I also like to catch up on reading the ff. novels (which I’ve been intending to read for the longest time) to see why they are considered “successful” (at least according to the Modern American Library’s “100 best English-language novels published since 1900,” as of 2003, that is):

1984, George Orwell
Absalom, Absalom, William Faulkner
The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton --> seen its movie version
All the King’s Men, Robert Penn Warren --> seen its movie version
Animal Farm, Georgo Orwell
As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner
Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis
Beloved, Toni Morrison
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
Catch-22, Joseph Heller --> saw the movie; annoying!
The Call of the Wild, Jack London
The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
Charlotte’s Web, E.B. White --> saw the movie
A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
The Color Purple, Alice Walker
Dune, Frank Herbert
Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card
Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
Fifth Business, Robertson Davies
For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway
The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
The French Lieutenant’s Woman, John Fowles
Go Tell It on the Mountain, James Baldwin
Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck --> seen its movie version
Gravity’s Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams --> seen its movie version too
Howards End, E.M. Forster --> seen its movie version too
Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
Light in August, William Faulkner
Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
Lord of the Flies, William Golding
The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien --> first part only; seen its movie version too
The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett --> saw the movie! enjoyable
Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie
My Antonia, Willa Cather
Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs
Native Son, Richard Wright
Of Human Bondage, W. Somerset Maugham
Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
On the Road, Jack Kerouac
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey --> saw the movie
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce
A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving
Rabbit Run, John Updike
The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie
A Separate Peace, John Knowles
The Sheltering Sky, Paul Bowles --> seen its movie version
Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
Sometimes a Great Notion, Ken Kesey
Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison
Sons and Lovers, D.H. Lawrence
Sophie’s Choice, William Styron
The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner
The Stand, Stephen King
The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
Their Eyes were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe --> have read its summary, which is such a spoiler
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee --> started it, but couldn't finish because of the prose style
To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller
Ulysses, James Joyce
The World According to Garp, John Irving --> seen its movie version too