Posted by see Cosmos Reading lists for 2018-2022 for reference
Cosmos’s Reading List 2023
Goals: 100 Books
Read Classics
One Thriller Per Month
One history/politics book per month
Read A Lot More Poetry
Read At Least One Book A Year in Spanish
Read At Least One Book A Year in Korean
I will year try to finish reading classic books. I have a collection from Kindle of 50 books to read before you die, in three volumes – 15O books in total see the list below. I have read many of them already which I have noted. As I read them, I will add them to the chronological listing below, also have the Harvard classic. Had a hard copy set but donated it, have to read it on Kindle alas. I will also continue to read lots of poetry from the Mod Po class, will do the slo-mo courses then re-do it in September focusing on reading the additional poems I did not last time in Mod Po Plus.
Fiction/Non-Fiction Read
January
Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World
– Curious, If True: Strange Tales [Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell]
February
– The Jungle Book [Rudyard Kipling]
– Captain Courageous [Rudyard Kipling]
Kim Rudyard Kipling
March
The Son of the Wolf [Jack London]
Exposure Unstable writing submission
The Einstein Theory of Relativity [Hendrik Antoon Lorentz]
– The Dunwich Horror [Howard Phillips Lovecraft]
– At the Mountains of Madness [Howard Phillips Lovecraft]
April
Imperium Robert Harris
Kim Sowol poems unforgettable Love
Kim Sowol A Lamp Burns Low Crafting Scenes Raymond Obstfeld
May
TS Elliot Poems write review
Grisham The Summons
June
June Theme: Books written over 100 years ago ▼
– Kim [Rudyard Kipling]
– Captain Courageous [Rudyard Kipling]
– The Jungle Book [Rudyard Kipling]
– The Son of the Wolf [Jack London]
(reviews due end of month)
Take on plane
John Grisham the Summons
Kindle finish volume three
The Prince [Niccolò Machiavelli]
– The Story Girl [Lucy Maud Montgomery]
–
June Fairfax library five books
A game of Thrones finally read it George Martin
Two recent political books
Two SF thrillers
Four Just Men [Edgar Wallace]
– Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ [Lewis Wallace]
– Jacob’s Room [Virginia Woolf]
July Medford library five books
July Theme: Free month – any books you choose ▼
From Medford Library
August Theme: War/Military ▼
Crane, Stephen: The Red Badge of Courage
Ford, Ford Madox: The Good Soldier
August Medford library five books
Barns and Noble
Buy 2023 poetry
Buy 2023 best SF stories
Buy 2023 Best Short stories
Fall
September Theme: Folklore/Fairy Tales/Mythology ▼
(16) The Thousand and One Night
(17) Folk-Lore and Fable. Aesop, Grimm, Andersen -re-read
From Dawn to Decadence Jaques Barzun
Iron Kingdom C Barker Books of Blood Christopher Clark
A knight of the Seven Kingdoms George Martin
Ludlum The Jason Directive Robert Ludlum
October Theme: Horror/Supernatural/Paranormal/Gothic ▼
– The Moonstone [Wilkie Collins]
– The Dunwich Horror [Howard Phillips Lovecraft] re-read
– At the Mountains of Madness [Howard Phillips Lovecraft] re-read
October
Read poerty 2023
Read SCF 2023
Read Fiction 2023
Start volume one
Alcott, Louisa May: Little Women
Balzac, Honoré de: Father Goriot
Barbusse, Henri: The Inferno
Brontë, Anne: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Butler, Samuel: The Way of All Flesh
Cather, Willa: My Ántonia
Ford, Ford Madox: The Good Soldier
November
Kindle
Chopin, Kate: The Awakening
Cummings, E. E.: The Enormous Room
Dreiser, Theodore: Sister Carrie
Fielding, Henry: Tom Jones
Flaubert, Gustave: Madame Bovary
Flaubert, Gustave: Sentimental Education
Open
December open
Volume one
Forster, E. M.: Howards End
Gogol, Nikolai: Dead Souls
Gorky, Maxim: The Mother
Huxley, Aldous: Crome Yellow
James, Henry: The Portrait of a Lady
– Little Women [Louisa May Alcott]
– Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) [J.M. Barrie]
– Cabin Fever [ B. M. Bower]
– The Secret Garden [Frances Hodgson Burnett]
– A Little Princess [Frances Hodgson Burnett]
– The King in Yellow [Robert William Chambers]
– The Woman in White [Wilkie Collins]
– The Most Dangerous Game [Richard Connell]
– On the Origin of Species, 6th Edition [Charles Darwin]
– The Iron Woman [Margaret Deland]
– The Arabian Nights [Andrew Lang]
– Anne of Green Gables [Lucy Maud Montgomery]
– Swann’s Way [Marcel Proust]
King and Maxwell David Baldacci
Plus new books from USO etc
Set up reading list 2024
Welcome to Rach’s Reading Club.
