ii's Classics reading list

[ii]

... for several years to come! Okay, here we go... The ones I've read are in bold. The once I've read at some point (like in scool back in the years pinecone and cow) and plan to reread, are in italics. There's some I think I've read at some point, but have forgotten really well, too, so I will read them again, and act like I haven't read them earlier.

ENGLAND

Daniel Defoe: Moll Flanders

Jonathan Swift: Gulliver's Travels

Samuel Richardson: Clarissa
Samuel Richardson: Pamela

Henry Fielding: Joseph Andrews
Henry Fielding: Tom Jones

John Cleland: Fanny Hill, or the Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure

Jane Austen: Emma
Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice

William M. Thackeray: Vanity Fair

Charles Dickens: David Copperfield
Charles Dickens: Great Expectations
Charles Dickens: Hard Times
Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities

Anthony Trollope: Barchester Town
Anthony Trollope: The Way We Live Now

Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë: Villette

Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights

George Elliot: Adam Bede
George Elliot: Middlemarch
George Elliot: Mill on the Floss
George Elliot: Silas Marner
George Elliot: Daniel Deronda

William Wilkie Collins: The Moonstone
William Wilkie Collins: The Woman in White

Thomas Hardy: Far From the Madding Crowd
Thomas Hardy: Jude the Obscure
Thomas Hardy: The Mayor of Casterbridge
Thomas Hardy: The Return of the Native
Thomas Hardy: Tess of the D'Ubervilles

Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Secret Garden

H. G. Wells: The Invisible Man
H. G. Wells: The Island of Dr. Moreau
H. G. Wells: The Time Machine
H. G. Wells: War of the Worlds

W. Somerset Maugham: Of Human Bondage

E. M. Forster: Howard's End
E. M. Forster: A Passage to India
E. M. Forster: A Room with a View
E. M. Forster: Where Angels Fear to Tread

Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse

D. H. Lawrence: Lady Chatterlay's Lover
D. H. Lawrence: Sons and Lovers
D. H. Lawrence: Women in Love

George Orwell: Animal Farm
George Orwell: 1984

William Golding: Lord of the Flies

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FRANCE

Voltaire: Candide

Marquis de Sade: The 120 Days of Sodom
Marquis de Sade: Juliette
Marquis de Sade: Justine

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos: Dangerous Liaisons

Stendhal: The Charterhouse of Parma
Stendhal: The Red and the Black

Honore de Balzac: La Rabouilleuse (The Black Sheep)
Honore de Balzac: La Comédie Humaine (The Human Comedie)
-Louis Lambert
-Eugénie Grandet
-La Recherche de l’absolu
-Le Père Goriot
-Les Illusions perdues
-César Birotteau
-La Cousine Bette
-Le Cousin Pons

Alexandre Dumas: The Black Tulip
Alexandre Dumas: The Corsican Brothers
Alexandre Dumas: The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas: The Man in the Iron Mask
Alexandre Dumas: The Three Musketeers
Alexandre Dumas: Twenty Years After

Victor Hugo: The Huncback of Notre Dame
Victor Hugo: Les Miserables
Victor Hugo: The Man Who Laughs
Victor Hugo: Toilers of the Sea

Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert: Salammbo

Marcel Proust: Pleasures and Regrets
Marcel Proust: Remembrance of Things Past

Jean-Paul Sartre: Nausea

Albert Camus: The Plague
Albert Camus: The Stranger

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RUSSIA

Alexander Pushkin: Boris Gudunov
Alexander Pushkin: Eugene Onegin (verse)

Nikolai Gogol: Dead Souls
Nikolai Gogol: Diary of a Madman
Nikolai Gogol: The Inspector General

Ivan Goncharov: Oblomov

Ivan Turgenev: Fathers and Sons

Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoyevsky: The Devils (The Possessed)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky: The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Notes from Underground (novella)

Leo Tolstoy: Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace

Boris Pasternak: Doctor Zhivago

IRELAND

Jonathan Swift: Gulliver's Travels

Laurence Sterne: Tristram Shandy

Oliver Goldsmith: The Vicar of Wakefield

Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray

James Joyce: Dubliners
James Joyce: Finnegan's Wake
James Joyce: Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man
James Joyce: Olysses

SCOTLAND

Sir Walter Scott: Ivanhoe
Sir Walter Scott: The Lady of the Lake

Robert Louis Stevenson: Kidnapped
Robert Louis Stevenson: Treasure Island
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UNITED STATES

