books<\/b>
\nCollege Board’s 101 Greatest Works of Literature:<\/p>\n
Bold those you have read.<\/b>
\nItalicize those you want to read.<\/i>
\nUnderline those you started, but haven’t actually finished yet.<\/u>
\n* indicates personal favorites.
\n+indicates having seen on stage<\/p>\n
Beowulf (a translation)<\/b>
\nAchebe, Chinua – Things Fall Apart
\nAgee, James – A Death in the Family
\nAusten, Jane – Pride and Prejudice<\/b>
\nBaldwin, James – Go Tell It on the Mountain
\nBeckett, Samuel – Waiting for Godot<\/i>
\nBellow, Saul – The Adventures of Augie March
\nBront\u00eb, Charlotte – Jane Eyre<\/i>
\nBront\u00eb, Emily – Wuthering Heights
\nCamus, Albert – The Stranger
\nCather, Willa – Death Comes for the Archbishop
\nChaucer, Geoffrey – The Canterbury Tales<\/b>
\nChekhov, Anton – The Cherry Orchard
\nChopin, Kate – The Awakening
\nConrad, Joseph – Heart of Darkness
\nCooper, James Fenimore – The Last of the Mohicans
\nCrane, Stephen – The Red Badge of Courage<\/i>
\nDante – Inferno<\/b>
\nde Cervantes, Miguel – Don Quixote
\nDefoe, Daniel – Robinson Crusoe
\nDickens, Charles – A Tale of Two Cities<\/b>
\nDostoyevsky, Fyodor – Crime and Punishment
\nDouglass, Frederick – Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
\nDreiser, Theodore – An American Tragedy
\nDumas, Alexandre – The Three Musketeers
\nEliot, George – The Mill on the Floss
\nEllison, Ralph – Invisible Man<\/b>
\nEmerson, Ralph Waldo – Selected Essays
\nFaulkner, William – As I Lay Dying
\nFaulkner, William – The Sound and the Fury
\nFielding, Henry – Tom Jones
\nFitzgerald, F. Scott – The Great Gatsby<\/b>
\nFlaubert, Gustave – Madame Bovary
\nFord, Ford Madox – The Good Soldier
\nGoethe, Johann Wolfgang von – Faust
\nGolding, William – Lord of the Flies<\/i>
\nHardy, Thomas – Tess of the d’Urbervilles
\nHawthorne, Nathaniel – The Scarlet Letter<\/b>
\nHeller, Joseph – Catch-22****<\/b>
\nHemingway, Ernest – A Farewell to Arms
\nHomer – The Iliad
\nHomer – The Odyssey<\/i>
\nHugo, Victor – The Hunchback of Notre Dame
\nHurston, Zora Neale – Their Eyes Were Watching God
\nHuxley, Aldous – Brave New World*<\/b>
\nIbsen, Henrik – A Doll’s House
\nJames, Henry – The Portrait of a Lady
\nJames, Henry – The Turn of the Screw
\nJoyce, James – A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man<\/i>
\nKafka, Franz – The Metamorphosis<\/b>
\nKingston, Maxine Hong – The Woman Warrior
\nLee, Harper – To Kill a Mockingbird********<\/b>
\nLewis, Sinclair – Babbitt
\nLondon, Jack – The Call of the Wild
\nMann, Thomas – The Magic Mountain
\nMarquez, Gabriel Garc\u00eda – One Hundred Years of Solitude
\nMelville, Herman – Bartleby the Scrivener
\nMelville, Herman – Moby Dick<\/b>
\nMiller, Arthur – The Crucible*<\/b>
\nMorrison, Toni – Beloved
\nO’Connor, Flannery – A Good Man is Hard to Find
\nO’Neill, Eugene – Long Day’s Journey into Night
\nOrwell, George – Animal Farm<\/i>
\nPasternak, Boris – Doctor Zhivago
\nPlath, Sylvia – The Bell Jar
\nPoe, Edgar Allan – Selected Tales
\nProust, Marcel – Swann’s Way
\nPynchon, Thomas – The Crying of Lot 49
\nRemarque, Erich Maria – All Quiet on the Western Front
\nRostand, Edmond – Cyrano de Bergerac
\nRoth, Henry – Call It Sleep
\nSalinger, J.D. – The Catcher in the Rye<\/b>
\nShakespeare, William – Hamlet+
\nShakespeare, William – Macbeth
\nShakespeare, William – A Midsummer Night’s Dream+
\nShakespeare, William – Romeo and Juliet+<\/b>
\nShaw, George Bernard – Pygmalion
\nShelley, Mary – Frankenstein
\nSilko, Leslie Marmon – Ceremony
\nSolzhenitsyn, Alexander – One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
\nSophocles – Antigone
\nSophocles – Oedipus Rex
\nSteinbeck, John – The Grapes of Wrath<\/b>
\nStevenson, Robert Louis – Treasure Island
\nStowe, Harriet Beecher – Uncle Tom’s Cabin
\nSwift, Jonathan – Gulliver’s Travels*<\/b>
\nThackeray, William – Vanity Fair
\nThoreau, Henry David – Walden<\/u>
\nTolstoy, Leo – War and Peace
\nTurgenev, Ivan – Fathers and Sons
\nTwain, Mark – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn<\/b>
\nVoltaire – Candide<\/b>
\nVonnegut, Kurt Jr. – Harrison Bergeron<\/i>
\nWalker, Alice – The Color Purple
\nWharton, Edith – The House of Mirth
\nWelty, Eudora – Collected Stories
\nWhitman, Walt – Leaves of Grass
\nWilde, Oscar – The Picture of Dorian Gray<\/i>
\nWilliams, Tennessee – The Glass Menagerie+
\nWoolf, Virginia – To the Lighthouse
\nWright, Richard – Native Son<\/p>\n
I’m actually surprised at the number of these that I’ve read. I don’t consider myself a connoisseur of “great” literature.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, there isn’t as much time these days for me to lay supine<\/a> on the couch for hours at a stretch and plough through a good book. I grab my reading opportunities a half hour at a time, at lunch or before bed. I guess that’s why it took me 4 months to complete Quicksilver<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" books College Board’s 101 Greatest Works of Literature: Bold those you have read. Italicize those you want to read. Underline those you started, but haven’t actually finished yet. * indicates personal favorites. +indicates having seen on stage Beowulf (a translation) … Continue reading