In Which I Continue To Procrastinate Via Books 101-200

Naturally, you can give this pleasant exercise in canon formation a skip, but if the idea holds any fascination for you, consider yourself tagged.

101. The Bhagavad-Gita
102. Complete Works, William Shakespeare
103. Dune Messiah, Frank Herbert
104. Hatchet, Gary Paulsen
105. The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, Rainer Maria Rilke
106. Collected Poems, Pablo Neruda
107. The Varieties of Religious Experience, William James
108. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe
109. Selected Poems, Rainer Maria Rilke
110. Short Stories, Ernest Hemingway
111. A Night of Serious Drinking, Rene Daumal
112. The Immoralist, Andre Gide
113. The Literary Life and Other Curiosities, Robert Hendrickson
114. My Side of the Mountain, Jean Craighead George
115. Discipline and Punish, Michel Foucault
116. The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
117. 1984, George Orwell
118. Culture and Anarchy, Matthew Arnold
119. The Vampire Lestat, Anne Rice
120. Essays and Dialogues, Oscar Wilde
121. Selected Poems, William Blake
122. Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
123. The Science of Logic, G. W. F. Hegel
124. The Genealogy of Morals, Friedrich Nietzsche
125. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Francois Rabelais
126. Famous Legal Oratories, Cicero
127. Summa Theologiae, Thomas Aquinas
128. Portrait of a Lady, Henry James
129. Erotica, Anais Nin
130. Zuckerman Unbound, Philip Roth
131. Antic Hay, Aldous Huxley
132. Collected Poems, John Keats
133. Lady Chatterley’s Lover, D. H. Lawrence
134. Minima Moralia, Theodor Adorno
135. Will in the World, Stephen Greenblatt
136. No-One Here Gets Out Alive, Jerry Hopkins and Danny Sugarman
137. A Season in Hell, Arthur Rimbaud
138. Five Plays, Jean Anouilh
139. Madness and Civilization, Michel Foucault
140. Archive Fever, Jacques Derrida
141. Rogues, Jacques Derrida
142. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson
143. An Enemy of the People, Henrik Ibsen
144. Echoes of an Autobiography, Naguib Mahfouz
145. Complete Works, Charles Baudelaire
146. The Rainbow, D. H. Lawrence
147. Being and Time, Martin Heidegger
148. Are You My Mother?, P. D. Eastman
149. Collected Poems, W. B. Yeats
150. Howard’s End, E. M. Forster
151. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
152. The Complete Lyrics, Bob Dylan
153. Selected Essays, Matthew Arnold
154. The Rebel, Albert Camus
155. Eros and Civilization, Herbert Marcuse
156. The Inferno, Dante
157. The Writings of Chuang-Tzu
158. Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman
159. Dangerous Liaisons, Choderlos de Laclos
160. The Aristotle Reader
161. Collected Stories, Flannery O’Connor
162. Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
163. Selected Writings, Jean Baudrillard
164. Stories, Anton Chekhov
165. Tales and Prefaces, Henry James
166. Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller
167. Selected Works and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr.
168. Faust, J. W. von Goethe
169. Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes
170. Morphy’s Games of Chess, Paul Morphy
171. Super/System, Doyle Brunson et al.
172. Essays, D. H. Lawrence
173. The Interpretation of Dreams, Sigmund Freud
174. Jitterbug Perfume, Tom Robbins
175. Juliette, The Marquis de Sade
176. The Art of Fiction, John Gardner
177. The Game, Neil Strauss
178. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
179. The Rebel Angels, Robertson Davies
180. Pragmatism, William James
181. The Wings of the Dove, Henry James
182. Writing and Difference, Jacques Derrida
183. The Complete Far Side, Gary Larsen
184. The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell
185. Stories, Jorge Luis Borges
186. The Lover, Marguerite Duras
187. Advertisements for Myself, Norman Mailer
188. Wuthering Heights, Charlotte Bronte
189. In Defense of Food, Michael Pollan
190. She, H. Rider Haggard
191. Finnegans Wake, James Joyce
192. Romantic Poetry and Prose, ed. Harold Bloom
193. A Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Eugene O’Neill
194. The Iceman Cometh, Eugene O’Neill
195. A Room With A View, E. M. Forster
196. The Sheltering Sky, Paul Bowles
197. Blink, Malcolm Gladwell
198. The Will to Power, Friedrich Nietzsche
199. The Thief’s Journal, Jean Genet
200. Camera Lucida, Roland Barthes

For Facebook: 100 books rather than 15

100 Books That Changed Life For The Better

This replaces the 15 volume lists of books that marked me or did anything of that sort. These 100 books, together, can do anything. They can grow up to be astronauts if they want.

1. Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein
2. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
3. The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann
4. The Selected Poems of Alexander Pope
5. Where The Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak
6. In Search of Lost Time, Marcel Proust
7. The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
8. Dialogues, Plato
9. Selected Poems, Langston Hughes
10. Written on the Body, Jeannette Winterson
11. A Natural History of the Senses, Diane Ackerman
12. Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card
13. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
14. Death in Venice, Thomas Mann
15. Platform, Michel Houellebecq
16. The Books of Genesis, Ecclesiastes, and Matthew
17. The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder
18. Saint Genet: Actor and Martyr, Jean-Paul Sartre
19. Ariel, Sylvia Plath
20. The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger
21. A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway
22. Whatever, Michel Houellebecq
23. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
24. Praise of Folly, Erasmus
25. Civilization and Its Discontents, Sigmund Freud
26. Bad Habits, Dave Barry
27. Goodnight Moon, (don’t remember the author)
28. The Alexandria Quartet, Lawrence Durrell
29. The Counterlife, Philip Roth
30. Whatever, Michel Houellebecq
31. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
32. Cheri, Collette
33. Steppenwolf, Hermann Hesse
34. The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon
35. Either/Or, Soren Kierkegaard
36. The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky
37. The Importance of Being Ernest, Oscar Wilde
38. Dune, Frank Herbert
39. Emile, Jean-Jacques Rousseau
40. Selected Poems (including the 4 Quartets), T. S. Eliot
41. The Man Who Planted Trees, Jean Giono
42. Fairy Tales, Hans Christian Anderson
43. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Max Weber
44. Mystery Train, Greil Marcus
45. Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald
46. The Professor of Desire, Philip Roth
47. The Collected Prose of Woody Allen
48. Uncle Vanya, Anton Chekhov
49. The Glass Bead Game, Hermann Hesse
50. The Tao Te Ching, Lao Tzu
51. Ulysses, James Joyce
52. Sex Drugs and Cocoa Puffs, Chuck Klosterman
53. Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung, Lester Bangs
54. The Stranger, Albert Camus
55. Fear and Trembling, Soren Kierkegaard
56. The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoevsky
57. The She-Wolf and Other Stories, Giovanni Verga
58. Possession, A. S. Byatt
59. Gilead, Marilynne Robinson
60. Women in Love, D. H. Lawrence
61. The Selected Poems of Rumi
62. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
63. My Dinner With Andre (screenplay), Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory
64. Mount Analogue, Rene Daumal
65. Selected Writings, Martin Heidegger
66. Selected Poems, Edgar Allen Poe
67. The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir
68. Notes from Underground, Fyodor Dostoevsky
69. Identity, Milan Kundera
70. The History of Sexuality Volume 1, Michel Foucault
71. The Art of Living, Alexander Nehamas
72. Narcissus and Goldmund, Hermann Hesse
73. The Death of Adam: Essays, Marilynne Robinson
74. 60 Stories, Donald Barthelme
75. Jesus’ Son, Denis Johnson
76. The Ginger Man, J.P. Donleavy
77. The Ambassadors, Henry James
78. The Selected Writings of Carl Jung
79. Thus Spake Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche
80. The Selected Poems of Lord Alfred Tennyson
81. Essays, Ralph Ellison
82. Essays, Michel de Montaigne
83. IV, Chuck Klosterman
84. Diaries, Anais Nin
85. Zadig, Voltaire
86. Ecrits, Jacques Lacan
87. The Dhammapada, Buddha
88. Essays, Ralph Waldo Emerson
89. Walden, Henry David Thoreau
90. The Dharma Bums, Jack Kerouac
91. Please Kill Me: An Oral History of Punk, Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain
92. The Sickness Unto Death, Soren Kierkegaard
93. The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
94. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
95. Essays (including “The Doors of Perception”), Aldous Huxley
96. The Fall, Albert Camus
97. Our Lady of the Flowers, Jean Genet
98. Poems, Sappho
99. The Vice Guide to DO’s and DON’Ts
100. The Portable Dorothy Parker