Reading list

Jun 14, 2004 22:34

Originally Posted 5/10/2004
Upadates:
5/13/04 7:37
5/13/04 23:36
6/14/04 22:29

So I haven't read as much this summer as I had hoped. I have been stuck working on Sanish homework, and distracted by TV, but I have read three full books and several magazines and other little things, so that is good.

sarahdenise showed me how to use the fun LJ URL codes, now I don't have to leave the whole book list out in the open. So now it is behind the cut below


Hey,
I'll edit this as this list changes. Here is a pretty decent list of classical books / books I should read. As I read them, I'll put an * in front of them. Maybe I'll make a little note about them too. If you have any suggestions, put it as a comment. I'll add to the list as I find more, and as I read. I may never get to them all, but it is a great start. The main list was found on a website that I can't find again to cite. The remainders are noted for their initial finding. AH - is for the Arrowhead Library System (http://als.lib.wi.us). O - Oxford world classics (http://www.literarycritic.com/oxford.htm). If there is a number afterwards, that is the number of booklists I found it on

Achebe, Chinua - Things Fall Apart 2
Agee, James - A Death in the Family 2
Allende, Isabel - House of the Spirits (AH)
Anderson, Sherwood - Winesburg, Ohio (AH)
Angelou, Maya - And Still I Rise (AH)
Angelou, Maya - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (AH)
Ashe, Arthur and Arnold Rampersad. - Days of Grace (AH)
Austen, Jane - Pride and Prejudice 2
Baker, Russell - Growing Up (AH)
Baldwin, James - Go Tell It on the Mountain 2
Balzac, Honore de - Pere Goriot (AH)
* Beckett, Samuel - Waiting for Godot 2
Bellamy, Edward - Looking Backward: 2000-1887 (AH)
Bellow, Saul - The Adventures of Augie March 2
Borges, Jorge Luis - Labyrinths (AH)
* Bradbury, Ray -Fahrenheit 451 (AH)
Brecht, Bertolt - Mother Courage and Her Children (AH)
Bronowski, Jacob - The Ascent of Man (AH)
Brontë, Charlotte - Jane Eyre 2
* Brontë, Emily - Wuthering Heights2
Brown, Dee - Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (AH)
Campbell, Joseph - The Power of Myth (AH)
Camus, Albert - The Stranger 2
* Carroll, Lewis - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (AH)
Carson, Rachel - Silent Spring (AH)
Cather, Willa - Death Comes for the Archbishop
Cather, Willa - My Antonia
*/4 Cervantes, Miguel de - Don Quixote (AH)
Chaucer, Geoffrey - The Canterbury Tales (part of it)
Chekhov, Anton - The Cherry Orchard 2
Chopin, Kate - The Awakening 2
Clark, Walter Van Tilburg - The Ox-Bow Incident (AH)
* Conrad, Joseph - Heart of Darkness 2
Cooke, Alistair - Alistair Cooke's America (AH)
Cooper, James Fenimore - The Last of the Mohicans
Cormier, Robert - The Chocolate War (AH)
Crane, Stephen - The Red Badge of Courage 2
Criddle, Jan. D. and Teeda Butt Mam - To Destroy You Is No Loss: The Odyssey of a Cambodian Family (AH)
Crow Dog, Mary and Richard Erdoes - Lakota Woman (AH)
Cummings, E.E. - Complete Poems, 1904-1962 (AH)
Curie, Eve - Madame Curie (AH)
Dante - Inferno
Darwin, Charles - The Origin of Species (AH)
de Cervantes, Miguel - Don Quixote (part of it)
*/2 Defoe, Daniel - Robinson Crusoe 2 -- I couldn't finish it, I just couldn't seem to get into it.
Delany, Sara and A. Elizabeth with Amy Hill Hearth - Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years (AH)
* Dickens, Charles - A Tale of Two Cities
* Dickens, Charles - Great Expectations (AH)
Donne, John - The Complete Poetry of John Donne (AH)
Dorris, Michael - A Yellow Raft in Blue Water (AH)
