aspirations of intellectuality

From Library Journal, 11-15-05, p. 13:
    Time Magazine's Lev Grossman and Richard Lacayo, naming their picks for the 100 best English-language novels released since the magazine's 1923 founding, aim to "instruct" and "to enrage." The former is iffy, the latter guaranteed. Along with standards like The Great Gatsby and The Catcher in the Rye, the list includes pop favorites like William Gibson's cyberpunk Neuromancer and Alan Moore and Dave Gibbon's graphic novel Watchmen. While best-list regulars Ernest Hemingway and Dashiell Hammett appear, The Sun Also Rises and Red Harvest were chosen, respectively, over For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Maltese Falcon.
    The complete list, in alphabetical order, with anything I've read in bold:

The Adventures of Augie March - Saul Bellow
All the King's Men - Robert Penn Warren
American Pastoral - Philip Roth
An American Tragedy - Theodore Dreiser
    --I haven't read it, but it's on my list.
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Appointment in Samarra - John O'Hara
    --I haven't read it, but it's on my list.
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret - Judy Blume
The Assistant - Bernard Malamud
    --I haven't read it, but it's on my list.
At Swim-Two-Birds - Flann O'Brien
Atonement - Ian McEwan
    --I haven't read it, but it's on my list.
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
    --I haven't read it, but I've seen the film at least 20 times.
The Confessions of Nat Turner - William Styron
The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen
    --I haven't read it, but it's on my list.
The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
A Dance to the Music of Time - Anthony Powell
The Day of the Locust - Nathanael West
Death Comes for the Archbishop - Willa Cather
    --I haven't read it, but it's on my list.
A Death in the Family - James Agee
The Death of the Heart - Elizabeth Bowen
Deliverance - James Dickey
    --I recataloged the library's copy of this book no less than 2 hours ago. Freaky
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
    --Is this the place to admit that I've never, ever read anything longer than a short story by Steinbeck?
Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
    --I've tried. I swear.
A Handful of Dust - Evelyn Waugh
The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers
    --I haven't read it, but it's on my list. Maybe over Christmas?
The Heart of the Matter - Graham Greene
Herzog - Saul Bellow
Housekeeping - Marilynne Robinson
A House for Mr. Biswas - V.S. Naipaul
I, Claudius - Robert Graves
    --I haven't read it, but it's on my list.
Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
Light in August - William Faulkner
    --I'd rather fall on a grenade.
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
    --I've seen it live. Does that count?
Lolita  - Vladimir Nabokov
Lord of the Flies  - William Golding
The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
Loving - Henry Green
Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis
The Man Who Loved Children - Christina Stead
Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
Money - Martin Amis
The Moviegoer - Walker Percy
    --I haven't read it, but it's on my list.
Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
    --I haven't read it, but it's on my list.
Naked Lunch - William Burroughs
    --I haven't read it, but it's on my list.
Native Son - Richard Wright
Neuromancer - William Gibson
Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
1984 - George Orwell
On the Road - Jack Kerouac
    --I've been working at this for about a year. It's time that I just bought the damned thing rather than checking it out from the library over and over and over....
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
The Painted Bird - Jerzy Kosinski
    --I've read some great short stories by Kosinski.
Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov
A Passage to India - E.M. Forster
Play It As It Lays - Joan Didion
Portnoy's Complaint - 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
    --I tried. Just couldn't do it.
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
The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
The Sportswriter - Richard Ford
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold - John le Carre
    --le Carre writes like a 12-year-old boy. Gakkkkkkk.
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
    --My conscience does not allow it.
Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
    --I've seen the movie several times and I bought the book. Hmm. Perhaps I should try that over break, too.
To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
    --I haven't read it, but it's on my list.
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
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White Teeth - Zadie Smith
Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys

And y'all?