A list of books

05.06.2004

I'm late catching up on the most recent list my friends created. So. Below's my list of read/unread books. Those in bold, I read. And. Of course. I added a title or two (the ones followed by **).

  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. Brontė, Charlotte - Jane Eyre
  9. Brontė, 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 (started twice, but never finished)
  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. Heinlein, Robert A. - Stranger in a Strange Land **
  40. Heller, Joseph - Catch 22
  41. Hemingway, Ernest - A Farewell to Arms
  42. Hemingway, Ernest - Old Man and the Sea **
  43. Herbert, Frank - Dune **
  44. Homer - The Iliad
  45. Homer - The Odyssey
  46. Hugo, Victor - The Hunchback of Notre Dame
  47. Hugo, Victor - Les Miserables **
  48. Hurston, Zora Neale - Their Eyes Were Watching God
  49. Huxley, Aldous - Brave New World
  50. Ibsen, Henrik - A Doll's House
  51. James, Henry - The Portrait of a Lady
  52. James, Henry - The Turn of the Screw
  53. Joyce, James - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
  54. Kafka, Franz - The Metamorphosis
  55. Kafka, Franz - The Castle **
  56. Kingston, Maxine Hong - The Woman Warrior
  57. Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird
  58. Lewis, Sinclair - Babbitt
  59. London, Jack - The Call of the Wild
  60. Mann, Thomas - The Magic Mountain
  61. Marquez, Gabriel Garcķa - One Hundred Years of Solitude
  62. Melville, Herman - Bartleby the Scrivener
  63. Melville, Herman - Moby Dick
  64. Miller, Arthur - The Crucible
  65. Morrison, Toni - Beloved
  66. O'Connor, Flannery - A Good Man is Hard to Find
  67. O'Neill, Eugene - Long Day's Journey into Night
  68. Orwell, George - 1984 **
  69. Orwell, George - Animal Farm
  70. Pasternak, Boris - Doctor Zhivago
  71. Plath, Sylvia - The Bell Jar
  72. Poe, Edgar Allan - Selected Tales
  73. Proust, Marcel - Swann's Way
  74. Pynchon, Thomas - The Crying of Lot 49
  75. Remarque, Erich Maria - All Quiet on the Western Front
  76. Rostand, Edmond - Cyrano de Bergerac
  77. Roth, Henry - Call It Sleep
  78. Salinger, J.D. - The Catcher in the Rye
  79. Shakespeare, William - Hamlet
  80. Shakespeare, William - Macbeth
  81. Shakespeare, William - A Midsummer Night's Dream
  82. Shakespeare, William - Romeo and Juliet
  83. Shaw, George Bernard - Pygmalion
  84. Shelley, Mary - Frankenstein
  85. Silko, Leslie Marmon - Ceremony
  86. Solzhenitsyn, Alexander - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
  87. Sophocles - Antigone
  88. Sophocles - Oedipus Rex
  89. Steinbeck, John - The Grapes of Wrath
  90. Stevenson, Robert Louis - Treasure Island
  91. Stowe, Harriet Beecher - Uncle Tom's Cabin
  92. Swift, Jonathan - Gulliver's Travels
  93. Thackeray, William - Vanity Fair
  94. Thoreau, Henry David - Walden
  95. Tolkien, J.R.R. - The Hobbit **
  96. Tolkien, J.R.R. - The Lord of the Rings **
  97. Tolstoy, Leo - Ana Karenina **
  98. Tolstoy, Leo - War and Peace
  99. Turgenev, Ivan - Fathers and Sons
  100. Twain, Mark - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  101. Voltaire - Candide
  102. Vonnegut, Kurt Jr. - Slaughterhouse-Five
  103. Walker, Alice - The Color Purple
  104. Wharton, Edith - The House of Mirth
  105. Welty, Eudora - Collected Stories
  106. Whitman, Walt - Leaves of Grass
  107. Wilde, Oscar - The Picture of Dorian Gray
  108. Williams, Tennessee - The Glass Menagerie
  109. Woolf, Virginia - To the Lighthouse
  110. Wright, Richard - Native Son

Posted by Miguel at 01:55 PM

Comments

Miguel- I have to take issue with your taste in Hemingway novels. Number one should be "The Sun Also Rises" Number two "For Whom the Bell Tolls". If you only read two hemingway novels, these should be it. Also, if you're list was fed into a TiVo, you're next book would be "USA" by Dos Passos or Orwell's "Homage to Catalonia"

Posted by: Jon at May 7, 2004 12:14 AM

You should read Dorian Gray!

Posted by: J.Scott Barnard at May 7, 2004 10:12 AM

Jon: I didn't make the list, though I did add a few titles to it. And the list is in alpha order, not preference. As to Hemingway, I've always enjoyed his work, even "The Nick Adams Stories". But I just haven't read the one on the list (I added the other, since it's my favorite Hemingway story).

And, J. Scott, I do intend to read more of the list when I get back to the US.

Posted by: Miguel at May 7, 2004 01:19 PM