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - Crime and Punishment 2
Douglass, Frederick - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Dreiser, Theodore - An American Tragedy
Dreiser, Theodore - Sister Carrie
*/3 Dumas, Alexandre - The Three Musketeers I was too young when I started it. I'll finish it someday.
Eliot, George - The Mill on the Floss 2
Eliot, T.S. - The Waste Land (AH)
Ellison, Ralph - Invisible Man 2
Emerson, Ralph Waldo - Selected Essays
Esquivel, Laura - Like Water for Chocolate (AH)
Faulkner, William - As I Lay Dying 2
Faulkner, William - The Sound and the Fury
Fielding, Henry - Tom Jones
* Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Great Gatsby 2
Flaubert, Gustave - Madame Bovary 2
Ford, Ford Madox - The Good Soldier
Forster, E.M. - A Passage to India (AH)
* Frank, Anne - The Diary of a Young Girl (AH)
Frost, Robert - The Poetry of Robert Frost (AH)
Fuentes, Carlos - The Death of Artemio Cruz (AH)
Gaines, Ernest - The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (AH)
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel - One Hundred Years of Solitude (AH)
Giovanni, Nikki - My House (AH)
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von - Faust
Gogol, Nikolai - The Overcoat (AH)
* Golding, William - Lord of the Flies 2
Grass, Gunter - The Tin Drum (AH)
Haley, Alex - Roots (AH)
Hardy, Thomas - Tess of the d'Urbervilles 2
Hawking, Stephen - A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes (AH)
Hawthorne, Nathaniel - The Scarlet Letter
Heller, Joseph - Catch 22 2
Hemingway, Ernest - A Farewell to Arms 2
Hemingway, Ernest - For Whom the Bell Tolls
Hersey, John - Hiroshima (AH)
Hesse, Hermann - Siddhartha (AH)
* Homer - The Iliad
Homer - The Odyssey
Hughes, Langston - Selected Poems (AH)
Hugo, Victor - The Hunchback of Notre Dame
* Hurston, Zora Neale - Their Eyes 2Were Watching God
* Huxley, Aldous - Brave New World 2
* Ibsen, Henrik - A Doll's House 2
James, Henry - The Portrait of a Lady
James, Henry - The Turn of the Screw
Joyce, James - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 2
Kafka, Franz - The Metamorphosis
Kafka, Franz - The Trial (AH)
Karlsen, Carol - The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England
Keats, John - Complete Poems (AH)
Keller, Helen - The Story of My Life (AH)
Kennedy, John F. - Profiles in Courage (AH)
Kesey, Ken - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (AH)
King, Martin Luther, Jr. - A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings of Martin Luther King, Jr. (AH)
Kingston, Maxine Hong - The Woman Warrior
Knowles, John - A Separate Peace
Kotlowitz, Alex - There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in Urban America (AH)
Kozol, Jonathan - Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools (AH)
Lawrence, D.H. - Sons and Lovers (AH)
* Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird 2
Leopold, Aldo - A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There (AH)
Lewis, Sinclair - Babbitt
Lewis, Sinclair - Main Street (AH)
* London, Jack - The Call of the Wild 2
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth - The Poetical Works of Longfellow (AH)
Machiavelli, Niccolo - The Prince (AH)
Malcom X, with Alex Haley - The Autobiography of Malcom X (AH)
Mann, Thomas - The Magic Mountain
Mann, Thomas - Death in Venice (AH)
Marlowe, Christopher - Doctor Faustus (AH)
Marquez, Gabriel García - One Hundred Years of Solitude
Marx, Karl - The Communist Manifesto (AH)
Mathabane, Mark - Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa (AH)
