以下是《時代》評出的1923年至今最好的100本英文小說,都很不錯。
個人推薦AnimalFarm;1984; Gone With the Wind
BOOK WRITER
The Adventures of Augie March Saul Bellow(兩本上榜)
All the King's Men Robert Penn Warren
American Pastoral Philip Roth (兩本)
An American Tragedy Theodore Dreiser
Animal Farm Gee Orwell (兩本)
Appointment in Samarra John O'Hara
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
Judy Blume
The Assistant Bernard Malamud
At Swim-Two-Birds Flann O'Brien
Atonement Ian McEwan (壹定要弄壹本來看看)
Beloved Toni Morrison
The Berlin Stories Christopher Isherwood
The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler
The Blind Assassin Margaret Atwood
Blood Meridian Cormac McCarthy
Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh
The Bridge of San Luis Rey Thornton Wilder
Call It Sleep Henry Roth
Catch-22 Joseph Heller
The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger
A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess
The Confessions of Nat Turner William Styron
The Corrections Jonathan Franzen
The Crying of Lot 49 Thomas Pynchon(兩本)
A Dance to the Music of Time Anthony Powell
The Day of the Locust Nathanael West
Death es for the Archbishop Willa Cather
A Death in the Family James Agee
The Death of the Heart Elizabeth Bowen
Deliverance James Dickey
Dog Soldiers Robert Stone
Falconer John Cheever
The French Lieutenant's Woman John Fowles
The Golden Notebook Doris Lessing
Go Tell it on the Mountain James Baldwin
Gone With the Wind Margaret Mitchell
The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
Gravity's Rainbow Thomas Pynchon
The Great Gat *** y F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Handful of Dust Evelyn Waugh
The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers (感興趣)
The Heart of the Matter Graham Greene (也是兩本,也感興趣)
Herzog Saul Bellow
Housekeeping Marilynne Robinson
A House for Mr. Biswas V.S. Naipaul
I, Claudius Robert Graves
Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace
Invisible Man Ralph Ellison
Light in August William Faulkner (兩本,估計老郭的課會講他,但沒選)
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe C.S. Lewis
Lolita Vladimir Nabokov (兩本)
Lord of the Flies William Golding
The Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien
Loving Henry Green
Lucky Jim Kingsley Amis (這個是本科看過,泛讀?)
The Man Who Loved Children Christina Stead
Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie
Money Martin Amis
The Moviegoer Walker Percy
Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf(親愛的Woolf也有兩本,好像是唯壹有兩本上榜的女作家?)
Naked Lunch William Burroughs
Native Son Richard Wright
Neuromancer William Gibson
Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro (不是熟悉的remains of the day)
1984 Gee Orwell
On the Road Jack Kerouac
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Ken Kesey
The Painted Bird Jerzy Kosinski
Pale Fire Vladimir Nabokov
A Passage to India E.M. Forster(載載本來要講的,但因時間原因被刪,個人很喜歡的作家)
Play It As It Lays Joan Didion
Portnoy's plaint Philip Roth
Possession A.S. Byatt
The Power and the Glory Graham Greene
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Muriel Spark
Rabbit, Run John Updike
Ragtime E.L. Doctorow
The Recognitions William Gaddis
Red Harvest Dashiell Hammett
Revolutionary Road Richard Yates
The Sheltering Sky Paul Bowles
Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut
Snow Crash Neal Stephenson
The Sot-Weed Factor John Barth(課上讀的是他的壹個短篇Lost in the Funhouse)
The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner
The Sportswriter Richard Ford
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold John le Carre
The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway
Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston
Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe(俺導師好像提過這個人)
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf
Tropic of Cancer Henry Miller
Ubik Philip K. Dick
Under the Net Iris Murdoch
Under the Volcano Malcolm Lowry
Watchmen Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
White Noise Don DeLillo
White Teeth Zadie Smith
Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys(Jane Eyre的續篇,後殖民小說)