We all like to read, right? Of course we do. We are writers. The two go hand in hand. So I have created a book club where you can win awesome prizes for doing the thing we love the most.
How it works …
Each month will have a theme for the books. This will either be a genre or a subject matter. You do not have to read the books I have suggested. You can choose your own, providing they are in the right genre or subject matter. Once you have read your book(s), I would like you to write a review and link it in the forum below. The reviews can be product reviews — bpr: xxxxx, stand alone items — bitem: xxxxx, or book entries — entry: xxxxx. Alternatively, you may write a review directly into the forum.
Prizes
Now for the fun part …
This activity will run from 1st February 2023 to 22nd November 2023.
Monthly prizes awarded as you read …
For every book you read and review, you will receive 2 Kgps
For reading and reviewing two books in one month, you will receive a community MB that is linked to the monthly book theme — this will count for every month you read the two books
These prizes will be awarded at the end of the activity, on Black Friday 2023. (By doing this, I can give higher value awards )
For reading two books for two months during the activity, you will receive a 10K awardicon (in addition to the community MBs)
For reading two books for three months of the activity, you will receive a 25K awardicon, in addition to the community MBs
For six months’ participation of two books each month, a 50K awardicon will be heading your way
The biggie … If you complete every month of reading two books each month, you will receive a 100K awardicon
Lastly …
Everyone who participates in this activity (no matter how few or how many books they read) will receive my brand new, exclusive Rach’s Reading Club II MB when it is released.
You can purchase this new MB (which I’ve seen the proofs for, and it’s awesome ) by making a donation in this forum of 150K or more.!
To sign up for this activity, post a note in the forum, and I will add you to the list of participants. I’ll send out a group email at the start of every month detailing the theme and books I recommend.
Themes
February Theme: Historical Fiction/Romance ▼
March Theme: A book that features crafts, hobbies, or activities. This can be non-fiction ▼
April Theme:Thriller/Crime/Mystery ▼
May Theme: Award Winning Books – Booker, Pulitzer, Nobel, Costa, etc. ▼
June Theme: Books written over 100 years ago ▼
July Theme: Free month – any books you choose ▼
August Theme: War/Military ▼
September Theme: Folklore/Fairy Tales/Mythology ▼
October Theme: Horror/Supernatural/Paranormal/Gothic ▼Poems
Poems Read
January
Robert Burns Auld Lang Syne WC Poetry Newsletter
Ella Wheeler Wilcox The Year WC Poetry Newsletter
Helen Hunt Jackson New Year’s morning WC Poetry Newsletter
Marie Summers Enlightened
Marie Summers MY GOD, MY GOD
Walt Wojtanik –flourishing florist
David Schnieder Footprints in time
David Schnieder Soldiers
David Schnieder Together Forever
David Schnieder The Almighty Thresher
Example #1:
Sally Ann Roberts, It All Started With A Packet of Seeds
Marie summers Celestial Dreams
Example #3: Chelle Wood Dance In The Rain
Example #4: Dendrobia Osprey
Example #5: Maria Summers Seasonal Whispers
Dah helmer astral darkness
Ars Poetica Writing com
Alexander Pope’s “An Essay on Criticism,”
Archibald MacLeish “Ars Poetica” (1926)
Joy Priest in Virginia Quarterly Review
Pamela Hart’s “Some Thoughts on Metaphor”
in The Night Heron Barks
José Olivarez in Poetry Magazine “Ars Poetica”
Paul Guest “Late Stage Capitalism Blues”
in The Adroit Journal
Dean Young in Poem-a-Day
Robert Frost After Apple-Picking
Stormy lady
Spike Milligan Jumbo Jet
Spike Milligan Granny
Spike Milligan On the Ning Nang Nong
