Long-Term Reading Project:
Read the Classics I Own
My long-term reading project is relatively simple. I want to read the classics I have sitting on my shelves already, and boy oh boy do I have quite the truckload. A handful of these books I am 75% sure I read way back in junior high and high school, but I have no memory of them, so I thought they should go on the list.
A Few Notes:
A * before the book indicates I only have an electronic copy
*** after the book indicates I know I have the damn book but I can't find it on the shelves
The List
- The Arabian Nights***
- *Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen- Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
- Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
- Persuasion by Jane Austen
- *Emma by Jane Austen
- The Nowlans by John Banim
- The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce
- The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
- Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges***
- Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Aurora Floyd by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Villette by Charlotte Bronte
- Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte
- *Jane Talbot by Charles Brockden Brown
- Erewhon by Samuel Butler
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll***
- Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll***
- Fardorougha the Miser by William Carlton
- My Antonia by Willa Cather ***
- *O, Pioneers! by Willa Cather
- Don Quixote by Cervantes
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins- *The Two Destinies by Wilkie Collins
- *The Black Robe by Wilkie Collins
- *I Say No by Wilkie Collins
- *The Queen of Hearts by Wilkie Collins
- No Name by Wilkie Collins***
- *Armadale by Wilkie Collins
- *The Law and the Lady by Wilkie Collins
- *Poor Miss Finch by Wilkie Collins
- Hide and Seek by Wilkie Collins
- *Deerslayer by James Fenimoore Cooper
- Moll Flanders by Daniel DeFoe
- Robinson Crusoe by Daniel DeFoe
- Justine by Marquis de Sade
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- Hard Times by Charles Dickens
- Marin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens
- David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens***
- Bleak House by Charles Dickens***
- Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Grand Inquisitor by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Poor Folk by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
- Baudolino by Umberto Eco
- Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth
- *Ormond by Maria Edgeworth
- Ennui by Maria Edgeworth
- Belinda by Maria Edgeworth
- *Adam Bede by George Eliot
- *Scenes of a Clerical Life by George Eliot
- *Romola by George Eliot
- *Felix Holt, the Radical by George Eliot
- Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
- *Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
- Silas Marner by George Eliot
- This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
- The Longest Journey by E. M. Forster
- Howard's End by E. M. Forster
- The Collector by John Fowles
- North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell***
- *Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
- *Cousin Phillis by Elizabeth Gaskell
- *Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
- I, Claudius by Robert Graves
- *The Souls of Black Folk by Farah Jasmine Griffin
- The Collegians by Gerald Griffin
- King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard
- She by H. Rider Haggard
- Allan Quartermain by H. Rider Haggard
- Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
- The Birthmark by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- *The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
- Men without Women by Ernest Hemingway
- A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
- Siddhartha by Herman Hesse***
- Narcissus and Goldmund by Herman Hesse
- Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
- The Hunchback of Nortre Dame by Victor Hugo***
- Washington Square by Henry James
- *The American by Henry James
- *The Bostonian by Henry James
- *The Princess Casamassima by Henry James
- *The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
- *Daisy Miller by Henry James
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey***
- *Kim by Rudyard Kipling
- Hurrish by Emily Lawless
- Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence
- Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
- Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
- Lord Kilgobbin by Charles James Lever
- The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis***
- Dr. Faustus by Christopher Marlowe***
- 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
- Moby-Dick by Herman Melville***
- The Confidence Man by Herman MelvilleParadise Lost by John Milton***
- Utopia by Thomas Moore
The Wild Irish Girl by Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
- Metamorphosis by Ovid***
- Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
- The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa
- *The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe
- All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
- Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
- Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw***
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- *Emmeline by Charlotte Turner Smith
- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn***
- The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
- East of Eden by John Steinbeck
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- The Red and the Black by Stendhal
- Tristan by Gottfried von Strassburg
- Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
- Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
- Lady Anna by Anthony Trollope
- Rachel Ray by Anthony Trollope
- Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain
- Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
- The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- Candide by Voltaire
- Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh***
- House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
- The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde***
- *The Virginian by Owen Wister
- Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
- To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
- Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf
- The Waves by Virginia Woolf
Germinal by Emile Zola84, Charing Cross Road by Helene HanffA Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen