Guest ii Posted August 25, 2007 Posted August 25, 2007 ... 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 ... Quote
Guest ii Posted August 25, 2007 Posted August 25, 2007 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 Com Quote
Guest ii Posted August 25, 2007 Posted August 25, 2007 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 ... Quote
Guest ii Posted August 25, 2007 Posted August 25, 2007 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 Quote
Guest ii Posted August 25, 2007 Posted August 25, 2007 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 Quote
Kell Posted August 25, 2007 Posted August 25, 2007 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. :eek2: Quote
Guest ii Posted August 27, 2007 Posted August 27, 2007 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. Quote
Angel Posted August 27, 2007 Posted August 27, 2007 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!! Quote
sib Posted August 30, 2007 Posted August 30, 2007 ... 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 ... I saw a film adaptation of The Secret Garden recently, very moving. The Island of Dr. Moreau is genuinely quite spooky.. Animal Farm Quote
Roger53 Posted May 18, 2008 Posted May 18, 2008 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. Quote
Kylie Posted May 18, 2008 Posted May 18, 2008 I loved Of Mice and Men, although it was the ending that made the story for me. 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. Quote
Guest ii Posted May 19, 2008 Posted May 19, 2008 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... Quote
scottishbookworm Posted October 29, 2008 Posted October 29, 2008 your list is very impressive indeed! Quote
Guest ii Posted October 29, 2008 Posted October 29, 2008 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. Quote
Guest ii Posted October 29, 2008 Posted October 29, 2008 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 Quote
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