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cjacklen's "Classic Literature Challenge 2007"

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Here is my version of a basic reading list of the classics; hopefully, by the time I am done, I will understand most of the references to Machiavelli, Cervantes, Homer, and others I see in many contemporary novels. I hope to finish the list by the end of 2007, but I am not holding my breath. Either way, when I am finished I plan to make another list in order to fill in some of the holes in this one.

The list is actually four lists of 25 each: first introductory literature, like you might read in high school, then American lit, then British lit, then world lit; all in alphabetical order by author. I am willing to consider suggestions; I haven’t read anything of literary value in about 10 years and my memory is a bit fuzzy about what’s out there.

  1. 1.

  2. 2.
    The Complete Fables (Penguin Classics)
    by Aesop

  3. 3.
    Tarzan of the Apes
    by Edgar Rice Burroughs

  4. 5.
    The Awakening
    by Kate Chopin

  5. 6.
    Don Quixote
    by Miguel De Cervantes

  6. 7.
    Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes (Scholastic Classics)
    by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

  7. 8.
    A Passage to India (Penguin Classics)
    by E. M. Forster

  8. 9.
    The Diary of Anne Frank
    by Anne Frank

  9. 10.
    Lord of the Flies
    by William Golding

  10. 12.
    The Scarlet Letter
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne

  11. 13.
    The Iliad
    by Homer

  12. 14.
    The Odyssey
    by Homer

  13. 15.
    Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
    by Edgar Allan Poe

  14. 16.
    All Quiet on the Western Front
    by Erich Maria Remarque

  15. 17.
    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J. D. Salinger

  16. 18.
    Julius Caesar (The New Folger Library Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare

  17. 19.
    Macbeth (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

  18. 20.
    Romeo and Juliet (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

  19. 21.
    Frankenstein
    by Mary Shelley

  20. 22.
    Dracula (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Bram Stoker

  21. 23.
    The Hobbit
    by J.R.R. Tolkien

  22. 24.
    The Lord of the Rings
    by J.R.R. Tolkien

  23. 25.
    The War of the Worlds (Modern Library Classics)
    by H. G. Wells

  24. 27.
    Little Women (Signet Classics)
    by Louisa May Alcott

  25. 28.
    I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    by Maya Angelou

  26. 30.
    My Antonia (Signet Classics)
    by Willa Cather

  27. 31.
    The Red Badge of Courage
    by Stephen Crane

  28. 32.
    Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
    by Frederick Douglass

  29. 33.
    The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  30. 34.
    The Autobiography and Other Writings (Penguin Classics)
    by Benjamin Franklin

  31. 35.
    The Federalist Papers (Signet Classics)
    by Alexander Hamilton

  32. 37.
    Good-Bye, Mr. Chips
    by James Hilton

  33. 38.

  34. 39.
    Moby-Dick: or, The Whale (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by Herman Melville

  35. 40.
    Death of a Salesman
    by Arthur Miller

  36. 41.
    Gone with the Wind
    by Margaret Mitchell

  37. 43.
    The Grapes of Wrath
    by John Steinbeck

  38. 44.
    The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Robert Louis Stevenson

  39. 45.
    Uncle Tom's Cabin (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Harriet Beecher Stowe

  40. 46.
    Walden : An Annotated Edition
    by Henry David Thoreau

  41. 47.
    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Classics)
    by Mark Twain

  42. 48.
    The Jungle: The Uncensored Original Edition
    by Upton Sinclair

  43. 49.
    Our Town: A Play in Three Acts (Perennial Classics)
    by Thornton Wilder

  44. 50.
    The Glass Menagerie
    by Tennessee Williams

  45. 52.
    Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Signet Classics)
    by Anonymous

  46. 53.
    Pride and Prejudice
    by Jane Austen

  47. 54.
    Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
    by Charlotte Brontë

  48. 55.
    Wuthering Heights (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Emily Brontë

  49. 56.
    The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics)
    by Geoffrey Chaucer

  50. 57.
    Heart of Darkness (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Joseph Conrad

  51. 59.
    The Origin Of Species: 150th Anniversary Edition
    by Charles Darwin

  52. 60.
    Robinson Crusoe (Penguin Classics)
    by Daniel Defoe

  53. 61.
    Great Expectations
    by Charles Dickens

  54. 62.
    Rebecca
    by Daphne duMaurier

  55. 63.
    Silas Marner
    by George Eliot

  56. 64.
    Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Penguin Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy

  57. 65.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley

  58. 66.
    Lady Chatterly's Lover
    by D.H.Lawrence

  59. 67.
    Dr. Faustus (Modern Library)
    by Thomas Mann

  60. 68.
    Animal Farm and 1984
    by George Orwell

  61. 69.
    Hamlet (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

  62. 70.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

  63. 71.
    The Taming of the Shrew (The New Folger Library Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare

  64. 72.
    Pygmalion (Penguin Classics)
    by George Bernard Shaw

  65. 73.
    Gulliver's Travels (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Jonathan Swift

  66. 74.
    Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics)
    by William Makepeace Thackeray

  67. 76.
    The Arabian Nights Entertainments Complete
    by Anonymous

  68. 78.

  69. 80.
    The Stranger
    by Albert Camus

  70. 81.
    The Cherry Orchard (Methuen Drama)
    by Anton Chekhov

  71. 82.
    Pere Goriot (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Honoré de Balzac

  72. 83.
    Crime and Punishment (Signet Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  73. 84.
    The Count of Monte Cristo
    by Alexandre Dumas père

  74. 85.
    Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics)
    by Gustave Flaubert

  75. 86.
    The Tin Drum
    by Gunter grass

  76. 87.
    Siddhartha
    by Herman Hesse

  77. 88.
    Les Miserables (Organ Folio)
    by Hal Leonard Corp.

  78. 89.
    A Doll's House
    by Henrik Ibsen

  79. 90.
    The Prince
    by Niccolo Machiavelli

  80. 91.
    Le Morte D'Arthur: Complete, Unabridged, Illustrated Edition
    by Sir Thomas Malory

  81. 92.
    Lolita
    by Vladimir Nabokov

  82. 93.
    Doctor Zhivago
    by Boris Pasternak

  83. 94.
    Plato's Republic (complete)
    by Plato

  84. 95.
    Travels of Marco Polo (Signet Classics)
    by Marco Polo

  85. 96.
    Cyrano De Bergerac
    by Edmond Rostand

  86. 97.
    One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch (Signet Classics)
    by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

  87. 99.
    Anna Karenina (Signet Classics)
    by Leo Tolstoy

  88. 100.
    Candide: or, Optimism (Modern Library Classics)
    by Voltaire

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Created by cjacklen on Dec 14, 2006.
 

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