Ini
best book buat yg fiksi (non fiksinya ntar dulu yaks) yang di list ama radcliff.
1.The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald (novel2 & cerpen2nya dijamin
bagus banget kayak 'tender is the night', 'the last tycoon', & 'this
side of
paradise')
2. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
3. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
(novelnya 'cannery row' udah
diindonesiain)
4. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
5. The Color Purple by Alice Walker (kalo
gak salah udah difilmin yg
maen whoopie goldberg)
6. Ulysses by James Joyce
7. Beloved by Toni Morrison
8. The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
9. 1984 by George Orwell (bacaan wajib
anak fisip)
10. The Sound and the Fury by William
Faulkner
11. Lolita by Vladmir Nabokov (ini udah
difilmin kalo gak salah)
12. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
13. Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
14. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
by James Joyce
15. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
16. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
17. Animal Farm
by George Orwell (fabel politik yang oke banget, ada
indonesianya, tipis bukunya)
18. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
(dapet jempol)
19. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
20. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
(udah ada terjemahannya,
'pertempuran penghabisan')
21. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
22. Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne
23. Their Eyes are Watching God by Zora
Neale Hurston
24. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
25. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
26. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (novel aslinya 900 hlm, bisa
buat dingklik)
27. Native Son by Richard Wright
28. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by
Ken Kesey (udah difilmin, film klasik
yg maen kalo gak salah jack nicholson, film klasik)
29. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
30. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest
Hemingway (ada filmnya neh.
31. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
32. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest
Hemingway (dapet jempol 4)
33. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
34. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
35. Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
(buku lainnya 'wings of dove', udah
difilmin, novel lainnya bagus2 juga kayak 'the ambassador')
36. Go Tell it on the Mountain by James
Baldwin
37. The World According to Garp by John
Irving
38. All the King's Men by Robert Penn
Warren
39. A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
(romantis, buku lainnya yg bagus 'a
passage to india' & 'howards end', lumayan juga)
40. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
41. Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally
42. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (udah
filmin yg main 'winona
ryder', buku lainnya 'house of mirth' udah difilmin juga, yg maen si
gillian
'scully' andersen,)
43. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
44. Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
45. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
46. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
47. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank
Baum
48. Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H.
Lawrence (udah difilmin, tapi jadi film
'heboh' kayaknya, blum pernah baca juga)
49. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
50. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
51. My Antonia by Willa Cather
52. Howards End by E.M. Forster
53. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
54. Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
55. The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
56. Jazz by Toni Morrison
57. Sophie's Choice by William Styron (ini
juga udah difilmin, yg maen
'merryl streep')
58. Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
59. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
(bagus, soal benturan 'culture'
barat & india muslim, dapet jempol 4)
60. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
61. A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery
O'Connor
62. Tender Is the Night by F. Scott
Fitzgerald
63. Orlando by Virginia Woolf
64. Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
65. Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom
Wolfe (udah difilmin kalo gak
salah, yg maen melanie griffith)
66. Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
67. A Separate Peace by John Knowles
68. Light in August by William Faulkner
69. The Wings of the Dove by Henry James
(udah difilmin)
70. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
71. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
72. A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by
Douglas Adams
73. Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
74. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
(ada film serinya di inggris)
75. Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence
76. Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe
77. In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway
78. The Autobiography of Alice B. Tokias by
Gertrude Stein
79. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
80. The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
81. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
82. White Noise by Don DeLillo
83. O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
84. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
85. The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
86. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
87. The Bostonians by Henry James
88. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
89. Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa
Cather
90. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth
Grahame
91. This Side of Paradise by F. Scott
Fitzgerald
92. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
93. The French Lieutenant's Woman by John
Fowles
94. Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
95. Kim by Rudyard Kipling (bukunya yg udah
difillmin 'jungle book')
96. The Beautiful and the Damned by F.
Scott Fitzgerald
97. Rabbit, Run by John Updike
98. Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M.
Forster (bukunya oke, tapi pas
ifilemin...alamaaaak sensualnya....hehe, maklum film eropa)
99. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
100. Midnight's Children by Salman
Rushdie
novel lain yang masuk listnya 'harvard', a.l:
* One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel
Garcia Marquez (udah ada terjemhannya)
* Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
* Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
(romantis banget, & semua novelnya
charlotte bronte, anne bronte, & emily bronte, 3 kakak beradik, bagus2,
apalagi buat cewek)
* The Plague by Albert Camus (sampar novel,
ada juga sampar play)
* The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
(semua tulisannya layak dibaca)
* David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
(semua novel & talesnya dickens
bagus2)
* The English Patient by Michael
Ondaatje (udah difilmin kan, & dapet
oscar)
* Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev (udah
diterjemahin)
* Fear and Trembling by Soren Kierkegaard
* Hamlet by William Shakespeare
(shakespeare abad 18-19, tau' kenapa
dimasukin ke list ini)
* Middlemarch by George Eliot, (dapet
jempol 4 juga, & semua novelnya oke,
esp. 'adam bede')
* One Day In the Life of Ivan Denisovich by
Alexander Solzhenitsyn * Pride
and Prejudice by Jane Austen (siiiiip, semua novel2nya austen bagus banget
buat cewek, udah diterjemahin 'prasangka & keangkuhan')
* Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (dapet
jempol 4, udah difilemin, tapi
mengecewakan sekali)
* The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
* The Odyssey by Homer (ini juga buku
jaman baheula banget)
tambahan lain, versi listnya 'randomhouse':
* THE WAY OF ALL FLESH by Samuel Butler
* I, CLAUDIUS by Robert Graves
* SISTER CARRIE by Theodore Dreiser (nice story, bagus dibaca, esp. buat
cewek)
* PARADE'S END by Ford Madox Ford
* OF HUMAN BONDAGE by W. Somerset Maugham