As a University of Chicago graduate, I hereby defer to Crescat Sententia's alternate list--which is, I suppose, a good enough illustration of how arbitrary these lists get.
Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
The Remains of the Day, by Kazuo Ishigruo
Harry Potter Series, by J.K. Rowling
The End of the Affair, by Graham Greene
All The King’s Men, by Robert Penn Warren
Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov
The Princess Bride, by William Goldman
Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison
The Name of the Rose, by Umberto Eco
Syrup, by Max (Maxx) Barry
Emma, by Jane Austen
The Dirk Gently Series, by Douglas Adams
Ada, by Vladimir Nabokov
The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
100 Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Persuasion, by Jane Austen
The Blind Assassin, by Margaret Atwood
The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Pale Fire, by Vladimir Nabokov
Ender’s Game, Speaker for the Dead, &c., by Orson Scott Card
Oryx and Crake, by Margaret Atwood
Survivor, by Chuck Palahniuk
Ana Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy
The Three Musketeers Series, by Alexandre Dumas
The Divine Comedy, by Dante Alighieri
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, by Milan Kundera
Tess of D’Urbevilles, by Thomas Hardy
High Fidelity, by Nick Hornby
Howard’s End, by E.M. Forster
Lullaby, by Chuck Palahniuk
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, by Robert Heinlein
Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte
The Heart of the Matter, by Graham Greene
Cold Comfort Farm, by Stella Gibbon
My Antonia, by Willa Cather
The Big Sleep, by Raymond Chandler)
To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
Middlemarch, by George Eliot
Song of Fire and Ice, by George R.R. Martin
Love in the Time of Cholera, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Doestoevesky
What Maisie Knew, by Henry James
American Pastoral, by Philip Roth
Galveston, by Sean Stewart
If On a Winter's Night a Traveller, by Italo Calvino
Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger
Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen
Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert
Youth in Revolt, by C.D. Payne
Moby Dick, by Herman Melville
Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen
Big Trouble, by Dave Barry
Cat’s Eye, by Margaret Atwood
Villette, by Charolotte Bronte
The Last Chronicle of Barset, by Anthony Trollope
Phineas Finn, Phineas Finn Redux, by Anthony Trollope
Darlington’s Fall, by Brad Leithauser
This Real Night, by Rebecca West
The Baron in the Trees, by Italo Calvino
Summer, by Edith Wharton
The Unconsoled, by Kazuo Ishiguro
Cecilia, by Frances Burney
The Secret History, by Donna Tartt
Dangerous Liaisons, by Choderlos de Laclos
Mr. Scarborough’s Family, by Anthony Trollope
The Fellowship of the Ring, by J.R.R. Tolkien
A Room with a View, by E.M. Forster
The Duke’s Children, by Anthony Trollope
Breakfast at Tiffany’s, by Truman Capote
Daniel Deronda, by George Eliot
The Dumas Club, by Arturo Perez-Reverte
Baudolino, by Umberto Eco
Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh
The Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand
David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens
Catch-22, by Joseph Heller
Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens
The Manticore, by Robertson Davies
The Maltese Falcon, by Dashiell Hammitt
Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad
Good Morning, Midnight, by Jean Rhys
The Series of Unfortunate Events, by Lemony Snicket
Sula, by Toni Morrison
The House in Paris, by Elizabeth Bowen
The Little Friend, by Donna Tartt
The Death of the Heart, by Elizabeth Bowen
Gaudy Night, by Dorothy Sayers
The Discworld Saga, by Terry Pratchett
Gone With the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell
The Fountain Overflows, by Rebecca West
Possession, by A.S. Byatt
The Island of the Day Before, by Umberto Eco
God Knows, by Joseph Heller
The Cat Who Walked Through Walls, by Robert Heinlein
Candide, by Voltaire
The Vagabond, by Colette
Tom Jones, by Henry Fielding
The Fencing Master, by Arturo Perez-Reverte
Portrait of a Lady, by Henry James
day-um on the matriculation, dear!!
Posted by: Courtney | April 27, 2004 at 07:23 PM