Spike Milligan ABC
February
Stormy lady
Riddle of birth koyel writing again
The Dark House Edwin Arlington Robinson
The Garden Edwin Arlington Robinson
Philip Larkin At Grass
Kim Sewol Poems
Fan Story
Jim Bartlet An Irregular Ode to a Sometime Morris Dancer
William Wordsworth An excerpt from ‘Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood’
Express it in Eight writing com
Oranges By Gary Soto
poets place writing com
~”The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost
~”A Plague of Starlings” by Robert Hayden
Cinquain Poets Place
Angels Erin Holbrook
Turquoise Thoughts Deborah P Kolodji
Cherry Blossoms Marie Summers
Joshua Tree Deborah P Kolodji
Long Shadows Marie Summers
Resurrection Andra De Costa
Holiday Travel Judi Van Gorder
Memorial Judi Van Gorder
Reading Phil Wood
Fight Flight
Judi Van Gorder
Happy Mordee 2 Writing com
Headline Chain of Cripsy Cinquain Judi Van Gorder
A child Headline Chain of Cripsy Cinquain Judi Van Gorder
Somehow Headline Chain of Cripsy Cinquain Judi Van Gorder
Hopeful Headline Chain of Cripsy Cinquain Judi Van Gorder
See the Tulips Blooming Victor Hugo
Hear the violins play in the moonlight Thomas Corneille
Broken Headline Chain of Cripsy Cinquain Judi Van Gorder
Patriarch Judi Judi Van Gorder
Parent Judi Van Gorder
Behave Judi Van Gorder
Glue Judi Van Gorder
didactic cinquain by Marti
March
See the Tulips Blooming Victor Hugo
Hear the violins play in the moonlight Thomas Corneille
Poets Place
Judi Van Gorder Twelfth Night Sonnet
Judi Van Gorder Pauline
John Keats(1795-1821) CXCVIII. “Bright Star!
William Shakespeare(1564-1616) XVIII. To His Love
Burns Sonnet
Robert Burns A Sonnet upon Sonnets
Reversed Sonnet
Rupert Brooke “Sonnet Reversed”
WC Stormy Lady
Amy Levy The Old Poet
Amy Levy London in July
Amy Levy At a Dinner Party
Amy Levy A Wall Flower
WC Poet’s Place
Barbara Hartman Bottoms Up!
April
Express It In Eight
TS Elliot A Dog is a Dog
Elizabeth Bishop The Fish
Hulda Fetzer The Killed Deer
Poet Place
|
DC Martinson Dizain for the evolutionary Poets Place
Waywa Judi Van Groder No Surrender The hot oil sizzles Waywa Poets Place ~”Like As a Ship” by Edmund Spencer Stormy Lady Lewis Carroll Boat beneath a Sunny Sky Lewis Carroll Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll
Patina Poetry Corner
Five O’clock Judy Van Gelder Foamy water Pat Nelson Mirror Sestet Fan Story It Worked Shelley A Cephas May Kim Sowol poems unforgettable Love Kim Sowol A Lamp Burns Low Weekly challenge Birth of a Triangle Alex Goldenberg My Body Andrea Forbing-Maglione Broken Car Sally Ann Roberts Coffee Sally Ann Roberts A Simple Tree Julie Wright Rockets Red Glare Johnathan Sluder Luna Marie Summers Stormy Lady Newsletter
Express it eight John Keats The Poetry of Earth Is Never Dead June
July
August
September Mod Poe do supplemental poems And re-do course October Poetry 2023 Mod Poe do supplemental poems And re-do course November Mod Poe do supplemental poems And re-do course December Open Milton? |
Cosmos’s Reading List 2023
Goals: 100 Books
Read Classics
One Thriller Per Month
One history/politics book per month
Read A Lot More Poetry
Read At Least One Book A Year in Spanish
Read At Least One Book A Year in Korean
I will year try to finish reading classic books. I have a collection from Kindle of 50 books to read before you die, in three volumes – 15O books in total see the list below. I have read many of them already which I have noted. As I read them, I will add them to the chronological listing below, also have the Harvard classic. Had a hard copy set but donated it, have to read it on Kindle alas. I will also continue to read lots of poetry from the Mod Po class, will do the slo-mo courses then re-do it in September focusing on reading the additional poems I did not last time in Mod Po Plus.
