Classic Books
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 |
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| 4 |
Age of Reason |
Jean Paul Sartre |
Nov-96 |
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| 5 |
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland |
Lewis Carroll |
Dec-96 |
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| 6 |
Through the Looking Glass |
Lewis Carroll |
Jan-97 |
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| 7 |
All Quiet on the Western Front |
Erich Maria Remarque |
Feb-97 |
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| 8 |
The American |
Henry James |
Mar-97 |
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| 9 |
Andersonville |
MacKinlay Kantor |
Apr-97 |
|
| 10 |
Animal Farm |
George Orwell |
May-97 |
x |
| 11 |
Anna Karenina |
Leo Tolstoy |
Jun-97 |
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| 12 |
Arrowsmith |
Sinclair Lewis |
Jul-97 |
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| 13 |
Babbit |
Sinclair Lewis |
Aug-97 |
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| 14 |
Bell Jar |
Sylivia Plath |
Sep-97 |
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| 15 |
Beowulf |
? |
Oct-97 |
x |
| 16 |
The Bible |
God? Man? Myth? |
Nov-97 |
x |
| 17 |
Big Sky |
A.B. Guthrie |
Dec-97 |
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| 18 |
Billy Budd |
Herman Meville |
Jan-98 |
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| 19 |
Brave New World |
Aldous Huxley |
Feb-98 |
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| 20 |
Brothers Karamozov |
Fyodor Dostoyevski |
Mar-98 |
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| 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 |
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| 25 |
The Castle |
Franz Kafka |
Aug-98 |
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| 26 |
Catch-22 |
Joseph Heller |
Sep-98 |
x |
| 27 |
Catcher in the Rye |
J. D. Salinger |
Oct-98 |
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| 28 |
The Chosen |
Chaim Potok |
Nov-98 |
x |
| 29 |
Complete Stories of Edgar Allen Poe |
E.A. Poe |
Dec-98 |
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| 30 |
Color Purple |
Alice Walker |
Jan-99 |
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| 31 |
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
Mark Twain |
Feb-99 |
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| 32 |
Count of Monte Cristo |
Alexandre Dumas |
Mar-99 |
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| 33 |
Crime and Punishment |
Fyodor Dostoyevski |
Apr-99 |
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| 34 |
Cry, the Beloved Country |
Alan Paton |
May-99 |
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| 35 |
Daisy Miller |
Henry James |
Jun-99 |
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| 36 |
Darkness at Noon |
Arthur Koestler |
Jul-99 |
|
| 37 |
David Copperfield |
Charles Dickens |
Aug-99 |
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| 38 |
Death Comes for the Archbishop |
Willa Cather |
Sep-99 |
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| 39 |
A Death in the Family |
James Agee |
Oct-99 |
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| 40 |
The Dollmaker |
Harriet Arnow |
Nov-99 |
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| 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 |
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| 46 |
Farenheit 451 |
Ray Bradbury |
May-00 |
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| 47 |
A Farewell to Arms |
Ernest Hemmingway |
Jun-00 |
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| 48 |
Farewell to Manzanar |
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston |
Jul-00 |
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| 49 |
Fathers and Sons |
Ivan Turgenve |
Aug-00 |
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| 50 |
The Fixer |
Bernard Malamud |
Sep-00 |
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| 51 |
Flowers for Algernon |
Daniel Keyes |
Oct-00 |
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| 52 |
For Whom the Bell Tolls |
Ernest Hemingway |
Nov-00 |
|
| 53 |
Frankenstein |
Mary Shelly |
Dec-00 |
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| 54 |
French Lieutenant's Woman |
John Fowles |
Jan-01 |
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| 55 |
Germinal |
Emile Zola |
Feb-01 |
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| 56 |
Giant |
Edna Ferber |
Mar-01 |
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| 57 |
Giants in the Earth |
Ole E. Rolvaag |
Apr-01 |
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| 58 |
Go Tell it on the Mountain |
James Baldwin |
May-01 |
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| 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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