I recently read EE Cummings’s anti-war novel the “Enormous Room” as part of my reading the classics efforts. EE Cummings is best known for his wonderful and quirky poems but he wrote many other works during his prolific literary career in the the early to mid-20th century.
This book was written based on his experience as a prisoner in a French prison during World War 1. He had gone to France to serve as an ambulance driver and got into trouble with the French authorities because of anti-war comments made by his fellow American friend. He served three months in a detention camp filled with mostly foreigners who had been accused of espionage, hampering the war effort, or associating with people so accused. He was never formally charged and after three months was released.
Co-Piot provided some more background information:
“E.E. Cummings’ The Enormous Room is indeed rooted in his real-life experiences during World War I. Here’s what I found:
Cummings’ Role in the War and Imprisonment: During World War I, Cummings volunteered as an ambulance driver for the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps in France. However, his service was cut short when he and his friend William Slater Brown were arrested by French authorities. They were suspected of espionage due to Brown’s anti-war sentiments expressed in letters. Cummings, who stood by his friend, was detained at the La Ferté-Macé internment camp for over three months. This harrowing experience became the foundation for The Enormous Room, where he vividly recounts his time in captivity and critiques bureaucracy and Authoritarianism”
I found his critique of authoritarianism, bureaucracy, the French prison system, and anti-war sentiments to be still quite relevant over one hundred years later. His novel is filled with details about the many different prisoners from all over the world he met and became friends with during his stay in the French detention center. The novel also filled my literary references as EE Cummings studied classics at Harvard before volunteering to go to France to help in the war effort as an ambulance driver. He quotes Dante’s Divine Comedy, and Bunyan’s The Pilgrims Progress throughout the novel, particularly calling some of his fellow prisoners “delectable mountains” referencing their defiance of the petty and absurd rules of the prison.
In reading the classics, one thing that can be offputting to modern English readers is the liberal use of untranslated foreign language phrases. The Enormous Room is set in a French prison in World War 1. The writer uses a lot of untranslated French phrases throughout. Most modern literature provides English translations in parentheses of foreign phrases. Older literature usually does not not put translations of foreign text assuming perhaps that their readers would understand the foreign phrases or skip over them.
Fortunately we now have Kindle and Kindle does offer translations on the fly which is a very useful feature as well as dictionary definitions.
Of course, the other problem that I have addressed elsewhere is the causal racism, sexism etc in much older literature which can be off-putting to modern readers. The solution is to simply note it, and read on taking into account the novel or story was written in the context of its time when racism and sexism were just not concerns for most writers or readers.
In this novel, he befriends three African prisoners and discusses how one of the prisoners had been imprisoned due to the racist attitude of the police against Africans residing in France.
The prison had a women’s section and a male section, and fraternization was prohibited but still occurred. Many of the women prisoners had been imprisoned for suspected prostitution and carried out that trade in prison. Several of the male prisoners had been imprisoned for being pimps, and some for smuggling and other crimes.
The conditions in the prison were quite stark and brutal. All the prisoners slept in one large “enormous room” that contained around 100 prisoners at a time. they were allowed out once a day to go for a walk in the yard and were assigned chores His duty was as a water carrier taking water from a communal well and taking it to the kitchen where they prepared soup for the prisoners. Prisoners were fed twice a day soup and bread for the most part, and horrid coffee in the morning. He did get one cup of real coffee per day from the cook grateful for his assistance in hauling water and helping in the Kitchen from time to time. Prisoners were able to afford wine cigarettes and chocolate from the Canteen.
Most prisoners lost a lot of weight, and many became sick from scurvy and STDs picked up from visiting the women prisoners or contracted before their arrival. A few had TB and other serious illnesses. The doctor was a bit of a quack and did not have adequate supplies.
Most prisoners stayed for three to four months before the Commission in charge decided to either send them to a real prison after a trial or release them. EE Cummins was released and with the help of the US Embassy, allowed to leave France without any charges ever being filed against him.
Quotes from The Enormous Room
> “To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.”
“I imagine that yes is the only living thing.”
> “Humanity I love you because when you’re hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.”
E.E. Cummings: A Brief Biography
Full Name: Edward Estlin Cummings
Born: October 14, 1894, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Died: September 3, 1962, in North Conway, New Hampshire, USA
Education: Cummings graduated from Harvard University with a B.A. in Classics in 1915 and an M.A. in 1916.
Career Highlights:
Early Life:
Cummings was born into a well-educated, upper-class family in Cambridge, Massachusetts1. His father was a professor at Harvard University and later became a minister
World War I:
During the war, Cummings served as an ambulance driver in France. He was briefly imprisoned in a French detention camp, an experience that inspired his novel “The Enormous Room.”
Literary Career:
Cummings published his first collection of poetry, “Tulips and Chimneys”, in 1923. He is known for his unconventional use of punctuation, syntax, and capitalization, which became hallmarks of his poetic style
Notable Works: Cummings wrote approximately 2,900 poems, several novels, and plays. Some of his most famous works include Tulips and Chimneys, The Enormous Room, EIMI, and the play HIM1.
Here are some of E.E. Cummings’ notable works:
Poetry Collections:
Tulips and Chimneys (1923) ViVa (1931) No Thanks (1935) 1 x 1 (1944) XAIPE: Seventy-One Poems (1950) 95 Poems (1958)
I recently read EE Cummings’s anti-war novel the “Enormous Room” as part of my reading the classics efforts. EE Cummings is best known for his wonderful and quirky poems but he wrote many other works during his prolific literary career in the the early to mid-20th century.
This book was written based on his experience as a prisoner in a French prison during World War 1. He had gone to France to serve as an ambulance driver and got into trouble with the French authorities because of anti-war comments made by his fellow American friend. He served three months in a detention camp filled with mostly foreigners who had been accused of espionage, hampering the war effort, or associating with people so accused. He was never formally charged and after three months was released.
Co-Piot provided some more background information:
“E.E. Cummings’ The Enormous Room is indeed rooted in his real-life experiences during World War I. Here’s what I found:
Cummings’ Role in the War and Imprisonment: During World War I, Cummings volunteered as an ambulance driver for the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps in France. However, his service was cut short when he and his friend William Slater Brown were arrested by French authorities. They were suspected of espionage due to Brown’s anti-war sentiments expressed in letters. Cummings, who stood by his friend, was detained at the La Ferté-Macé internment camp for over three months. This harrowing experience became the foundation for The Enormous Room, where he vividly recounts his
time in captivity and critiques bureaucracy and Authoritarianism”
I found his critique of authoritarianism, bureaucracy, the French prison system, and anti-war sentiments to be still quite relevant over one hundred years later. His novel is filled with details about the many different prisoners from all over the world he met and became friends with during his stay in the French detention center. The novel also filled my literary references as EE Cummings studied classics at Harvard before volunteering to go to France to help in the war effort as an ambulance driver. He quotes Dante’s Divine Comedy, and Bunyan’s The Pilgrims Progress throughout the novel, particularly calling some of his fellow prisoners “delectable mountains” referencing their defiance of the petty and absurd rules of the prison.
In reading the classics, one thing that can be offputting to modern English readers is the liberal use of untranslated foreign language phrases. The Enormous Room is set in a French prison in World War 1. The writer uses a lot of untranslated French phrases throughout. Most modern literature provides English translations in parentheses of foreign phrases. Older literature usually does not not put translations of foreign text assuming perhaps that their readers would understand the foreign phrases or skip over them.
Fortunately we now have Kindle and Kindle does offer translations on the fly which is a very useful feature as well as dictionary definitions.
Of course, the other problem that I have addressed elsewhere is the causal racism, sexism etc in much older literature which can be off-putting to modern readers. The solution is to simply note it, and read on taking into account the novel or story was written in the context of its time when racism and sexism were just not concerns for most writers or readers.
In this novel, he befriends three African prisoners and discusses how one of the prisoners had been imprisoned due to the racist attitude of the police against Africans residing in France.
The prison had a women’s section and a male section, and fraternization was prohibited but still occurred. Many of the women prisoners had been imprisoned for suspected prostitution and carried out that trade in prison. Several of the male prisoners had been imprisoned for being pimps, and some for smuggling and other crimes.
The conditions in the prison were quite stark and brutal. All the prisoners slept in one large “enormous room” that contained around 100 prisoners at a time. they were allowed out once a day to go for a walk in the yard and were assigned chores His duty was as a water carrier taking water from a communal well and taking it to the kitchen where they prepared soup for the prisoners. Prisoners were fed twice a day soup and bread for the most part, and horrid coffee in the morning. He did get one cup of real coffee per day from the cook grateful for his assistance in hauling water and helping in the Kitchen from time to time. Prisoners were able to afford wine cigarettes and chocolate from the Canteen.
Most prisoners lost a lot of weight, and many became sick from scurvy and STDs picked up from visiting the women prisoners or contracted before their arrival. A few had TB and other serious illnesses. The doctor was a bit of a quack and did not have adequate supplies.
Most prisoners stayed for three to four months before the Commission in charge decided to either send them to a real prison after a trial or release them. EE Cummins was released and with the help of the US Embassy, allowed to leave France without any charges ever being filed against him.
Quotes from The Enormous Room
> “To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.”
“I imagine that yes is the only living thing.”
> “Humanity I love you because when you’re hard up you pawn your intelligence
to buy a drink.”
E.E. Cummings: A Brief Biography
Full Name: Edward Estlin Cummings
Born: October 14, 1894, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Died: September 3, 1962, in North Conway, New Hampshire, USA
Education: Cummings graduated from Harvard University with a B.A. in Classics in 1915 and an M.A. in 1916.
Career Highlights:
Early Life:
Cummings was born into a well-educated, upper-class family in Cambridge, Massachusetts1. His father was a professor at Harvard University and later became a minister
World War I:
During the war, Cummings served as an ambulance driver in France. He was briefly imprisoned in a French detention camp, an experience that inspired his novel “The Enormous Room.”
Literary Career:
Cummings published his first collection of poetry, “Tulips and
Chimneys”, in 1923. He is known for his unconventional use of punctuation,
syntax, and capitalization, which became hallmarks of his poetic style
Notable Works: Cummings wrote approximately 2,900 poems, several novels, and plays. Some of his most famous works include Tulips and Chimneys, The
Enormous Room, EIMI, and the play HIM1.
Here are some of E.E. Cummings’ notable works:
Poetry Collections:
Tulips and Chimneys (1923)
ViVa (1931)
No Thanks (1935)
1 x 1 (1944)
XAIPE: Seventy-One Poems (1950)
95 Poems (1958)
read a lot more classic books finish the three volume series, 50 books You Need to Read Before You DIe and Harvard Classics
Read A Lot More Poetry
Read At Least One Book A Year in Spanish starting with Pablo Neruda poems.
Read At Least One Book A Year in Korean starting with bilingual short stories
This year I read a lot of books, and lots of individual poems and stories. I kept track of all my reviews I do daily on fan story and writing com but did not list them here as that was too unreadable and boring to post.
Total Numerical listing
The List – fiction/non-fiction/poetry
Fiction
Classics
Virginia Woolf Jacob’s Room
Alcot Little Woman
Balzac, Honoré DE: Father Goriot
Lucy Maud Montgomery The Story Girl
Willa Cather My Antonia
Author Connor Doyle’s The Lost World
Barbusse, Henri: The Inferno REVIEW DUE
Butler, Samuel: The Way OF All Flesh
Brontë, Anne: The Tenant OF Wildfell Hall
Peston and Child the Pharoch Key
Liz Wiehl The Candidate
Grisholm Camino Island
Flashman Novels
George Mac Donald Fraser Flashman And The Redskins
George Macdonald Fraser Flashman And The Angel Of The Lord
George Macdonald Fraser Flashman On The March
George Mac Donald Frazer Flashman And The Dragon
Thrillers/Crime
Janet Evanovich To Nines
Liz Wiehl The Candidate Medford Library
John Grisham Camino Ghosts Medford Library
Harlan Coben Think Twice Medford Library
David Baldacci The 6:20 Man Camp H Library
Frederick Pohl Collected Stories Medford Library
THE Merchant OF Venus
The Thing That Happen
The Hight Test
My Lady Greensleeves
The Kindly Isle
The Middle OF Nowhere
I REMEMBER A Winter
The Greening OF Bed Stuv
The Map Makers
Spending A Day AT THE Lottery Fair
Celebrating No Hit Inning
Some Joys Under The Star
Servant Of The People
Anderson Stories
Anderson FABLES THE Almshouse
Anderson FABLES THE Angel
Poetry
Total: 3,000 poems including fan story review, writing com review and selected classic poems -some listed below.
Selected Poems by Famous Writers etc
Christopher Micheal Nuclear Orange Cupid is the Devil
I received this book last year for participating in the Poetry Superhighway annual poetry contest.
Christopher Michael is a published poet who lives in Austin, Texas and has been winning poetry slams since 1989 when he entered his first slam.
the book contains the following poems ==
Tea Em Eye
Haiku
Father
Imagine
The Boys
Not A Thief
The Gravityof Pity
Job Application
Plugs To Give
Fakery
Political Stuff
Glass House
Mr. Bullet Goes To Work
Zombie Swarm
Bee Swarm
Eye Am Here For You
The October Menace
Herbicide Maniac
Bacon
She’s Black
Flash And America
The Flash and the Fireball
Feeling Her
SIN
Theoretical Love
Baby
The Muse
Love And Landmines
Skeletons And Corny Jokes
Dookie Man
Belly Buttons
Severed Fingers And Heavy Bags
The Firestorm
Razors And Regrets
The Relapse
Love Turns Cowards Into Lions
The Fall Out
Nuclear Orange
Fields Of Flammable Fantasies
Zombie Loss
I Warned You
BJ Buckley In January the Geese
I received this book last year for participating in the Poetry Superhighway annual poetry contest. Everyone who enters gets a book of poetry for participating. The contest opens in July and closes around labor day, winners are announced in October. I have also participated in the annual poetry chapbook give away challenge which is held in November.
There are 26 poems in this book. The poems are based on the author’s lived experience growing up on a farm in rural Wyoming and Montana. A number of the poems are written from the animal’s point of view. For example, In January the geese, first bear, long division. box with bugs, night herding, pronghorn elegy, rescue last rites.
the poems are:
Upthrust
in January, the geese
first bear
long division
gates
C store 5:00 AM
fields
burn pile
Sunriver
slamming
hard frost
seed
on Sunday morning
box with bugs
Watchman
Funeral
night herding
Instrument
almost July
instrument
pronghorn Elegy
rescue
towards evening Teton river
infinite haze
September
bad shot
last rites
Wade Riddle
I received this book for entering the Poetry Superhighway annual contest
Groove Power Of Summer
Wade Riddle Summer In Santa Monica Power Of Summer
Wade Riddle The Tom Hardy Party Power Of Summer
Wade Riddle Kiss Me Chris Pine Power Of Summer
Wade Riddle Dance To The Beat Of The Beach Boy’s Power Of Summer
Wade Riddle The Power Of Summer Power Of Summer
Wade Riddle L.A. Blue Power Of Summer
Wade Riddle Take Me Home To Venice Beach Power Of Summer
There Was An Old Man With A Beard,
There Was A Young Lady Of Ryde,
There Was An Old Man Of Quebec,
There Was A Young Lady Whose Bonnet,
There Was A Young Belle Of Old Natchez
Should this body die and die again a hundred times over,
Hwang Hyun
Birds and beasts cry in sorrow and the mountains and oceans frown
Matsuo Basho
Old Pond
Groot
Piet Hein
Missing Link
Road To Wisdom
Prescription
Timing Toast
Circumscripture
Best American Poetry 2023
Will Alexander the Polish mathematics
Michael Ania covering standups.
Ray Armitage fortune
WHR then we get the dialectic fairly well.
Martin Bell and a definite player
Charles Bernstein people
Mark Bibbins from 13 balloons
Lee Ann Brown as an American
Kamryn Alexa Castro Yes
Mariane Chan the shape of Biddle City
Victoria Chang World’s End
Maxi ne Chernoff the Songbird Academy
Kwame Dawes Photo Shoot
Alex Demetrio the years
Stuart Disc hell after the exhibition
Timothy Daniel Instagram
Boris Dayak Days at the Races
Joana Fuhrman 330 College Avenue
Amy Gerstle Night Herons
Peter Gizzi revisionary
Herbert Gold’s other news
Terrene Hayes Strange as the rule of grammar
Robert Herston All Right
Paul Hoover abominations, afternoon
Shirley Jackson’s Best Original Enigma
Patrica Spears Jones the Devil’s wife explains 45.
Ilay Kaminsky, I ask that I not die.
Vincent Katz’s A Marvelous Sky
John Keen Straight No Chaser
Miho Kinas’ Three Shrimp Boats
Wayne kepstrum Misran Master Craftsman
Yusef Komunyakaa from the autobiography
Michale Lay I meant to
Dorothea Lasky Green Moon John Yao zone
Bernadette Ayer Pi Day
Maureen Mc Lane Moonrise
Yusef Michael tablet 6
Stephen Paul Miller dating Buddha
Susan Mitchell Chaplin in Palma
Backus more extraordinary life
diesel to social in several invoices
Elliot Mullen as I wander lonely in the cloud Kathy and also the facts.
Eugene Austin Husky from the fainting feeling Sonnets You Go Out Tomorrow.
Sunday game
Marine Owen in space surface tensional force
John Phillips’s film theory
Catholic bullet round front shirt
Caroline Marie Rodgers phone number two my kind of feminism
Jerome Sarah’s Something I’m Not Hot takes in Spiderman her dark drama.
Turkey Tim civils all the time
Diana’s success little few state
David Shapiro lost all of Jesus.
Mitch Siskin only tough woes
Amanda Smeltz Green goddess girls in blacks Cole Swensen’s various gloves out
Arthur Sze wildlife season OK
Diane Thiel Listening in Deep Space
Rodrigo Toscano Full House
Tony Trigilio The Steeplejack
David Trinidad the poems attributed to Him May Be by Different poets.
Anne Waldman’s three poems form 13 Moon Kora
Sarah Anne Wallen, I can see Mars.
Elizbeth Winch and What My Species Did
Terrence Winch Gear Sizzle
Jeff Cyphers Wright Sweepstakes
John Yau Song for Mie Yum
Geoffrey Young Parrel Bars
Jeffrey Young parallel bars
Matthews’sZaprudar the empty grave of Zza Zaza Gabor
Harvard Classics
The volumes are:
Bolded read
Franklin, Woolman, Penn
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
Hans Christian Anderson’s Fairy Tales
(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 (
Federalist Papers
50 Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die
Started reading the first one of Volume 3
Bolded indicates I have read it.
Vol 1 starts with Volume One
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.: Howard 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] – Robinson Crusoe [Daniel Defoe]
– On the Origin of Species, 6th Edition [Charles Darwin]
– 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 finished keeping for the historical record
This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors’ last names.