Articles
January
Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World
– Curious, If True: Strange Tales [Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell]
February
– The Jungle Book [Rudyard Kipling]
– Captain Courageous [Rudyard Kipling]
Kim Rudyard Kipling
March
The Son of the Wolf [Jack London]
Exposure Unstable writing submission
The Einstein Theory of Relativity [Hendrik Antoon Lorentz]
– The Dunwich Horror [Howard Phillips Lovecraft]
– At the Mountains of Madness [Howard Phillips Lovecraft]
April
Summer reading list add to books read and post on blog FB
Alternate between Kindle, classics and poetry
April
Imperium Robert Harris
Kim Sowol poems unforgettable Love
Kim Sowol A Lamp Burns Low Crafting Scenes Raymond Obstfeld
Fools of Fortune William Trevor
Nuclear Orange Cupid is the Devil Christopher Micheal
Bj Buckeye In January the Geeeee Creating plot J Madison Davis
April Theme:Thriller/Crime/Mystery ▼
Reviews due first week of April
– The Wisdom of Father Brown [Gilbert Keith Chesterton]
– The Donnington Affair [Gilbert Keith Chesterton]
– The Innocence of Father Brown [Gilbert Keith Chesterton]
– The Hound of the Baskervilles [Arthur Conan Doyle]
– The Sign of the Four [Arthur Conan Doyle]
May
The Poet’s companion finish it
The thinker’s toolkit Morgan Davis
How to Write a Damn Good Novel James N Frey
Your First Novel Ann Rittenberg and Laura Whitcomb
Get five to ten books from USO/Library
May Theme: Award Winning Books – Booker, Pulitzer, Nobel, Costa, etc. ▼
TS Elliot Poems write review
June
June Theme: Books written over 100 years ago ▼
– Kim [Rudyard Kipling]
– Captain Courageous [Rudyard Kipling]
– The Jungle Book [Rudyard Kipling]
– The Son of the Wolf [Jack London]
Take on plane
John Grisham the Summons
Thomas Mann
Daniel Silva the Cellist
Kindle finish volume three
The Prince [Niccolò Machiavelli]
– The Story Girl [Lucy Maud Montgomery]
–
June Fairfax library five books
A game of Thrones finally read it George Martin
Two recent political books
Two SF thrillers
Four Just Men [Edgar Wallace]
– Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ [Lewis Wallace]
– Jacob’s Room [Virginia Woolf]
July Medford library five books
July Theme: Free month – any books you choose ▼
From Medford Library
August Theme: War/Military ▼
Crane, Stephen: The Red Badge of Courage
Ford, Ford Madox: The Good Soldier
August Medford library five books
Barns and Noble
Buy 2023 poetry
Buy 2023 best SF stories
Buy 2023 Best Short stories
Fall
September Theme: Folklore/Fairy Tales/Mythology ▼
(16) The Thousand and One Night
(17) Folk-Lore and Fable. Aesop, Grimm, Andersen -re-read
From Dawn to Decadence Jaques Barzun
Iron Kingdom C Barker Books of Blood Christopher Clark
A knight of the Seven Kingdoms George Martin
Ludlum The Jason Directive Robert Ludlum
October Theme: Horror/Supernatural/Paranormal/Gothic ▼
– The Moonstone [Wilkie Collins]
– The Dunwich Horror [Howard Phillips Lovecraft] re-read
– At the Mountains of Madness [Howard Phillips Lovecraft] re-read
October
Read poerty 2023
Read SCF 2023
Read Fiction 2023
Start volume one
Alcott, Louisa May: Little Women
Balzac, Honoré de: Father Goriot
Barbusse, Henri: The Inferno
Brontë, Anne: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Butler, Samuel: The Way of All Flesh
Cather, Willa: My Ántonia
Ford, Ford Madox: The Good Soldier
Volume 2
November
Kindle
Chopin, Kate: The Awakening
Cummings, E. E.: The Enormous Room
Dreiser, Theodore: Sister Carrie
Fielding, Henry: Tom Jones
Flaubert, Gustave: Madame Bovary
Flaubert, Gustave: Sentimental Education
Open
December open
Volume one
Forster, E. M.: Howards End
Gogol, Nikolai: Dead Souls
Gorky, Maxim: The Mother
Huxley, Aldous: Crome Yellow
James, Henry: The Portrait of a Lady
– Little Women [Louisa May Alcott]
– Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) [J.M. Barrie]
– Cabin Fever [ B. M. Bower]
– The Secret Garden [Frances Hodgson Burnett]
– A Little Princess [Frances Hodgson Burnett]
– The King in Yellow [Robert William Chambers]
– The Woman in White [Wilkie Collins]
– The Most Dangerous Game [Richard Connell]
– On the Origin of Species, 6th Edition [Charles Darwin]
– The Iron Woman [Margaret Deland]
– The Arabian Nights [Andrew Lang]
– Anne of Green Gables [Lucy Maud Montgomery]
– Swann’s Way [Marcel Proust]
King and Maxwell David Baldacci
Plus new books from USO etc
Set up reading list 2024
For reading club
Create blog posting end of the month
Finish and write reviews by end of the month
Welcome to Rach’s Reading Club.
