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,
14. The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
15. Sybil, Benjamin Disraeli )
16. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
17. Wuthering Heights,
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
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,
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,
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,
62. Wise Blood, Flannery O'Connor
63. Charlotte
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,
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
84. Waiting for the Barbarians, J.M. Coetzee
85. Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson
86. Lanark, Alasdair Gray
87. The New York
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
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,
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