Started with volume 3 then will go back and do volumes one, two, and the Harvard classics. The goal is to finish all of these by the end of next year. I almost 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]
Sci-Fi short stories
Goal read one to four stories per week
The Big Book of Science Fiction is a massive anthology of science fiction stories edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer. It covers the history and evolution of the genre from the early 20th century to the end of the millennium, featuring works from over 30 countries and many languages. The book contains 105 stories, ranging from classics by H.G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke, and Ursula K. Le Guin, to lesser-known gems by W.E.B. Du Bois, David R. Bunch, and Liu Cixin. The book also includes comments from the editors and the authors, offering insights into their creative process and vision. The book is divided into 11 sections, each with a thematic focus and a chronological order. Here is the table of contents for the book1:
Introduction: Ann and Jeff VanderMeer
The Lens of Time: Science Fiction as a Way of Seeing
H.G. Wells: “The Star” (1897)
Lu Xun: “The New Overworld” (1902)
Sultana’s Dream: Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1905)
Albert Robida: “The Triumph of Mechanics” (1908)
Miguel de Unamuno: “Mechanopolis” (1913)
W.E.B. Du Bois: “The Comet” (1920)
Claude Farrère: “The Fate of the Poseidonia” (1923)
Edmond Hamilton: “The Star Stealers” (1929)
David H. Keller: “The Lost Language” (1934)
Stanislaw Lem: “Solaris” (1961) excerpt
Jorge Luis Borges: “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius” (1940)
Cixin Liu: “The Poetry Cloud” (1997)
Invasions
Edgar Rice Burroughs: “A Princess of Mars” (1912) excerpt
Leslie F. Stone: “The Conquest of Gola” (1931)
Stanley G. Weinbaum: “A Martian Odyssey” (1934)
John W. Campbell Jr.: “Who Goes There?” (1938)
Ray Bradbury: “Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed” (1949)
Katherine MacLean: “Pictures Don’t Lie” (1951)
William Tenn: “The Liberation of Earth” (1953)
J.G. Ballard: “The Voices of Time” (1960)
Dino Buzzati: “Catastrophe” (1966)
James Tiptree Jr.: “And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill’s Side” (1972)
Joanna Russ: “When It Changed” (1972)
Arkady & Boris Strugatsky: “The Spontaneous Reflex” (1973) excerpt
Octavia Butler: “Bloodchild” (1984)
James Patrick Kelly: “Think Like a Dinosaur” (1995)
Monsters
H.P. Lovecraft: “The Dunwich Horror” (1929)
Ray Bradbury: “The Foghorn” (1951)
Jerome Bixby: “It’s a Good Life” (1953)
Julio Cortázar: “Axolotl” (1956)
J.G. Ballard: “The Drowned Giant” (1964)
R.A. Lafferty: “Nine Hundred Grandmothers” (1966)
Terry Carr: “The Dance of the Changer and the Three” (1968)
Harlan Ellison®: “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream” (1967)
Lisa Tuttle & George R.R. Martin: “The Storms of Windhaven” (1975)
John Varley: “Air Raid” (1977)
William Gibson: “New Rose Hotel” (1984)
Ted Chiang: “Story of Your Life” (1998)
Experiments
Alfred Jarry: “Elements of Pataphysics” (1911)
Karel Čapek: “R.U.R.” (1920) excerpt
Stanisław Lem: “How Erg the Self-Inducting Slew a Paleface” (1955)
William S. Burroughs: “Excerpt from Naked Lunch” (1959)
J.G. Ballard: “Chronopolis” (1960)
Philip K. Dick: “Beyond Lies the Wub” (1952)
Boris Vian: “Froth on the Daydream” (1947) excerpt
Joanna Russ: “Useful Phrases for the Tourist” (1970)
George Alec Effinger: “Two Sadnesses” (1973)
John Sladek: “Solar Shoe Salesman” (1974)
Dafydd ab Hugh: “The Coon Rolled Down and Ruptured His Larinks, A Squeezed Novel by Mr. Skunk” (1986)
Generation Ships
Don Wilcox: “The Voyage That Lasted 600 Years” (1940)
Judith Merril: “Daughters of Earth” (1952)
Brian W. Aldiss: “Non-Stop” (1958) excerpt
Robert Silverberg: “Sundance” (1969)
Pamela Zoline: “The Heat Death of the Universe” (1967)
Gene Wolfe: “A Cabin on the Coast” (1984)
Bruce Sterling: “Swarm” (1982)
Geoff Ryman: “The Unconquered Country” (1984)
New Worlds
Cordwainer Smith: “Alpha Ralpha Boulevard” (1961)
Samuel R. Delany: “Aye, and Gomorrah …” (1967)
Ursula K. Le Guin: “Vaster Than Empires and Slower” (1971)
James Tiptree Jr.: “Houston, Houston, Do You Read?” (1976)
Frederik Pohl: “The Gold at the Starbow’s End” (1972)
Angélica Gorodischer: “Of Navigators and Traitors” (1973) excerpt
John Crowley: “Snow” (1985)
Iain M. Banks: “A Gift from the Culture” (1987)
Greg Egan: “Learning to Be Me” (1990)
Future War
Jack London: “The Unparalleled Invasion” (1910)
Edward Bulwer-Lytton: “The Coming Race” (1871) excerpt
George Griffith: “The War of the Viruses” (1895)
Philip Francis Nowlan: “Armageddon 2419 A.D.” (1928)
E.E. “Doc” Smith: “The Skylark of Space” (1928) excerpt
Olaf Stapledon: “Star Maker” (1937) excerpt
Robert A. Heinlein: “Solution Unsatisfactory” (1941)
C.M. Kornbluth: “Two Dooms” (1958)
Joe Haldeman: “Hero” (1972)
Harry Harrison: “The Streets of Ashkelon” (1962)
David R. Bunch: “Moderan” (1967)
Harlan Ellison®: “A Boy and His Dog” (1969)
James S.A. Corey: “Rates of Change” (2011)
Virtual Reality
Stanisław Lem: “The Seventh Sally or How Trurl’s Own Perfection Led to No Good” (1965)
Philip K. Dick: “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale” (1966)
John Brunner: “The Vitanuls” (1967)
Roger Zelazny: “For a Breath I Tarry” (1966)
Robert Silverberg: “Passengers” (1968)
Rudy Rucker: “Software” (1982) excerpt
William Gibson: “Burning Chrome” (1982)
Pat Cadigan: “Pretty Boy Crossover” (1986)
Neal Stephenson: “Snow Crash” (1992) excerpt
Humanity 2.0
Olaf Stapledon: “Odd John” (1935) excerpt
C.L. Moore: “No Woman Born” (1944)
Cordwainer Smith: “Scanners Live in Vain” (1950)
Algis Budrys: “Who?” (1955)
James Blish: “Surface Tension” (1952)
Gregory Benford: “Blood Music” (1983)
Bruce Sterling: “Mozart in Mirrorshades” (1985)
Vernor Vinge: “True Names” (1981)
Ted Chiang: “Understand” (1991)
Alien Minds
Arthur C. Clarke: “The Sentinel” (1951)
Isaac Asimov: “The Last Question” (1956)
Clifford D. Simak: “Desertion” (1944)
James H. Schmitz: “Grandpa” (1955)
Frank Herbert: “Try to Remember!” (1961)
Philip José Farmer: “Sail On! Sail On!” (1952)
Stanisław Lem: “Solaris” (1961) excerpt
Arkady & Boris Strugatsky: “Roadside Picnic” (1972) excerpt
Karen Joy Fowler & Pat Murphy: “Rachel in Love” (1987)
Ian McDonald: “The Tear” (2008)
After the End
Walter M. Miller Jr.: “The Darfsteller” (1955) J.G. Ballard: “The Terminal Beach” (1964) John Wyndham: ”
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
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
The Makers Howard Nemerov
Insomnia Howard Nemerov
Walking the Dog Howard Nemerov
Express it eight
John Keats The Poetry of Earth Is Never Dead
Mary Oliver The Uses of Sorrow
Wendell Berry The Peace of Wild Things
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
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
(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]
I first read TS Elliot years ago, perhaps in high school. Then a few years ago on a cruise, I picked up the TS Elliot collected poems and re-read them. I realized that TS Elliot’s poetry had deeply affected my unique poetic voice.
As part of a Writing com book review club, I am writing one book review per month, this month’s prompt was to read and write about an award-winning writer.
TS Elliot won the Nobel Prize in literature and richly deserved it,
My Favorites
I suppose my favorite poems are his Cat poems. I have written a lot of Cat poems myself as I have long been fascinated by cats, seeing them as alien creatures perhaps from another dimension.
My favorites were “The Naming of Cats” and “Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer.”
Among the other poems I liked were “The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock “Gerontion” which is a reflection on getting old. I can relate to being 67 years young, ‘Whispers of Immortality.” And “Lines for an Old Man”.
The Waste Land” and “The Hollow Man” were difficult to really grasp but powerful and moving and well just strange poems. My favorite lines are:
“April is the cruelest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
memory and desire, stirring dull roots
with spring rain.”
Among the plays, I liked “Murder in the Cathedral the best .” and “Family Reunion “
For more on TS Elliot here’s a link to the Wikipedia page
Thomas Stearns Eliot OM (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965) was a poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic, and editor.[2] Considered one of the 20th century’s major poets, he is a central figure in English-language Modernist poetry. Through his trials in language, writing style, and verse structure, he reinvigorated English poetry. He also dismantled outdated beliefs and established new ones through a collection of critical essays.[3]
Born in St. Louis, Missouri, to a prominent Boston Brahmin family, he moved to England in 1914 at the age of 25 and went on to settle, work, and marry there.[4] He became a British citizen in 1927 at the age of 39 and renounced his American citizenship.[5]
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.
The List
January
Books
George Elliot Middlemarch
Dale Brown Starfire
AC Fuller Crime Beat # 4 Las Vegas
Poems
Writing com Basic Haiku
Basho The Short Night Ending
Basho A Morning Of Snow
Basho Old Village
Jane Reichhold The Whole Sky
Jane Reichhold Lightning
Jane Reichhold Goldfish
Jane Reichhold The Poet’s Hand
Other Poems
Paula T. Calhoun A New Hope
Christina Rossetti Up-Hill
Sarah Howe (for Stephen Hawking) Relativity
Shel Silverstein Frozen Dream
Marie Elena Good MARIES ENTRANCE:
Walter J. Wojtanik REMEMBER
Stacia M Flee “Post-Apocalyptic”
Tempus Ambigua (Rhyme Royal)
Lady and Louis Two Silver Rings
Mountainwriter49 Forever in my Heart
Judi Van Gorder Press Conference
Stark Carousel Ride
Robert E Brewer The Day After
Marie Elena Good First, Do No Harm
Walter J. Wojtanik Change of Pace
Walt Whitman Song of Myself
Julius Norton Phantom Tollbooth
Pantoum Form
Sally-Ann Roberts, It All Started With A Packet of Seeds
Chellie Wood Dance in The Rain
Dendrobia Osprey
Marie Summers Seasonal Whispers
Four Haiku
Basho The Poet’s Hand
Basho Lightning Stabs the Darkness
Basho A Crow Sits on a Bare Branch
a Grassy Meadow
Mod Po mini-course poems
Caroline Bergal Cat in One’s Throat
Caroline Bergal Not Tale
Writing Com
Alfred Lord Tennyson Summer Night
Langton Hughes Calm Sea
Emily Bronte Spell Bound
Thomas Bailey Aldrich Fredericksburg VA Civil War
Poem
Jeff W. Watson Ghosts of the Past
Joyce Kilmer Fairyland
Writing Com Laturne
Crystal Rose Swift Winds Blow Laturne
Crystal Rose Opens Revealing Laturne
Crystal Rose Sun rises Laturne
February
Books
– What’s Bred in the Bone [Grant Allen]
Poems
Tannka writing com 2-3-2022
Philip Appleman Somber Girl
Beman Books on Shelf
Machi Tawara Freezing My Smile
Yukitsuna Sasaki The Bloom Finished
Takuboku Ishikawa Lying on the Dune Sand
Masaoka Shiki “The bucket’s water
Tekkan Yosano it cries and cries
Akiko Yosano “into a pair of stars
Shūji Miya Slowly Inside Me
Yoshimi Kondō Casting Shadows
Writing com Say It Eight Reading List
Karina Borowicz September Tomatoes
William Carlos Williams Red Wheel Barrel
John Donne’s No Man Is an Island
Anais Nin Risk
Lucille Clifton blessing the boats
Zegel Writing com
Judi Van Gorder An Old Hymn Still Singing
Robert Lee Brewer Give Me A Reason
Lee Li-Young Immigrant Blues
Paul Celan Microliths”
Sappho To My Mother
Eavan Boland Habitual Grief
Eavan Boland A Different Light
3/23/2022 Writing Com
Gwendolyn Brooks To Be In Love
Gwendolyn Brooks A Sunset of the City
Gwendolyn Brooks The Mother
March
Jules Verne in the year 2899
Grant Allen – What’s Bred in the Bone
Lucius Apuleius The Golden Ass
Writing com examples
Edgar Allen Poe The Raven
Robert Service The Cremation of Sam Mc Gee
Oscar Wilde The Ballad of Reading Gaol
John Keats The Poetry of Earth Is Never Dead
Amy Lowell Wind
Dorothea MacKellar Fire
Hex Sonnetta form Andrea Dietrich The Bringer of Spring’s Cheer Jan Turner Under the Canopy
Haiku Sonnet writing com examples
David Marshall Haiku Crown: Fall
Departures
Signal to Noise
Meeting
Crowds
Talking Together
Channels
Common Regard
North and Sedgewick
First Girlfriend
Remembering
The Big Top
The Other Room
from Writing com newsletter 4/23/2022
Edith Wharton An Autumn Sunset
Edith Wharton Life
Edith Wharton Chartres
Longfellow’s Prologue to Evangeline
Elizabeth Bishop” Cape Breton Island.
Even Rudyard Kipling “The Song of the Cities”
Robert Frost” The Mountain”.
E Pauline Johnson “Guard of the Eastern Gate”
~Judi Van Gorder. Villanelle for Scottie
Jane Kenyon February: Thinking of Flowers
Jane Kenyon Let Evening Come
Jane Kenyon, Briefly It Enters and Briefly Speaks
Famous Limericks
Anonymous There Once Was A Lady From Lynn
Lewis Carrol Lady Of Station From Alice In Wonderland
Judi Van Gorder The Parrot Was Messy And Loud;
Judi Van Gorder An Irishman Came To My City–Judi Van Gorder
Edward Lear Young Lady Of Dorking
Edward Lear’s There Was An Old Man With A Beard
Edward Lear There Was A Young Person Of Crete,
Dixon Lanier Merrit A Wonderful Bird Is The Pelican
Mark Twain A Man Hired By John Smith And Co:”
Ron Rubin There Was An Old Drunkard Of Devon,
Matt Salter’s There Was A Young Lady Of Nice
Matt Salter That Very Same Lady
Matt Salter But Her Husband Cried “Cease” Monica Sharman Relentless, Insatiable Deadlines!
Unknown There Was A Young Lady Of Niger
NaPoWriMo
Kay Ryan Token Loss
Kay Ryan Blue China Doornob
Kay Ryan Houdini
Writing Com Newsletter
William Blake Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
Goerge Cooper’s “Come, Little Leaves”.
George Cooper “ I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.”
RL Stevenson “Child Garden of Verse -How do you like to go up in a swing,”
Lord Alfred Tennyson “Break, break, break,
On thy cold gray stones, O Sea!”
Love Poems Poetry Foundation source poem for Love Cento
Jake Cosmos Aller Million Ways to Say I Love You Joshua Beckman Lying in bed I think about you,
Anne Bradstreet To my husband
Valentine Lorna Dee Cervantes Ben Jonson Song: to Celia [“Drink to me only with thine eyes”]
Morris Egan Bar Napkin Sonnet #11
Jennifer Michael Hecht Love Explained Robert Herrick Upon Julia’s Breasts John Keats‘s The Day is Gone
William Shakespeare Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all: William Shakespeare‘s The Spring
(from Love’s Labours Lost) William Shakespeare
Sonnet 65: Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea
John Updike Penumbrae
Articles
WP Organization of the US – very powerful analysis
Books
Ted Bell Warlord
Ted Bell Warriors
Poems
Poets Place Writing Com 5-20-2022
Examples
George Gordon (Lord) Byron, 1820 Francesca Of Rimini
Robert Frost, I Have Become Acquainted With The Night
George Gordon (Lord) Byron, 1820 Francesca Of Rimini
Dusty Grein, 2015 Loud Today
Dusty Grein, 2016 A Mist Shrouded Path
Lord Shelly Oh Wild West
Linda Newman Faith (Terza Rima Sonnet)
Robert Duncan the Horse
Ode Sappho
Mod Po mini-course poems
Clerihew Poems James Dean Chase Dickie Dare James Dean Chase Lady Gaga
Judi Van Gorder King of Pop
Frank Gibbard Royal Kate Middelton
James Dean Chase Corporal Klinger,
Personification poems Writing com
Nancy Willard Two Sunflowers
William Wordsworth, I Wandered Lonely
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Paul Revere’s Ride
Shel Silverstein What If
June
Books
Jane Austin Northanger Abbey
Jane Austin- Lady Susan
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Lyman Frank Baum
The Art of Public Speaking Dale Breckenridge Carnegie
The Blazing World Margaret Cavendish
Stuart Woods Class Act
Poems
Frosted Fantasy Irish Rain
Camp 39 David Schneider
Robert Frost Going for Water
Poetry Newsletter Story Lady
Wilfred Owen The End
Wilfred Owen Winter Song
Wilfred Owen Spring Offensive
Glenda L. Hand Autumn
Glenda L. Hand Love
Cynthia Kay Armstrong Cards
Glenda L. Hand Change of Seasons (Mirror Oddquain)
Glenda L. Hand Celebration (Butterfly Oddquain)
Claire Litchfield, At Last, I’ve Let Go (Crown Oddquain)
Parallelogram de Crystalline is a poetry form created by Karan Naidu. This form consists of 4 verses of 3 lines each. The syllable count for each stanza is 3, 6, and 9. In this style of poem, the beauty of a lover is compared with nature and described…
Writing com Poetry newsletter Stormy Lady’s Poems
Walter de la Mare’s The Song Of Shadows
Walter de la Mare Alone
Walter de la Mare When the Rose is Faded
Walter de la Mare Fare Well
Rictameter Poems Poets Place
Beauty Jason Wilkins
Satin Jason Wilkins
Mrs. Aubrey Steedman’s Childhood
Marinela Reka Valentine’s Day
Tri-Fall
Jan Turner Destiny’s Starway*
Jan Turner Winter’s Passing (Tri-Fall)
Poetics A. R. Ammons
After Yesterday A. R. Ammons
R. Ammons A. R. Ammons
The City Limits A. R. Ammons
Rapids A. R. Ammons
R. Ammons
August Books
The Moonstone [Wilkie Collins]
– Lord Jim [Joseph Conrad]
Daniel De Foe Robinson Crusoe’s Second Voyage
Elmer Leonard Djibouti
James Roman demon crown E
Poems
Jack Kerouac Haiku
SeptemberBooks-
Daniel Defore The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
Charles Dickens -The Pickwick Papers
Volcanoes are in Sicily
I never saw a moor
The brain within its groove
I taste a liquor never brewed
The brain—is wider than the sky
Tell all the truth
We learned the whole of love
Wild nights & she rose to his requirement
Alone and in a circumstance
The way hope builds his house
There is solitude in space
Love reckons by itself alone
The soul unto itself
A man may make a remark
From blank to blank
Much madness is a most divine sense
I felt a funeral, in my brain
The fairest home I ever knew
“he fumbles at your soul”:
Whitman
Canto 5 of “song of myself”:
Canto 14 of “song of myself”:
“out of the cradle endlessly rocking”:
“on the beach at night alone”:
“I hear it was charged against me”:
Divya victor’s “w is for Walt whitman’s soul”:
Mod Po Plus Week Two and Three PART ONE: CID CORMAN
Enuresis”
It isn’t for want”: PART TWO: WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS
2.1 read William Carlos Williams’s “Catholic Bells”: LINK TO TEXT2.2 listen to Williams perform “Catholic Bells”: LINK TO AUDIO2.3 watch discussion of “Catholic Bells”: LINK TO VIDEO [OFFSITE COPY]2.4 re-read Williams’s “Danse Russe”: LINK TO TEXT2.5 listen to the discussion of “Danse Russe” led by Al in New York (Sept. 2015): LINK TO AUDIO [OFFSITE COPIES: 1, 2 ]RAE ARMANTROUTThe Way”:
Second Person”
Speech Acts”:LORINE NIEDECKER“A Country’s Economics Sick”
Wilderness”
“Foreclosure”:
Easter Greeting
I married”Popcorn-can cover”
My Life by Water”:
Linnaeus in Lapland” NNAH SANGHEE PARKDear Sir— JASON ZUZGA
Connected”: ELIZABETH WILLIS
Survey”
Address”:
September 9″:
“The Similitude of This Great Flower” FRANCISCO X. ALARCÓN
From the Other Side of Night” KIT ROBINSON
“Leaves of Class” KATE COLBY
Middleman”:
Theory”
Homing” JOHN PHILLIPS
This” ALLEN GINSBERG
A Supermarket in California” EVE L. EWING
I saw Emmett Till this week at the grocery store” YOLANDA WISHER
From Imhotep’s Kundalini” ANGELA CARR
Straight as an Arrow” WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS
Young Woman at a Window”
“Lines”
The Attic Which Is Desire”:
Spring and all Spring and All (1923):
To Elsie”
The Red Wheelbarrow
Flowers by the Sea
Between Walls”
This Is Just to Say”
The Last Words of My English Grandmother EZRA POUND
Ezra Pound’s “Portrait d’une Femme”: LINK TO TEXT
Cantico del Sol”: LINK TO TEXT
The River-Merchant’s Wife”: LINK TO TEXT
“In a Station of the Metro” AMY LOWELL
Amy Lowell
The Letter” RAE ARMANTROUT
“Anti-Short Story”
Postcards”
“Cheshire Poetics”
Emily Dickinson
“A narrow fellow in the grass” (#1096): H.D.