We all like to read, right? Of course we do. We are writers. The two go hand in hand. So I have created a book club where you can win awesome prizes for doing the thing we love the most.
How it works …
Each month will have a theme for the books. This will either be a genre or a subject matter. You do not have to read the books I have suggested. You can choose your own, providing they are in the right genre or subject matter. Once you have read your book(s), I would like you to write a review and link it in the forum below. The reviews can be product reviews — bpr: xxxxx, stand alone items — bitem: xxxxx, or book entries — entry: xxxxx. Alternatively, you may write a review directly into the forum.
Prizes
Now for the fun part …
This activity will run from 1st February 2023 to 22nd November 2023.
Monthly prizes awarded as you read …
For every book you read and review, you will receive 2 Kgps
For reading and reviewing two books in one month, you will receive a community MB that is linked to the monthly book theme — this will count for every month you read the two books
These prizes will be awarded at the end of the activity, on Black Friday 2023. (By doing this, I can give higher value awards )
For reading two books for two months during the activity, you will receive a 10K awardicon (in addition to the community MBs)
For reading two books for three months of the activity, you will receive a 25K awardicon, in addition to the community MBs
For six months’ participation of two books each month, a 50K awardicon will be heading your way
The biggie … If you complete every month of reading two books each month, you will receive a 100K awardicon
Lastly …
Everyone who participates in this activity (no matter how few or how many books they read) will receive my brand new, exclusive Rach’s Reading Club II MB when it is released.
You can purchase this new MB (which I’ve seen the proofs for, and it’s awesome ) by making a donation in this forum of 150K or more.!
To sign up for this activity, post a note in the forum, and I will add you to the list of participants. I’ll send out a group email at the start of every month detailing the theme and books I recommend.
Themes
February Theme: Historical Fiction/Romance ▼
March Theme: A book that features crafts, hobbies, or activities. This can be non-fiction ▼
April Theme:Thriller/Crime/Mystery ▼
May Theme: Award Winning Books – Booker, Pulitzer, Nobel, Costa, etc. ▼
June Theme: Books written over 100 years ago ▼
July Theme: Free month – any books you choose ▼
August Theme: War/Military ▼
September Theme: Folklore/Fairy Tales/Mythology ▼
October Theme: Horror/Supernatural/Paranormal/Gothic ▼
If you’re stuck for ideas, you could check out this awesome reading list compiled by Jeff (1546)
You can check out everyone’s product reviews here:
Product Reviews
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Poems
January
Robert Burns Auld Lang Syne WC Poetry Newsletter
Ella Wheeler Wilcox The Year WC Poetry Newsletter
Helen Hunt Jackson New Year’s morning WC Poetry Newsletter
Marie Summers Enlightened
Marie Summers MY GOD, MY GOD
Walt Wojtanik –flourishing florist
David Schnieder Footprints in time
David Schnieder Soldiers
David Schnieder Together Forever
David Schnieder The Almighty Thresher
Example #1:
Sally Ann Roberts, It All Started With A Packet of Seeds
Marie summers Celestial Dreams
Example #3: Chelle Wood Dance In The Rain
Example #4: Dendrobia Osprey
Example #5: Maria Summers Seasonal Whispers
Dah helmer astral darkness
Ars Poetica Writing com
Alexander Pope’s “An Essay on Criticism,”
Archibald MacLeish “Ars Poetica” (1926)
Joy Priest in Virginia Quarterly Review
Pamela Hart’s “Some Thoughts on Metaphor”
in The Night Heron Barks
José Olivarez in Poetry Magazine “Ars Poetica”
Paul Guest “Late Stage Capitalism Blues”
in The Adroit Journal
Dean Young in Poem-a-Day
Robert Frost After Apple-Picking
Stormy lady
Spike Milligan Jumbo Jet
Spike Milligan Granny
