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This is my small reading list for the next 15 years! I am posting this so that you may join me if you feel so inspired at anytime. I will also be posting small personal book reviews following the completion of each book. Feel free to email me if you would like to discuss any of the books listed.

# Title Author Sched. Read!
1 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain Aug-96 x
2 Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain Sep-96 x
3 The Æneid Virgil Oct-96  
4 Age of Reason Jean Paul Sartre Nov-96  
5 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll Dec-96  
6 Through the Looking Glass Lewis Carroll Jan-97  
7 All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque Feb-97  
8 The American Henry James Mar-97  
9 Andersonville MacKinlay Kantor Apr-97  
10 Animal Farm George Orwell May-97 x
11 Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy Jun-97  
12 Arrowsmith Sinclair Lewis Jul-97  
13 Babbit Sinclair Lewis Aug-97  
14 Bell Jar Sylivia Plath Sep-97  
15 Beowulf ? Oct-97 x
16 The Bible God? Man? Myth? Nov-97 x
17 Big Sky A.B. Guthrie Dec-97  
18 Billy Budd Herman Meville Jan-98  
19 Brave New World Aldous Huxley Feb-98  
20 Brothers Karamozov Fyodor Dostoyevski Mar-98  
21 Caine Mutiny Herman Wouk Apr-98 x
22 Call of the Wild Jack London May-98 x
23 Candide Voltaire Jun-98 x
24 Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer Jul-98  
25 The Castle Franz Kafka Aug-98  
26 Catch-22 Joseph Heller Sep-98 x
27 Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger Oct-98  
28 The Chosen Chaim Potok Nov-98 x
29 Complete Stories of Edgar Allen Poe E.A. Poe Dec-98  
30 Color Purple Alice Walker Jan-99  
31 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Mark Twain Feb-99  
32 Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas Mar-99  
33 Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevski Apr-99  
34 Cry, the Beloved Country Alan Paton May-99  
35 Daisy Miller Henry James Jun-99  
36 Darkness at Noon Arthur Koestler Jul-99  
37 David Copperfield Charles Dickens Aug-99  
38 Death Comes for the Archbishop Willa Cather Sep-99  
39 A Death in the Family James Agee Oct-99  
40 The Dollmaker Harriet Arnow Nov-99  
41 Don Quiote de la Mancha Miguel de Cervantes Dec-99  
42 Dracula Bram Stoker Jan-00  
43 Dune Frank Herbert Feb-00  
44 Emma Jane Austen Mar-00  
45 Ethan Frome Edith Wharton Apr-00  
46 Farenheit 451 Ray Bradbury May-00  
47 A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemmingway Jun-00  
48 Farewell to Manzanar Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston Jul-00  
49 Fathers and Sons Ivan Turgenve Aug-00  
50 The Fixer Bernard Malamud Sep-00  
51 Flowers for Algernon Daniel Keyes Oct-00  
52 For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway Nov-00  
53 Frankenstein Mary Shelly Dec-00  
54 French Lieutenant's Woman John Fowles Jan-01  
55 Germinal Emile Zola Feb-01  
56 Giant Edna Ferber Mar-01  
57 Giants in the Earth Ole E. Rolvaag Apr-01  
58 Go Tell it on the Mountain James Baldwin May-01  
59 Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell Jun-01  
60 Good Earth Pearl S. Buck Jul-01 x
61 Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck Aug-01  
62 Great Expectations Charles Dickens Sep-01  
63 Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald Oct-01  
64 Great Short Works of Joseph Conrad Joseph Conrad Nov-01  
65 Green Mansions W.H. Hudson Dec-01  
66 Grendel John Gardiner Jan-02  
67 Gulliver's Travels Johnathon Swift Feb-02  
68 Heart is a Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers Mar-02  
69 Hiroshima John Hersey Apr-02 x
70 The Hobbit J.R.R. Tolkien May-02 x
71 House of Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne Jun-02  
72 Hunchback of Notre Dame Victor Hugo Jul-02  
73 I Heard the Owl Call My Name Margaret Craven Aug-02  
74 I Never Promised You a Rose Garden Hannah Green Sep-02  
75 The Iliad Homer Oct-02  
76 In This Sign Joanne Greenberg Nov-02  
77 Invisible Man Ralph Ellison Dec-02  
78 Ivanhoe Sir Walter Scott Jan-03  
79 Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte Feb-03  
80 The Jungle Upton Sinclair Mar-03  
81 Jungle Books Rudyard Kipling Apr-03  
82 Kidnapped Robert Lewis Stevenson May-03  
83 The King Must Die Mary Renault Jun-03  
84 Kristen Lavransdatter Sigrid Undset Jul-03  
85 Last of the Mohicans James Fenimore Cooper Aug-03  
