Long-Term Reading Project:
Read the Classics I Own
My long-term reading project is relatively simple. I want to read the classics I have sitting on my shelves already, and boy oh boy do I have quite the truckload. A handful of these books I am 75% sure I read way back in junior high and high school, but I have no memory of them, so I thought they should go on the list.
A Few Notes:
A * before the book indicates I only have an electronic copy
*** after the book indicates I know I have the damn book but I can't find it on the shelves
The List
- The Arabian Nights***
- *Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, 1868
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen, 1803(Review)- Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen, 1811
- Mansfield Park by Jane Austen, 1814
- Persuasion by Jane Austen, 1817
- *Emma by Jane Austen, 1815
- The Nowlans by John Banim, 1825
- The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce, 1911
- The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio, 1351
The Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis, 1795(Review)- Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges, 1962***
Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon, 1862- Aurora Floyd by Mary Elizabeth Braddon, 1863
Villette by Charlotte Bronte, 1853- Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte, 1847
- *Jane Talbot by Charles Brockden Brown, 1801
- Erewhon by Samuel Butler, 1872
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, 1865***
- Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll, 1871***
- Fardorougha the Miser by William Carlton, 1848
- My Antonia by Willa Cather, 1918 ***
- *O, Pioneers! by Willa Cather, 1913
- Don Quixote by Cervantes, 1605
- The Awakening and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin, 1899: The Awakening, Desiree's Baby, A Respectable Woman, The Godmother,
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins, 1859(Review)- *The Two Destinies by Wilkie Collins, 1876
- *The Black Robe by Wilkie Collins, 1881
- *I Say No by Wilkie Collins, 1884
- *The Queen of Hearts by Wilkie Collins, 1859
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins, 1868(Review)- No Name by Wilkie Collins, 1862**
- *Armadale by Wilkie Collins, 1866
- *The Law and the Lady by Wilkie Collins, 1875
- *Poor Miss Finch by Wilkie Collins, 1872
- Hide and Seek by Wilkie Collins, 1854
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, 1899- *Deerslayer by James Fenimoore Cooper, 1841
- Moll Flanders by Daniel DeFoe, 1722
- Robinson Crusoe by Daniel DeFoe, 1719
- Justine by Marquis de Sade, 1791
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, 1860
- Hard Times by Charles Dickens, 1854
- Marin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens, 1844
- David Copperfield by Charles Dickens, 1850
- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, 1859***
- Bleak House by Charles Dickens, 1853***
- Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1864
- The Grand Inquisitor by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1880
- Poor Folk by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1846
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866
The House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1862(Review)Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier, 1938(Review)The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, 1844(Review)- The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, 1844
- Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth, 1800
- *Ormond by Maria Edgeworth, 1817
- Ennui by Maria Edgeworth, 1809
- Belinda by Maria Edgeworth, 1801
- *Adam Bede by George Eliot, 1859
- *Scenes of a Clerical Life by George Eliot, 1857
- *Romola by George Eliot, 1862
- *Felix Holt, the Radical by George Eliot, 1866
- Daniel Deronda by George Eliot, 1876
- *Mill on the Floss by George Eliot, 1860
- Silas Marner by George Eliot, 1861
- This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920
- Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, 1856
- The Longest Journey by E. M. Forster, 1907
- Howard's End by E. M. Forster, 1910
- The Collector by John Fowles, 1963
- North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell, 1855***
- *Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell, 1866
- *Cousin Phillis by Elizabeth Gaskell, 1864
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell, 1851(Review)- *Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell, 1848
- I, Claudius by Robert Graves, 1934
- *The Souls of Black Folk by Farah Jasmine Griffin, 1903
- The Collegians by Gerald Griffin, 1829
- King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard, 1885
- She by H. Rider Haggard, 1887
- Allan Quartermain by H. Rider Haggard, 1885
84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff, 1970(Review)- Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy, 1874
The Birthmark by Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1843- House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1851
- *The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1852
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, 1961
- Men without Women by Ernest Hemingway, 1927
- A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway, 1930s
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway, 1926(Review)The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway, 1951(Review)- Siddhartha by Herman Hesse, 1922***
- Narcissus and Goldmund by Herman Hesse, 1930
- Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, 1862
- The Hunchback of Nortre Dame by Victor Hugo, 1831***
A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen, 1879(Review)- Washington Square by Henry James, 1880
- *The American by Henry James, 1877
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, 1898- *The Bostonian by Henry James, 1886
- *The Princess Casamassima by Henry James, 1886
- *The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James, 1881
Daisy Miller by Henry James, 1879- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey, 1962***
- *Kim by Rudyard Kipling, 1901
- Hurrish by Emily Lawless, 1886
- Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence, 1920
- Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence, 1913
- Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence, 1928
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, 1960
- The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux, 1909
- Lord Kilgobbin by Charles James Lever, 1872
- The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis, 1942***
- Dr. Faustus by Christopher Marlowe, 1592***
100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1967Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1985(Review)- Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham, 1915
- Moby-Dick by Herman Melville, 1851***
- The Confidence Man by Herman Melville, 1857
- Paradise Lost by John Milton, 1667***
The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill, 1869(Review)- Utopia by Thomas Moore, 1516
The Wild Irish Girl by Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan, 1806(Discussion, Review)Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, 1955(Review)- Metamorphosis by Ovid, 8BCE***
- Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak, 1957
The Vampyre by John Polidori, 1819(Review)- *The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe, 1794
- All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, 1929
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke, 1929(Review)The Flies by Jean-Paul Sartre, 1943(Review)- Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw, 1913
- Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw, 1924***
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, 1818
- *Emmeline by Charlotte Turner Smith, 1788
- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, 1962***
- The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck, 1961
- East of Eden by John Steinbeck, 1952
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, 1939
- The Red and the Black by Stendhal, 1830
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886(Review)Dracula by Bram Stoker, 1897(Review)- Tristan by Gottfried von Strassburg, c. 1200
- Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, 1726
- Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray, 1848
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, 1869
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, 1877
- Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope, 1857
- Lady Anna by Anthony Trollope, 1871
- Rachel Ray by Anthony Trollope, 1863
- Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain, 1894
- Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, 1876
- The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain, 1881
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, 1884- Candide by Voltaire, 1759
- Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh, 1945***
The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole, 1764(Review)- House of Mirth by Edith Wharton, 1905
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde, 1895The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, 1890(Review)- *The Virginian by Owen Wister, 1859
- Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, 1925
- To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, 1927
- Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf, 1941
- The Waves by Virginia Woolf, 1931
- Germinal by Emile Zola, 1885
