A list of books
05.06.2004I'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 **).
- Beowulf
- Achebe, Chinua - Things Fall Apart
- Agee, James - A Death in the Family
- Austen, Jane - Pride and Prejudice
- Baldwin, James - Go Tell It on the Mountain
- Beckett, Samuel - Waiting for Godot
- Bellow, Saul - The Adventures of Augie March
- Brontė, Charlotte - Jane Eyre
- Brontė, Emily - Wuthering Heights
- Camus, Albert - The Stranger
- Cather, Willa - Death Comes for the Archbishop
- Chaucer, Geoffrey - The Canterbury Tales
- Chekhov, Anton - The Cherry Orchard
- Chopin, Kate - The Awakening
- Conrad, Joseph - Heart of Darkness
- Cooper, James Fenimore - The Last of the Mohicans
- Crane, Stephen - The Red Badge of Courage
- Dante - Inferno
- de Cervantes, Miguel - Don Quixote
- Defoe, Daniel - Robinson Crusoe
- Dickens, Charles - A Tale of Two Cities
- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - Crime and Punishment (started twice, but never finished)
- Douglass, Frederick - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
- Dreiser, Theodore - An American Tragedy
- Dumas, Alexandre - The Three Musketeers
- Eliot, George - The Mill on the Floss
- Ellison, Ralph - Invisible Man
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo - Selected Essays
- Faulkner, William - As I Lay Dying
- Faulkner, William - The Sound and the Fury
- Fielding, Henry - Tom Jones
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Great Gatsby
- Flaubert, Gustave - Madame Bovary
- Ford, Ford Madox - The Good Soldier
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von - Faust
- Golding, William - Lord of the Flies
- Hardy, Thomas - Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel - The Scarlet Letter
- Heinlein, Robert A. - Stranger in a Strange Land **
- Heller, Joseph - Catch 22
- Hemingway, Ernest - A Farewell to Arms
- Hemingway, Ernest - Old Man and the Sea **
- Herbert, Frank - Dune **
- Homer - The Iliad
- Homer - The Odyssey
- Hugo, Victor - The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- Hugo, Victor - Les Miserables **
- Hurston, Zora Neale - Their Eyes Were Watching God
- Huxley, Aldous - Brave New World
- Ibsen, Henrik - A Doll's House
- 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
- Kafka, Franz - The Metamorphosis
- Kafka, Franz - The Castle **
- Kingston, Maxine Hong - The Woman Warrior
- Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird
- Lewis, Sinclair - Babbitt
- London, Jack - The Call of the Wild
- Mann, Thomas - The Magic Mountain
- Marquez, Gabriel Garcķa - One Hundred Years of Solitude
- Melville, Herman - Bartleby the Scrivener
- Melville, Herman - Moby Dick
- Miller, Arthur - The Crucible
- Morrison, Toni - Beloved
- O'Connor, Flannery - A Good Man is Hard to Find
- O'Neill, Eugene - Long Day's Journey into Night
- Orwell, George - 1984 **
- Orwell, George - Animal Farm
- Pasternak, Boris - Doctor Zhivago
- Plath, Sylvia - The Bell Jar
- Poe, Edgar Allan - Selected Tales
- Proust, Marcel - Swann's Way
- Pynchon, Thomas - The Crying of Lot 49
- Remarque, Erich Maria - All Quiet on the Western Front
- Rostand, Edmond - Cyrano de Bergerac
- Roth, Henry - Call It Sleep
- Salinger, J.D. - The Catcher in the Rye
- Shakespeare, William - Hamlet
- Shakespeare, William - Macbeth
- Shakespeare, William - A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Shakespeare, William - Romeo and Juliet
- Shaw, George Bernard - Pygmalion
- Shelley, Mary - Frankenstein
- Silko, Leslie Marmon - Ceremony
- Solzhenitsyn, Alexander - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
- Sophocles - Antigone
- Sophocles - Oedipus Rex
- Steinbeck, John - The Grapes of Wrath
- Stevenson, Robert Louis - Treasure Island
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher - Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Swift, Jonathan - Gulliver's Travels
- Thackeray, William - Vanity Fair
- Thoreau, Henry David - Walden
- Tolkien, J.R.R. - The Hobbit **
- Tolkien, J.R.R. - The Lord of the Rings **
- Tolstoy, Leo - Ana Karenina **
- Tolstoy, Leo - War and Peace
- Turgenev, Ivan - Fathers and Sons
- Twain, Mark - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Voltaire - Candide
- Vonnegut, Kurt Jr. - Slaughterhouse-Five
- Walker, Alice - The Color Purple
- Wharton, Edith - The House of Mirth
- Welty, Eudora - Collected Stories
- Whitman, Walt - Leaves of Grass
- Wilde, Oscar - The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Williams, Tennessee - The Glass Menagerie
- Woolf, Virginia - To the Lighthouse
- 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