I’ve only read two books on the list - “Their Eyes Were Watching God” (#39) and Hexbear’s favorite “1984” (#16!)
No Grapes of Wrath 😞 Any omissions you feel should’ve been included or works that are too high/low on the list?
At the bottom of the list is a “see all votes” list of the authors and other people asked to make a top 10.
I’ve read some? of The Metamorphosis recently, not sure how I got sidetracked or even if I finished it. Got a few pages into Catch-22 back in high school but I didn’t connect with it.
Not even sure where to begin in filling in the holes in my classics and modern gems of reading. The classic Black writings of Walker, Baldwin, and Morrison maybe? Jump right into Moby Dick? Maybe some female writers?
I also struggle to read books like I used to as a voracious bookworm teenager; with phones, Hexbear, YouTube, and streaming taking up much of my free time when I’m not working or parenting. I’m currently past the halfway mark in East of Eden but I’ve been working on that for a couple of months now.
While having read most of this list, there are just a few on it that stayed with me.
There are even fewer that had an impact.
If you do a list of 100 books there is one thing you need to consider. Never make a list trying to look like you are well read. Don’t do that. Gave me a list of books that made you feel stuff, hate stuff, love stuff. Don’t be a fucking snob because people that read a lot lot are gonna see.
What a shit list.