Book 'em Danno

I stumbled on a list of great books on Jordan Peterson's website yesterday, via a tweet as I recall. By a strange coincidence I blogged about the Queen's Jubilee booklist exactly a year ago (Icons passim).

Here's JP's selection.

1. Beyle, Marie-Henri (Stendhal): The Charterhouse of Parma
2. Bronte, Emily: Wuthering Heights
3. Bulgakov, Mikhail: The Master and Margarita
4. Cary, Joyce: The Horse’s Mouth
5. Chandler, Raymond: The Big Sleep
6. Chandler, Raymond: The Long Goodbye
7. Dalyrmple, Theodore: Our Culture: What’s Left of It
8. Dalrymple, Theodore: Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass
9. Dostoevesky, Fyodor: Crime and Punishment
10. Dostoevesky, Fyodor: Notes from Underground
11. Dostoevesky, Fyodor: The Brothers Karamazov
12. Dostoevsky, Fyodor: The Devils
13. Dostoevsky, Fyodor: The Idiot
14. Golding, William: Lord of the Flies
15. Graves, Robert: I, Claudius
16. Hammet, Dashiel: The Maltese Falcon
17. Hemingway, Ernest: A Farewell To Arms
18. Hemingway, Ernest: For Whom the Bell Tolls
19. Hemingway, Ernest: The Old Man and the Sea
20. Huxley, Aldous: Brave New World
21. Huxley, Aldous: Island
22. Huxley, Aldous: Point Counterpoint
23. Kazantzakis, Nikos: The Fratricides
24. Kazantzakis, Nikos: Zorba the Greek
25. Kesey, Ken: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
26. Kesey, Ken: Sometimes a Great Notion
27. Keyes, Daniel: Flowers for Algernon
28. Laurence, Margaret: The Stone Angel
29. Lee, Harper: To Kill a Mockingbird
30. Nietzsche, Friedrich: Beyond Good and Evil
31. Nietzsche, Friedrich: On the Genealogy of Morals
32. Nietzsche, Friedrich: The Antichrist
33. Nietzsche, Friedrich: The Gay Science
34. Nietzsche, Friedrich: The Will to Power
35. Orwell, George: 1984
36. Orwell, George: Animal Farm
37. Orwell, George: Road to Wigan Pier
38. Pirsig, Robert: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
39. Shem, Samuel: The House of God
40. Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr: Cancer Ward
41. Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr: The First Circle
42. Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr: The Gulag Archipelago: Vol. 1; Vol. 2; Vol. 3. (alternatively, all three volumes abridged into one)
43. Steinbeck, John: East of Eden
44. Steinbeck, John: The Grapes of Wrath
45. Steinbeck, John: Of Men and Mice
46. Stendhal: The Red and the Black
47. Thompson, Hunter S: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
48. Tolstoy, Leo: Anna Karenina
49. Tolstoy, Leo: War and Peace
50. Troyat, Henri: Tolstoy
51. Wolfe, Tom: The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test

Let's see, which have I read? Off the top of my head, I can remember 2, 5, 6, 7, 9, 14, 15, 19, 20, 25, 27, 29, 35 ,36 ,38, 47 & 51. That's 17 out of 51; not too shabby and a high enough strike rate in terms of quality to recommend the 34 I haven't got round to yet.