I've long been reminded of how deficient my knowledge is in the area of the great, classical novels. Never have I read Moby Dick, The Odyssey, or The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. While in middle school, I can vaguely recall having perused The Scarlet Letter; each of the Literature courses I took in college focused only on short stories. Therefore, I have added an item to my "To Do in Life" list -- read 100 of the great classics.
I've scoured several sources on the Internet to help identify a few of the top 100 novels. However, I'm 25 books shy of the 100 I seek. Listed below are the titles I have thus far, in alphabetical order. Any other suggestions out there?
- 1984
- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
- A Farewell to Arms
- A Tale of Two Cities
- All Quiet on the Western Front
- Animal Farm
- Around the World in 80 Days
- Beowulf
- Brave New World
- Call of the Wild
- Catch 22
- Civil Disobedience
- Crime and Punishment
- Dante's Inferno
- Death of a Salesman
- Doctor Zhivago
- Don Quixote
- Dracula
- Farenheit 451
- For Whom the Bell Tolls
- Frankenstein
- Grapes of Wrath
- Great Expectations
- Gulliver's Travels
- Ivanhoe
- Jane Eyre
- Jonathan Livingston Seagull
- Les Miserables
- Little Women
- Lord of the Flies
- Moby Dick
- My Antonia
- Oedipus
- Of Mice and Men
- Old Man and the Sea
- Oliver Twist
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Pride and Prejudice
- Red Badge of Courage
- Robinson Crusoe
- Sense and Sensibility
- Silas Marner
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- The Arabian Nights
- The Caine Mutiny
- The Canterbury Tales
- The Catcher in the Rye
- The Count of Monte Cristo
- The Great Gatsby
- The Hounds of the Baskervilles
- The House of Seven Gables
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- The Iliad
- The Invisible Man
- The Jungle
- The Last of the Mohicans
- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
- The Odyssey
- The Prince and the Pauper
- The Scarlet Letter
- The Secret Garden
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- The Three Musketeers
- The Vicar of Wakefield
- The Winds of War
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Treasure Island
- Ulysses
- Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Walden
- War and Peace
- War of the Worlds
- Wuthering Heights
5 comments:
An impressive list and a fun item for your to-do list. Some other suggestions:
On the Road-Jack Kerouac.
Light In August-William Faulkner
Meditations-Marcus Aurelius
Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass-Lewis Carroll.
Faust-Goethe
The Iron Heel-Jack London
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Slaughterhouse-Five-Kurt Vonnegut
I'll keep thinking . . .
I knew you would have some good ideas. I am in awe of your literary wisdom, my Lord. :)
Flattery will get you everywhere ;)
I'd save Dracula for Halloween. That would be the perfect time for that.
If you're in need of a good laugh, Catch-22 made me laugh myself silly. I mean big, belly laughs. That's rare for a book.
I agree with some of Jimmy's list. Alice in Wonderland is a GREAT read, and my husband is reading Meditations right now. What about these:
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad
The Awakening - Kate Chopin
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
The Good Earth - Pearl S. Buck
Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
Also, I don't know how you feel about sci-fi, but there are some classics there as well, including the book that got me into sci-fi:
Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein
Oh, yeah...hi, I'm Heather! I've been away for a bit, but now I'm back, catching up...you can thank Jimmy for my finding you, I'm a fairly new member of the Tinfoil Hat Brigade...Merry Meet!
By the way, thanks for the list...there are three books on here I've never heard of and 39 that I've heard of but never read...looks like you're not the only one who needs to get busy!
Oh, and one more I forgot:
Pygmalion - George Bernard Shaw
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