The Observer's 100 Greatest Novel List

I am currently reading through the list of the Observer's 100 Greatest Novels.  I've talked about this in previous posts, but since I reference it so often, I want to keep a list here to update.  Books makes me  happy.  I love to read until I fall asleep, then dream about the people and places in the stories.  I can't help but to be inspired by them.  Many of the ideas I've had for art projects were sparked by what I was reading about at the time.

Here is my list.  The titles of books I've read are in bold font along with the blogposts they inspired:

1. Don Quixote, Miguel De Cervantes

2. Pilgrim's Progress, John Bunyan

3. Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe 

4. Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift 

5. Tom Jones, Henry Fielding 

6. Clarissa, Samuel Richardson

7. Tristram Shandy, Laurence Sterne 

8. Dangerous Liaisons, Pierre Choderlos De Laclos 

9. Emma, Jane Austen

10. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley 

11. Nightmare Abbey, Thomas Love Peacock

12. The Black Sheep, Honore De Balzac 

13. The Charterhouse of Parma, Stendhal

14. The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas 

15. Sybil, Benjamin Disraeli )

16. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens

17. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte 

18. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte (Feather Hair Clips)

19. Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray 

20. The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne 

21. Moby-Dick, Herman Melville

22. Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert 

23. The Woman in White ,Wilkie Collins 

24. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll (Painting the Roses Red)

25. Little Women, Louisa M. Alcott (Pencils)

26. The Way We Live Now, Anthony Trollope

27. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy 

28. Daniel Deronda, George Eliot 

29. The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky 

30. The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James (Secret Book Safe)

31. Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain 

32. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson 

33. Three Men in a Boat, Jerome K. Jerome 

34. The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde (Picture Frame Hair Combs)

35. The Diary of a Nobody, George Grossmith 

36. Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy 

37. The Riddle of the Sands, Erskine Childers

38. The Call of the Wild, Jack London (Arm Cuff)

39. Nostromo, Joseph Conrad 

40. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame 

41. In Search of Lost Time, Marcel Proust 

42. The Rainbow, D. H. Lawrence 

43. The Good Soldier, Ford Madox Ford 

44. The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan 

45. Ulysses, James Joyce 

46. Mrs Dalloway,Virginia Woolf 

47. A Passage to India, E. M. Forster

48. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald 

49. The Trial, Franz Kafka 

50. Men Without Women, Ernest Hemingway 

51. Journey to the End of the Night, Louis-Ferdinand Celine 

52. As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner 

53. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley 

54. Scoop, Evelyn Waugh 

55. USA, John Dos Passos 

56. The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler 

57. The Pursuit Of Love, Nancy Mitford 

58. The Plague, Albert Camus 

59. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell 

60. Malone Dies, Samuel Beckett 

61. Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger 

62. Wise Blood, Flannery O'Connor 

63. Charlotte's Web, E. B. White 

64. The Lord Of The Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien

65. Lucky Jim, Kingsley Amis 

66. Lord of the Flies, William Golding 

67. The Quiet American, Graham Greene 

68 On the Road, Jack Kerouac 

69. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov 

70. The Tin Drum, Gunter Grass 

71. Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe 

72. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark

73. To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee

74. Catch-22, Joseph Heller

75. Herzog, Saul Bellow

76. One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez 

77. Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont, Elizabeth Taylor 

78. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, John Le Carre 

79. Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison 

80. The Bottle Factory Outing, Beryl Bainbridge 

81. The Executioner's Song, Norman Mailer 

82. If on a Winter's Night a Traveller, Italo Calvino

83. A Bend in the River, V. S. Naipaul 

84. Waiting for the Barbarians, J.M. Coetzee 

85. Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson

86. Lanark, Alasdair Gray

87. The New York Trilogy, Paul Auster 

88. The BFG, Roald Dahl (Glow in the Dark Dream Necklace)

89. The Periodic Table, Primo Levi 

90. Money, Martin Amis)

91. An Artist of the Floating World, Kazuo Ishiguro

92. Oscar And Lucinda, Peter Carey 

93. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Milan Kundera 

94. Haroun and the Sea af Stories, Salman Rushdie

95. La Confidential, James Ellroy 

96. Wise Children, Angela Carter

97. Atonement, Ian McEwan 

98. Northern Lights, Philip Pullman 

99. American Pastoral, Philip Roth 

100. Austerlitz, W. G. Sebald