“Sea Poppies”
“Epigram”:
“Moonrise”:
H.D.’s “Sheltered Garden”:
5.10 read H.D.’s “Night” T.S. ELIOT
S. Eliot’s The Waste Land:
HUGH MacDiarmid“A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle”: LINK TO TEXT WALLACE STEVENS
The Snow Man
“Large Red Man Reading”
“The Plain Sense of Things
The Poem That Took the Place of a Mountain”
Thirteen Ways.
“Disillusionment of 10 O’Clock”:
Anecdote of the Jar”
“Gray Room”
Lytle Shaw’s ”
The Confessions 2,” WALLACE STEVENS
Not Ideas about the Thing but the Thing Itself”: PETER GIZZI
Not Ideas
Archeophonics”: MICHIYO NAKAMOTO & JAPANESE NEO-IMAGISM
Michiyo Nakamoto’s “Vernal Equinox”
Ayukawa’s “Man on a Bridge” H.D.’s “OREAD” JUNZABURO NISHIWAKI’S “RAIN” EILEEN TABIOS & THE HAY(NA)KU
As If”: PIERRE REVERDY
Pierre Reverdy’s “Still Life—Portrait”
Reverdy’s “Still Life—Portrait”: MARIANNE MOORE
Marianne Moore’s “To a Snail”
imaginary gardens with real toads” TONYA FOSTER
A Swarm of Bees in High Court KEN TAYLOR
“Cloud in the Shape of Misunderstanding Haiku: ROBERT CREELEY
“The Language”: POET TOM LEONARD
Just to Let Yi No”: CHRISTIE WILLIAMSON
Nantucket”
St. Catherine’s ROSA ALCALÁ
Adventures in Food Processing” from Rosa Alcalaá’s Undocumentaries:
Land Art in the Silk City”
In documentary”
Stormy Lady’s Poetry Newsletter
Jean Toomer Georgia Dusk
Jean Toomer Evening Song
Jean Toomer November Cotton Flower
Tell Me, Jean Toomer
Writing Com Roundeau
Elliot Napier All Men Are Free
Judi Van Gorder Falling for the French
Judi Van Gorder Palette
Judi Van Gorder Wind on the Terrace
Henry Austin Dobson’s The Wanderer
Barbara Hartman August’s end
John Mc Crae Flanders Fields
Robert Murtaugh,(Fader) Loneliness
Pam Murray Springtime Air
Paul Murray As I Was Warmed
Marie Summer Winds of Chickamauga
Ed Whidmer Lincoln on the Verge
PoemsWriting com newsletter
Poet Unknown Set The World Rejoicing
Walt Whitman When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer
Stormy lady newsletter
William Allingham’s The Fairies
William Allingham Down On The Shore
William Allingham A Gravestone
Writing com Poets place
Dylan Thomas Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night
Elizbeth Bhishop One Art
Julie Wright RunawayAli Saad A Temple on Her BedNovemberBooksDicken Pickwick Papers
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky the Gambler
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky Notes from the Underground
Arthur Conan Doyle- The Sign of the Four
Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hounds of the Baskerville
From Camp H
Stephen Coonts Hong Kong
Poems Newsletter Writing com
Conrad Aiken All Lovely Things
Conrad Aiken Haunted Chambers
Conrad Aiken Nocturne Of Remembered SpringI.
II.
III.Edward Lear
Imitation of The Olden Poets
Edward Lear’s The Owl and the Pussy-Cat
Edward Lear’s The Dong With A Luminous Nose
Poems Writing com
PS Cottier Amorphous Solid
Robert Frost My November
Guest Poetry Place
Writing com
Emile Romano Sky Flowers
Emile Romano Gardening The Rose*
Books to read
George Martin a knight of the seven kingdoms
Brad Meltzer the 5th assassin
Stephen Coonts Assassin
John Grisham The Summons
James Rollins Map of Bones
Robert Ludlum The Jansen Directive
Michael Crichton Sphere
William Trevor Fools of Fortune
Christopher Michael Nuclear Orange Cupid is the Devil poems
Baldacci King and Maxwell
Bj Buckely’s In January, the Geese PSH contest award
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 Nights
(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, Readers Guide,
Federalist papers
50 Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die
Started reading the first one of volume 3Bolded 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 Two
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-
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]
– Captains 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] – Tales of Space and Time [H. G. Wells]
– Jacob’s Room [Virginia Woolf]
The books on Boxall’s list, which is found in the 5 editions of the published book
with a TOTAL NUMBER OF 1318 books.
These books are mostly NOVELS. That is why there are no holy books, Shakespeare, etc.
THIS LIST IS COMPLETE. DO NOT ADD ANY BOOKS AND ALSO DO NOT REMOVE ANY. In case of doubt post a comment here and the people maintaining this list will take a look at it!
The list can be found at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/c…flag
BOLD read
1 To Kill a Mockingbird To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Pride and Prejudice Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
1984 1984
by George Orwell
The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jane Eyre Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë
The Little Prince The Little Prince
by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Hobbit (The Lord of the… The Hobbit (The Lord of the Rings, #0) by J.R.R. Tolkien
Animal Farm Animal Farm by George Orwell The Catcher in the Rye The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Picture of Dorian Gray The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Lord of the Flies Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Wuthering Heights Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Little Women Little Women
b Louisa May Alcott
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to t… The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, #1) by Douglas Adams
Of Mice and Men Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 17
Brave New World Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Gone with the Wind Gone with the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell
The Count of Monte Cristo The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas Crime and Punishment Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky One Hundred Years of Solitude One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez Les Misérables Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
The Handmaid’s Tale (The Ha… The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid’s Tale, #1)
by Margaret Atwood
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text Frankenstein: The 1818 Text by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Dracula Dracula by Bram Stoker
Anna Karenina Anna Karenina
by Leo Tolstoy
Memoirs of a Geisha Memoirs of a Geisha
by Arthur Golden
The Grapes of Wrath The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
The Adventures of Huckleber… The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Great Expectations Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Sense and Sensibility Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Slaughterhouse-Five Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Life of Pi Life of Pi
by Yann Martel
The Adventures of Sherlock … The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3) by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Curious Incident of the… The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
by Mark Haddon
Lolita Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
Rebecca Rebecca
by Daphne du Maurier
The Bell Jar The Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath
Catch-22 Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
by Anne Rice
Perfume: The Story of a Mur… Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
by Patrick Süskind
The Stranger The Stranger
by Albert Camus
Treasure Island Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
All Quiet on the Western Front All Quiet on the Western Front
by Erich Maria Remarque
The Shining The Shining
by Stephen King
Never Let Me Go Never Let Me Go
by Kazuo Ishiguro
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Poisonwood Bible The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
A Tale of Two Cities A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
In Cold Blood In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote The Hound of the Baskervill… The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5) by Arthur Conan Doyle Moby-Dick or, the Whale Moby-Dick or, the Whale by Herman Melville The Brothers Karamazov The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky The Time Machine The Time Machine by H.G. Wells The Godfather (The Godfathe… The Godfather (The Godfather, #1) by Mario Puzo 66
Madame Bovary Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert A Prayer for Owen Meany A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving The Name of the Rose The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
The Master and Margarita The Master and Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and … Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories
by Truman Capote
Through the Looking-Glass a… Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There (Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, #2)
by Lewis Carroll
Atonement Atonement
by Ian McEwan
Oliver Twist Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens
Middlesex Middlesex
by Jeffrey Eugenides
Robinson Crusoe (Robinson C… Robinson Crusoe (Robinson Crusoe, #1)
by Daniel Defoe
The Unbearable Lightness of… The Unbearable Lightness of Being
by Milan Kundera
Gulliver’s Travels: Travels… Gulliver’s Travels: Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
by Jonathan Swift
The Three Musketeers (The D… The Three Musketeers (The D’Artagnan Romances #1)
by Alexandre Dumas
Watchmen Watchmen
by Alan Moore
On the Road On the Road
by Jack Kerouac
Don Quixote Don Quixote
by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
The House of the Spirits The House of the Spirits
by Isabel Allende
Uncle Tom’s Cabin Uncle Tom’s Cabin
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Trial The Trial
by Franz Kafka
Love in the Time of Cholera Love in the Time of Cholera
by Gabriel García Márquez
Pippi Longstocking (Pippi L… Pippi Longstocking (Pippi Långstrump, #1)
by Astrid Lindgren
The Reader The Reader
by Bernhard Schlink
The World According to Garp The World According to Garp
by John Irving
The Sun Also Rises The Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway
Candide Candide
by Voltaire
The Call of the Wild The Call of the Wild
by Jack London
Notre-Dame de Paris | The H… Notre-Dame de Paris | The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
by Victor Hugo
The Arabian Nights The Arabian Nights
by Anonymous
Doctor Zhivago Doctor Zhivago
by Boris Pasternak
The Idiot The Idiot
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Mansfield Park Mansfield Park
by Jane Austen
The Virgin Suicides The Virgin Suicides
by Jeffrey Eugenides
Tess of the D’Urbervilles Tess of the D’Urbervilles
by Thomas Hardy
The Plague The Plague
by Albert Camus
Things Fall Apart (The Afri… Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by Chinua Achebe
The Diary of Anne Frank
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
Fahrenheit 451
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Twilight
The Alchemist
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
The Book Thief
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Little House in the Big Woods
The Secret Life of Bees
Black Beauty
My Sister’s Keeper
The books on Boxall’s list, which is found in the 5 editions of the published book
with a TOTAL NUMBER OF 1318 books.
These books are mostly NOVELS. That is why there are no holy books, Shakespeare, etc.
THIS LIST IS COMPLETE. DO NOT ADD ANY BOOKS AND ALSO DO NOT REMOVE ANY. In case of doubt post a comment here and the people maintaining this list will take a look at it!
BOLD read
1 To Kill a Mockingbird To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Pride and Prejudice Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
1984 1984
by George Orwell
4
The Lord of the Rings The Lord of the Rings
by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
6
Jane Eyre Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë
The Little Prince The Little Prince
by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Hobbit (The Lord of the… The Hobbit (The Lord of the Rings, #0)
by J.R.R. Tolkien
Animal Farm Animal Farm
by George Orwell
The Catcher in the Rye The Catcher in the Rye
by J.D. Salinger
The Picture of Dorian Gray The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde
Lord of the Flies Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
Wuthering Heights Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë
Little Women Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott
15
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to t… The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by Douglas Adams
Of Mice and Men Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck
17
Brave New World Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
18
Gone with the Wind Gone with the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell
The Count of Monte Cristo The Count of Monte Cristo
by Alexandre Dumas
Crime and Punishment Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
One Hundred Years of Solitude One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel García Márquez
Les Misérables Les Misérables
by Victor Hugo
The Handmaid’s Tale (The Ha… The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid’s Tale, #1)
by Margaret Atwood
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Dracula Dracula
by Bram Stoker
Anna Karenina Anna Karenina
by Leo Tolstoy
Memoirs of a Geisha Memoirs of a Geisha
by Arthur Golden
The Grapes of Wrath The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
The Adventures of Huckleber… The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
Great Expectations Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
Sense and Sensibility Sense and Sensibility
by Jane Austen
Slaughterhouse-Five Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Life of Pi Life of Pi
by Yann Martel
The Adventures of Sherlock … The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)
by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Curious Incident of the… The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
by Mark Haddon
Lolita Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
Rebecca Rebecca
by Daphne du Maurier
The Bell Jar The Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath
Catch-22 Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
The Old Man and the Sea The Old Man and the Sea
by Ernest Hemingway
41
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s … One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
42
The Scarlet Letter The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Color Purple The Color Purple
by Alice Walker War and Peace Leo Tolstoy
Ema by Jane Austen
Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
by Anne Rice
b
Perfume: The Story of a Mur… Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
by Patrick Süskind
y Albert Camus
52
Treasure Island Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson
ll Quiet on the Western Front All Quiet on the Western Front
by Erich Maria Remarque
The Shining The Shining
by Stephen King
Never Let Me Go Never Let Me Go
by Kazuo Ishiguro Persuasion Persuasion by Jane Austen Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson The Poisonwood Bible The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
A Tale of Two Cities A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
In Cold Blood In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
The Hound of the Baskervill… The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5) by Arthur Conan Doyle
Moby-Dick or, the Whale Moby-Dick or, the Whale by Herman Melville
The Brothers Karamazov The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Time Machine The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
The Godfather (The Godfathe… The Godfather (The Godfather, #1)
by Mario Puzo
Madame Bovary Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert A Prayer for Owen Meany A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
The Name of the Rose The Name of the Rose
by Umberto Eco
The Master and Margarita The Master and Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and … Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories
by Truman Capote
Through the Looking-Glass a… Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There (Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, #2) by Lewis Carroll
Atonement Atonement
by Ian McEwan Oliver Twist Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Middlesex Middlesex
by Jeffrey Eugenides Robinson Crusoe (Robinson C… Robinson Crusoe (Robinson Crusoe, #1) by Daniel Defoe The Unbearable Lightness of… The Unbearable Lightness of Being
by Milan Kundera Gulliver’s Travels: Travels… Gulliver’s Travels: Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. by Jonathan Swift
The Three Musketeers (The D… The Three Musketeers (The D’Artagnan Romances #1) by Alexandre Dumas
Watchmen Watchmen
by Alan Moore On the Road On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Don Quixote Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
The House of the Spirits
by Isabel Allende
Uncle Tom’s Cabin Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Trial by Franz Kafka
Love in the Time of Cholera Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
Pippi Longstocking (Pippi L… Pippi Longstocking (Pippi Långstrump, #1)
by Astrid Lindgren
The Reader The Reader
by Bernhard Schlink World According to Garp The World According to Garp by John Irving
The Sun Also Rises The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Candide Candide by Voltaire The Call of the Wild The Call of the Wild by Jack London
Notre-Dame de Paris | The H… Notre-Dame de Paris | The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo
The Arabian Nights The Arabian Nights
by Anonymous
Doctor Zhivago Doctor Zhivago
by Boris Pasternak The Idiot The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Mansfield Park Mansfield Park
by Jane Austen
The Virgin Suicides The Virgin Suicides
by Jeffrey Eugenides
Tess of the D’Urbervilles Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
The Plague The Plague
by Albert Camus
Things Fall Apart (The Afri… Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by Chinua Achebe
The Diary of Anne Frank The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe Fahrenheit 451 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets The Metamorphosis and Other Stories Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Twilight
The Alchemist Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire The Book Thief Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Little House in the Big Woods
The Secret Life of Bees
Black Beauty
My Sister’s Keeper Charlotte’s Web The Call of the Wild Water for Elephants The Princess Bride The Kite Runner The Pillars of the Earth Illusions Watership Down
Nice Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
Where the Sidewalk Ends Harry Potter Box Set
Tuesdays with Morrie
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster Ender’s Game
The Valley of Horses
It The Chronicles of Narnia The Screwtape Letters Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee The Clan of the Cave Bear American Gods The Stand
– “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly” – Jean-Dominique Bauby – “Hamlet” – William Shakespeare
– “Goodnight Opus” – Berkeley Breathed
– “The Devil in the White City” – Erik Larson
– “The Thief Lord” – Cornelia Funke
– “Indigo” – Alice Hoffman
– “Mythology” – Edith Hamilton
– “The Outsiders” – S.E. Hinton
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories, by Franz Kafka (there is Kafka on the list, but this isn’t one of them) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain
The Very Hungry Caterpillar, by Eric Carle
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, by Roald Dahl The Stranger, by Albert Camus Peter Pan, by J.M. Barrie The Memory Keeper’s Daughter, by Kim Edwards The Importance of Being Earnest, by Oscar Wilde (if it’s a play, it’s probably not on the list, which is mostly novels)
The Red Tent, by Anita Diamant The Complete Grimm’s Fairy Tales, by Jacob Grimm East of Eden, by John Steinbeck The Gift of the Magi, by O. Henry Dune, by Frank Herbert
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Betty Smith
The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman
The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold
The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho (again)
Anne of Green Gables, by L.M. Montgomery And Then There Were None, by Agatha Christie
The Omnivore’s Dilemma, by Michael Pollan (the list is, I believe, strictly fiction)
New Moon, by Stephenie Meyer Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke Ringworld by Larry Niven Tales of Known Space: The Universe of Larry Niven by Larry Niven
The Long Arm of Gil Hamilton by Larry Niven Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov Doorways in the Sand by Robert Zelazny Creatures of Light and Darkness by Rober Zelazny
Portrait of a Killer: Jack The Ripper – Case Cl… by Patricia Cornwell The Nine Billion Names of God: The Best Short S… by Arthur C. Clarke
The Aleph and Other Stories by Jorge Luis Borges
Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings by Jorge Luis Borges
Carried Away: A Selection of Stories by Alice Munro
Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Briggs Martin
The Immaculate Conception by Gaetan Soucy The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
Double Helix by J. Watson The Story of Philosophy by Will Durant
A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White H… by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
Broken Government: How the Republi…by John W. Dean Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
Manhunt: The Twelve Day Chase… by James L. Swanson Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
The Pianist: The Extraordinary True… by Wladyslaw Szpilman
The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham
My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier
Leviathan by Paul Auster
D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths by Ingri D’Aulaire
Jurassic Park, by Michael Crichton The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown The Shadow of the Wind, by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Fight Club, by Chuck Palahniuk The Golden Compass, by Philip Pullman
Where the Sidewalk Ends, by Shel Silverstein The Tell-Tale Heart, by Edgar Allan Poe (Poe is on the list three times, but not for this one.) The Bible Goodnight Moon, by Margaret Wise Brown Shogun, by James Clavell
The Thirteenth Tale, by Diane Setterfield
A Child Called It, by Dave Pelzer
The Historian, by Elizabeth Kostova
White Oleander, by Janet Fitch
The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky
Where the Red Fern Grows, by Wilson Rawls Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller The Lottery and Other Stories, by Shirley Jackson Love Story, by Erich Segal
Love You Forever, by Robert N. Munsch
John Adams, by David McCullough
Angela’s Ashes, by Frank McCourt Othello, by William Shakespeare The Aeneid, by Virgil Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman The World of Pooh, by A.A. Milne
Katherine, by Anya Seton
The Stand, by Stephen King (Mr. King is on, but only for The Shining.)
