13 Ways Of Looking At The Novel

I'm reading Jane Smiley's new book "13 Ways Of Looking At The Novel" and hoping to get inspired so I eventually begin writing mine. It's opened my eyes to more books I want to read. That's the thing with reading it makes you want to read more. She did a book on Charles Dickens that I would like to read in addition to the book that made her famous "A Thousand Acres." Too many books too little time. She has a list of 100 novels. So far I've only read three of them.

The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
Egilssage by Snorri Sturluson
The Saga of the People of Laxardal author unknown
The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
Lazarillo de Tormes anonymous
The Heptameron by Marguerite de Navarre
Don Quixote volume 1 and 2 by Miguel de Cervantes
The Princess of Cleves by Madame de La Fayette
Oroonoko and The Fair Jilt by Aphra Behn
Robinson Crusoe and Roxanna by Daniel Defoe
Pamela or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding
The Female Quixote by Charlotte Lennox
The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy, Gentelman by Laurence Sterne
Candide by Voltaire
The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker by Tobias Smollett
Les Liasons dangereuses by Choderlos de Laclos
Justine by Marquis de Sade
The Tale of Old Mortality, The Bride of Lammermoor by Sir Walter Scott
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Persuasion by Jane Austen
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg
The Red and the Black by Stendahl
Taras Bulba by Nikolai Gogol
A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov
Cousin Pons and Cousin Bette by Honore de Balzac
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville
The House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
The Woman in White, The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
Therese Raquin by Emile Zola
The Last Chronicle of Barset, The Eustace Diamonds byAnthony Trollope
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Middlemarch by Goerge Eliot
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Portrait of a Lady, The Awkward Age by Henry James
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
The Illustrated Zuleika Dobson, or an Oxford Love Story by Max Beerbohm
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
Kristin Lavransdatter, volume 1, The Wreath by Sigrid Undset
Ulysses by James Joyce
Zeno's Conscience by Italo Svevo
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Trial by Franz Kafka
The Sleepwalkers by Hermann Broch
In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
Orlando by Virginia Woolf
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
The Man Without Qualities volume 1 by Robert Musil
And Quiet Flows the Don by Mikhail Sholokhov
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen
The Return of Jeeves, Berie Wooster Sees It Through, Spring Fever, The Butler Did It by P.G. Wodehouse
The Once and Future King by T.H. White
The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead
The Makioka Sisters by Junichiro Tanizaki
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
The Fountain Overflows by Rebecca West
The Pursuit of Love, Love in a Cold Climate, Don't Tell Alfred by Nancy Mitford
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Moonflower Vine by Jetta Carleton
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Grendel by John Gardner
Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro
The Harafish by Naguib Mahfouz
The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch
How Far Can You Go? by David Lodge
Loitering With Intent by Muriel Spark
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid
Foe by I.M. Coetzee
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Possession by A.S. Byatt
Vox by Nicholson Baker
WLT: A Radio Romance by Garrison Keillor
Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson
A Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry
Guided Tours of Hell by Francine Prose
A Gesture Life by Chang-rae Lee
Lovely Green Eyes by Arnost Lustig
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
The Complete Henry Bech by John Updike
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Look at Me by Jennifer Egan

I actually have an autographed first edition of one of these books. The one by Garrison Keillor. I remember meeting him at the old Kroch's and Brentano's downtown. He stood up while he signed the books.