Wednesday, November 24, 2004

This literature list is floating around!

This list of essential books is floating around in the blogosphere, and I thought I would keep it going. I have bolded the books that I have read.



  1. Beowulf
  2. Achebe, Chinua - Things Fall Apart
  3. Agee, James - A Death in the Family
  4. Austen, Jane - Pride and Prejudice
  5. Baldwin, James - Go Tell It on the Mountain
  6. Beckett, Samuel - Waiting for Godot
  7. Bellow, Saul - The Adventures of Augie March
  8. Brontë, Charlotte - Jane Eyre
  9. Brontë, Emily - Wuthering Heights
  10. Camus, Albert - The Stranger
  11. Cather, Willa - Death Comes for the Archbishop
  12. Chaucer, Geoffrey - The Canterbury Tales
  13. Chekhov, Anton - The Cherry Orchard
  14. Chopin, Kate - The Awakening
  15. Conrad, Joseph - Heart of Darkness
  16. Cooper, James Fenimore - The Last of the Mohicans
  17. Crane, Stephen - The Red Badge of Courage
  18. Dante - Inferno
  19. de Cervantes, Miguel - Don Quixote
  20. Defoe, Daniel - Robinson Crusoe
  21. Dickens, Charles - A Tale of Two Cities
  22. Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - Crime and Punishment
  23. Douglass, Frederick - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
  24. Dreiser, Theodore - An American Tragedy
  25. Dumas, Alexandre - The Three Musketeers
  26. Eliot, George - The Mill on the Floss
  27. Ellison, Ralph - Invisible Man
  28. Emerson, Ralph Waldo - Selected Essays
  29. Faulkner, William - As I Lay Dying
  30. Faulkner, William - The Sound and the Fury
  31. Fielding, Henry - Tom Jones
  32. Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Great Gatsby
  33. Flaubert, Gustave - Madame Bovary
  34. Ford, Ford Madox - The Good Soldier
  35. Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von - Faust
  36. Golding, William - Lord of the Flies
  37. Hardy, Thomas - Tess of the d'Urbervilles
  38. Hawthorne, Nathaniel - The Scarlet Letter
  39. Heller, Joseph - Catch 22
  40. Hemingway, Ernest - A Farewell to Arms
  41. Homer - The Iliad
  42. Homer - The Odyssey
  43. Hugo, Victor - The Hunchback of Notre Dame
  44. Hurston, Zora Neale - Their Eyes Were Watching God
  45. Huxley, Aldous - Brave New World
  46. Ibsen, Henrik - A Doll's House
  47. James, Henry - The Portrait of a Lady
  48. James, Henry - The Turn of the Screw
  49. Joyce, James - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
  50. Kafka, Franz - The Metamorphosis
  51. Kingston, Maxine Hong - The Woman Warrior
  52. Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird
  53. Lewis, Sinclair - Babbitt
  54. London, Jack - The Call of the Wild
  55. Mann, Thomas - The Magic Mountain
  56. Marquez, Gabriel García - One Hundred Years of Solitude
  57. Melville, Herman - Bartleby the Scrivener
  58. Melville, Herman - Moby Dick
  59. Miller, Arthur - The Crucible
  60. Morrison, Toni - Beloved
  61. O'Connor, Flannery - A Good Man is Hard to Find
  62. O'Neill, Eugene - Long Day's Journey into Night
  63. Orwell, George - Animal Farm
  64. Pasternak, Boris - Doctor Zhivago
  65. Plath, Sylvia - The Bell Jar
  66. Poe, Edgar Allan - Selected Tales
  67. Proust, Marcel - Swann's Way
  68. Pynchon, Thomas - The Crying of Lot 49
  69. Remarque, Erich Maria - All Quiet on the Western Front
  70. Rostand, Edmond - Cyrano de Bergerac
  71. Roth, Henry - Call It Sleep
  72. Salinger, J.D. - The Catcher in the Rye
  73. Shakespeare, William - Hamlet
  74. Shakespeare, William - Macbeth
  75. Shakespeare, William - A Midsummer Night's Dream
  76. Shakespeare, William - Romeo and Juliet
  77. Shaw, George Bernard - Pygmalion
  78. Shelley, Mary - Frankenstein
  79. Silko, Leslie Marmon - Ceremony
  80. Solzhenitsyn, Alexander - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
  81. Sophocles - Antigone
  82. Sophocles - Oedipus Rex
  83. Steinbeck, John - The Grapes of Wrath
  84. Stevenson, Robert Louis - Treasure Island
  85. Stowe, Harriet Beecher - Uncle Tom's Cabin
  86. Swift, Jonathan - Gulliver's Travels
  87. Thackeray, William - Vanity Fair
  88. Thoreau, Henry David - Walden
  89. Tolstoy, Leo - War and Peace
  90. Turgenev, Ivan - Fathers and Sons
  91. Twain, Mark - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  92. Voltaire - Candide
  93. Vonnegut, Kurt Jr. - Slaughterhouse-Five
  94. Walker, Alice - The Color Purple
  95. Wharton, Edith - The House of Mirth
  96. Welty, Eudora - Collected Stories
  97. Whitman, Walt - Leaves of Grass
  98. Wilde, Oscar - The Picture of Dorian Gray
  99. Williams, Tennessee - The Glass Menagerie
  100. Woolf, Virginia - To the Lighthouse
  101. Wright, Richard - Native Son



Labels:

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to Post Comments [Atom]

<< Home