Daughter of the Forrest, by Juliet Marillier World Without End, by Ken Follett The God Delusion, by Richard Dawkins Freakonomics, by Stephen D. Levitt
World War Z, by Max Brooks The Prophet, by Kahlil Gibran The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini Roots, by Alex Haley House of Sand and Fog, by Andre Dubus III The Canterbury Tales, by Barbara Cohen
The Eyre Affair, by Jasper Fforde Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, by J.K. Rowling
The Ruins, by Scott B. Smith The Road, by Cormac McCarthy
Farmer Boy, by Laura Ingalls Wilder Forrest Gump, by Winston Groom The Mammoth Hunters, by Jean Auel
Anansi Boys, by Neil Gaiman
100 Love Sonnets, by Pablo Neruda Watership Down, by Richard Adams
Shadow Kiss, by Richelle Mead The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins The Shack, by William Young
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, by Michael Chabon
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, by Carson McCullers
Coraline, by Neil Gaiman A Wizard of Earthsea, by Urusula K. Le Guin The Eye of the World, by Robert Jordan Three Cups of Tea, by Greg Mortenson The Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx
Le Morte d’Arthur, by Thomas Malory
Fail Safe, by Eugene Burdick
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle-Stop Cafe, by Fannie Flagg Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand
Graceling, by Kristin Cashore
Enchanted April, by Elizabeth von Arnim
The Art of Racing in the Rain, by Garth Stein
Ripley’s Game, by Patricia Highsmith (The Talented Mr. Ripley is on, but this one isn’t.) Watchers, by Dean Koontz
Paradise Lost, by John Milton
The Twentieth Wife, by Indu Sundaresan
Angels in America, by Tony Kushner
The Giver, by Lois Lowry
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, by Susanna Clarke 1776, by David McCullough
The Tale of Genji, by Murasaki Shikibu
Zorba the Greek, by Nikos Kazantzakis The Foundation Trilogy, by Isaac Asimov (Foundation is on, but the other two are not.)
Into the Wild, by Erin Hunter The Republic, by Plato The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, by William L. Shirer
If I Die in a Combat Zone, by Tim O’Brien (The Things They Carried is on; this isn’t.)
Blood Promise, by Richelle Mead
Final Exit, by Derek Humphry Catching Fire, by Suzanne Collins
Eleven Minutes, by Paulo Coelho
Guards! Guards!, by Terry Pratchett
Frostbite, by Richelle Mead
The Zahir, by Paulo Coelho The Man in the Iron Mask, by Alexandre Dumas (Monte Cristo, Reine Margot, and Three Musketeers are in; this isn’t.)
Burned, by P.C. Cast Ender’s Shadow, by Orson Scott Card The Taming of the Shrew, by William Shakespeare (There is no Shakespeare on this list.)
Vampire Academy, by Richelle Mead
The Elephant Vanishes, by Haruki Murakami
The Painted Veil, by Somerset Maugham
The History of the Pelopponnesian War, by Thucydides
Children of the Mind, by Orson Scott Card
Le Grand Meaulnes, by Henri Alain-Fournier
Amadeus, by Peter Shaffer
Dark Rivers of the Heart, by Dean Koontz The Dancing Wu Li Masters, by Gary Zukav
Starman Jones, by Robert Heinlein (Stranger in a Strange Land is on.)
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, by John Boyne
The Last Olympian, by Rick Riordan
Maurice, by E.M. Forster The Tale of Gilgamesh, by Anonymous The Book Thief, by Marcus Zusak
A Long Way Gone, by Ishmael Beah
Chasing Vermeer, by Blue Balliett
Poison Study, by Maria V. Snyder
When Nietzsche Wept, by Irvin D. Yalom
Child of the Prophecy, by Juliet Marillier
Marley & Me, by John Grogan
The Color of Water, by James McBride
On Death and Dying, by Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
The Time Traveler’s Wife, by Audrey Niffennegger
The Onion Field, by Joseph Wambaugh Insomnia, by Stephen King
Go Ask Alice, by Anonymous
The Exorcist, by William Peter Blatty
Amazing Grace, by Kathleen Norris Battlefield Earth, by L. Ron Hubbard
The Three Questions, by Jon J. Muth
The Bonesetter’s Daughter, by Amy Tan
The Demigod Files, by Rick Riordan
The Study Series Bundle, by Maria V. Snyder
The Tea Rose, by Jennifer Donnelly
Harriet the Spy, by Louise Fitzhugh
Free Speech for Me, by Nat Hentoff
Moloka’i, by Alan Brennert
From a Buick 8, by Stephen King
The Hiding Place, by Corrie Ten Boom The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, by Robert Heinlein
The Robe, by Lloyd C. Douglas
Nobody’s Fool, by Richard Russo like A Clockwork Orange.
Olive Kitteridge, by Elizabeth Strout
The March, by E.L. Doctorow
A Lesson Before Dying, by Earnest Gaines
The Glass Castle, by Jeanette Walls
Me Talk Pretty One Day, by David Sedaris
The Histories, by Herodotus
Rabbit at Rest, by John Updike (Oddly enough, the other three are on the list)
Kitchen Confidential, by Anthony Bourdain The Essential Rumi, by Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi
Duma Key, by Stephen King
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, by David Wroblewski
Ahab’s Wife, by Sena Jeter Naslund
Angels in America, Part Two: Perestroika, by Tony Kushner (plays aren’t generally on this list)
American Nightmare, by Jerrold M. Packard
The Complete Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi
The Killer Angels, by Michael Shaara
Because of Winn-Dixie, by Kate DiCamillo
The Color of Magic, by Terry Pratchett
Animal, Vegetable, Mineral, by Barbara Kingsolver Richard III, by William Shakespeare (Shakespeare is not on this list) The Plains of Passage, by Jean M. Auel QB VII, by Leon Uris
The Shelters of Stone, by Jean M. Auel
Rain of Gold, by Victor Villasenor
Inkheart, by Cornelia Funke
Neither Here Nor There, by Bill Bryson The Lightening Thief, by Rick Riordan
Sunshine, by Robin McKinley The Sea of Monsters, by Rick Riordan The Titan’s Curse, by Rick Riordan The Battle of the Labyrinth, by Rick Riordan
The Notebook, by Nicholas Sparks
The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd The Glass Menagerie, by Tennessee Williams Time Enough for Love, by Robert Heinlein Rendezvous with Rama, by Arthur C. Clarke
The Mutiny on the Bounty Trilogy, by Charles Nordhoff
The World Without Us, by Alan Weisman
The Voyage of the Star Wolf
The War Against the Chtorr 1: A Matter For Men
by David Gerrold
The Holy Man
by Susan Trott
A Canticle for Leibowitz
by Walter M. Miller Jr.
Tiger Eyes
by Judy Blume
Song of the Sound
by ADAM ARMSTRONG
The Competitive Advantage of Nations
by Michael E. Porter
Atlantis Found
by Clive Cussler
Hellboy Volume 1: Seed of Destruction
by Mike Mignola
The Girlfriends’ Guide to Pregnancy: Second Edi…
by Vicki Iovine
NO: Why Kids–of All Ages–Need to Hear It and …
by David Walsh
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of …
by Robert A. Caro
Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary C…
by Jim Collins
Reclaiming History: The Assassination of Presid…
by Vincent Bugliosi
Magic Study
Fire Study
Assassin Study
Storm Glass
Ice Study
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Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Id…
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Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture
by Douglas Coupland
Angels In America
by Joseph Kushner
The Dictionary of Imaginary Places
by Alberto Manguel
A Day in the Life: The Music and Artistry
by Mark Hertsgaard
The Power of One, by Bryce Courtenay
The Solitaire Mystery, by Jostein Gaarder
Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson Water for Elephants, by Sara Gruen The Good Earth, by Pearl S. Buck
Runaway: Stories, by Alice Munro
First They Killed My Father, by Loung Ung
Johnny Got His Gun, by Dalton Trumbo
Floyd on France, by Keith Floyd
“The Agony And The Ecstasy.”
“Dragon Slippers” by Jessica Day George.
A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khaled Hosseini
The Agony and the Ecstasy, by Irving Stone
Dragon Slippers, by Jessica Day George
Letter to a Christian Nation, by Sam Harris
L’Espoir, by Andre Malraux
The Bamboo Cutter and the Moon Maid, by Teresa Pierce Williston
Egyptian Sinuhet, by Mika Waltari
Princess of the Midnight Ball, by Jessica Day George
As some of you know, I have been reading the classics. I started last year on my 65th birthday, and have enjoying it. I found a three-volume series on Kindle titled 50 books you must read before you die, and also found the Harvard classics. Three years ago, I figured out I have read about 100 books per year since I was ten years old, which would mean I have read about 6,000 books all told and about the same number of movies/TV shows seen. See the following partial lists
I will write a review of each book as I finish it. This will probably take me until next year but I have finished about half of the 150 books. Some are fast reads, and some are very slow because the 19th century writers wrote too damn long books for modern readers. and most are problematic from a racist, sexist and ablest point of view.
Not all the classics are in the list below. I will add those to the list at the end of the list.
I have written reviews on G Chesterton’s work (below)
(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, Readers Guide,
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
Vlume 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]
– 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]
– 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
– 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] – This Side of Paradise [Francis Scott Fitzgerald] – Curious, If True: Strange Tales [Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell]
– Kim [Rudyard Kipling]
– Captains 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]
These lists are duplicative so I have tried to combine into one list. The books on Boxall’s list, which is found in the 5 editions of the published book with a TOTAL NUMBER OF 1315 books. I have read about 600 or so. I bolded the books I have read.
1001 Books Basic list (combined lists)
Book Title
Author
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Adams, Douglas
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency
Adams, Douglas
The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul
Adams, Douglas
Aesop’s Fables
Aesopus
Little Women
Alcott, Louisa May
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Angelou, Maya
The Thousand and One Nights
Anonymous
I, Robot
Asimov, Isaac
Foundation
Asimov, Isaac
The Handmaid’s Tale
Atwood, Margaret
Sense and Sensibility
Austen, Jane
Pride and Prejudice
Austen, Jane
Mansfield Park
Austen, Jane
Emma
Austen, Jane
Novel With Cocaine
Ageyev, M.
In The Heart of the Seas
Agnon, Shmuel Yosef
Rashomon
Akutagawa, Ryunosuke
The Regent’s Wife
Alas, Leopoldo
Little Women
Alcott, Louisa May
Broad and Alien is the World
Alegria, Ciro
The Man With the Golden Arm
Algren, Nelson
Fantômas
Allain, Marcel
The House of the Spirits
Allende, Isabel
Of Love and Shadows
Allende, Isabel
Time’s Arrow
Amis, Martin
The Information
Amis, Martin
I’m Not Scared
Ammaniti, Niccolo
Untouchable
Anand, Mulk Raj
The Commandant
Anderson, Jessica
The Bridge on the Drina
Andrić, Ivo
Bosnian Chronicle
Andrić, Ivo
Ashes and Diamonds
Andrzejewski, Jerzy
The Thousand and One Nights
Anonymous
The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter
Anonymous
The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes
Anonymous
Fado Alexandrino
Antunes, Antonio Lobo
The Bells of Basel
Aragon, Louis
Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus
Arbuthnot, John et al
Before Night Falls
Arenas, Reinaldo
Deep Rivers
Arguedas, José María
The Twilight Years
Ariyoshi, Sawako
The Green Hat
Arlen, Michael
Surfacing
Atwood, Margaret
Cat’s Eye
Atwood, Margaret
The Robber Bride
Atwood, Margaret
Alias Grace
Atwood, Margaret
The Blind Assassin
Atwood, Margaret
Obabakoak
Atxaga, Bernardo
The New York Trilogy
Auster, Paul
Moon Palace
Auster, Paul
The Music of Chance
Auster, Paul
Mr. Vertigo
Auster, Paul
Timbuktu
Auster, Paul
The Book of Illusions
Auster, Paul
Invisible
Auster, Paul
The Underdogs
Azuela, Mariano
Foucault’s Pendulum
Eco, Umberto
So Long a Letter
Ba, Mariama
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Baldwin, James
Giovanni’s Room
Baldwin, James
The Drowned World
Ballard JG
The Atrocity Exhibition
Ballard, J.G.
Crash
Ballard, J.G.
High Rise
Ballard, J.G.
Cocaine Nights
Ballard, J.G.
Super-Cannes
Ballard, J.G.
Eugénie Grandet
Balzac, Honoré de
Père Goriot
Balzac, Honoré de
Lost Illusions
Balzac, Honoré de
The Wasp Factory
Banks, Iain
The Crow Road
Banks, Iain
Complicity
Banks, Iain
Dead Air
Banks, Iain
The Player of Games
Banks, Iain M.
Cloudsplitter
Banks, Russell
The Newton Letter
Banville, John
The Book of Evidence
Banville, John
The Untouchable
Banville, John
Shroud
Banville, John
The Sea
Banville, John
Elegance of the Hedgehog
Barbery, Muriel
The Inferno
Barbusse, Henri
Under Fire
Barbusse, Henri
Silk
Baricco, Alessandro
H(A)PPY
Barker, Nicola
Regeneration
Barker, Pat
The Ghost Road
Barker, Pat
Another World
Barker, Pat
Nightwood
Barnes, Djuna
Flaubert’s Parrot
Barnes, Julian
The Sense of an Ending
Barnes, Julian
The Floating Opera
Barth, John
The End of the Road
Barth, John
Come Back, Dr. Caligari
Coraghessan
Drop City
Boyle, T.
In Watermelon Sugar
Brautigan, Richard
Willard and His Bowling Trophies
Brautigan, Richard
Threepenny Novel
Brecht, Bertolt
Nadja
Breton, André
Arcanum 17
Breton, André
A Dry White Season
Brink, Andre
Testament of Youth
Brittain, Vera
The Death of Virgil
Broch, Hermann
The Guiltless
Broch, Hermann
Agnes Grey
Brontë, Anne
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Brontë, Anne
Shirley
Brontë, Charlotte
Villette
Brontë, Charlotte
A World for Julius
Bryce Echenique, Alfredo
The Thirty-Nine Steps
Buchan, John
The Master and Margarita
Bulgakov, Mikhail
The Pilgrim’s Progress
Bunyan, John
A Clockwork Orange
Burgess, Anthony
Inside Mr. Enderby
Burgess, Anthony
Evelina
Burney, Fanny
Cecilia
Burney, Fanny
Camilla
Burney, Fanny
Junkie
Burroughs, William
The Wild Boys
Burroughs, William
Queer
Burroughs, William
Erewhon
Butler, Samuel
The Way of All Flesh
Butler, Samuel
The Tartar Steppe
Buzzati, Dino
The Virgin in the Garden
Byatt, A.S.
Possession
Byatt, A.S.
The Children’s Book
Byatt, A.S.
Three Trapped Tigers
Cabrera Infante, Guillermo
The Postman Always Rings Twice
Cain, James M.
House in the Uplands
Caldwell, Erskine
The Path to the Nest of Spiders
Calvino, Italo
Our Ancestors
Calvino, Italo
Invisible Cities
Calvino, Italo
The Castle of Crossed Destinies
Calvino, Italo
If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler
Calvino, Italo
The Lusiads
Camões, Luís de
The Outsider
Camus, Albert
The Plague
Camus, Albert
The Rebel
Camus, Albert
Auto-da-Fé
Canetti, Elias
A Dream of Red Mansions
Cao, Xueqin
War with the Newts
Capek, Karel
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Capote, Truman
In Cold Blood
Capote, Truman
Oscar and Lucinda
Carey, Peter
Jack Maggs
Carey, Peter
Kingdom of This World
Carpentier, Alejo
The Lost Steps
Carpentier, Alejo
The Passion of New Eve
Carter, Angela
Nights at the Circus
Carter, Angela
Wise Children
Carter, Angela
Bebo’s Girl
Cassola, Carlo
Solitude
Catala, Victor
The Professor’s House
Cather, Willa
Journey to the Alcarria
Cela, Camilo Jose
The Hive
Cela, Camilo Jose
Journey to the End of the Night
Céline, Louis-Ferdinand
Soldiers of Salamis
Cercas, Javier
The Travels of Persiles and Sigismunda
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Chabon, Michael
The Big Sleep
Chandler, Raymond
Farewell My Lovely
Chandler, Raymond
The Long Goodbye
Chandler, Raymond
Wild Swans
Chang, Jung
Chaireas and Kallirhoe
Chariton
On the Black Hill
Chatwin, Bruce
The Riddle of the Sands
Childers, Erskine
The Awakening
Chopin, Kate
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Christie, Agatha
On the Heights of Despair
Cioran, Emil
2001: A Space Odyssey
Clarke, Arthur C.
The Sorrow of Belgium
Claus, Hugo
The Holy Terrors
Cocteau, Jean
What a Carve Up!
Coe, Jonathan
Veronika Decides to Die
Coelho, Paulo
The Devil and Ms. Prym
Coelho, Paulo
Dusklands
Coetzee, J.M.
In the Heart of the Country
Coetzee, J.M.
Waiting for the Barbarians
Coetzee, J.M.
The Life and Times of Michael K
Coetzee, J.M.
Foe
Coetzee, J.M.
The Master of Petersburg
Coetzee, J.M.
Disgrace
Coetzee, J.M.
Youth
Coetzee, J.M.
Elizabeth Costello
Coetzee, J.M.
Slow Man
Coetzee, J.M.
Belle du Seigneur
Cohen, Albert
Claudine’s House
Colette
The Woman in White
Collins, Wilkie
The Lion of Flanders
Conscience, Hendrik
Pricksongs and Descants
Coover, Robert
The Public Burning
Coover, Robert
Eline Vere
Couperus, Louis
Arcadia
Crace, Jim
The Enormous Room
Cummings, E.E.
A Home at the End of the World
Cunningham, Michael
The Hours
Cunningham, Michael
Disappearance
Dabydeen, David
Nervous Conditions
Dangarembga, Tsitsi
House of Leaves
Danielewski, Mark Z.
The Child of Pleasure
D’Annunzio, Gabriele
Fifth Business
Davies, Robertson
The End of the Story
Davis, Lydia
Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord
De Bernières, Louis
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
De Bernières, Louis
On Love
De Botton, Alain
Hebdomeros
De Chirico, Giorgio
The Viceroys
De Roberto, Federico
Roxana
Defoe, Daniel
The Heretic
Delibes, Miguel
Ratner’s Star
DeLillo, Don
The Names
DeLillo, Don
White Noise
DeLillo, Don
Libra
DeLillo, Don
Mao II
DeLillo, Don
Underworld
DeLillo, Don
The Body Artist
DeLillo, Don
Falling Man
DeLillo, Don
Thomas of Reading
Deloney, Thomas
Clear Light of Day
Desai, Anita
The Inheritance of Loss
Desai, Kiran
All About H. Hatterr
Desani, G.V.
Small Remedies
Deshpande, Shashi
The Conquest of New Spain
Díaz del Castillo, Bernal
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Díaz, Junot
Martin Chuzzlewit
Dickens, Charles
Our Mutual Friend
Dickens, Charles
Jacques the Fatalist
Diderot, Denis
The Nun
Diderot, Denis
Rameau’s Nephew
Diderot, Denis
Play It As It Lays
Didion, Joan
Democracy
Didion, Joan
The Bitter Glass
Dillon, Eilís
Out of Africa
Dinesen, Isak
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Döblin, Alfred
The Book of Daniel
Doctorow, E.L.
Ragtime
Doctorow, E.L.
Billy Bathgate
Doctorow, E.L.
City of God
Doctorow, E.L.
Stone Junction
Dodge, Jim
Asphodel
Doolittle, Hilda
Manhattan Transfer
Dos Passos, John
U.S.A.
Dos Passos, John
Fool’s Gold
Douka, Maro
Uncle Petros and Goldbach’s Conjecture
Doxiadis, Apostolos
The Radiant Way
Drabble, Margaret
The Red Queen
Drabble, Margaret
As If I Am Not There
Drakulić, Slavenka
Sister Carrie
Dreiser, Theodore
Rebecca
Du Maurier, Daphne
Queen Margot
Dumas, Alexandre
Hallucinating Foucault
Duncker, Patricia
Paradise of the Blind
Duong, Thu Huong
The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein
Duras, Marguerite
The Vice-Consul
Duras, Marguerite
The Lover
Duras, Marguerite
Justine
Durrell, Lawrence
The Judge and His Hangman
Dürrenmatt, Friedrich
The Crime of Father Amaro
Eça de Queirós, José Maria
The Name of the Rose
Eco, Umberto
Foucault’s Pendulum
Eco, Umberto
Castle Rackrent
Edgeworth, Maria
The Absentee
Edgeworth, Maria
Ormond
Edgeworth, Maria
The Quest
Eeden, Frederik van
A Visit from the Goon Squad
Egan, Jennifer
The Circle
Eggers, Dave
The Life of a Good-for-Nothing
Eichendorff, Joseph von
Woman at Point Zero
El Saadawi, Nawal
Silence
Endo, Shusaku
Deep River
Endo, Shusaku
The Book about Blanche and Marie
Enquist, Per Olov
The Gathering
Enright, Anne
The Interesting Narrative
Equiano, Olaudah
Love Medicine
Erdrich, Louise
Moscow Stations
Erofeyev, Venedikt
Like Water for Chocolate
Esquivel, Laura
Celestial Harmonies
Esterházy, Péter
The Virgin Suicides
Eugenides, Jeffrey
Middlesex
Eugenides, Jeffrey
The Marriage Plot
Eugenides, Jeffrey
Under the Skin
Faber, Michel
Astradeni
Fakinou, Eugenia
Troubles
Farrell, J.G.
