Monday, May 17

Books galore.

I found a list of 101 books that one should read in order to plan for college today on angst-ident prone, with the original list here. So I'll paste the list and tell you which of them I've read [probably about three of them] or started or whatever. [Read +, Started *, Enjoyed ++]

Beowulf
Achebe, Chinua: Things Fall Apart
Agee, James: A Death in the Family
Austin, Jane: Pride and Prejudice
Baldwin, James: Go Tell It on the Mountain
++ Beckett, Samuel: Waiting for Godot
Bellow, Saul: The Adventures of Augie March
Bronte, Charlotte: Jane Eyre
Bronte, Emily: Wuthering Heights
+ Camus, Albert: The Stranger
Cather, Willa: Death Comes for the Archbishop
Cervantes, Miguel de: Don Quixote
Chaucer, Geoffrey: The Canterbury Tales
Chekhov, Anton: The Cherry Orchard
Chopin, Kate: The Awakening
Conrad, Joseph: Heart of Darkness
Cooper, James Fenimore: The Last of the Mohicans
Crane, Stephen: The Red Badge of Courage
* Dante: Inferno
Defoe, Daniel: Robinson Crusoe
* Dickens, Charles: A Tale of Two Cities
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor: Crime and Punishment
Douglass, Frederick: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Dreiser, Theodore: An American Tragedy
Dumas, Alexandre: The Three Musketeers
Eliot, George: The Mill on the Floss
+ Ellison, Ralph: Invisible Man
Emerson, Ralph Waldo: Selected Essays
* Faulkner, William: As I Lay Dying
Faulkner, William: The Sound and the Fury
Fielding, Henry: Tom Jones
Fitzgerald, F. Scott: The Great Gatsby
Flaubert, Gustave: Madame Bovary
Ford, Ford Madox: The Good Soldier
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von: Faust
Golding, William: Lord of the Flies
Hardy, Thomas: Tess of the d'Urbervilles
* Hawthorne, Nathaniel: The Scarlet Letter
* Heller, Joseph: Catch 22
Hemingway, Ernest: A Farewell to Arms
Homer: The Iliad
+ Homer: The Odyssey
Hugo, Victor: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hurston, Zora Neale: Their Eyes Were Watching God
++ Huxley, Aldous: Brave New World
+ Ibsen, Henrik: A Doll's House
James, Henry: The Portrait of a Lady
James, Henry: The Turn of the Screw
* Joyce, James: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
+ Kafka, Franz: The Metamorphosis
Kingston, Maxine Hong: The Woman Warrior
+ Lee, Harper: To Kill a Mockingbird
Lewis, Sinclair: Babbitt
London, Jack: The Call of the Wild
Mann, Thomas: The Magic Mountain
* Marquez, Gabriel Garcia: One Hundred Years of Solitude
Melville, Herman: Bartleby the Scrivener
Melville, Herman: Moby Dick
Miller, Arthur: The Crucible
Morrison, Toni: Beloved
O'Connor, Flannery: A Good Man is Hard to Find
O'Neill, Eugene: Long Day's Journey into Night
Orwell, George: Animal Farm
Pasternak, Boris: Doctor Zhivago
++ Plath, Sylvia: The Bell Jar
Poe, Edgar Allen: Selected Tales
Proust, Marcel: Swann's Way
Pynchon, Thomas: The Crying of Lot 49
Remarque, Erich Maria: All Quiet on the Western Front
Rostand, Edmond: Cyrano de Bergerac
Roth, Henry: Call It Sleep
+ Salinger, J.D.: The Catcher in the Rye
+ Shakespeare, William: Hamlet
+ Shakespeare, William: Macbeth
+ Shakespeare, William: A Midsummer Night's Dream
+ Shakespeare, William: Romeo and Juliet
Shaw, George Bernard: Pygmalion
* Shelley, Mary: Frankenstein
Silko, Leslie Marmon: Ceremony
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
+ Sophocles: Antigone
+ Sophocles: Oedipus Rex
Steinbeck, John: The Grapes of Wrath
Stevenson, Robert Louis: Treasure Island
Stowe, Harriet Beecher: Uncle Tom's Cabin
Swift, Jonathan: Gulliver's Travels
Thackeray, William: Vanity Fair
Thoreau, Henry David: Walden
* Tolstoy, Leo: War and Peace
Turgenev, Ivan: Fathers and Sons
* Twain, Mark: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Voltaire: Candide
Vonnegut, Kurt Jr.: Slaughterhouse-Five
* Walker, Alice: The Color Purple
Warton, Edith: The House of Mirth
Welty, Eudora: Collected Stories
Whitman, Walt: Leaves of Grass
Wilde, Oscar: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Williams, Tennessee: The Glass Menagerie
Woolf, Virginia: To the Lighthouse
Wright, Richard: Native Son

So in other words, I'm kind of embarrased. I haven't even heard of some of these.

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