{"id":866,"date":"2004-04-28T23:50:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-28T23:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=866"},"modified":"2018-08-12T07:53:49","modified_gmt":"2018-08-12T12:53:49","slug":"866","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/04\/28\/866\/","title":{"rendered":"Who&#8217;s Not Their English Major?  Say It!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crescatsententia.org\/archives\/2003_11_09.html#002342\" target=\"new\">Crescat Sententia<\/a> we have a rebuttal of sorts to the list included <a href=\"http:\/\/stlbrianj.blogspot.com\/archives\/2004_04_18_archive.html#108277379896092752\" target=\"new\">here<\/a>.  Crescat lists its top 99 books\/series of all time.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how I fared on its enlightened reading, with the books I have read in bold and those I have on my to-read shelf in italics:<\/p>\n<ul>   1. Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen<br \/>\n   2. The Remains of the Day, by Kazuo Ishigruo<br \/>\n   3. Harry Potter Series, by J.K. Rowling<br \/>\n   4. The End of the Affair, by Graham Greene<br \/>\n   5. All The King\u2019s Men, by Robert Penn Warren<br \/>\n   6. Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov<br \/>\n<b>   7. The Princess Bride, by William Goldman<\/b><br \/>\n   8. Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison<br \/>\n   9. The Name of the Rose, by Umberto Eco<br \/>\n  10. Syrup, by Max (Maxx) Barry<br \/>\n<i>  11. Emma, by Jane Austen<\/i><br \/>\n<b>  12. The Dirk Gently Series, by Douglas Adams<\/b><br \/>\n  13. Ada, by Vladimir Nabokov<br \/>\n<b>  14. The Hitchiker\u2019s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams<\/b><br \/>\n  15. 100 Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez<br \/>\n  16. Persuasion, by Jane Austen<br \/>\n  17. The Blind Assassin, by Margaret Atwood<br \/>\n<b>  18. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald<\/b><br \/>\n  19. Pale Fire, by Vladimir Nabokov<br \/>\n  20. Ender\u2019s Game, Speaker for the Dead, &#038;c., by Orson Scott Card<br \/>\n  21. Oryx and Crake, by Margaret Atwood<br \/>\n  22. Survivor, by Chuck Palahniuk<br \/>\n<i>  23. Ana Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy<\/i><br \/>\n<i>  24. The Three Musketeers Series, by Alexandre Dumas <\/i> [The Three Musketeers, anyway.]<br \/>\n  25. The Divine Comedy, by Dante Alighieri<br \/>\n<b>  26. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, by Milan Kundera<\/b>  [&#8220;Strip!&#8221;]<br \/>\n<b>  27. Tess of D\u2019Urbevilles, by Thomas Hardy<\/b><br \/>\n  28. High Fidelity, by Nick Hornby<br \/>\n  29. Howard\u2019s End, by E.M. Forster<br \/>\n  30. Lullaby, by Chuck Palahniuk<br \/>\n  31. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, by Robert Heinlein<br \/>\n<b>  32. Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte<\/b><br \/>\n  33. The Heart of the Matter, by Graham Greene<br \/>\n  34. Cold Comfort Farm, by Stella Gibbon<br \/>\n  35. My Antonia, by Willa Cather<br \/>\n<b>  36. The Big Sleep, by Raymond Chandler<\/b><br \/>\n<b>  37. To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee<\/b><br \/>\n  38. Middlemarch, by George Eliot<br \/>\n  39. Song of Fire and Ice, by George R.R. Martin<br \/>\n  40. Love in the Time of Cholera, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez<br \/>\n<b>  41. Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Doestoevesky<\/b><br \/>\n  42. What Maisie Knew, by Henry James<br \/>\n  43. American Pastoral, by Philip Roth<br \/>\n  44. Galveston, by Sean Stewart<br \/>\n  45. If On a Winter&#8217;s Night a Traveller, by Italo Calvino<br \/>\n<b>  46. Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger<\/b><br \/>\n  47. Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen<br \/>\n  48. Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert<br \/>\n  49. Youth in Revolt, by C.D. Payne<br \/>\n<b>  50. Moby Dick, by Herman Melville<\/b><br \/>\n  51. Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen<br \/>\n  52. Big Trouble, by Dave Barry<br \/>\n  53. Cat\u2019s Eye, by Margaret Atwood<br \/>\n  54. Villette, by Charolotte Bronte<br \/>\n  55. The Last Chronicle of Barset, by Anthony Trollope<br \/>\n  56. Phineas Finn, Phineas Finn Redux, by Anthony Trollope<br \/>\n  57. Darlington\u2019s Fall, by Brad Leithauser<br \/>\n  58. This Real Night, by Rebecca West<br \/>\n  59. The Baron in the Trees, by Italo Calvino<br \/>\n  60. Summer, by Edith Wharton<br \/>\n  61. The Unconsoled, by Kazuo Ishiguro<br \/>\n  62. Cecilia, by Frances Burney<br \/>\n  63. The Secret History, by Donna Tartt<br \/>\n  64. Dangerous Liaisons, by Choderlos de Laclos<br \/>\n  65. Mr. Scarborough\u2019s Family, by Anthony Trollope<br \/>\n  66. The Fellowship of the Ring, by J.R.R. Tolkien<br \/>\n  67. A Room with a View, by E.M. Forster<br \/>\n  68. The Duke\u2019s Children, by Anthony Trollope<br \/>\n  69. Breakfast at Tiffany\u2019s, by Truman Capote<br \/>\n  70. Daniel Deronda, by George Eliot<br \/>\n  71. The Dumas Club, by Arturo Perez-Reverte<br \/>\n  72. Baudolino, by Umberto Eco<br \/>\n  73. Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh<br \/>\n<b>  74. The Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand<\/b><br \/>\n  75. David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens<br \/>\n<b>  76. Catch-22, by Joseph Heller<\/b><br \/>\n  77. Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens<br \/>\n  78. The Manticore, by Robertson Davies<br \/>\n<b>  79. The Maltese Falcon, by Dashiell Hammitt<\/b><br \/>\n<i>  80. Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad<\/i><br \/>\n  81. Good Morning, Midnight, by Jean Rhys<br \/>\n  82. The Series of Unfortunate Events, by Lemony Snicket<br \/>\n  83. Sula, by Toni Morrison<br \/>\n  84. The House in Paris, by Elizabeth Bowen<br \/>\n  85. The Little Friend, by Donna Tartt<br \/>\n  86. The Death of the Heart, by Elizabeth Bowen<br \/>\n  87. Gaudy Night, by Dorothy Sayers<br \/>\n  88. The Discworld Saga, by Terry Pratchett<br \/>\n  89. Gone With the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell<br \/>\n  90. The Fountain Overflows, by Rebecca West<br \/>\n  91. Possession, by A.S. Byatt<br \/>\n  92. The Island of the Day Before, by Umberto Eco<br \/>\n  93. God Knows, by Joseph Heller<br \/>\n  94. The Cat Who Walked Through Walls, by Robert Heinlein<br \/>\n<b>  95. Candide, by Voltaire<\/b><br \/>\n  96. The Vagabond, by Colette<br \/>\n  97. Tom Jones, by Henry Fielding<br \/>\n  98. The Fencing Master, by Arturo Perez-Reverte<br \/>\n  99. Portrait of a Lady, by Henry James<\/ul>\n<p>Not so good, but it&#8217;s not a list of <i>(sniff!)<\/i> canon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Crescat Sententia we have a rebuttal of sorts to the list included here. Crescat lists its top 99 books\/series of all time. Here&#8217;s how I fared on its enlightened reading, with the books I have read in bold and those I have on my to-read shelf in italics: 1. 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