The Siege of Krishnapur
Farrell, J.G.
The Singapore Grip
Farrell, J.G.
The Sound and the Fury
Faulkner, William
Absalom, Absalom!
Faulkner, William
The Hamlet
Faulkner, William
Go Down, Moses
Faulkner, William
Birdsong
Faulks, Sebastian
Troubling Love
Ferrante, Elena
The Story of the Lost Child
Ferrante, Elena
Joseph Andrews
Fielding, Henry
Amelia
Fielding, Henry
The Wars
Findley, Timothy
Sentimental Education
Flaubert, Gustave
The Temptation of Saint Anthony
Flaubert, Gustave
Bouvard and Pécuchet
Flaubert, Gustave
Effi Briest
Fontane, Theodor
The Stechlin
Fontane, Theodor
The Good Soldier
Ford, Ford Madox
Parade’s End
Ford, Ford Madox
Where Angels Fear to Tread
Forster, E.M.
The Collector
Fowles, John
The Magus
Fowles, John
The French Lieutenant’s Woman
Fowles, John
A Maggot
Fowles, John
Faces in the Water
Frame, Janet
Thais
France, Anatole
The Blind Side of the Heart
Franck, Julia
The Corrections
Franzen, Jonathan
Freedom
Franzen, Jonathan
Simon and the Oaks
Fredriksson, Marianne
Hideous Kinky
Freud, Esther
I’m Not Stiller
Frisch, Max
Homo Faber
Frisch, Max
The Death of Artemio Cruz
Fuentes, Carlos
The Recognitions
Gaddis, William
Memory of Fire
Galeano, Eduardo
Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris
Gallico, Paul
The Trick is to Keep Breathing
Galloway, Janice
Eclipse of the Crescent Moon
Gardonyi, Geza
Thursbitch
Garner, Alan
The Roots of Heaven
Gary, Romain
Promise at Dawn
Gary, Romain
Mary Barton
Gaskell, Elizabeth
Cranford
Gaskell, Elizabeth
North and South
Gaskell, Elizabeth
Legend
Gemmell, David
The Triple Mirror of the Self
Ghose, Zulfikar
The Shadow Lines
Ghosh, Amitav
Sunset Song
Gibbon, Lewis Grassic
Cold Comfort Farm
Gibbons, Stella
Fruits of the Earth
Gide, André
The Immoralist
Gide, André
Strait is the Gate
Gide, André
The Counterfeiters
Gide, André
The Yellow Wallpaper
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
New Grub Street
Gissing, George
Born in Exile
Gissing, George
The Adventures of Caleb Williams
Godwin, William
The Sorrows of Young Werther
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Elective Affinities
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
The Nose
Gogol, Nikolay
Dead Souls
Gogol, Nikolay
The Vicar of Wakefield
Goldsmith, Oliver
Ferdydurke
Gombrowicz, Witold
Oblomov
Goncharov, Ivan
Burger’s Daughter
Gordimer, Nadine
July’s People
Gordimer, Nadine
Mother
Gorky, Maxim
The Artamonov Business
Gorky, Maxim
Marks of Identity
Goytisolo, Juan
The Opposing Shore
Gracq, Julien
The Tin Drum
Grass, Günter
Cat and Mouse
Grass, Günter
Dog Years
Grass, Günter
Lanark: A Life in Four Books
Gray, Alasdair
Blindness
Green, Henry
Living
Green, Henry
Party Going
Green, Henry
Caught
Green, Henry
Loving
Green, Henry
Back
Green, Henry
England Made Me
Greene, Graham
Brighton Rock
Greene, Graham
The Power and the Glory
Greene, Graham
The Heart of the Matter
Greene, Graham
The Adventurous Simplicissimus
Grimmelshausen, Hans von
Diary of a Nobody
Grossmith, George
Memoirs of Rain
Gupta, Sunetra
Dirty Havana Trilogy
Gutierrez, Pedro Juan
Forever a Stranger
Haasse, Hella
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time
Haddon, Mark
She
Haggard, H. Rider
The Well of Loneliness
Hall, Radclyffe
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Hamid, Mohsin
Hangover Square
Hamilton, Patrick
The Red Harvest
Hammett, Dashiell
The Maltese Falcon
Hammett, Dashiell
The Glass Key
Hammett, Dashiell
The Thin Man
Hammett, Dashiell
The Hand of Ethelberta
Hardy, Thomas
The Good Soldier Švejk
Hašek, Jaroslav
The Blithedale Romance
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
The Marble Faun
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Love in Excess
Haywood, Eliza
A Question of Power
Head, Bessie
The First Garden
Hébert, Anne
The Blind Owl
Hedayat, Sadegh
Stranger in a Strange Land
Heinlein, Robert
An Ethiopian Romance
Heliodorus
Margot and the Angels
Hemmerechts, Kristien
Nowhere Man
Hemon, Aleksandar
Reasons to Live
Hempel, Amy
Martin Fierro
Hernandez, Jose
Dispatches
Herr, Michael
The New World
Heruy Wolde Selassie
Camera Obscura
Hildebrand
Blind Man With a Pistol
Himes, Chester
A Kestrel for a Knave
Hines, Barry
The House on the Borderland
Hodgson, William Hope
Smilla’s Sense of Snow
Høeg, Peter
The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr
Hoffman, E.T.A.
The Parable of the Blind
Hofmann, Gert
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
Hogg, James
Hyperion
Hölderlin, Friedrich
The Swimming Pool Library
Hollinghurst, Alan
The Folding Star
Hollinghurst, Alan
The Line of Beauty
Hollinghurst, Alan
The Cathedral
Honchar, Oles
Whatever
Houellebecq, Michel
Elementary Particles
Houellebecq, Michel
Platform
Houellebecq, Michel
Closely Watched Trains
Hrabal, Bohumil
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Hurston, Zora Neale
What I Loved
Hustvedt, Siri
Crome Yellow
Huxley, Aldous
Antic Hay
Huxley, Aldous
Brave New World
Huxley, Aldous
Eyeless in Gaza
Huxley, Aldous
Against the Grain
Huysmans, Joris-Karl
Down There
Huysmans, Joris-Karl
Carry Me Down
Hyland, M.J.
The Last of Mr. Norris
Isherwood, Christopher
Goodbye to Berlin
Isherwood, Christopher
A Pale View of Hills
Ishiguro, Kazuo
An Artist of the Floating World
Ishiguro, Kazuo
Remains of the Day
Ishiguro, Kazuo
The Unconsoled
Ishiguro, Kazuo
Never Let Me Go
Ishiguro, Kazuo
The Portrait of a Lady
James, Henry
What Maisie Knew
James, Henry
The Turn of the Screw
James, Henry
The Wings of the Dove
James, Henry
The Ambassadors
James, Henry
The Golden Bowl
James, Henry
A Day Off
Jameson, Storm
The Summer Book
Jansson, Tove
The Piano Teacher
Jelinek, Elfriede
Leaden Wings
Jie, Zhang
Platero and I
Jiménez, Juan Ramón
The Taebaek Mountains
Jo, Jung-rae
Albert Angelo
Johnson, B.S.
Trawl
Johnson, B.S.
House Mother Normal
Johnson, B.S.
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
Johnson, Samuel
Jahrestage
Johnson, Uwe
In Parenthesis
Jones, David
Fear of Flying
Jong, Erica
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Joyce, James
Ulysses
Joyce, James
Finnegans Wake
Joyce, James
Storm of Steel
Junger, Ernst
The Glass Bees
Junger, Ernst
Broken April
Kadare, Ismail
Spring Flowers, Spring Frost
Kadare, Ismail
The Successor
Kadare, Ismail
A Thousand Cranes
Kawabata, Yasunari
Zorba the Greek
Kazantzákis, Nikos
The Last Temptation of Christ
Kazantzákis, Nikos
Measuring the World
Kehlmann, Daniel
Green Henry
Keller, Gottfried
The Busconductor Hines
Kelman, James
A Disaffection
Kelman, James
How Late It Was, How Late
Kelman, James
Kieron Smith, boy
Kelman, James
Schindler’s Ark
Keneally, Thomas
Looking for the Possible Dance
Kennedy, A.L.
Everything You Need
Kennedy, A.L.
On the Road
Kerouac, Jack
Fatelessness
Kertész, Imre
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Kesey, Ken
Sometimes a Great Notion
Kesey, Ken
Annie John
Kincaid, Jamaica
The Shining
King, Stephen
The Water-Babies
Kingsley, Charles
Kim
Kipling, Rudyard
Garden, Ashes
Kis, Danilo
Michael Kohlhaas
Kleist, Heinrich von
Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light
Klima, Ivan
The Hothouse
Koeppen, Wolfgang
Death in Rome
Koeppen, Wolfgang
The Case Worker
Konrad, Gyorgy
A Day in Spring
Kosmac, Ciril
Smell of Sadness
Kossmann, Alfred
The Fan Man
Kotzwinkle, William
The Midnight Examiner
Kotzwinkle, William
The Melancholy of Resistance
Krasznahorkai, László
The Last Days of Humanity
Kraus, Karl
The History of Love
Krauss, Nicole
The Return of Philip Latinowicz
Krleža, Miroslav
On the Edge of Reason
Krleža, Miroslav
Professor Martens’ Departure
Kross, Jaan
The Joke
Kundera, Milan
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Kundera, Milan
Ignorance
Kundera, Milan
The Buddha of Suburbia
Kureishi, Hanif
Intimacy
Kureishi, Hanif
Gabriel’s Gift
Kureishi, Hanif
The Flamethrowers
Kushner, Rachel
The Princess of Clèves
La Fayette, Madame de
Dangerous Liaisons
Laclos, Pierre Choderlos de
Nada
Laforet, Carmen
Barabbas
Lagerkvist, Par
Gösta Berling’s Saga
Lagerlöf, Selma
The Namesake
Lahiri, Jhumpa
Rickshaw Boy
Lao, She
Quicksand
Larsen, Nella
Passing
Larsen, Nella
The Diviners
Laurence, Margaret
Maldoror
Lautréaumont, Comte de
The Fox
Lawrence, D.H.
Aaron’s Rod
Lawrence, D.H.
Independent People
Laxness, Halldór
The Dark Child
Laye, Camara
Uncle Silas
Le Fanu, Sheridan
In a Glass Darkly
Le Fanu, Sheridan
The Dispossessed
Le Guin, Ursula K.
Lost Language of Cranes
Leavitt, David
To Kill a Mockingbird
Lee, Harper
Cider With Rosie
Lee, Laurie
Solaris
Lem, Stanislaw
The Female Quixote
Lennox, Charlotte
The German Lesson
Lenz, Siegfried
City Primeval
Leonard, Elmore
La Brava
Leonard, Elmore
Get Shorty
Leonard, Elmore
A Hero of Our Times
Lermontov, Mikhail Yurevich
10:04
Lerner, Ben
The Enchanted Wanderer
Leskov, Nikolai
The Grass is Singing
Lessing, Doris
The Golden Notebook
Lessing, Doris
Shikasta
Lessing, Doris
The Diary of Jane Somers
Lessing, Doris
Christ Stopped at Eboli
Levi, Carlo
If This Is a Man
Levi, Primo
If Not Now, When?
Levi, Primo
The Drowned and the Saved
Levi, Primo
Small Island
Levy, Andrea
The Monk
Lewis, M.G.
Monica
Lewis, Saunders
Main Street
Lewis, Sinclair
Babbitt
Lewis, Sinclair
Tarr
Lewis, Wyndham
The Childermass
Lewis, Wyndham
The Apes of God
Lewis, Wyndham
The Revenge for Love
Lewis, Wyndham
Self-Condemned
Lewis, Wyndham
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
Lewycka, Marina
Pippi Longstocking
Lindgren, Astrid
The Unknown Soldier
Linna, Vaino
The Passion According to G.H.
Lispector, Clarice
The Hour of the Star
Lispector, Clarice
The Kindly Ones
Littell, Jonathan
The Call of the Wild
London, Jack
The Iron Heel
London, Jack
Martin Eden
London, Jack
The Twins
Loo, Tessa de
Under the Volcano
Lowry, Malcolm
Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid
Lowry, Malcolm
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Luo, Guanzhong
Chaka the Zulu
Mofolo, Thomas
Amadis of Gaul
Montalvo, Garci Rodríguez de
Watchmen
Moore, Alan
Anagrams
Moore, Lorrie
Like Life
Moore, Lorrie
A Gate at the Stairs
Moore, Lorrie
The Time of Indifference
Moravia, Alberto
Disobedience
Moravia, Alberto
A Ghost at Noon (aka Contempt)
Moravia, Alberto
Anton Reiser
Moritz, Karl Philipp
News from Nowhere
Morris, William
The Bluest Eye
Morrison, Toni
Sula
Morrison, Toni
Down Second Avenue
Mphahlele, Es’kia
The Holder of the World
Mukherjee, Bharati
The Discovery of Heaven
Mulisch, Harry
Max Havelaar
Multatuli
Lives of Girls and Women
Munro, Alice
The Beggar Maid
Munro, Alice
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Murakami, Haruki
Sputnik Sweetheart
Murakami, Haruki
After the Quake
Murakami, Haruki
Kafka on the Shore
Murakami, Haruki
Almost Transparent Blue
Murakami, Ryu
The Tale of Genji
Murasaki, Shikibu
Under the Net
Murdoch, Iris
The Bell
Murdoch, Iris
A Severed Head
Murdoch, Iris
The Nice and the Good
Murdoch, Iris
The Black Prince
Murdoch, Iris
The Sea, The Sea
Murdoch, Iris
Inland
Murnane, Gerald
Young Törless
Musil, Robert
The Man Without Qualities
Musil, Robert
The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll
Mutis, Alvaro
Lolita
Nabokov, Vladimir
Pnin
Nabokov, Vladimir
Pale Fire
Nabokov, Vladimir
Ada
Nabokov, Vladimir
In A Free State
Naipaul, V.S.
A Bend in the River
Naipaul, V.S.
Enigma of Arrival
Naipaul, V.S.
The Guide
Narayan, R.K.
The Unfortunate Traveller
Nashe, Thomas
Kokoro
Natsume, Soseki
Memoirs of a Peasant Boy
Neira Vilas, Xosé
Suite Française
Nemirovsky, Irene
The River Between
Ngugi wa Thiong’o
Petals of Blood
Ngugi wa Thiong’o
Matigari
Ngugi wa Thiong’o
Delta of Venus
Nin, Anaïs
Rituals
Nooteboom, Cees
All Souls Day
Nooteboom, Cees
Fear and Trembling
Nothomb, Amélie
Henry of Ofterdingen
Novalis
Them
Oates, Joyce Carol
Marya
Oates, Joyce Carol
Black Water
Oates, Joyce Carol
Blonde
Oates, Joyce Carol
The Country Girls
O’Brien, Edna
Girl With Green Eyes
O’Brien, Edna
August is a Wicked Month
O’Brien, Edna
In the Forest
O’Brien, Edna
At Swim-Two-Birds
O’Brien, Flann
The Poor Mouth
O’Brien, Flann
The Third Policeman
O’Brien, Flann
The Things They Carried
O’Brien, Tim
Wise Blood
O’Connor, Flannery
The Violent Bear it Away
O’Connor, Flannery
Everything That Rises Must Converge
O’Connor, Flannery
Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring
Oe, Kenzaburo
The Talk of the Town
O’Hanlon, Ardal
The English Patient
Ondaatje, Michael
At Swim, Two Boys
O’Neill, Jamie
The Shipyard
Onetti, Juan Carlos
Burmese Days
Orwell, George
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Orwell, George
Coming Up for Air
Orwell, George
Animal Farm
Orwell, George
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Orwell, George
Cataract
Osadchyi, Mykhailo
Metamorphoses
Ovid
Black Box
Oz, Amos
A Tale of Love and Darkness
Oz, Amos
Life is a Caravanserai
Özdamar, Emine
The Year of the Hare
Paasilinna, Arto
Manon des Sources
Pagnol, Marcel
Choke
Palahniuk, Chuck
The Laws
Palmen, Connie
Snow
Pamuk, Orhan
Life of Christ
Papini, Giovanni
The Manors of Ulloa
Pardo Bazan, Emilia
Land
Park,, Kyŏng-ni
Ballad for Georg Henig
Paskov, Viktor
The Ragazzi
Pasolini, Pier Paulo
Doctor Zhivago
Pasternak, Boris
Marius the Epicurean
Pater, Walter
Cry, the Beloved Country
Paton, Alan
The Harvesters
Pavese, Cesare
The Moon and the Bonfires
Pavese, Cesare
Dictionary of the Khazars
Pavic, Milorad
The Labyrinth of Solitude
Paz, Octavio
Nineteen Seventy Seven
Peace, David
Titus Groan
Peake, Mervyn
Gormenghast
Peake, Mervyn
The Clay Machine-Gun
Pelevin, Victor
The Life of Insects
Pelevin, Victor
Things: A Story of the Sixties
Perec, Georges
A Man Asleep
Perec, Georges
A Void
Perec, Georges
W, or the Memory of Childhood
Perec, Georges
Life: A User’s Manual
Perec, Georges
Fortunata y Jacinta
Pérez Galdós, Benito
Compassion
Pérez Galdós, Benito
The Dumas Club
Pérez-Reverte, Arturo
The Book of Disquiet
Pessoa, Fernando
Vernon God Little
Pierre, D.B.C.
Money to Burn
Piglia, Ricardo
One, No One and One Hundred Thousand
Pirandello, Luigi
The Bell Jar
Plath, Sylvia
The Trusting and the Maimed
Plunkett, James
The Fall of the House of Usher
Poe, Edgar Allan
The Pit and the Pendulum
Poe, Edgar Allan
The Purloined Letter
Poe, Edgar Allan
Here’s to You, Jesusa
Poniatowska, Elena
A Dance to the Music of Time
Powell, Anthony
Typical
Powell, Padgett
The Shipping News
Proulx, E. Annie
Remembrance of Things Past
Proust, Marcel
Pharoah
Prus, Boleslaw
Exercises in Style
Queneau, Raymond
Gargantua and Pantagruel
Rabelais, François
The Mysteries of Udolpho
Radcliffe, Ann
The Devil in the Flesh
Radiguet, Raymond
The Last World
Ransmayr, Christoph
The Story of O
Réage, Pauline
The Forest of the Hanged
Rebreanu, Liviu
All Quiet on the Western Front
Remarque, Erich Maria
Quartet
Rhys, Jean
Good Morning, Midnight
Rhys, Jean
Wide Sargasso Sea
Rhys, Jean
Interview With the Vampire
Rice, Anne
Pilgrimage
Richardson, Dorothy
Pamela
Richardson, Samuel
Clarissa
Richardson, Samuel
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
Rilke, Rainer Maria
Larva: Midsummer Night’s Babel
Rios, Julian
Jealousy
Robbe-Grillet, Alain
Home
Robinson, Marilynne
Cost
Robinson, Roxana
La Celestina
Rojas, Fernando de
Hadrian the Seventh
Rolfe, Frederick
The Devil to Pay in the Backlands
Rosa, João Guimarães
Love’s Work
Rose, Gillian
Call it Sleep
Roth, Henry
The Radetzky March
Roth, Joseph
Portnoy’s Complaint
Roth, Philip
The Breast
Roth, Philip
Operation Shylock
Roth, Philip
Sabbath’s Theater
Roth, Philip
Julie; or the New Eloise
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
Émile; or, On Education
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
Reveries of a Solitary Walker
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
Confessions
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
Impressions of Africa
Roussel, Raymond
Locus Solus
Roussel, Raymond
The God of Small Things
Roy, Arundhati
The Tin Flute
Roy, Gabrielle
The Burning Plain
Rulfo, Juan
Grimus
Rushdie, Salman
The Deadbeats
Ruyslinck, Ward
The 120 Days of Sodom
Sade, Marquis de
Justine
Sade, Marquis de
The Witness
Saer, Juan Jose
Contact
Sagan, Carl
Bonjour Tristesse
Sagan, Françoise
The Little Prince
Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de
Sandokan: The Tigers of Mompracem
Salgari, Emilio
Season of Migration to the North
Salih, Tayeb
The Catcher in the Rye
Salinger, J.D.
