Saturday, June 28, 2008

The Harvard Hundred

So. Now that I've run my mouth about refusing to read anything I don't want to, I'm trying to narrow down what I actually do want to read. Googling "reading lists" turned up some fun results, including the Top 100 Picks from the Harvard Book Store staff.

Word.

And because I really should be studying A&P, but am not because of a headache, and am instead watching The Last King of Scotland for the third time and blogging, I decided, what the heck?, I'll grade myself against the Harvard Hundred while I'm at it. Points awarded as follows:

1 point for each book on the list I've read.
.5 points for each book I've begun but abandoned.
.25 points for each book I own but haven't begun.

90 points and up is always an A in my book.

I will not come close to an A. Here we go:
  1. A People's History of the United States Zinn: 0
  2. The Wind Up Bird Chronicle Murakami: 1
  3. The New York Trilogy Auster: 0
  4. The Crying of Lot 49 Pynchon: 0
  5. The Lord of the Rings Tolkien: .5
  6. Jane Eyre Bronte: .5
  7. Lolita Nabokov: 1
  8. Nineteen Eighty-Four Orwell: 1
  9. One Hundred Years of Solitude Marquez: .5
  10. The Catcher in the Rye Salinger: 0
  11. Crime and Punishment Dostoevsky: .25
  12. On the Road Kerouac: 1
  13. Alice in Wonderland Carrol: 1
  14. Brothers Karamozov Dostoevsky: 1
  15. The Age of Innocence Wharton: 0
  16. Don Quixote Cervantes: 0
  17. Perfume Suskind: 0
  18. Ulysses Joyce: .25
  19. Anna Karenina Tolstoy: 1
  20. Complete Stories of Flannery O’Connor: .5
  21. Cry the Beloved Country Paton: 0
  22. Dracula Stoker: 1
  23. The Eagles Die Marek: 0
  24. Emotionally Weird Atkinson: 0
  25. The Handmaid’s Tale Atwood: 0
  26. Infinite Jest Wallace: .5
  27. Kitchen Yoshimoto: 0
  28. London Fields Amis: 0
  29. Moise and the World of Reason Williams: 0
  30. Movie Wars Rosenbaum: 0
  31. Paradise Lost Milton: 1
  32. Persuasion Austen: 0
  33. Tortilla Curtain Boyle: 0
  34. Visions of Excess Bataille: 0
  35. Where the Wild Things Are Sendak: 1
  36. Wild Sheep Chase Murakami: 0
  37. Beloved Morrison: 1
  38. Counterfeiters Gide: 0
  39. The Bell Jar Plath: 1
  40. Blind Owl Hedayat: 0
  41. Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe: .5
  42. The Count of Monte Cristo Dumas: .25
  43. Dealing With Dragons Wrede: 0
  44. The Earthsea Trilogy Le Guin: 0
  45. The Ecology of Fear Davis: 0
  46. Franny and Zooey Salinger: 0
  47. History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides: .5
  48. How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents Alvarez: 0
  49. Kabuki: Circle of Blood Mack & Jiang: 0
  50. Of Human Bondage Maugham: 0
  51. The Satanic Verses Rushdie: 0
  52. The Sheltering Sky Bowles: 0
  53. Tristam Shandy Sterne: 0
  54. Well of Loneliness Hall: 0
  55. Wicked Pavilion Powell: 0
  56. Collected Stories of V.S. Pritchett: 0
  57. War and Peace Tolstoy: .5
  58. Babel 17 Delany: 0
  59. Dora Freud: 0
  60. Empire Falls Russo: .5
  61. For Whom the Bell Tolls Hemingway: .5
  62. Girl in Landscape Letham: 0
  63. Goodbye to All That Graves: 0
  64. Ham on Rye Bukowski: 0
  65. Life Like Moore: 0
  66. Mao II DeLillo: 0
  67. Random Family Leblanc: 0
  68. Revolutionary Road Yates: 0
  69. The Stranger Camus: 0
  70. Humboldt’s Gift Bellow: 0
  71. White Noise DeLillo: 1
  72. Atlas Shrugged Rand: .5
  73. Bastard Out of Carolina Allison: 0
  74. Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills Bukowski: 0
  75. Delta of Venus Nin: 0
  76. Fast Food Nation Schlosser: 1
  77. Ficciones Borges: 0
  78. Go Ask Alice Anonymous: 1
  79. Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Adams: .5
  80. Iliad Homer: 1
  81. On Photography Sontag: 0
  82. Republic Plato: .5
  83. Shockproof Sydney Skate Meaker: 0
  84. Society of the Spectacle Debord: 0
  85. Strangers in Paradise Moore: 0
  86. The Sun Also Rises Hemingway: 1
  87. A Wrinkle In Time L’Engle: 1
  88. Dubliners Joyce: .25
  89. The Breakfast of Champions Vonnegut: 0
  90. No Logo Klein: 1
  91. Aeneid Virgil: .5
  92. Ariel Plath: 0
  93. Charlotte’s Web White: 1
  94. Curious George Learns the Alphabet Rey: 1
  95. Enormous Changes at the Last Minute Paley: 0
  96. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter McCullers: .5
  97. Henry VIII Shakespeare: 1
  98. I, Claudius Graves: 0
  99. The Lost Continent Bryson: 0
  100. Master and Margarita Bulgakov: 0
Grade: 29.25, assuming I can add.

Ed. Note: I am a complete tool. I can't believe how much of this I haven't read.

Ed. Note the Second: Whatevs. It doesn't matter because either way, James McAvoy's Scottish accent is banging sexy. And you don't have to know how to read to know that.
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