91. Caldwell, Erskine. Tobacco Road
92. Kennedy, William. Ironweed
93. Fowles, John. The Magus
94. Rhys, Jean. Wide Sargasso Sea
95. Murdoch, Iris. Under The Net
96. Styron, William. Sophie's Choice
97. Bowles, Paul. The Sheltering Sky
98. James M. Cain. The Postman Always Rings Twice
99. J. P. Donleavy. The Ginger Man
100. Tarkington, Booth. The Magnificent Ambersons

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BTW..this wasn't an unsolicited pitch of my other club, this was a reply to a question about what classics people are reading. Didn't want anyone to think I was using this board to solicit for my club.