Franny and Zooey
Salinger, J.D.
The Devil’s Pool
Sand, George
Alberta and Jacob
Sandel, Cora
Baltasar and Blimunda
Saramago, Jose
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
Saramago, José
The History of the Siege of Lisbon
Saramago, José
The Double
Saramago, José
Cain
Saramago, Jose
Facundo
Sarmiento, Domingo Faustino
Nausea
Sartre, Jean-Paul
Pastoralia
Saunders, George
Murder Must Advertise
Sayers, Dorothy L.
The Nine Tailors
Sayers, Dorothy L.
The Swarm
Schatzing, Frank
The Reader
Schlink, Bernhard
None but the Brave
Schnitzler, Arthur
Memoirs of my Nervous Illness
Schreber, Daniel Paul
The Street of Crocodiles
Schulz, Bruno
To Each His Own
Sciascia, Leonardo
Rob Roy
Scott, Sir Walter
Ivanhoe
Scott, Sir Walter
The Monastery
Scott, Sir Walter
Vertigo
Sebald, W.G.
The Emigrants
Sebald, W.G.
The Rings of Saturn
Sebald, W.G.
Austerlitz
Sebald, W.G.
Transit
Seghers, Anna
Requiem for a Dream
Selby, Jr. Hubert
Great Apes
Self, Will
How the Dead Live
Self, Will
Death and the Dervish
Selimovic, Mesa
The Lonely Londoners
Selvon, Sam
God’s Bits of Wood
Sembene, Ousmane
The Case of Comrade Tulayev
Serge, Victor
A Suitable Boy
Seth, Vikram
Retreat Without Song
Shahnour, Shahan
An Obedient Father
Sharma, Akhil
Frankenstein
Shelley, Mary
The Water Margin
Shi, Nai’an
The Stone Diaries
Shields, Carol
Unless
Shields, Carol
A Town Like Alice
Shute, Nevil
Quo Vadis
Sienkiewicz, Henryk
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Sillitoe, Chinua
Downriver
Sinclair, Iain
London Orbital
Sinclair, Iain
Dining on Stones
Sinclair, Iain
Life and Death of Harriett Frean
Sinclair, May
The Jungle
It Can’t Happen here
Sinclair, Upton
Sinclair, Upton
The Magician of Lublin
Singer, Isaac Bashevis
The Manor
Singer, Isaac Bashevis
Animal’s People
Sinha, Indra
The Engineer of Human Souls
Skvorecky, Josef
The Forbidden Realm
Slauerhoff, Jan Jacob
Islands
Sleigh, Dan
The Accidental
Smith, Ali
There But For The
Smith, Ali
Winter
Smith, Ali
White Teeth
Smith, Zadie
On Beauty
Smith, Zadie
Roderick Random
Smollett, Tobias George
Peregrine Pickle
Smollett, Tobias George
Humphry Clinker
Smollett, Tobias George
The Port
Šoljan, Antun
The Real Charlotte
Somerville and Ross
Some Experiences of an Irish R.M.
Somerville and Ross
Lady Number Thirteen
Somoza, Jose Carlos
Memento Mori
Spark, Muriel
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Spark, Muriel
The Girls of Slender Means
Spark, Muriel
The Driver’s Seat
Spark, Muriel
Mother’s Milk
St Aubyn, Edward
The Man Who Loved Children
Stead, Christina
Three Lives
Stein, Gertrude
The Making of Americans
Stein, Gertrude
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Stein, Gertrude
Of Mice and Men
Steinbeck, John
The Grapes of Wrath
Steinbeck, John
Cannery Row
Steinbeck, John
The Red and the Black
Stendhal
The Charterhouse of Parma
Stendhal
The Charwoman’s Daughter
Stephens, James
Tristram Shandy
Sterne, Laurence
A Sentimental Journey
Sterne, Laurence
Kidnapped
Stevenson, Robert Louis
The Master of Ballantrae
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Indian Summer
Stifter, Adalbert
Dracula
Stoker, Bram
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Couples, Passerby
Strauss, Botho
The Young Man
Strauss, Botho
The Red Room
Strindberg, August
The People of Hemsö
Strindberg, August
By the Open Sea
Strindberg, August
Perfume
Süskind, Patrick
The Pigeon
Süskind, Patrick
As a Man Grows Older
Svevo, Italo
Zeno’s Conscience
Svevo, Italo
Waterland
Swift, Graham
The Light of Day
Swift, Graham
A Tale of a Tub
Swift, Jonathan
Gulliver’s Travels
Swift, Jonathan
A Modest Proposal
Swift, Jonathan
The Beautiful Mrs Seidenman
Szczypiorski, Andrzej
Pereira Declares: A Testimony
Tabucchi, Antonio
The Home and the World
Tagore, Rabindranath
The Third Wedding
Taktsis, Costas
Some Prefer Nettles
Tanizaki, Junichiro
The Secret History
Tartt, Donna
The Goldfinch
Tartt, Donna
Blaming
Taylor, Elizabeth
Vanity Fair
Thackeray, William Makepeace
The Great Indian Novel
Tharoor, Shashi
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Thompson, Hunter S.
The Killer Inside Me
Thompson, Jim
Walden
Thoreau, Henry David
Cutter and Bone
Thornburg, Newton
The 13 Clocks
Thurber, James
The Wonderful “O”
Thurber, James
The Invention of Curried Sausage
Timm, Uwe
Pallieter
Timmermans, Felix
The Heather Blazing
Tóibín, Colm
The Master
Tóibín, Colm
The Hobbit
Tolkien, J.R.R.
The Lord of the Rings
Tolkien, J.R.R.
War and Peace
Tolstoy, Leo
Anna Karenina
Tolstoy, Leo
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Tolstoy, Leo
The Kreutzer Sonata
Tolstoy, Leo
The Leopard
Tomasi di Lampedusa, Giuseppe
Confederacy of Dunces
Toole, John Kennedy
Cane
Toomer, Jean
City Sister Silver
Topol, Jáchym
The Ogre
Tournier, Michael
The Colour
Tremain, Rose
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
Tressell, Robert
Fools of Fortune
Trevor, William
Felicia’s Journey
Trevor, William
The Story of Lucy Gault
Trevor, William
Castle Richmond
Trollope, Anthony
The Last Chronicle of Barset
Trollope, Anthony
Phineas Finn
Trollope, Anthony
He Knew He Was Right
Trollope, Anthony
Summer in Baden-Baden
Tsypkin, Leonid
The Christmas Oratorio
Tunstrom, Goran
On the Eve
Turgenev, Ivan
Fathers and Sons
Turgenev, Ivan
King Lear of the Steppes
Turgenev, Ivan
Spring Torrents
Turgenev, Ivan
Virgin Soil
Turgenev, Ivan
B
Twain, Mark
The Museum of Unconditional Surrender
Ugresic, Dubravka
Kristin Lavransdatter
Undset, Sigrid
Rabbit, Run
Updike, John
Rabbit Redux
Updike, John
Rabbit is Rich
Updike, John
Pepita Jimenez
Valera, Juan
Our Lady of the Assassins
Vallejo, Fernando
Ancestral Voices
van, Heerden, Etienne
The Time of the Hero
Vargas Llosa, Mario
The Cubs and Other Stories
Vargas Llosa, Mario
The War of the End of the World
Vargas Llosa, Mario
The Feast of the Goat
Vargas Llosa, Mario
Z
Vassilikos, Vassilis
Under the Yoke
Vazov, Ivan
Southern Seas
Vázquez Montalbán, Manuel
The House by the Medlar Tree
Verga, Giovanni
Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Verne, Jules
Around the World in Eighty Days
Verne, Jules
The Birds
Vesaas, Tarjei
The Garden Where the Brass Band Played
Vestdijk, Simon
Froth on the Daydream
Vian, Boris
Myra Breckinridge
Vidal, Gore
Bartleby and Co.
Vila-Matas, Enrique
Conversations In Sicily
Vittorini, Elio
In Search of Klingsor
Volpi, Jorge
Candide
Voltaire
Cat’s Cradle
Vonnegut, Kurt
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
Vonnegut, Kurt
Slaughterhouse Five
Vonnegut, Kurt
Breakfast of Champions
Vonnegut, Kurt
The Color Purple
Walker, Alice
The Temple of My Familiar
Walker, Alice
Possessing the Secret of Joy
Walker, Alice
Infinite Jest
Wallace, David Foster
The Castle of Otranto
Walpole, Horace
Halftime
Walser, Martin
Morvern Callar
Warner, Alan
Indigo
Warner, Marina
Summer Will Show
Warner, Sylvia Townsend
After the Death of Don Juan
Warner, Sylvia Townsend
The House with the Blind Glass Windows
Wassmo, Herbjorg
Billy Liar
Waterhouse, Keith
Tipping the Velvet
Waters, Sarah
Fingersmith
Waters, Sarah
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
Watson, Winifred
Decline and Fall
Waugh, Evelyn
Vile Bodies
Waugh, Evelyn
A Handful of Dust
Waugh, Evelyn
Brideshead Revisited
Waugh, Evelyn
The Graduate
Webb, Charles
The Time Machine
Wells, H.G.
The Island of Dr. Moreau
Wells, H.G.
The Invisible Man
Wells, H.G.
The War of the Worlds
Wells, H.G.
Tono-Bungay
Wells, H.G.
Trainspotting
Welsh, Irvine
The Optimist’s Daughter
Welty, Eudora
Miss Lonelyhearts
West, Nathanael
The Return of the Soldier
West, Rebecca
Harriet Hume
West, Rebecca
The Thinking Reed
West, Rebecca
The Birds Fall Down
West, Rebecca
The House of Mirth
Wharton, Edith
Ethan Frome
Wharton, Edith
Bunner Sisters
Wharton, Edith
Summer
Wharton, Edith
The Age of Innocence
Wharton, Edith
The Glimpses of the Moon
Wharton, Edith
A Boy’s Own Story
White, Edmund
The Beautiful Room is Empty
White, Edmund
The Living and the Dead
White, Patrick
The Tree of Man
White, Patrick
Voss
White, Patrick
The Once and Future King
White, T.H.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Wilde, Oscar
Tarka the Otter
Williamson, Henry
No Laughing Matter
Wilson, Angus
I Thought of Daisy
Wilson, Edmund
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Winterson, Jeanette
The Passion
Winterson, Jeanette
Sexing the Cherry
Winterson, Jeanette
Written on the Body
Winterson, Jeanette
Insatiability
Witkiewicz, Stanislaw Ignacy
Thank You, Jeeves
Wodehouse, P.G.
The Quest for Christa T.
Wolf, Christa
Patterns of Childhood
Wolf, Christa
Look Homeward, Angel
Wolfe, Thomas
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Wolfe, Tom
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Wolfe, Tom
Back to Oegstgeest
Wolkers, Jan
The Voyage Out
Woolf, Virginia
Night and Day
Woolf, Virginia
Jacob’s Room
Woolf, Virginia
Mrs. Dalloway
Woolf, Virginia
To The Lighthouse
Woolf, Virginia
Orlando
Woolf, Virginia
The Waves
Woolf, Virginia
The Years
Woolf, Virginia
Between the Acts
Woolf, Virginia
Native Son
Wright, Richard
Monkey: Journey to the West
Wu, Cheng’en
Day of the Triffids
Wyndham, John
The Midwich Cuckoos
Wyndham, John
Chocky
Wyndham, John
Half of Man is Woman
Xianliang, Zhang
Kitchen
Yoshimoto, Banana
Memoirs of Hadrian
Yourcenar, Marguerite
We
Zamyatin, Yevgeny
Thérèse Raquin
Zola, Émile
Drunkard
Zola, Émile
Nana
Zola, Émile
Germinal
Zola, Émile
La Bête Humaine
Zola, Émile
Gimmick!
Zwagerman, Joost
The Case of Sergeant Grischa
Zweig, Arnold
Amok
Zweig, Stefan
Chess Story
Zweig, Stefan
Missing but should be on the list
these list are mostly novels so it is light on poetry, and drama and spiritual writing. I would have include the following
Ginzberg and Beat Poets and Writers
Whitman Poems
Dickison Poems
TS Elliot poems
WD Auden Poems
Emerson Essays
Emerson Poems
Edgar Allen Poe complete stories and Poems
Tom Robbins Complete Novels
Tolstoy War and Peace
Mark Twain complete stories and novels
Shakespeare complete plays and poems
Bible
Koran
Buddhist Writings
Hindu Writings
Tao De Ching
Book of Mormon
Federalist Papers
US constitution
Declaration of Independence
Magna Carter
SInclair Lewis It Can’t Happen Here
CS Lewis Narnia Series
CS Lewis Out of the Silent Planet Series
Rowlings Harry Potter series
Classic SF writers are under represented on these lists as well.
Comments welcome let me know which ones you’ve read and I will add it to the list
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 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.
Glass by Robert Francis Writing com
Blue Winter by Robert Francis Writing com
encounter writing com
Where I Belong – Contest winner Feb 24, 2021, writing com
Edna St. Vincent Millay -Pastoral writing com
Lorraine Marguerite Gasrel Black -Pastoral Rhapsody writing com
Daniel Miltz -Pastoral Day writing com
Henry Kirke White -A Pastoral Songwriting com
Carl Sandberg Passers-By
Poetry Corner, writing com Poetry corner
Randall Jarrell The Olive Garden Writing com poetry
Randall Jarrell The Breath of Night Writing com poetry
Randal Jarrell The Orient Express Writing com poetry
Abdul Ala armada Rafi I poem Friend, this world is like an unburied corpse
Ali Ahmad Saeed poem
Alton David translation of a man and a woman white
Andre Breton Man and Woman Absolutely White
Mary Bernard, translation of Sofia he is more than a hero
Ingeborg Bachman poem
Anne Bradstreet letter to her husband 1650 first Published woman poet in The US
Willis Barnstone translation of Mother’s song if snow
Charles Bernstein writing exercises
William Blake Sick Rose
Elizabeth Browning Sonnets from The Portuguese #43 how Do I love Thee
Elizabeth Bishop one art Britain
Andre Carter Stephen D translation lady is shichimi if someone would come
William Barnstone she is at island me turn off
Maxine Chernoff writing exercises
Chilam Balam poem
Chiyo various lines
William Corbett Vermont Apollinaire
Robert Creely The business
EE Cummings In Jest
Bel Dao Listen, I Don’t Believe Chinese poet mid-20th century
David Wagner lines and since a call since Elam since summer
Thomas Campion When to her lute Corinna sings
Jon Donne Holly Sonnet 14
Lucile Clifton, I don’t know how to do
Emily Dickinson lines and poems 214
Emily Dickinson poem 262
Emily Dickinson poem 640
Emily Dickinson poem 986
Emily Dickinson poem 1732
Enhenduanna The Exaltation of Inanna, antiphonal Hymns Praise of Inanna
Egyptian Poem, untitled
Fanny Howe About Face
Imr El Quais The Great Ode
Elaine Feinstein excerpt from translation Marina TSvetayeva poems of The end Lawrence Ferlinghetti excerpt from constantly risking absurdity Coney Island of The mind
Donald Finkel excerpt from a translation of Bel Dao
Roberts Elizabeth silent poems
Frances Kathleen vanishing point third black quartet from Wayne
Robert Frost Nothing Gold can stay
Robert Clark translation departure by Pierre Reverdy
Jorie Graham In what matter is The body united with The soul
Barbara Guest Lines from red lilies
HD Dread
HD Sea Rose
HD Oread
Allen Hibbert translation of Adonis desire moving through The Maps of The material
Ronald Hoffman excerpt from deceptively like a solid
Kelly Holt writing exercises
Bible, Ecclesiastes for everything There is a season
Homer Odyssey
Homer Iliad
Edward Arlington Robinson Richard Corey
Fanny Howe About Face
George Herbert Death
Linda jarkesy The bed
John K
Randall Jarred The death of The Bell turret gunner
John Keats The Eve of St Agnes
Lao Tzu Rule a Large Nation
DH Lawrence Bavarian Gentians
LiPo Moonlight Pools
Liu Tsung-yuan From One thousand mountains
Audre Lorde lines from coal
Hugh MacDiarmid Another epitaph on The army of mercenaries
Jackson Mac Lou excerpt from antic quartans
Omar Khayyam Rubaiyat excerpt
Alexander Pope Essay on Criticism
Bernadette Mayer writing exercises
WS Merwin excerpts from leviathan
Pablo Neruda leaning into afterworlds
Pablo Neruda and walking around
John Milton excerpts from Allegro
John Milton excerpts from paradise lost
Mariana Moore experts from the monkeys
Laura Moriarty The mouth
Bridge Mullins writing exercises
Ellen Myles honey bear
Lorraine Niedecker now in one year
Charles North excerpt from shooting for line
George Oppen excerpt from psalm
Dorothy Parker resume
Bob Pearlman speaker vibrates through the entire house after from AK
Ezra Pound in a station in The Metro
David Ray translation lines from Chiyo
Kenneth Rexroth translation of Midnight songs
Pierre Reverdy Departure
Christopher Sawyer Le is More Than an Hericenone translation Flight of The Itza
Dominion Searls translation of a kind of loss
Shelly Love Philosophy 19th Century
Sappho He is more than a Hero
Jack Spicer lines for imaginary elegies part 1-111
John Tipane translation Abu Hamza al online from this world
Dante in the middle of the road
Anonymous Egyptian poem only one matchless sister
manioc If snow falls on the left field
Issa Morning
Beowulf soon saw
Homer Then wide ruling Agamemnon
Homer infinite terror
Homer wars spears
In El Qis here was the place I watched her
Arthur Rimbaud Bateau Ivre if I desire
Arthur Rimbaud memory
Arthur Rimbaud longing for young arms
Rig Veda There were no such things
Sappho The moon has set
Charles Thomasson lines from Mr. Birdy
David Trinidad monster mash
TS Elliot Excerpt from The Wasteland
Mariana Tsvetanyana Poem of The End
Alfred Tennyson Now Sleep the Crimson Petal
Anne Waldman excerpt for Iovis 19
William Carlos Williams except for The descent
Walt Whitman excerpts from Leaves of Grass
William Butler Yeats the second coming
William Wordsworth The Solitary Reaper
Louis Zukofsky in Arizona from 729 songs
Richard Lovelace 17th Century British Poet, “To Lucasta, Going to War”
Geoffrey Chaucer 1400 Call complaint to His Purs (Purse)
Parody Poems from NaPoWrMo April 27 Prompt
Lewis Carroll Crocodile
Isaac Watts How Doth the Little
Lewis Carroll This the Voice of The Lobster
Isaac Watts The Sluggard
Lewis Carroll Twinkle, Twinkle Little Bat
Other poems from Writing com and Elsewhere
Abandoned Farmhouse
by Ted Kooser Wooden Boats
Judy Serum Brown
Denise Levertov Celebration
Edgar Allan Poe A Dream Within a Dream
Poetic blooming
Heal The World with Marigolds poetic blossoming entry
Midnight encounters a poetic blossoming entry
David S The All-Mighty Thresher
Sally Ann Roberts example #1:it All Started with A Packet of Seeds
William Seaman Higgledy-piggledy
Arthur W. Monks Higgledy-piggledy
Paul Pascal
Higgledy-piggledy
stink in God’s nose.” by Anthony Hecht
Higgledy-piggledy
scraped off The tracks. by John Hollander
“Higgledy-piggledy
Andrea Doria
GLUB”. . . (end of quote). by John Hollander
The dactyl meter is a three-syllable foot with a stress pattern of DUM-da-da, as explained and demonstrated in The following link: https://literarydevices.net/dactyl/
Example #1: The Charge of The Light Brigade (By Alfred Lord Tennyson)
Example #2: Evangeline (By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Example #3: The Lost Leader (By Robert Browning)
Example #4: (Out of The Cradle Endlessly Rocking (By Walt Whitman)
Example #5: Higgledy Piggledy (By Ian Lancashire)
Sidney Lanier The Song Of The Chattahoochee
Sidney Lanier (Written for The Art Autograph during The Irish Famine, 1880.)
