Journal annielaurie's Journal: Book Meme (Books I've Read) 2
OK, following Ethelred. Just bear with me. I'm not only older than God, but I was once a liberal-arts major. Since I majored in romance languages, I stuck an asterisk beside anything I read in the original language. One of these times, I'm going to revisit this and line out what I loved and what I hated. Don't like Faulkner, for example, but I love Jane Austen. I'll devour anything of Jack London's, however inaccurate, because I get mesmerized by tales of the "malevolent north."
There are a couple of authors here whose best work isn't represented (IMO) including George Eliot and Thomas Hardy, George Bernrd Shaw, and maybe James Joyce. And I woefully stopped reading thought-provoking stuff from about 1994 til 2001, when I was a million-miler. That really shows in my list.
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 (me too on the Middle and modern English).
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 (I'm changing this to "The Divine Comedy" and have read excerpts in English)
de Cervantes, Miguel - Don Quixote (modern translation)*
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 (Huge gap here...)
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 (Does hearing the opera innumerable times count??)
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 - actually one of my favorite pieces of literature, and there is a copy on my nightstand even now. I love it.
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. I actually like Jack London, too. Dunno why.
Mann, Thomas - The Magic Mountain
Marquez, Gabriel García - One Hundred Years of Solitude (Yes, I actually read this in Spanish and consider that a major accomplishment)*
Melville, Herman - Bartleby the Scrivener
Melville, Herman - Moby Dick
Miller, Arthur - The Crucible (Acted in it, too. Played the part of Rebecca Nurse)
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 (And the entire "Remembrance of Things Past," yes, in French, and did my senior thesis on it)*
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, 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 (modern translation)*
Vonnegut, Kurt Jr. - Harrison Bergeron (How the hell did I miss reading this one?)
Walker, Alice - The Color Purple
Wharton, Edith - The House of Mirth (Hated this book!!)
Welty, Eudora - Collected Stories - Gonna leave this one bolded, though it sounds like a college anthology. I've read enough Eurora Welty to pass.)
Whitman, Walt - Leaves of Grass (The aroma of these armpits is incense finer than prayer...)
Wilde, Oscar - The Picture of Dorian Gray
Williams, Tennessee - The Glass Menagerie
Woolf, Virginia - To the Lighthouse
Wright, Richard - Native Son
George Orwell's 1984
The rest of Dante's series (already accounted for this.)
Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal
James Joyce's The Dubliners and anything from his series about Ireland.
Robert Frost poetry
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Books in bold are ones I've read.
Anne