151. Animalia/Sign of the Seahorse - Graeme Base
152. The Double Helix - James Watson
153. The Giver - Lois Lowry
154. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH - Robert O'Brien
155. The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett
156. Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry
157. The Chocolate War - Robert Cormier
158. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick
159. The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
160. Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster - John Krakauer
161. The Natural - Bernard Malamud
162. My Name is Red - Orhan Pamuk.
163. Master & Commander - Patrick O'Brian
164. War Of the Worlds - HG Wells
165. American Tabloid - James Ellroy
166. Darkness at Noon - Arthur Koestler.
167.The World According To Garp - John Irving
168. A Light In The Attic - Shel Silverstein
169. The Madman His Parables and Poems - Gibran Khalil Gibran
170. The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant
171. The Plot Against America - Philip Roth
172. Film as a Subversive Art - Amos Vogel
173. All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
174. A Million and One Nights - Terry Ramsaye
175. Foe - J.M Coetzee
176. Truman - David McCullough
177. Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West - Cormac McCarthy
While I could think of a number of McCarthy's books being worthy of this list, never has anything make me think more about both the cruel nature of humanity and the power of good writing than this one. It's what I believe to be McCarthy's most beautifully written work despite, and also because of, the extremely ugly nature of the characters and their actions. For the most part this book is nothing but wall-to-wall acts of atrociousness committed by reprehensible men but McCarthy's prose is so eloquent that it makes for a fascinating dichotomy. Long have I considered this to be a very literary novel and I dread the proposed film adaptation. No matter the talent involved, I maintain the opinion that the power of this story lies in the fact that it's a book. That and I can't think of anybody who could do the character of Judge Holden justice.
152. The Double Helix - James Watson
153. The Giver - Lois Lowry
154. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH - Robert O'Brien
155. The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett
156. Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry
157. The Chocolate War - Robert Cormier
158. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick
159. The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
160. Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster - John Krakauer
161. The Natural - Bernard Malamud
162. My Name is Red - Orhan Pamuk.
163. Master & Commander - Patrick O'Brian
164. War Of the Worlds - HG Wells
165. American Tabloid - James Ellroy
166. Darkness at Noon - Arthur Koestler.
167.The World According To Garp - John Irving
168. A Light In The Attic - Shel Silverstein
169. The Madman His Parables and Poems - Gibran Khalil Gibran
170. The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant
171. The Plot Against America - Philip Roth
172. Film as a Subversive Art - Amos Vogel
173. All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
174. A Million and One Nights - Terry Ramsaye
175. Foe - J.M Coetzee
176. Truman - David McCullough
177. Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West - Cormac McCarthy
While I could think of a number of McCarthy's books being worthy of this list, never has anything make me think more about both the cruel nature of humanity and the power of good writing than this one. It's what I believe to be McCarthy's most beautifully written work despite, and also because of, the extremely ugly nature of the characters and their actions. For the most part this book is nothing but wall-to-wall acts of atrociousness committed by reprehensible men but McCarthy's prose is so eloquent that it makes for a fascinating dichotomy. Long have I considered this to be a very literary novel and I dread the proposed film adaptation. No matter the talent involved, I maintain the opinion that the power of this story lies in the fact that it's a book. That and I can't think of anybody who could do the character of Judge Holden justice.
