classics

[dirtylibrarian]

Taken from libation



* = I've read it

*Achebe, Chinua - Things Fall Apart
Agee, James - A Death in the Family
Austen, Jane - Pride and Prejudice
Baldwin, James - Go Tell It on the Mountain
*Beckett, Samuel - Waiting for Godot
Bellow, Saul - The Adventures of Augie March
*Brontë, Charlotte - Jane Eyre
Brontë, Emily - Wuthering Heights
*Camus, Albert - The Stranger
Cather, Willa - Death Comes for the Archbishop
*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
de Cervantes, Miguel - Don Quixote
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 (several times)
*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 García - 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 Allan - Selected Tales
*Proust, Marcel - Swann's Way
Pynchon, Thomas - The Crying of Lot 49
*Remarque, Erich Maria - All Quiet on the Western Front (LOVE this book)
*Rostand, Edmond - Cyrano de Bergerac
Roth, Henry - Call It Sleep
*Salinger, J.D. - The Catcher in the Rye
*Shakespeare, William - Hamlet, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night's Dream, 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, 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. - Harrison Bergeron
*Walker, Alice - The Color Purple
Wharton, 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

Funny...but I don't even recognize a few of these titles. I definitely have a mental list of classics I plan to read at some point, but it doesn't match up with this list all that well...and I've read other books by many of the authors listed. But at the same time I think I read many classics too early, and could probably re-read all of them and experience a new book altogether. Except Swann's Way...which I read pretty recently and still feel bogged down by ;)