Spike Milligan On the Ning Nang Nong
Spike Milligan ABC
February
Stormy lady
Riddle of birth koyel writing again
The Dark House Edwin Arlington Robinson
The Garden Edwin Arlington Robinson
Philip Larkin At Grass
Kim Sewol Poems
Fan Story
Jim Bartlet An Irregular Ode to a Sometime Morris Dancer
William Wordsworth An excerpt from ‘Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood’
Express it in Eight writing com
Oranges By Gary Soto
poets place writing com
~”The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost
~”A Plague of Starlings” by Robert Hayden
Cinquain Poets Place
Angels Erin Holbrook
Turquoise Thoughts Deborah P Kolodji
Cherry Blossoms Marie Summers
Joshua Tree Deborah P Kolodji
Long Shadows Marie Summers
Resurrection Andra De Costa
Holiday Travel Judi Van Gorder
Memorial Judi Van Gorder
Reading Phil Wood
Fight Flight
Judi Van Gorder
Happy Mordee 2 Writing com
Headline Chain of Cripsy Cinquain Judi Van Gorder
A child Headline Chain of Cripsy Cinquain Judi Van Gorder
Somehow Headline Chain of Cripsy Cinquain Judi Van Gorder
Hopeful Headline Chain of Cripsy Cinquain Judi Van Gorder
See the Tulips Blooming Victor Hugo
Hear the violins play in the moonlight Thomas Corneille
Broken Headline Chain of Cripsy Cinquain Judi Van Gorder
Patriarch Judi Judi Van Gorder
Parent Judi Van Gorder
Behave Judi Van Gorder
Glue Judi Van Gorder
didactic cinquain by Marti
March
See the Tulips Blooming Victor Hugo
Hear the violins play in the moonlight Thomas Corneille
Poets Place
Judi Van Gorder Twelfth Night Sonnet
Judi Van Gorder Pauline
John Keats(1795-1821) CXCVIII. “Bright Star!
William Shakespeare(1564-1616) XVIII. To His Love
Burns Sonnet
Robert Burns A Sonnet upon Sonnets
Reversed Sonnet
Rupert Brooke “Sonnet Reversed”
WC Stormy Lady
Amy Levy The Old Poet
Amy Levy London in July
Amy Levy At a Dinner Party
Amy Levy A Wall Flower
WC Poet’s Place
Barbara Hartman Bottoms Up!
April
Express It In Eight
TS Elliot A Dog is a Dog
Elizabeth Bishop The Fish
Hulda Fetzer The Killed Deer
Poet Place
|
DC Martinson Dizain for the evolutionary Poets Place Waywa Judi Van Groder No Surrender The hot oil sizzles Waywa Poets Place ~”Like As a Ship” by Edmund Spencer Stormy Lady Lewis Carroll Boat beneath a Sunny Sky Lewis Carroll Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll Patina Poetry Corner
Five O’clock Judy Van Gelder Foamy water Pat Nelson Mirror Sestet Fan Story It Worked Shelley A Cephas May Kim Sowol poems unforgettable Love Kim Sowol A Lamp Burns Low
Weekly challenge
Birth of a Triangle Alex Goldenberg My Body Andrea Forbing-Maglione Broken Car Sally Ann Roberts Coffee Sally Ann Roberts A Simple Tree Julie Wright Rockets Red Glare Johnathan Sluder Luna Marie Summers
Stormy Lady Newsletter
Express it eight
John Keats The Poetry of Earth Is Never Dead June
July
August
September Mod Poe do supplemental poems And re-do course
October Poetry 2023 Mod Poe do supplemental poems And re-do course
November
Mod Poe do supplemental poems And re-do course December
Open Milton? |
Fiction/Non-Fiction
To Read
George Martin a knight of the seven kingdoms
John Grisham The Summons
William Trevor Fools of Fortune
Christopher Michael’s Nuclear Orange Cupid is the Devil’s poems
Baldacci King and Maxwell
Bj Buckely’s In January, the Geese PSH contest award
Jacques Barzun From Dawn to Decadence 1500 to the Present
Christopher Clark the Iron Kingdom the Rise and the Fall of Prussia
Walter Lacquer Fascisms Past, present, and Future
Daniel Silva The Cellist
Harvard Classics
The volumes are:
Bolded read
(1) Franklin, Woolman, Penn
(2) Plato, Epictetus,
Marcus, Aurelius Meditations
(3) Bacon, Milton’s Prose, Thomas Browne
(4) Complete Poems in English: Milton
(5) Essays and English Traits: Emerson (
6) Poems and Songs: Burns (7)
Confessions of St. Augustine. Imitation of Christ
(8) Nine Greek Dramas (9) Letters and Treatises of Cicero and Pliny
(10) Wealth of Nations: Adam Smith
(11) Origin of Species: Darwin
(12) Plutarch’s Lives (13)