McCullers, Carson - The Member of the Wedding (AH)
McPherson, James - Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (AH)
Melville, Herman - Bartleby the Scrivener
Melville, Herman - Moby Dick 2
Miller, Arthur - The Crucible
* Miller, Arthur - Death of a Salesman (AH)
* Morrison, Toni - Beloved
Morrison, Toni - The Bluest Eye
Morrison, Toni - The Song of Solomon
Morrison, Toni - Sula (AH)
Nabokov, Vladimir - Lolita
O'Connor, Flannery - A Good Man is Hard to Find 2
O'Neill, Eugene - Long Day's Journey into Night 2
* Orwell, George - 1984
* Orwell, George - Animal Farm 2(Great book)
Parks, Gordon - The Learning Tree (AH)
Pasternak, Boris - Doctor Zhivago 2
Paton, Alan - Cry, the Beloved Country (AH)
Plath, Sylvia - The Bell Jar 2
*/2 Plato - The Republic (AH)
Poe, Edgar Allan - Selected Tales
Poe, Edgar Allan - Great Tales and Poems (AH)
* Potok, Chaim - The Chosen (AH)
Proust, Marcel - Swann's Way
Pynchon, Thomas - The Crying of Lot 49
Remarque, Erich Maria - All Quiet on the Western Front 2
Rostand, Edmond - Cyrano de Bergerac
Roth, Henry - Call It Sleep
Salinger, J.D. - The Catcher in the Rye 2
Sandburg, Carl - Complete Poems (AH)
Scott, Sir Walter - Ivanhoe (AH)
Shakespeare, William - Hamlet
* Shakespeare, William - Macbeth
* Shakespeare, William - A Midsummer Night's Dream
* Shakespeare, William - Romeo and Juliet
Shaw, George Bernard - Pygmalion 2
* Shelley, Mary - Frankenstein 2
Silko, Leslie Marmon - Ceremony
Sinclair, Upton - The Jungle (AH)
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich 2
* Sophocles - Antigone
* Sophocles - Oedipus Rex 2
* Steinbeck, John - The Grapes of Wrath 2
Steinbeck, John - East of Eden
Stevenson, Robert Louis - Treasure Island
Stowe, Harriet Beecher - Uncle Tom's Cabin 2
* Swift, Jonathan - Gulliver's Travels 2
Tan, Amy - The Joy Luck Club (AH)
Thackeray, William - Vanity Fair
Thoreau, Henry David - Walden 2
Tocqueville, Alexis de - Democracy in America (AH)
*? Tolstoy, Leo - Anna Karenina (AH)
Tolstoy, Leo - War and Peace
Tuchman, Barbara - A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century (AH)
Turgenev, Ivan - Fathers and Sons
* Twain, Mark - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 2
*/3 Voltaire - Candide
* Vonnegut, Kurt Jr. - Slaughterhouse-Five 2
* Walker, Alice - The Color Purple (I was too young, I need to read it again) 2
* Weisel, Elie - Night (AH)(AMAZING BOOK! very moving)
* Wells, H.G. - The Time Machine (AH)
Welty, Eudora - Collected Stories
Welty, Eudora - Thirteen Stories (AH)
Wharton, Edith - Ethan Frome
Wharton, Edith - The House of Mirth
Whitman, Walt - Leaves of Grass
Wilde, Oscar - The Importance of Being Earnest (AH)
Wilde, Oscar - The Picture of Dorian Gray
* Wilder, Thornton - Our Town (AH)
Williams, Tennessee - The Glass Menagerie
Williams, William Carlos - Selected Poems (AH)
Wolfe, Thomas - Look Homeward, Angel (AH)
Woolf, Virginia - Orlando
Woolf, Virginia - To the Lighthouse
Wordsworth, William - Poems (AH)
Wright, Richard - Native Son 2
Yeats, William Butler -
The Poems (AH)
Yolen, Jane - Favorite Folktales From Around the World (AH)

These are books that I have finished reading since 5/10/2004
McCaffrey, Anne and Todd - Dragon's Kin
Steinem, Gloria - Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions
Marx, Karl & Fredrick Engels - The communist Manifesto

Currently reading:
The Original Has This Signature W.K. Kellogg - A Biography
spanish textbooks (for class)

To read next
kerouac
Longfellow, Henry Wordsworth - Selected Poems
Hawthorne
Thoreau,
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