I've put Joseph Conrad on the list because I haven't ever read any of his novels. I was supposed to have read Nostromo during the summer before my junior year in high school, but that never really did seem to have happened, did it? It seemed awfully boring to my hormone-addled 15-year old brain. Now, of course, Conrad is fascinating to me because he was born near Kyiv in Ukraine and lived in Lviv. I lived in Kyiv for a year, and visited Lviv twice, and so I'm curious about his writing and the ways in which Eastern Europe influences, or is woven into, his novels.
So here's my list of 75 books for the challenge:
| Balzac, Honore | Lost Illusions |
| Balzac, Honore | Louis Lambert |
| Balzac, Honore | Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau |
| Boswell, James | The Life of Samuel Johnson |
| Bronte, Anne | Agnes Grey |
| Bronte, Charlotte | Jane Eyre |
| Bunyan, John | Pilgrim's Progress |
| Cather, Willa | O Pioneers! |
| Cervantes, Miguel | Don Quixote |
| Conrad, Joseph | The Secret Agent |
| Darwin, Charles | The Origin of Species |
| Defoe, Daniel | Moll Flanders |
| Dickens, Charles | Great Expectations |
| Dos Passos, John | Manhattan Transfer |
| Dostoevsky, Fyodor | Demons |
| Dumas, Alexandre | The Count of Monte Cristo |
| Eliot, George | Adam Bede |
| Eliot, George | Romola |
| Eliot, George | Felix Holt |
| Eliot, George | Mill on the Floss |
| Faulkner, William | Absalom! Absalom! |
| Faulkner, William | Go Down, Moses |
| Fielding, Henry | Tom Jones |
| Flaubert, Gustave | Madame Bovary |
| Forster, E. M. | A Passage to India |
| Gaddis, William | The Recognitions |
| Gissing, George | New Grub Street |
| Goethe, Johann | Sorrows of Young Werther |
| Gogol, Nikolai | Dead Souls |
| Hardy, Thomas | Tess of the D'urbervilles |
| Hardy, Thomas | Jude the Obscure |
| Hardy, Thomas | Return of the Native |
| Hawthorne, Nathaniel | The Marble Faun |
| Heller, Joseph | Catch-22 |
| James, Henry | Sacred Fount |
| Jerome, Jerome K. | Three Men in a Boat |
| Lessing, Doris | The Golden Notebook |
| Mahfouz, Naguib | Palace Walk |
| Mahfouz, Naguib | Sugar Street |
| Mahfouz, Naguib | Palace of Desire |
| Mann, Thomas | Magic Mountain |
| Melville, Herman | The Confidence Man |
| Musil, Robert | The Man without Qualities |
| Nabokov, Vladimir | Pale Fire |
| Richardson, Samuel | Clarissa |
| Roth, Joseph | The Radetzky March |
| Scott, Walter | Ivanhoe |
| Scott, Walter | Bride of Lammermoor |
| Scott, Walter | Heart of Midlothian |
| Steinbeck, John | The Grapes of Wrath |
| Stendhal | Charterhouse of Parma |
| Stevenson, Robert Louis | The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hide |
| Stoker, Bram | Dracula |
| Thackeray, William | Pendennis |
| Thackeray, William | The Luck of Barry Lyndon |
| Tolkien, J. R. R. | Return of the King |
| Trollope, Anthony | Barchester Towers |
| Trollope, Anthony | Doctor Thorne |
| Trollope, Anthony | Framley Parsonage |
| Trollope, Anthony | The Small House at Allington |
| Trollope, Anthony | The Last Chronicle of Barset |
| Turgenev, Ivan | Virgin Soil |
| Twain, Mark | Innocents Abroad |
| Verne, Jules | Around the World in Eighty Days |
| Waugh, Evelyn | Brideshead Revisited |
| Woolf, Virginia | Mrs. Dalloway |
| Zamiatin, Yevgeny | We |
| Zola, Emile | Therese Raquin |
| Zola, Emile | Fortunes of the Rougons |
| Zola, Emile | La Curee |
| Zola, Emile | The Belly of Paris |