Aeneid Virgil (14)
Don Quixote Part 1: Cervantes
(15)Pilgrim’s Progress. Donne
Herbert. Bunyan, Walton
(16) The Thousand and One Night
(17) Folk-Lore and Fable. Aesop, Grimm, Andersen
(18) Modern English Drama
(19) Faust, Egmont Etc. Doctor Faustus, Goethe, Marlowe
(20) The Divine Comedy: Dante
(21) I Promessi Sposi, Manzoni
(22) The Odyssey: Homer
(23) Two Years Before the Mast. Dana
(24) On the Sublime French Revolution Etc. Burke
(25) Autobiography Etc. Essays and Addresses: J.S. Mill, T. Carlyle
(26) Continental Drama
(27) English Essays: Sidney to Macaulay
(28) Essays. English and American
(29) Voyage of the Beagle: Darwin (
30) Faraday, Helmholtz, Kelvin, Newcomb, Geikie
(31) Autobiography: Benvenuto, Cellini
(32) Literary and Philosophical Essays: Montaigne, Sainte Beuve, Renan, Lessing, Schiller, Kant, Mazzini
(33) Voyages and Travels
(34) Descartes, Voltaire, Rousseau, Hobbes
(35) Chronicle and Romance: Froissart, Malory, Holinshed (36)
Machiavelli, More, Luther
(37) Locke, Berkeley, Hume
(38) Harvey, Jenner, Lister, Pasteur
(39) Famous Prefaces
(40) English Poetry 1: Chaucer to Gray
(41) English Poetry 2: Collins to Fitzgerald
(42) English Poetry 3: Tennyson to Whitman
(43) American Historical Documents
(44) Sacred Writings 1
(45) Sacred Writings 2
(46) Elizabethan Drama 1
(47) Elizabethan Drama 2
(48) Thoughts and Minor Works: Pascal
(49) Epic and Saga (
50) Introduction, Reader’s Guide,
Federalist Papers
50 Masterpieces You Have to Read Before you Die
Started reading the first one of volume 3
Bolded indicated I have read it.
Vol 1
Alcott, Louisa May: Little Women
Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice
Austen, Jane: Emma
Balzac, Honoré de: Father Goriot
Barbusse, Henri: The Inferno
Brontë, Anne: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Brontë, Charlotte: Jane Eyre
Brontë, Emily: Wuthering Heights
Burroughs, Edgar Rice: Tarzan of the Apes
Butler, Samuel: The Way of All Flesh
Carroll, Lewis: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Cather, Willa: My Ántonia
Cervantes, Miguel de: Don Quixote
Chopin, Kate: The Awakening
Cleland, John: Fanny Hill
Collins, Wilkie: The Moonstone
Conrad, Joseph: Heart of Darkness
Conrad, Joseph: Nostromo
Cooper, James Fenimore: The Last of the Mohicans
Crane, Stephen: The Red Badge of Courage
Cummings, E. E.: The Enormous Room
Defoe, Daniel: Robinson Crusoe
Defoe, Daniel: Moll Flanders
Dickens, Charles: Bleak House
Dickens, Charles: Great Expectations
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor: Crime and Punishment
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor: The Idiot
Doyle, Arthur Conan: The Hound of the Baskervilles
Dreiser, Theodore: Sister Carrie
Dumas, Alexandre: The Three Musketeers
Dumas, Alexandre: The Count of Monte Cristo
Eliot, George: Middlemarch
Fielding, Henry: Tom Jones
Flaubert, Gustave: Madame Bovary
Flaubert, Gustave: Sentimental Education
Ford, Ford Madox: The Good Soldier
Forster, E. M.: A Room With a View
Forster, E. M.: Howards End
Gaskell, Elizabeth: North and South
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von: The Sorrows of Young Werther
Gogol, Nikolai: Dead Souls
Gorky, Maxim: The Mother
Haggard, H. Rider: King Solomon’s Mines
Hardy, Thomas: Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Hawthorne, Nathaniel: The Scarlet Letter
Homer: The Odyssey
Hugo, Victor: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hugo, Victor: Les Misérables
Huxley, Aldous: Crome Yellow
James, Henry: The Portrait of a Lady
Volume 2
– Little Women [Louisa May Alcott]
– Sense and Sensibility [Jane Austen]
– Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) [J.M. Barrie]
– Cabin Fever [ B. M. Bower]
– The Secret Garden [Frances Hodgson Burnett]
– A Little Princess [Frances Hodgson Burnett]
– Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland [Lewis Carroll]
– The King in Yellow [Robert William Chambers]
– The Man Who Knew Too Much [Gilbert Keith Chesterton]
