Some time ago I decided that if I read a lot of
books (fiction), these should at least be good
ones. So, I found some page listing the 100 best books of the 19-20th centuries (according to polls from various newspapers). To my astonishment, I’ve only read a handful from that list. Here are the books I read that are one the list, before and after I discovered the list:

• Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four (before)
• Nabokov, Vladimir. Lolita (after)
• Marquez, Gabriel Garcia. One Hundred Years of Solitude (before)
• Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World (after)
• Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (before)
• Wharton, Edith. The Age of Innocence (after)
• Heller, Joseph. Catch-22 (before)
• Mitchell, Margaret. Gone With The Wind (before)
• Orwell, George. Animal Farm (before)
• Tolkien, J.R.R.. The Lord of the Rings (before)
• Tolstoy, Leo. War and Peace (after)
• Carroll, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (after)
• Burgess, Anthony. A Clockwork Orange (before)
• Melville, Herman. Moby Dick (after - in progress)

So, as you see from the multitute of afters, I’m doing a good progress in reading quality books. And I must say - these are quality books indeed, I liked 90% of them…

Moby Dick, as I mentioned, is in progress… but considering the length of the book and the fact that I read 3-4 books in parallel, it may take some time.

Related posts:

1. Book review: “Moby Dick” by Herman Melville
2. quality reading instead of quantity reading
3. phases in reading
4. reading russian books on the palm - check
5. “Reading” audiobooks - a first experience

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