86 Little Women Louisa May Alcott Sep-03  
87 Look Homeward Angel Thomas Wolfe Oct-03  
88 Lord Jim Joseph Conrad Nov-03  
89 Lord of the Flies William Golding Dec-03 x
90 Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien Jan-04 x
91 Madame Bovary Gustav Flaubert Feb-04  
92 Magic Mountain Thomas Mann Mar-04  
93 Main Street Sinclair Lewis Apr-04  
94 Mayor of Casterbridge Thomas Hardy May-04  
95 Metamorphis Franz Kafka Jun-04  
96 Mill on the Floss George Eliot Jul-04  
97 Les Miserables Victor Hugo Aug-04  
98 Moby Dick Herman Melville Sep-04  
99 Moll Flanders Daniel Defoe Oct-04  
100 Le Morte D'Arthur Thomas Malory Nov-04  
101 Mutiny on the Bounty Charles Nordhoff Dec-04  
102 My Antonia Willa Cather Jan-05  
103 Native Son Richard Wright Feb-05  
104 The Natural Bernard Malamud Mar-05  
105 Nausea Jean Paul Sartre Apr-05  
106 1984 George Orwell May-05  
107 Nectar in a Sieve Kamala Markandaya Jun-05  
108 Northwest Passage Kenneth Roberts Jul-05  
109 The Odyssey Homer Aug-05  
110 Of Human Bondage W. Somerset Maugham Sep-05  
111 Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck Oct-05 x
112 Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway Nov-05 x
113 Oliver Twist Charles Dickens Dec-05  
114 On the Beach Nevil Shute Jan-06  
115 The Once and Future King T.H. White Feb-06  
116 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Alexander Solzhenitzyn Mar-06  
117 One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez Apr-06 x
118 The Oxbow Incident Walter van Tilburg Clark May-06  
119 Painted Bird Jerzy Kosinski Jun-06  
120 Pearl John Steinbeck Jul-06 x
121 Le Pere Goriot Honore De Balzac Aug-06  
122 The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde Sep-06  
123 Pilgim's Progress John Bunyon Oct-06  
124 The Plague Albert Camus Nov-06  
125 Portrait of a Lady Henry James Dec-06  
126 Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce Jan-07  
127 Power and the Glory Graham Greene Feb-07  
128 Pride and Prejudice Jane Austin Mar-07  
129 Quo Vadis Henryk Sienkiewicz Apr-07  
130 Rabbit Run John Updike May-07  
131 Rebecca Daphne Dumaurier Jun-07  
132 The Red and the Black Henri Stendhal Jul-07  
133 Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane Aug-07  
134 Red Pony John Steinbeck Sep-07  
135 Return of the Native Thomas Hardy Oct-07  
136 Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe Nov-07 x
137 Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Mildred Taylor Dec-07  
138 Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorn Jan-08  
139 Separate Peace John Knowles Feb-08  
140 Shane Jack Schaefer Mar-08  
141 Sherlock Holmes, the Complete Stories A. Conan Doyle Apr-08  
142 Siddhartha Herman Hesse May-08  
143 Silas Marner George Eliot Jun-08  
144 Sister Carrie Theodore Dreiser Jul-08  
145 Slaughterhouse-five Kurt Vonnegut Aug-08  
146 Song of Roland   Sep-08  
147 Sons and Lovers D.H. Lawrence Oct-08  
148 Sound and the Fury William Faulkner Nov-08  
149 Stranger Albert Camus Dec-08  
150 Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway Jan-09  
151 Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens Feb-09  
152 Three Musketeers Alexander Dumas Mar-09  
153 Time Machine H.G. Wells Apr-09  
154 The Tin Drum Gunter Grass May-09  
155 To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee Jun-09 x
156 To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf Jul-09  
157 Tom Jones Henry Fielding Aug-09  
158 Treasure Island Robert Lewis Stevenson Sep-09 x
159 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith Oct-09  
160 Turn of the Screw Henry James Nov-09  
161 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Jules Verne Dec-09  
162 U.S.A. John Dos Passos Jan-10  
163 Ugly American William J. Lederer/Eugene Burdick Feb-10  
164 Uncle Tom's Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe Mar-10 x
165 Vanity Fair William Thackeray Apr-10  
166 Walkabout James Marshall May-10  
167 War and Peace Leo Tolstoy Jun-10  
168 Wind, Sand and Stars Antoine de Saint-Exupery Jul-10  
169 Winesburg, Ohio Sherwood Anderson Aug-10  
170 Women in Love D.H. Lawrence Sep-10  
171 Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte Oct-10  
172 The Yearling Marjory K. Rawlings Nov-10  
173 You Can't Go Home Again Thomas Wolfe Dec-10  
174 Zorba the Greek Nikos Kazantzakis Jan-11  


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