The Modern Classics list

72 Modern Classic novels I hope to read in the next 5 years. Included in my list are 8 books that I picked as classics of literary criticism.
4/20/12 Read books are marked with an asterisk (currently 14 for 72).

1-The Good Soldier Ford Maddox Ford 1915
2-Ulysses James Joyce 1922
3-Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf 1925
4-An American Tragedy Theodore Dreiser 1925
*5-The Sun Also Rises Hemingway 1926
6-The Bridge of San Luis Rey Thorton Wilder 1927
*7-A Farewell to Arms Hemingway 1929
*8-The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner 1929
*9- As I Lay Dying William Faulkner 1930
*10-Brave New World Aldous Huxley 1931
*11-Save me the Waltz Zelda Fitzgerald 1932 with…..
*12-Tender is the Night F. Scott Fitzgerald 1934
13-I, Claudius Robert Graves 1934
14-Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1936
15-Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck 1937
16-The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck 1939
17-Finnigans Wake James Joyce 1939
*18-For Whom the Bell Tolls Hemingway 1940
19-Native Son Richard Wright 1940
20-The Power and the Glory Graham Greene 1940
21-Animal Farm George Orwell 1943
22-A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith 1943
23-The Fountainhead Ayn Rand 1943
24-Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh 1945
*25-1984 George Orwell 1949
26-Invisible Man Ralph Ellison 1952
27-The Adventures of Augie March Saul Bellow 1953
28-Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury 1953
29-Go Tell it on the Mountain James Baldwin 1953
30-Lord of the Flies William Golding 1954
31-The Fall Albert Camus 1956
32-On the Road Jack Kerouac 1957
33-Atlas Shrugged Ayn Rand 1957
34-Naked Lunch William Burroughs 1959
35-To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee 1960
36-Catch-22 Joseph Heller 1961
37-Franny and Zooey J.D. Salinger 1961
38-A House for Mr. Biswas V.S. Naipaul 1961
39-The Prime of Miss Brodie Muriel Spark 1961
40-Revolutionary Road Richard Yates 1961
41-A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess 1962
42-The Golden Notebook Doris Lessing 1962
*43-The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath 1963
*44-Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys 1966
45-One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez 1967
*46-Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut 1969
47-Play it as it Lays Joan Didion 1970
48-Gravity’s Rainbow Thomas Pynchon 1973
49-Midnight’s Children Salman Rushdie 1980
50-Blood Meridian Cormac McCarthy 1985
*51-The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood 1985
52-White Noise Don DeLillo 1985
53-Beloved Toni Morrison 1987
54-Norwegian Wood Haruki Murakami 1987
55-The Satanic Verses Salman Rushdie 1988
*56-The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro 1989
57-Possession A.S. Byatt 1990
58-American Pastoral Philip Roth 1997
59-The Hours Michael Cunningham 1998 (w/ Mrs. Dalloway above)
60-The Blind Assassin Margaret Atwood 2000
61-White Teeth Zadie Smith 2000
62-Atonement Ian McEwan 2001
63-Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides 2002
64-Never Let me Go Kazuo Ishiguro 2005

Classics in Literary Criticism
65-Henry James Literary Criticism est. 66-1934
66-Studies in Classic American Literature D.H. Lawrence 1923
67-Aspects of the Novel E.M. Forester 1927
68-A Room of One’s Own Virginia Woolf 1929
69-The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic theory Meyer H. Abrams 1971
70-A Literature of Their Own Elaine Showalter 1977
71-The Madwoman in the Attic Gilbert and Gubar 1979
72-The Western Canon Harold Bloom 1995