– The Woman in White [Wilkie Collins]
– The Most Dangerous Game [Richard Connell]
– On the Origin of Species, 6th Edition [Charles Darwin]
– Robinson Crusoe [Daniel Defoe]
– The Iron Woman [Margaret Deland]
– David Copperfield [Charles Dickens]
– Oliver Twist [Charles Dickens]
– A Tale of Two Cities [Charles Dickens]
– The Double [Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky]
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes [Arthur Conan Doyle]
– The Curious Case of Benjamin Button [Francis Scott Fitzgerald]
– A Room with a View [E. M. Forster]
– Dream Psychology [Sigmund Freud]
– Tess of the d’Urbervilles [Thomas Hardy]
– Siddhartha [Hermann Hesse]
– Dubliners [James Joyce]
– The Fall of the House of Usher [Edgar Allan Poe]
– The Arabian Nights [Andrew Lang]
– The Sea Wolf [Jack London]
– The Call of Cthulhu [Howard Phillips Lovecraft]
– Anne of Green Gables [Lucy Maud Montgomery]
– Beyond Good and Evil [Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche]
– The Murders in the Rue Morgue [Edgar Allan Poe]
– The Black Cat [Edgar Allan Poe]
– The Raven [Edgar Allan Poe]
– Swann’s Way [Marcel Proust]
– Romeo and Juliet [William Shakespeare]
– Treasure Island [Robert Louis Stevenson]
– The Elements of Style [William Strunk Jr.
Vol 3
This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors’ last names
Started with voume 3 then will go back and do volume one, two and the Harvard classics. Goal is to finish all of these by the end of next year. Almostr finished Volume One. Will do some of the WC reading books as well.
– What’s Bred in the Bone [Grant Allen]
– The Golden Ass [Lucius Apuleius]
– Meditations [Marcus Aurelius]
– Northanger Abbey [Jane Austen]
– Lady Susan [Jane Austen]
– The Wonderful Wizard of Oz [Lyman Frank Baum]
– The Art of Public Speaking [Dale Breckenridge Carnegie]
– The Blazing World [Margaret Cavendish]
– The Wisdom of Father Brown [Gilbert Keith Chesterton]
– Heretics [Gilbert Keith Chesterton]
– The Donnington Affair [Gilbert Keith Chesterton]
– The Innocence of Father Brown [Gilbert Keith Chesterton]
– Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [John Cleland]
– The Moonstone [Wilkie Collins]
– Lord Jim [Joseph Conrad]
– The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe [Daniel Defoe]
– The Pickwick Papers [Charles Dickens]
– A Christmas Carol [Charles Dickens]
– Notes From The Underground [Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky]
– The Gambler par Fyodor [Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky]
– The Lost World [Arthur Conan Doyle]
– The Hound of the Baskervilles [Arthur Conan Doyle]
– The Sign of the Four [Arthur Conan Doyle]
– The Man in the Iron Mask [Alexandre Dumas]
– The Three Musketeers [Alexandre Dumas]
– This Side of Paradise [Francis Scott Fitzgerald]
– Curious, If True: Strange Tales [Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell]
– King Solomon’s Mines [Henry Rider Haggard]
– The Hunchback of Notre Dame [Victor Hugo]
– Kim [Rudyard Kipling]
– Captain Courageous [Rudyard Kipling]
– The Jungle Book [Rudyard Kipling]
– Lady Chatterley’s Lover [David Herbert Lawrence]
– The Son of the Wolf [Jack London]
– The Einstein Theory of Relativity [Hendrik Antoon Lorentz]
– The Dunwich Horror [Howard Phillips Lovecraft]
– At the Mountains of Madness [Howard Phillips Lovecraft]
– The Prince [Niccolò Machiavelli]
– The Story Girl [Lucy Maud Montgomery]
– The Antichrist [Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche]
– The Republic [Plato]
– The Last Man [Mary Shelley]
– Life On The Mississippi [Mark Twain]
– The Kama Sutra [Vatsyayana]
– In the Year 2889 [Jules Verne]
– Around the World in Eighty Days [Jules Verne]
– Four Just Men [Edgar Wallace]
– Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ [Lewis Wallace]
– Jacob’s Room [Virginia Woolf]
To read
From Camp H 2/27/2023
Clive Barker Books of Blood short stories
Death in Venice Thomas Mann
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