IT’S DONE. What a task! Choosing the top 100 books to read is no mean feat so a big thank you to all who emailed, texted and even posted in suggestions for books to be included in the Moncrieff 100 Books to Read Before You Die book club.
We will be choosing a book from this list every month to review with members of book clubs around the country … it will take us 8 years and 4 months to complete this task so stay listening! We’ll get there we promise!
If you are a member of a book club and would like to take part simply email in to afternoon@newstalk.ie with Book Club in the subject box and give us some details about your club.
Enjoy working your way through the list with us, proudly supported by Eason’s Online Book Club.
Thanks again.
Team Moncrieff.
1. Moby Dick – Herman Melville
2 . Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
3. Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
4. The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen
5. The Incredible Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
6. A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
7. Collected Stories – Raymond Carver
8. The Book of Evidence – John Banville
9. Fragments of a Life Story – Denton Welch
10. Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
11. The Lay of The Land – Richard Ford
12. Money – Martin Amis
13. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
14. Rabbit, Run – John Updike
15. Underworld – Don DeLillo
16. Sophie’s World – Jostein Gaarder
17. Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut
18. Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco
19. Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S Thompson
20. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
21. A Day In The Life of Ivan Denisovich – Alexander Solzhenitsyn
22. To Kill A Mockingbird – Harper Lee
23. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
24. Heart Of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
25. The Third Policeman- Flann O’Brien
26. The Watchmen by Alan Moore and drawn by Dave Gibbons
27. Hunger – Knut Hamsun
28. Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
29. One Hundred Years of Solitude of Gabriel Garcia Marquez
30. Get Shorty – Elmore Leonard
31. If this a Man – Primo Levi
32. The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
33. The Tanners – Robert Walser
34. Austerlitz – W.G. Sebald
35. The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
36. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norell – Susanna Clarke
37. The Man in the High Castle – Philip K Dick.
38. The Good Earth – Pearl S. Buck
39. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
40. Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
41. Their Eyes were Watching God – Zora Neale Huston
42. The Tin Drum – Gunter Grass
43. Crime And Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
44. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
45. Lolita – Vladimir Nabakov
46. Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence
47. The Trial – Franz Kafka
48. The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy – Douglas Adams
49. Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth
50. The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler
51. Under The Net – Iris Murdoch
52. A Farewell To Arms – Ernest Hemingway
53. The Liberal Imagination - Lionel Trilling
54. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
55. On The Road – Jack Kerouac
56. The Naked And The Dead – Norman Mailer
57. The Catcher In The Rye – J.D. Salinger
58. Ways Of Seeing – John Berger
59. To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
60. The Sound And The Fury – William Faulkner
61. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
62. Dubliners – James Joyce
63. Tropic Of Cancer – Henry Miller
64. In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
65. The End of History And The Last Man – Francis Fukuyama
66. The Open Society And Its Enemies – Karl Popper
67. The Road – Cormac McCarthy
68. Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha – Roddy Doyle
69. Naked Lunch – William Burroughs
70. The Prince – Niccolo Machiavelli
71. The Autobiography Of Malcolm X – Alex Haley And Malcolm X
72. The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins
73. Anam Cara - The Book of Celtic Wisdom - John O'Donohue
74. A Brief History of Time – Stephen Hawking
75. The Master – Colm Tobin
76. The Picture of Dorian Grey – Oscar Wilde
77. Tess Of The D’urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
78. Guests of the Nation and other stories – Frank O’Connor
79. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
80. Pride And Prejudice – Jane Austen
81. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
82. The White Hotel – DM Thomas
83. Of Human Bondage – W. Somerset Maugham
84. The Diary Of A Young Girl - Anne Frank
85. Walden By Henry David Thoreau
86. Scoop – Evelyn Waugh
87. The Visitor – Maeve Brennan
88. The Demon Haunted World (Science as a Candle in the Dark) – Carl Saga
89. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
90. Goodbye To All That -Robert Graves
91. Darkness At Noon – Arthur Koestler
92. The Affluent Society – John Kenneth Galbraith
93. Cry The Beloved Country – Alan Paton
94. The Country Girls – Edna O’Brien
95. Middlemarch, George Eliot
96. This Boy’s Life By Tobias Wolff
97.Atomised – Michel Houellebecq.
98. Brighton Rock – Graham Greene
99. All Quiet On The Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
100. The Bonfire Of The Vanities – Tom Wolfe