Sidney Lanier A Sunrise Song “Where Grandpa Died”
Robert Hayden ~” A Plague of Starlings”
Robert Frost ~” The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost{/pre}
Jack Kerouac Daydreams for Ginsberg
Mini-Monoverse and Double Mini-Monoverse
How Many Times? Emily
Louisa May Alcott
The Short Story A Christmas Dream, And How It Came True
Louisa May Alcott
The Rock and The Bubble
Louisa May Alcott
The Short Story Shadow-Children
Marcus Manilius Sagittarius
Rudyard Kipling’s Centaurs
Mary Swenson The Centaur
ODES
Genethliacum Ode, is a poem written in honor of the birth of a child. Usually, these lofty odes were reserved for the birth of nobility. However, technically any poem written in honor of the birth of a child would qualify as a Genethliacum.
Love set you going like a fat gold watch.
The midwife slapped your footsoles, and your bald cry
Took its place among the elements.
Our voices echo, magnifying your arrival. New statue.
In a drafty museum, your nakedness
Shadows our safety. We stand round blankly as walls.
I’m no more your mother
Than the cloud that distills a mirror to reflect its own slow
Effacement at the wind’s hand.
All night your moth-breath
Flickers among the flat pink roses. I wake to listen:
A far sea moves in my ear.
One cry, and I stumble from bed, cow-heavy and floral
In my Victorian nightgown.
Your mouth opens clean as a cat’s. The window square
Whitens and swallows its dull stars. And now you try
Your handful of notes;
The clear vowels rise like balloons.
Encomium or Coronation Ode is a Greek choral lyric celebrating a person’s achievements. This can be expanded to the length and formality of an ode as in honor of the coronation of a king, but most often is a simple poem as would be spoken at a banquet in an introduction in the category of occasional poetry. It specifically celebrates a man rather than a god. This genre of verse usually has 5 elements, prologue, birth and development, accomplishments, comparisons with which to praise, and an epilogue.Just a Man
Palinode Ode is an apologetic ode, that retracts or recants something said in a previous poem by the same poet. It is usually written as a retraction of an invective statement or offensive remark made in satire.
Geoffrey Chaucer wrote a palinode at the end of the Canterbury Tales, recanting and apologizing for any bawdy or offensive statements previously made. It is really unclear if this palinode was part of the original Tales or if it was tacked on later as either an advertisement of his works or as a death bed confessional.
Wherfore I biseke yow mekely,
for the mercy Of God, that ye preye
for me that crist have Mercy on me
and foryeve me my giltes; and Namely
of my translacions and enditynges
of Worldly vanitees, the whiche I revoke
in My retracciouns:as is the book of Troilus;
the book also of Fame; the book of
The xxv. Ladies; the ;
The book of seint valentynes day
of the parlement of briddes; the tales of counterbury,
Thilke that sownen into synne; the book
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Panegyric or Paean is an ode that celebrates something from its inception or the life of a person, not just the accomplishments. It is usually written about someone still alive and celebrates the who rather than the what of the person. “Paean” should not be confused with the metric foot “paeon”.
Triumphal Ode, is an ode to celebrate a victory. Also called an Epinicia when specifically celebrating a sports victory. The Epinician Ode said to be created by Simonides of Ceos, Greek lyrical poet, 556BC to 468BC though the most prolific user of the theme was Pindar of Pindaric Ode fame. Originally written to honor a victor the Hellenic games and sung in a procession for the winner and connecting him with a great hero of the past. The frame at the discretion of the poet. Victory by S.J. Duncan-Clark
The Chicago Evening Post, November 11, 1918 Great Poems about the World War
OUT of the night it leaped the seas–
—The four long years of night!
“The foe is beaten to his knees,
—And triumph crowns the fight!”
It sweeps the world from shore to shore,
—By wave and wind ’tis flung,
It grows into a mighty roar
—Of siren, bell and tongue.
Where little peoples knelt in fear,
—They stand in joy today;
The hour of their redemption here,
—Their feet on Freedom’s way.
The kings and kaisers flee their doom,
—Fall bloody crown and throne!
Room for the people! Room! Make room!
—They march to claim their own!
Now God be praised we lived to see
—His Sun of Justice rise,
His Sun of Righteous Liberty,
—To gladden all our skies!
And God be praised for those who died,
—Whate’er their clime or breed,
Who, fighting bravely side by side,
—A world from thraldom freed!
And God be praised for those who, spite
—Of woundings sore and deep,
Survive to see the Cause of Right
—O’er all its barriers sweep!
God and the people–This our cry!
—O, God, thy peace we sing!
The peace that comes through victory,
—And dwells where Thou art King.
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Death and the Lady
Canon Dixon’s Last Poems in 1905.
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge The Other Side of a Mirror
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge After St. Augustine
The books on Boxall’s list, which is found in the 5 editions of the published book with a TOTAL NUMBER OF 1315 books.
These books are mostly NOVELS. That is why there are no holy books, Shakespeare, etc.
THIS LIST IS COMPLETE. DO NOT ADD ANY BOOKS AND ALSO DO NOT REMOVE ANY. In case of doubt post a comment here and the people maintaining this list will take a look at it! The list can be found at https://docs.google.com/ spreadsheet/c…
My reading list
I have read the following 226 books from the 1315 books on the list
I have read the following 226 books form the 1315 books on list
Book Title
Author
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Adams, Douglas
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency
Adams, Douglas
The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul
Adams, Douglas
Aesop’s Fables
Aesopus
Little Women
Alcott, Louisa May
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Angelou, Maya
The Thousand and One Nights
Anonymous
I, Robot
Asimov, Isaac
Foundation
Asimov, Isaac
The Handmaid’s Tale
Atwood, Margaret
Sense and Sensibility
Austen, Jane
Pride and Prejudice
Austen, Jane
Mansfield Park
Austen, Jane
Emma
Austen, Jane
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Baldwin, James
Empire of the Sun
Ballard, J.G.
Giles Goat-Boy
Barth, John
Henderson the Rain King
Bellow, Saul
Herzog
Bellow, Saul
Jane Eyre
Brontë, Charlotte
Shirley
Brontë, Charlotte
Villette
Brontë, Charlotte
Wuthering Heights
Brontë, Emily
A World for Julius
Bryce Echenique, Alfredo
The Thirty-Nine Steps
Buchan, John
The Master and Margarita
Bulgakov, Mikhail
The Pilgrim’s Progress
Bunyan, John
A Clockwork Orange
Burgess, Anthony
Inside Mr. Enderby
Burgess, Anthony
Evelina
Burney, Fanny
Cecilia
Burney, Fanny
Camilla
Burney, Fanny
Tarzan of the Apes
Burroughs, Edgar Rice
Junkie
Burroughs, William
Naked Lunch
Burroughs, William
The Wild Boys
Burroughs, William
Queer
Burroughs, William
Erewhon
Butler, Samuel
The Way of All Flesh
Butler, Samuel
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Capote, Truman
In Cold Blood
Capote, Truman
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Carroll, Lewis
Through the Looking Glass
Carroll, Lewis
Don Quixote
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de
2001: A Space Odyssey
Clarke, Arthur C.
Heart of Darkness
Conrad, Joseph
The Secret Agent
Conrad, Joseph
Last of the Mohicans
Cooper, James Fenimore
Robinson Crusoe
Defoe, Daniel
Moll Flanders
Defoe, Daniel
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Dick, Philip K.
Oliver Twist
Dickens, Charles
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Dickens, Charles
A Christmas Carol
Dickens, Charles
David Copperfield
Dickens, Charles
Bleak House
Dickens, Charles
Hard Times
Dickens, Charles
A Tale of Two Cities
Dickens, Charles
Great Expectations
Dickens, Charles
Out of Africa
Dinesen, Isak
Ragtime
Doctorow, E.L.
Billy Bathgate
Doctorow, E.L.
U.S.A.
Dos Passos, John
Notes from the Underground
Dostoevsky, Fyodor
Crime and Punishment
Dostoevsky, Fyodor
The Idiot
Dostoevsky, Fyodor
The Devils
Dostoevsky, Fyodor
The Brothers Karamazov
Dostoevsky, Fyodor
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Doyle, Arthur Conan
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Doyle, Arthur Conan
The Three Musketeers
Dumas, Alexandre
The Count of Monte-Cristo
Dumas, Alexandre
Foucault’s Pendulum
Eco, Umberto
Adam Bede
Eliot, George
The Mill on the Floss
Eliot, George
Silas Marner
Eliot, George
Middlemarch
Eliot, George
Daniel Deronda
Eliot, George
Less Than Zero
Ellis, Bret Easton
American Psycho
Ellis, Bret Easton
Glamorama
Ellis, Bret Easton
The Black Dahlia
Ellroy, James
Like Water for Chocolate
Esquivel, Laura
The Sound and the Fury
Faulkner, William
Absalom, Absalom!
Faulkner, William
The Hamlet
Faulkner, William
The Great Gatsby
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Tender is the Night
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Casino Royale
Fleming, Ian
Everything is Illuminated
Foer, Jonathan Safran
A Room With a View
Forster, E.M.
A Passage to India
Forster, E.M.
The Forsyte Saga
Galsworthy, John
No One Writes to the Colonel
García Márquez, Gabriel
One Hundred Years of Solitude
García Márquez, Gabriel
The Autumn of the Patriarch
García Márquez, Gabriel
Love in the Time of Cholera
García Márquez, Gabriel
Neuromancer
Gibson, William
Memoirs of a Geisha
Golden, Arthur
Lord of the Flies
Golding, William
The Tin Drum
Grass, Günter
The Third Man
Greene, Graham
The End of the Affair
Greene, Graham
The Quiet American
Greene, Graham
The Honorary Consul
Greene, Graham
King Solomon’s Mines
Haggard, H. Rider
The Thin Man
Hammett, Dashiell
Far from the Madding Crowd
Hardy, Thomas
Return of the Native
Hardy, Thomas
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Hardy, Thomas
Jude the Obscure
Hardy, Thomas
The Scarlet Letter
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
The House of the Seven Gables
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Stranger in a Strange Land
Heinlein, Robert
Catch-22
Heller, Joseph
The Sun Also Rises
Hemingway, Ernest
A Farewell to Arms
Hemingway, Ernest
To Have and Have Not
Hemingway, Ernest
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Hemingway, Ernest
The Old Man and the Sea
Hemingway, Ernest
Rosshalde
Hesse, Herman
Siddhartha
Hesse, Herman
Steppenwolf
Hesse, Herman
The Glass Bead Game
Hesse, Herman
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Highsmith, Patricia
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hugo, Victor
Les Misérables
Hugo, Victor
Brave New World
Huxley, Aldous
The World According to Garp
Irving, John
The Cider House Rules
Irving, John
A Prayer for Owen Meany
Irving, John
Fear of Flying
Jong, Erica
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Joyce, James
The Trial
Kafka, Franz
The Castle
Kafka, Franz
Amerika
Kafka, Franz
Zorba the Greek
Kazantzákis, Nikos
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Kesey, Ken
Sometimes a Great Notion
Kesey, Ken
The Poisonwood Bible
Kingsolver, Barbara
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Kundera, Milan
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Kundera, Milan
Sons and Lovers
Lawrence, D.H.
The Rainbow
Lawrence, D.H.
Women in Love
Lawrence, D.H.
The Plumed Serpent
Lawrence, D.H.
Lady Chatterley’s Lover
Lawrence, D.H.
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
Le Carré, John
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Le Carré, John
Smiley’s People
Le Carré, John
To Kill a Mockingbird
Lee, Harper
Babbitt
Lewis, Sinclair
The Call of the Wild
London, Jack
At the Mountains of Madness
Lovecraft, H.P.
Vanishing Point
Markson, David
Pavel’s Letters
Maron, Monika
Life of Pi
Martel, Yann
The Back Room
Martin Gaite, Carmen
Santa Evita
Martinez, Tomas Eloy
Time of Silence
Martín-Santos, Luis
Tirant lo Blanc
Martorell, Joanot
The Daughter
Matesis, Pavlos
Cigarettes
Mathews, Harry
Melmoth the Wanderer
Maturin, Charles Robert
The Albigenses
Maturin, Charles Robert
Of Human Bondage
Maugham, W. Somerset
Cakes and Ale
Maugham, W. Somerset
The Razor’s Edge
Maugham, W. Somerset
A Woman’s Life
Maupassant, Guy de
Bel-Ami
Maupassant, Guy de
Pierre and Jean
Maupassant, Guy de
Vipers’ Tangle
Mauriac, Francois
Don’t Move
Mazzantini, Margaret
A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing
McBride, Eimear
The Butcher Boy
McCabe, Patrick
Blood Meridian
McCarthy, Cormac
All the Pretty Horses
McCarthy, Cormac
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
McCoy, Horace
Moby-Dick
Melville, Herman
Tropic of Cancer
Miller, Henry
Tropic of Capricorn
Miller, Henry
Cloud Atlas
Mitchell, David
Gone With the Wind
Mitchell, Margaret
Song of Solomon
Morrison, Toni
Beloved
Morrison, Toni
Jazz
Morrison, Toni
The Tale of Genji
Murasaki, Shikibu
The English Patient
Ondaatje, Michael
Animal Farm
Orwell, George
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Orwell, George
Doctor Zhivago
Pasternak, Boris
Cry, the Beloved Country
Paton, Alan
Remembrance of Things Past
Proust, Marcel
Pharoah
Prus, Boleslaw
Heartbreak Tango
Puig, Manuel
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Puig, Manuel
Eugene Onegin
Pushkin, Alexander
The Godfather
Puzo, Mario
Excellent Women
Pym, Barbara
Quartet in Autumn
Pym, Barbara
V.
Pynchon, Thomas
The Crying of Lot 49
Pynchon, Thomas
Gravity’s Rainbow
Pynchon, Thomas
Vineland
Pynchon, Thomas
Mason & Dixon
Pynchon, Thomas
Against the Day
Pynchon, Thomas
The Plot Against America
Roth, Philip
The God of Small Things
Roy, Arundhati
Midnight’s Children
Rushdie, Salman
The Satanic Verses
Rushdie, Salman
The Moor’s Last Sigh
Rushdie, Salman
The Ground Beneath Her Feet
Rushdie, Salman
The Catcher in the Rye
Salinger, J.D.
Ivanhoe
Schnitzler, Arthur
Frankenstein
Sembene, Ousmane
The Jungle
Sillitoe, Chinua
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Smith, Zadie
Cancer Ward
Smollett, Tobias George
The First Circle
Smollett, Tobias George
Of Mice and Men
St Aubyn, Edward
The Grapes of Wrath
Stead, Christina
Cannery Row
Stein, Gertrude
Cryptonomicon
Steinbeck, John
Treasure Island
Stendhal
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Stephenson, Neal
Dracula
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Gulliver’s Travels
Svevo, Italo
A Modest Proposal
Svevo, Italo
Vanity Fair
Taktsis, Costas
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Tartt, Donna
The Hobbit
Thurber, James
The Lord of the Rings
Timm, Uwe
War and Peace
Timmermans, Felix
Anna Karenina
Tóibín, Colm
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Tóibín, Colm
Fathers and Sons
Trollope, Anthony
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Turgenev, Ivan
Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Vargas Llosa, Mario
Around the World in Eighty Days
Vassilikos, Vassilis
Cat’s Cradle
Vidal, Gore
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
Vila-Matas, Enrique
Slaughterhouse Five
Vittorini, Elio
Breakfast of Champions
Volpi, Jorge
The Color Purple
Voltaire
The Time Machine
Waugh, Evelyn
The Island of Dr. Moreau
Waugh, Evelyn
The Invisible Man
Waugh, Evelyn
The War of the Worlds
Waugh, Evelyn
The Once and Future King
White, Edmund
The Picture of Dorian Gray
White, Edmund
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Witkiewicz, Stanislaw Ignacy
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Wodehouse, P.G.
Native Son
Woolf, Virginia
Monkey: Journey to the West
Woolf, Virginia
Day of the Triffids
Woolf, Virginia
the complete list follows
Book Title
Author
Things Fall Apart
Achebe, Chinua
Arrow of God
Achebe, Chinua
Blood and Guts in High School
Acker, Kathy
Hawksmoor
Ackroyd, Peter
The House of Doctor Dee
Ackroyd, Peter
The Lambs of London
Ackroyd, Peter
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Adams, Douglas
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency
Adams, Douglas
The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul
Adams, Douglas
Half of a Yellow Sun
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Americanah
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Tent of Miracles
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Cause for Alarm
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
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Foundation
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Alias Grace
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The Blind Assassin
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Obabakoak
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Mansfield Park
Austen, Jane
Emma
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Persuasion
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Northanger Abbey
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Moon Palace
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Mr. Vertigo
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Timbuktu
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Invisible
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The Underdogs
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So Long a Letter
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Go Tell It on the Mountain
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Giovanni’s Room
Baldwin, James
The Drowned World
Ballard, J.G.
The Atrocity Exhibition
Ballard, J.G.
Crash
Ballard, J.G.
High Rise
Ballard, J.G.
Empire of the Sun
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Cocaine Nights
Ballard, J.G.
Super-Cannes
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Père Goriot
Balzac, Honoré de
Lost Illusions
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The Crow Road
Banks, Iain
Complicity
Banks, Iain
Dead Air
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The Player of Games
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Cloudsplitter
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The Newton Letter
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The Book of Evidence
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The Untouchable
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Shroud
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The Sea
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Elegance of the Hedgehog
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The Inferno
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Under Fire
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Silk
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Regeneration
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The Ghost Road
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Another World
Barker, Pat
Nightwood
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The Sense of an Ending
Barnes, Julian
The Floating Opera
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The End of the Road
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Come Back, Dr. Caligari
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The Dead Father
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Amateurs
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Alamut
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The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
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Story of the Eye
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The Abbot C
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Blue of Noon
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Molloy
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Malone Dies
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Watt
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The Unnamable
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How It Is
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Worstward Ho
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Yes
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Concrete
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2666
Bolaño, Roberto
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Group Portrait With Lady
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The Safety Net
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To the North
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The Heat of the Day
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A World of Love
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Eva Trout
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World’s End
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Drop City
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In Watermelon Sugar
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Threepenny Novel
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Nadja
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Arcanum 17
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A Dry White Season
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Testament of Youth
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The Guiltless
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
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Jane Eyre
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Wuthering Heights
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A World for Julius
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The Thirty-Nine Steps
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The Master and Margarita
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The Pilgrim’s Progress
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A Clockwork Orange
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Inside Mr. Enderby
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Evelina
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Cecilia
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Camilla
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Tarzan of the Apes
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Naked Lunch
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Queer
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Erewhon
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The Way of All Flesh
Butler, Samuel
The Tartar Steppe
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The Virgin in the Garden
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Possession
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The Children’s Book
Byatt, A.S.