Nathaniel Hawthorne: The House of the Seven Gables
Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter

Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom's Cabin

Herman Melville: Billy Budd
Herman Melville: Moby-Dick
Herman Melville: Typee

Louisa May Alcott: Little Women

Mark Twain: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain: A Conneticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Mark Twain: The Prince and the Pauper
Mark Twain: Pudd'nhead Wilson

Henry James: The Ambassadors
Henry James: The American
Henry James: Daisy Miller
Henry James: Portrait of a Lady
Henry James: The Turn of the Screw (novella)
Henry James: Washington Square

Edith Wharton: Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton: Ethan Frome
Edith Wharton: The House of Mirth

Aldolus Huxley: Brave New World

F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Last Tycoon
F. Scott Fitzgerald: Tender Is the Night
F. Scott Fitzgerald: This Side of Paradise

William Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury

Ernest Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway: For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ernest Hemingway: The Old Man and The Sea (novella)
Ernest Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises

Margaret Mitchell: Gone With the Wind

John Steinbeck: East Of Eden
John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck: Of Mice and Men

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WORLD (i.e. the rest)

Franz Kafka: America
Franz Kafka: The Castle
Franz Kafka: The Trial
Franz Kafka: Metamorphosis (short)

Alan Paton: Cry, the Beloved Country
Alan Paton: Too Late the Phalarope

[Kell]

Wow! That's an impressive list already! I've read some of them and there are others I have waiting to be read, as well as still others I plan to read at some point in the future. I'll look forward to hearing what you think of them all as you read them. :) :readingtwo:

[ii]

Well, this is The Big List, I'll edit it and chop away from it most likely as I go along. I mean, there's no way I can read these all in a year or even three! But these are the classics I'm planning to read at some point or another.

[Angel]

That's one long list!! Larger than mine. Some good reads coming up especially Jude the Obsxure, Woman in White, Portrait of a Lady and Mill on the Floss.

Many are also on my TBR mountain - both declared and undeclared!!

[sib]

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Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Secret Garden

H. G. Wells: The Invisible Man
H. G. Wells: The Island of Dr. Moreau
H. G. Wells: The Time Machine
H. G. Wells: War of the Worlds

George Orwell: Animal Farm
George Orwell: 1984

William Golding: Lord of the Flies

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I saw a film adaptation of The Secret Garden recently, very moving.
The Island of Dr. Moreau is genuinely quite spooky..:hide:

Animal Farm´s a good book..political satire.

Thought the Lord of the Flies was good, too.

[Roger53]

I must be the only person who has read Of Mice and Men and didn't really enjoy it. Not for everyone I suppose.

Billy Budd. Now there is an excellent book. Very sad. Short too, which is unusual for a classic I suppose. And a book about the sea which is always good.

Lord of the Flies. I can see the message there, but not for me. Dreadful..(see above about Mice and Men.) Had to read it every time I changed schools as a teen. Couldn't believe my luck.

[Kylie]

I loved Of Mice and Men, although it was the ending that made the story for me. :mrgreen:

I agree on Lord of the Flies though. I didn't enjoy that a great deal. Like you, I saw the message, but just wasn't thrilled with the story.

Are you planning on updating this list ii because I'd love to see your progress and hear your thoughts. I'm interested in reading a lot of these books as well.

[ii]

Are you planning on updating this list ii because I'd love to see your progress and hear your thoughts. I'm interested in reading a lot of these books as well.

Well, as of late I haven't done much of reading, simply due to school work. Or, revise that, I've read a ton, but 99,9% of it has been for school. And apart from Smith's Wealth of Nation and Nash's theories, none of it really classifies as "classics". But I'll take a look when I have time, I'm sure there's some I can knock off that list, either due to having read them or to trying to read and finding out they're just not my cup of tea...

[scottishbookworm]

your list is very impressive indeed! :)

[ii]

Thank you! It's going to be shortened, though. That's the list of books I'm planning to give a try at some point. I think. I'm just compiling a more immediate list out of that one.

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My more immediate list of classics I'm planning to read:

- John Cleland: Fanny Hill, or the Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
- Charles Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities
- George Elliot: Mill on the Floss
- E. M. Forster: A Room With the View (I've only seen the movie)
- George Orwell: 1984 (I've started like 20 times)
- Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace
- Boris Pasternak: Doctor Zhivago
- Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Day
- Henry James: Portrait of a Lady
- Ernest Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms