Thursday, December 5, 2013

The first venture...a read through some classics.

I am participating in the reading through the classics club.

 Here are a few of the books I picked, a few over 200 because I have to do some larger selections from a few choice authors. What's a few more books, right?

Flatland, Edwin Abbott
Watership down, Richard Adams
Oresteia, Aeschylus
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Edward Albee
Hospital Sketches, Louisa May Alcott
Jo's Boys, Louisa May Alcott
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
Little Men, Louisa May Alcott
Stories of Eva Luna, Isabelle Allende
The House of the Spirits, Isabelle Allende
London Fields, Martin Amis
Winesburg Ohio, Sherwood Anderson
I know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
One thousand and One Nights, Anonymous
Lysistrata, Aristophanes read 12/15/2013
The Frogs, Aristophanes read 12/15/2013
Nichomachean Ethics, Aristotle
The Doll Maker, Harriett Arrow
A Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
Alias Grace, Margaret Atwood
The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood
Complete Juvenalia, Jane Austen
Emma, Jane Austen
Lady Susan, Jane Austen
Mansfield Park, Jane Austen
Northhanger Abbey, Jane Austen
Persuasion, Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
Sandition, Jane Austen
Selected Letters, Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen
The Watsons, Jane Austen
Giovanni's Room, James Baldwin
Go Tell It On The Mountain, James Baldwin
Eugenie Grandet, Honore Balzac
The Black Sheep, Honore Balzac
Peter Pan, JM Barrie
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Frank L Baum
Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett
Looking Backward, Edward Bellamy
The Uncommon Reader, Alan Bennett
The Decameron, Giovanni Boccaccio
Ficciones, Jorge Borges
Lady Audley's Secret, Mary Elizabeth Braddon
The Tennant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Bronte
Shirley, Charlotte Bronte
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
The Professor, Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
Aurora Leigh, Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Pilgrim's Progress, John Bunyan
The Making of a Marchioness, France Hodgson Burnett
The Shuttle, Frances Hodgson Burnett
Cold Sassy Tree, Olive Burns
Evelina, Frances Burney
The Fall, Albert Camus
The Plague, Albert Camus
The Stranger, Albert Camus
A Lost Lady, Willa Cather
Alexander's Bridge, Willa Cather
April Twilights, Willa Cather
Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather
One of Ours, Willa Cather
Shadows on the rock, Willa Cather
The professor's house, Willa Cather
The song of the lark, Willa Cather
My Mortal Enemy, Willa Cather
My Antonia, Willa Cather
O Pioneers!, Willa Cather
Sapphira and the Slavegirl, Willa Cather
The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer
The Duel, Anton Chekov
The Major Plays, Anton Chekov
Three Sisters, Anton Chekov
Cherry Orchard, Anton Chekov
Desiree's Baby, Kate Chopin
The Awakening, Kate Chopin
The Storm, Kate Chopin
The Story of the Hour, Kate Chopin
Youth, JM Coetzee
Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Sido, Collette
My Mother's House, Collette
Armadale, Wilkie Collins
The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins
Analects, Confucius
The Adventures of Pinnocchio, Carlo Collodi
The Pathfinder, James Fenimore Cooper
The Prarie, James Fenimore Cooper
The Pioneers, James Fenimore Cooper
The Divine Comedy, Dante
The Origin of the Species, Charles Darwin
Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes
Confessions of an English Opium Eater, Thomas De Quincy
The Little Prince, Antoine De Sait Exupery
Meditations on First Philosophy, Renee Descartes
Dombey and Son, Charles Dickens
Barnaby Rudge,
American Notes,
Hard Times,
Nicholas Nickelby,
Martin Chuzzlewitt,
Little Dorrit,
A Child's History of England,
Our Mutual Friend,
Tale of Two Cities,
The Chimes,
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain,
The Mystery of Edwin Drood,
The Old Curiosity Shop,
The Cricket of the Hearth,
The Winds of Heaven, Monica Dickens
The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoevsky
Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky
Demons, Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Eternal Husband, Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Gambler, Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Double, Fyodor Dostoevsky
A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas, Frederick Douglas
My Bondage and My Freedom, Frederick Douglas
The Lost World, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Hound of the Baskervilles, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Black Tulip, Alexander Dumas
Twenty years after, Alexander Dumas
The Name of the Rose, Umberto Echo
Brother Jacob, George Eliot
The Lifted Veil, George Eliot
Romola, George Eliot
Scenes of Clerical Life, George Eliot
The Complete Poems, T.S. Eliot
Murder in the Cathedral, T.S. Eliot
Medea, Euripides
Four Tragedies, Euripides
Sanctuary, William Faulkner
Tales of the Jazz age, F. Scott Fitzgerald
This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Passage to India, E.M. Forster
Where Angels Fear to Tread, E.M. Forster
The Diary of Anne Frank, Anne Frank
1726 Journal, Benjamin Franklin
North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell
Ruth, Elizabeth Gaskell
Wives and Daughters, Elizabeth Gaskell
Mythology, Edith Hamilton
Mayor of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy
Selected Stories, Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Blithedale Romance, Nathaniel Hawthorne
Beowulf, Seamus Heaney
Islands in the Stream, Ernest Hemmingway
The Illiad, Homer
A Treatise on Human Nature, David Hume
Ghosts, Henrick Ibson
A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving
Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
The Ivory Tower, Henry James
The Bostonians, Henry James
Finnegan's Wake, James Joyce
Snow Country, Yasunari Kawabata
Poems, John Keats
The tale of the Genji, Lady Muraski
The Stone Angel,  Margaret Laurence
Le Morte D'Arthur, Sir Thomas Malory
The Garden Party and Other Stories, Katherine Mansfield
The Piazza Tales, Herman Melville
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea, Yukio Mishima
Common Sense, Thomas Paine
Moralia, Plutarch
Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson
The Bride of Lammermoor, Sir Walter Scott
Twelfth Night, William Shakespeare
Antigone, Sophocles
A Grain of Wheat, Ngugi Thiong'o
The death of Ivan Illyich, Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
Narrative of Sojourner Truth, Sojourner Truth
The Art of War, Sun Tzsu
A Floating City, Jules Verne
Around the Moos, Jules Verne
The Mysterious Island, Jules Verne Read 1/11/14 
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne
The Aenid, Virgil
Ghost Stories, Edith Wharton
Sanctuary, Edith Wharton
The Glimpses From the Moon, Edith Wharton
Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman
The Waves, Virginia Woolf
The Voyage Out, Virginia Woolf
Dream of the Red Chamber, Cao Xuegin
Irish Faerie Tales, William Butler Yeats
Nana, Emile Zola
The Earth, Emile Zola
Therese Raquin, Emile Zola
We, Yevgeny Zamyatin
To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
The Touchstone, Virginia Woolf
The Reef, Edith Wharton
The Once and Future King, T.H. White
Greenbanks, Dorothy Whipple
The Winds of War, Herman Wonk

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