Three Trapped Tigers
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The Postman Always Rings Twice
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House in the Uplands
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Our Ancestors
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Invisible Cities
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The Castle of Crossed Destinies
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If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler
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The Plague
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The Rebel
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Auto-da-Fé
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A Dream of Red Mansions
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War with the Newts
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Breakfast at Tiffany’s
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In Cold Blood
Capote, Truman
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Jack Maggs
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Kingdom of This World
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The Lost Steps
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Through the Looking Glass
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The Passion of New Eve
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Nights at the Circus
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Wise Children
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Bebo’s Girl
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Solitude
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The Hive
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Soldiers of Salamis
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Don Quixote
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The Travels of Persiles and Sigismunda
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de
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The Big Sleep
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Farewell My Lovely
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The Long Goodbye
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Wild Swans
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Chariton
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The Riddle of the Sands
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The Awakening
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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
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On the Heights of Despair
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2001: A Space Odyssey
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The Sorrow of Belgium
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Fanny Hill
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The Holy Terrors
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What a Carve Up!
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Veronika Decides to Die
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The Devil and Miss Prym
Coelho, Paulo
Dusklands
Coetzee, J.M.
In the Heart of the Country
Coetzee, J.M.
Waiting for the Barbarians
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The Life and Times of Michael K
Coetzee, J.M.
Foe
Coetzee, J.M.
The Master of Petersburg
Coetzee, J.M.
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Youth
Coetzee, J.M.
Elizabeth Costello
Coetzee, J.M.
Slow Man
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Claudine’s House
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The Moonstone
Collins, Wilkie
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Heart of Darkness
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Nostromo
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Eline Vere
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Arcadia
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The Child of Pleasure
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Fifth Business
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The End of the Story
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Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
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On Love
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Hebdomeros
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Moll Flanders
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Roxana
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The Heretic
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Ratner’s Star
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The Names
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White Noise
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Libra
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Mao II
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Underworld
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Falling Man
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Thomas of Reading
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Clear Light of Day
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All About H. Hatterr
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
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A Christmas Carol
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Martin Chuzzlewit
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David Copperfield
Dickens, Charles
Bleak House
Dickens, Charles
Hard Times
Dickens, Charles
A Tale of Two Cities
Dickens, Charles
Great Expectations
Dickens, Charles
Our Mutual Friend
Dickens, Charles
Jacques the Fatalist
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The Nun
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Rameau’s Nephew
Diderot, Denis
Play It As It Lays
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Democracy
Didion, Joan
The Bitter Glass
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Out of Africa
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Berlin Alexanderplatz
Döblin, Alfred
The Book of Daniel
Doctorow, E.L.
Ragtime
Doctorow, E.L.
Billy Bathgate
Doctorow, E.L.
City of God
Doctorow, E.L.
Stone Junction
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Asphodel
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Manhattan Transfer
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U.S.A.
Dos Passos, John
Notes from the Underground
Dostoevsky, Fyodor
Crime and Punishment
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The Idiot
Dostoevsky, Fyodor
The Devils
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The Brothers Karamazov
Dostoevsky, Fyodor
Fool’s Gold
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Uncle Petros and Goldbach’s Conjecture
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Doyle, Arthur Conan
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Doyle, Arthur Conan
The Radiant Way
Drabble, Margaret
The Red Queen
Drabble, Margaret
As If I Am Not There
Drakulić, Slavenka
Sister Carrie
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Rebecca
Du Maurier, Daphne
The Three Musketeers
Dumas, Alexandre
Queen Margot
Dumas, Alexandre
The Count of Monte-Cristo
Dumas, Alexandre
Hallucinating Foucault
Duncker, Patricia
Paradise of the Blind
Duong, Thu Huong
The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein
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The Vice-Consul
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The Lover
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Justine
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The Judge and His Hangman
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The Crime of Father Amaro
Eça de Queirós, José Maria
The Name of the Rose
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Foucault’s Pendulum
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Castle Rackrent
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The Absentee
Edgeworth, Maria
Ormond
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The Quest
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A Visit from the Goon Squad
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The Circle
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The Life of a Good-for-Nothing
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Woman at Point Zero
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Adam Bede
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The Mill on the Floss
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Silas Marner
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Middlemarch
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Less Than Zero
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American Psycho
Ellis, Bret Easton
Glamorama
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Invisible Man
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The Black Dahlia
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Silence
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Deep River
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The Book about Blanche and Marie
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The Interesting Narrative
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Love Medicine
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Moscow Stations
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Like Water for Chocolate
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Celestial Harmonies
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The Virgin Suicides
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Middlesex
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The Marriage Plot
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Under the Skin
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Astradeni
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Troubles
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The Siege of Krishnapur
Farrell, J.G.
The Singapore Grip
Farrell, J.G.
The Sound and the Fury
Faulkner, William
Absalom, Absalom!
Faulkner, William
The Hamlet
Faulkner, William
Go Down, Moses
Faulkner, William
Birdsong
Faulks, Sebastian
Troubling Love
Ferrante, Elena
The Story of the Lost Child
Ferrante, Elena
Joseph Andrews
Fielding, Henry
Tom Jones
Fielding, Henry
Amelia
Fielding, Henry
The Wars
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The Great Gatsby
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Tender is the Night
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Madame Bovary
Flaubert, Gustave
Sentimental Education
Flaubert, Gustave
The Temptation of Saint Anthony
Flaubert, Gustave
Bouvard and Pécuchet
Flaubert, Gustave
Casino Royale
Fleming, Ian
Everything is Illuminated
Foer, Jonathan Safran
Effi Briest
Fontane, Theodor
The Stechlin
Fontane, Theodor
The Good Soldier
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Parade’s End
Ford, Ford Madox
Where Angels Fear to Tread
Forster, E.M.
A Room With a View
Forster, E.M.
Howards End
Forster, E.M.
A Passage to India
Forster, E.M.
The Collector
Fowles, John
The Magus
Fowles, John
The French Lieutenant’s Woman
Fowles, John
A Maggot
Fowles, John
Faces in the Water
Frame, Janet
Thais
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The Blind Side of the Heart
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The Corrections
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Freedom
Franzen, Jonathan
Simon and the Oaks
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Hideous Kinky
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I’m Not Stiller
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Homo Faber
Frisch, Max
The Death of Artemio Cruz
Fuentes, Carlos
The Recognitions
Gaddis, William
Memory of Fire
Galeano, Eduardo
Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris
Gallico, Paul
The Trick is to Keep Breathing
Galloway, Janice
The Forsyte Saga
Galsworthy, John
No One Writes to the Colonel
García Márquez, Gabriel
One Hundred Years of Solitude
García Márquez, Gabriel
The Autumn of the Patriarch
García Márquez, Gabriel
Love in the Time of Cholera
García Márquez, Gabriel
Eclipse of the Crescent Moon
Gardonyi, Geza
Thursbitch
Garner, Alan
The Roots of Heaven
Gary, Romain
Promise at Dawn
Gary, Romain
Mary Barton
Gaskell, Elizabeth
Cranford
Gaskell, Elizabeth
North and South
Gaskell, Elizabeth
Legend
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The Triple Mirror of the Self
Ghose, Zulfikar
The Shadow Lines
Ghosh, Amitav
Sunset Song
Gibbon, Lewis Grassic
Cold Comfort Farm
Gibbons, Stella
Neuromancer
Gibson, William
Fruits of the Earth
Gide, André
The Immoralist
Gide, André
Strait is the Gate
Gide, André
The Counterfeiters
Gide, André
The Yellow Wallpaper
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
New Grub Street
Gissing, George
Born in Exile
Gissing, George
The Adventures of Caleb Williams
Godwin, William
The Sorrows of Young Werther
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Elective Affinities
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
The Nose
Gogol, Nikolay
Dead Souls
Gogol, Nikolay
Memoirs of a Geisha
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Lord of the Flies
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Rites of Passage
Golding, William
The Vicar of Wakefield
Goldsmith, Oliver
Ferdydurke
Gombrowicz, Witold
Oblomov
Goncharov, Ivan
Burger’s Daughter
Gordimer, Nadine
July’s People
Gordimer, Nadine
Mother
Gorky, Maxim
The Artamonov Business
Gorky, Maxim
Marks of Identity
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The Opposing Shore
Gracq, Julien
The Tin Drum
Grass, Günter
Cat and Mouse
Grass, Günter
Dog Years
Grass, Günter
Lanark: A Life in Four Books
Gray, Alasdair
Blindness
Green, Henry
Living
Green, Henry
Party Going
Green, Henry
Caught
Green, Henry
Loving
Green, Henry
Back
Green, Henry
England Made Me
Greene, Graham
Brighton Rock
Greene, Graham
The Power and the Glory
Greene, Graham
The Heart of the Matter
Greene, Graham
The Third Man
Greene, Graham
The End of the Affair
Greene, Graham
The Quiet American
Greene, Graham
The Honorary Consul
Greene, Graham
The Adventurous Simplicissimus
Grimmelshausen, Hans von
Diary of a Nobody
Grossmith, George
Memoirs of Rain
Gupta, Sunetra
Dirty Havana Trilogy
Gutierrez, Pedro Juan
Forever a Stranger
Haasse, Hella
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time
Haddon, Mark
King Solomon’s Mines
Haggard, H. Rider
She
Haggard, H. Rider
The Well of Loneliness
Hall, Radclyffe
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Hamid, Mohsin
Hangover Square
Hamilton, Patrick
The Red Harvest
Hammett, Dashiell
The Maltese Falcon
Hammett, Dashiell
The Glass Key
Hammett, Dashiell
The Thin Man
Hammett, Dashiell
Hunger
Hamsun, Knut
Growth of the Soil
Hamsun, Knut
Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
Handke, Peter
The Left-Handed Woman
Handke, Peter
The Afternoon of a Writer
Handke, Peter
The Art of Fielding
Harbach, Chad
Far from the Madding Crowd
Hardy, Thomas
The Hand of Ethelberta
Hardy, Thomas
Return of the Native
Hardy, Thomas
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Hardy, Thomas
The Woodlanders
Hardy, Thomas
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Hardy, Thomas
Jude the Obscure
Hardy, Thomas
The Go-Between
Hartley, L.P.
The Good Soldier Švejk
Hašek, Jaroslav
The Scarlet Letter
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
The House of the Seven Gables
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
The Blithedale Romance
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
The Marble Faun
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Love in Excess
Haywood, Eliza
A Question of Power
Head, Bessie
The First Garden
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The Blind Owl
Hedayat, Sadegh
Stranger in a Strange Land
Heinlein, Robert
An Ethiopian Romance
Heliodorus
Catch-22
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The Sun Also Rises
Hemingway, Ernest
A Farewell to Arms
Hemingway, Ernest
To Have and Have Not
Hemingway, Ernest
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Hemingway, Ernest
The Old Man and the Sea
Hemingway, Ernest
Margot and the Angels
Hemmerechts, Kristien
Nowhere Man
Hemon, Aleksandar
Reasons to Live
Hempel, Amy
Martin Fierro
Hernandez, Jose
Dispatches
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The New World
Heruy Wolde Selassie
Rosshalde
Hesse, Herman
Siddhartha
Hesse, Herman
Steppenwolf
Hesse, Herman
The Glass Bead Game
Hesse, Herman
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Highsmith, Patricia
Camera Obscura
Hildebrand
Blind Man With a Pistol
Himes, Chester
A Kestrel for a Knave
Hines, Barry
The House on the Borderland
Hodgson, William Hope
Smilla’s Sense of Snow
Høeg, Peter
The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr
Hoffman, E.T.A.
The Parable of the Blind
Hofmann, Gert
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
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One history or current affairs book per month
one to do book per month
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Otherwise Engaged Volume 1
On the Road the Poet Volume 1
Poets Facing the Wall
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Books Read 2020
Goals: 100 books
Read classics
One thriller per month
Read a lot more Poetry
Read at least one book a year in Spanish
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Anthologies where my work has been published
Anatomy of the Beatnik Cowboy
Horror/Sleaze/Trash Poems
Otherwise Engaged Volume 1
On the Road the Poet Volume 1
Poets Facing the Wall
Best American Poetry 2017
Best American Poetry 2018
Best American Poetry 2019
Books Read
Dante the Divine Comedy own library
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Micah Caida Time Trap Red Moon Trilogy Vol 1
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Lee Child Jack Reacher 61 Hours own library
Lee Child Jack Reacher the Enemy own library
CS Lewis The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe in Spanish
Theresa Crater Under the Stone Paw
Charles Cuming A Foreign Country
Earnest Dempsey the Secrets of the Stones
Earnest Dempsey The Templar Curse
Brandon Ellis Atlantis Quadrilogy
Sterling E Lanier Hiero’s Journey own library
George Elliot Adam Bede
TS Elliot Complete Poems and Plays own library
Milos Fowler Captain Bartholomew Quasar
AC Fuller The Cutline an Alex Vance Novel own library
AC Fuller The Inverted Pyramid own library
AC Fuller The Anonymous Source own library
AC Fuller the Mockingbird Drive own library
AC Fuller the Shadow File own library
AC Fuller the Last Journalist
Jeschonek The Greatest Serial Killer in the Universe
Jeschonek the Love Quest of Smidgen the Snack Cake
Dieter Kellen Enigma What Lies Below
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin HC Volume One
William Penn Fruits of Solitude HC Volume One
The Journals of John Woolman HC Volume One
Plato the Apology, Phaedo and Crito HC Volume Two
The Golden Sayings of Epictetus HC Volume Two
The Mediations of Marcus Aurelius HC Volume Two
Warren Hately Reporting the Appocalypse
Jim Heskett Museum Attack
John Ling Fallen Angel
Robert Ludlum the Cry of the Haledon
Lincoln Cole Second Chances
Mathew Mather Dark Net
Kyle Mills the Utopia Experiment
James Rollins Map of Bones own library
Nick Thacker the Depths
Nick Thacker the Enigma Strain
Nick Thacker The Relics
Nick Thacker the Atlantis Stone
Elizabeth Williamson Tokyo Firewall
Clark Ashton Smith that Abominations of Yondo
Clark the nameless offspring
Clark the witch craft of Ulua
Clark the devotee of evil
Clark the Epiphany of death
Clark a vintage from Atlantis
Clark The Abominations of Yonda
Clark The white Sybil
Clark the ice demon
Clark the voyage of King Eurovan
Clark the master of the crabs
Clark the enchantress of Sylaire
Clark the dweller in the Gulf
Clark the dark age
Clark the third episode of Vahek
Clark Chinoiseries
Clark the mirror in the Hall of Ebony
Clark the passing of Aphrodite
Mod Po poems – week one- Emily Dickinson the brain in its groove
Emily Dickinson tell the truth slant
Emily Dickson I dwell in possibility second favorite
Whitman Songs of Myself favorite note to self read entire Leaves of Glass in December after MOD PO
Vanek Whitman’s Soul
Week Two William Carlos Williams Smell
William Carlos Williams Dance Russe second favorite
Allen Ginsberg Supermarket in California favorite
Lorraine Neidecker Grandfather Advised Me
Lorraine Neidecker You are my Friend
Lorraine Neidecker Foreclosure
Cid Corman It isn’t for Want
Ray Armantrout The Way
Week Three HD Sea Rose
Ezra Pound (EP) in a station of the metro
EP the Encounter
Tony Foster Haiku
William Carlos Williams (WCM) lines
WCM Between Walls
WCM this is Just to Say
WCM Red Wheelbarrow
WCW The Rose is Obsolete
WCM Portrait of a Lady
Marcel Duchamp Nude Descending a Stairway
MP Fountain
Week Four Mod Po Gertrude Stein Tender Buttons
Water Raining (from tender buttons)
Malachite (from tender buttons)
A Carafe that is a Blind Glass
Long Dress
Composition as Explanation
Let Us Describe – my second favorite
If I told Him would he like it completed portrait of Picasso – my favorite
Baroness Elsa Von Freytag Lorringhoven A Dozen Cocktails
Tristan Tzara How to Make a Dadist Poem
John Peal Bishop A recollection Sonnet
Week Five Communist Poets Ruth Lectlitian Lines for an Abortionist Office
Genevieve Taggard Intern
Harlem Renaissance Poets Countee Cullen Yet I Do Marvel]
Incident
Claud McKay If we must Die
Langston Hughes Dinner Guest Me
Gwendolyn Brooks Boy Breaking Glass
Gwendolyn Brooks Truth
Robert Frost Mending Well
Week Six Beats Robert Creeley I Know a Man
Jayne Cortez She Got It He Got It
Ginsberg Howl
Fereghetthi Baseball Canto
Le Roi Jones Incident
Le Roi Jones How You Sound
Jack Kerouac Belief and Techniques for Modern Prose
Jack Kerouac Essentials of Spontaneous Prose
Jack Kerouac Ideas About Prose
Jack Kerouac Old Angel Midnight
Jack Kerouac Babble Flow
Bob Kaufman Jail Poems
Anne Waldman Rogue State
Week seven NY School Harrif Abdurraqib USA V Cuba
John Ashbury Instruction Manual
Some Trees
Barbara Guest 20
Frank O Hara the Day Lady Died
Kenneth Koch Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams
Bernadette Madeline Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Eileen Myers Mount St Helens
Patrick Rosal Uptown Ode
James Schuler February
Week Eight Lyn Hejinian My Life
Bob Pearlman Chronic Meaning
Charles Bernstein In a Restless World Like this
Emily Dickinson My Life Has Stood a Loaded Gun
Susan Howe My Emily Dickinson
Harriette Muller Sleeping with the Dictionary
Tyrone Williams Can’t Tyrone Williams Written By Him
John Keens Persons and Places
Week Nine John Cage Writing Through Howl
John Cage Adagio Jackson Mac Law a Vocabulary for Peter Innisfree Moore
Jackson Mac Law version of Stein’s a grass carafe
Jackson Mac Law version of Stein 100 Feather Justice Chair
Jeana Osman Dropping Leaflets
Bernadette Myers Writing experiments
Realtak Not a Cage
Week Ten Christin Bur Chapter E of Eudora
Erica Baumgart Catalogue
Erica Baumgart dog ears
Caroline Bergville VIA
Michael Magee the Pledge
Michael Magee My Emily Dickinson
Michael Magee FARF poetry
Rose Marie Waldrops Shorter American Memory of the Declaration of Independence
Naser Hussain Sky Write NGS
Jordan Abel Place of Scraps
Terrae Morris African Emily Dickinson the Poet Lights the Lamp Essay One
William Carlos Williams the Attic Which is desire essay two
James Schuller the Day Gets Started Slowly essay three
post mod po additional reading: Jack Carr The Terminal List
George Elliot The Lifted Veil
Jeffrey Sypeck Becoming Charlemagne
To Read
Elliot Novels
Mod Po 2020 Poems (to be listed as I read them)
Harvard classics through Volume Six
Poets Companion finish
Art and Craft of Poetry finish
Poetry for Dummies
Whitman Leaves of Grass Dickenson Collected Poems Robert Service Poems (from Alaskan gold rush period)
About a year ago I started reading classic books, starting with books on the Good Read’s list of a 1001 books to read before you die. I also have been reading books in the Harvard Classics books which were published decades ago – I bought a complete set from the State Department book sale for 10 dollars a few years ago and vowed that I would start reading them some day and just completed volume one – the autobiography of Ben Franklin and William Penn’s reflections.
I completed 13% of the list. Lots more to read this year and in the coming years.My goal is to finish the list before I die so hopefully I will have enough time.
here’s the list. How many have you read? I’d love to know and will include your comments here. And you can join the Good Reads list as well.
three books I have read recently that are not on the list but should be on the list include Dante’s Divine Comedy, Ben Franklin’s autobiography and William Penn’s reflections. The Ben Franklin autobiography and William Penn’s reflections are from part one of the Harvard Classic books list published decades ago. I was moved by all three pieces. The Dante Divine comedy is a moving epic masterpiece and is at times terrifying and inspirational. the autobiography of Ben Franklin was powerful as was William Penn’s reflections on life written just before he died. Enjoy the list and discussions on it.
