top 100 novels of the 20th century (1923 to present)

here's my status on each of the novels:
(btw, I'll email you my .xls version of this list on request)...

Title	Author	Status
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	started
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	saw movie
The Catcher in the Rye	J.D. Salinger	read
A Clockwork Orange	Anthony Burgess	read
The Confessions of Nat Turner	William Styron
The Corrections	Jonathan Franzen	unfinished
The Crying of Lot 49	Thomas Pynchon
A Dance to the Music of Time	Anthony Powell
The Day of the Locust	Nathanael West	started
Death Comes for the Archbishop	Willa Cather
A Death in the Family	James Agee
The Death of the Heart	Elizabeth Bowen
Deliverance	James Dickey	saw movie
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	saw movie
The Grapes of Wrath	John Steinbeck	started
Gravity's Rainbow	Thomas Pynchon
The Great Gatsby	F. Scott Fitzgerald	read
A Handful of Dust	Evelyn Waugh
The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter	Carson McCullers
The Heart of the Matter	Graham Greene
Herzog	Saul Bellow	started
Housekeeping	Marilynne Robinson
A House for Mr. Biswas	V.S. Naipaul	audio
I, Claudius	Robert Graves
Infinite Jest	David Foster Wallace
Invisible Man	Ralph Ellison	read
Light in August	William Faulkner
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe	C.S. Lewis	read
Lolita	Vladimir Nabokov	read
Lord of the Flies	William Golding	read
The Lord of the Rings	J.R.R. Tolkien	unfinished, saw movies
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	started
Naked Lunch	William Burroughs
Native Son	Richard Wright
Neuromancer	William Gibson	started
Never Let Me Go	Kazuo Ishiguro
1984	George Orwell	read
On the Road	Jack Kerouac	started
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	Ken Kesey	read
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	started
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	read
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	read
Their Eyes Were Watching God	Zora Neale Hurston
Things Fall Apart	Chinua Achebe
To Kill a Mockingbird	Harper Lee	read
To the Lighthouse	Virginia Woolf
Tropic of Cancer	Henry Miller
Ubik	Philip K. Dick
Under the Net	Iris Murdoch
Under the Volcano	Malcolm Lowry	saw movie
Watchmen	Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
White Noise	Don DeLillo
White Teeth	Zadie Smith
Wide Sargasso Sea	Jean Rhys
	total read:	12
	total did something with:	27