As outlined in the 2013 Hundie Challenge, of the 100 books on the Modern Library List, I have read all but 87. That means that if this year goes entirely according to plan and I read with nigh superhuman speed, there are 13 slots to be filled to make the Hundie Challenge truly live up to its name. Therefore I am enlisting you, my beloved blog rats, to suggest thirteen books to fill out the list. You can comment on the original post here, but I'll probably accept suggestions made on this page as well. Unlike the Modern Library's self-serving, anglocentric list, the only rule for this suggestion box is that the document in question it has to be generally accepted as a novel (no non-fiction, no short story or poetry collections. Also, probably no Ayn Rand.) So far suggestions include:
INFINITE JEST by David Foster Wallace
BROOM OF THE SYSTEM by David Foster Wallace
THE DEVILS by Fyodor Dostoevsky
THE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF TRISTRAM SHANDY, GENTLEMAN by Laurence Sterne
SILAS MARNER: THE WEAVE OF RAVELOE by George Eliot
THE RED AND THE BLACK by Stendhal
THE WAR OF THE END OF THE WORLD by Mario Vargas Llosa
INDEPENDENCE DAY by Richard Ford
A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT by Mark Twain
MISS LONELYHEARTS by Nathanael West
UBIK by Philip K. Dick
SWANN'S WAY by Marcel Proust
RULE OF THE BONE by Russell Banks
JUDE THE OBSCURE by Thomas Hardy
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