from top 100 novels
1. ulysses
2. lolita
3. brave new world
4. catch-22
5. 1984
6. to the lighthouse
7. slaughterhouse five
8. tender is the night
9. animal farm
10. as i lay dying
11. go tell it on the mountain
12. tropic of cancer
13. on the road
14. the catcher in the rye (it's been a long time and i didn't like it the first time, maybe it will be different this time)
15. a clockwork orange
16. heart of darkness
17. ragtime
18. the call of the wild
19. the magus
20. the post man always rings twice

from top 100 non-fiction
1. the education of henry adams
2. a room of one's own
3. silent spring
4. the mismeasure of man
5. the autobiography of mark twain
6. the autobiography of malcom x
7. the gnostic gospels
8. james joyce
9. six easy pieces

ones from the reader's list
1. a modern prophet
2. america's great depression
3. why government doesn't work
4. the minuteman: restoring and army of the people

bold are the ones for my 101 in 1001