Lists of Bests: cjacklen's "Classic Literature Challenge 2007" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/20770 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. Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:50:43 GMT en-us 0 50 100 50 0 Beowulf: A Prose Translation (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/202870 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/202870"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140440704.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anonymous</div> The Complete Fables (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66504 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66504"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140446494.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aesop</div> Tarzan of the Apes http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1207023 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1207023"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0809599813.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edgar Rice Burroughs</div> Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass (Collector's Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/168171 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/168171"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0760759030.01-A3EKAO4H0TRP1H._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lewis Caroll</div> The Awakening http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1811143 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1811143"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0543898083.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kate Chopin</div> Don Quixote (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1359 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1359"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060934344.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Miguel de Cervantes</div> Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes (scholastic Classics) (Scholastic Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/262480 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/262480"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0439574285.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle</div> A Passage to India (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/163250 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/163250"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/014144116X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by E.M. Forster</div> The Diary of Anne Frank http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2329464 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2329464"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0330107372.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1121324349_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anne Frank</div> Lord of the Flies http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1744470 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1744470"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000CDH2XS.01-AIR1YILJKP5Y._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1132323063_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Golding</div> The Complete Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales, Deluxe Edition (Literary Classics (Gramercy Books)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1026688 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1026688"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0517229250.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jacob Grimm</div> The Scarlet Letter http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1804118 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1804118"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1587263831.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nathaniel Hawthorne</div> The Iliad http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2427157 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2427157"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0977626903.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> The Odyssey http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2394094 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2394094"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0977626997.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Homer - Translated By Ian Johnston</div> Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9956 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9956"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385074077.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44914759_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edgar Allan Poe</div> All Quiet on the Western Front http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2335854 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2335854"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099483475.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Erich Maria Remarque</div> The Catcher in the Rye http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7091 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7091"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316769177.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J.D. Salinger</div> Julius Caesar (Folger Shakespeare Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21568 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21568"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743482743.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Shakespeare</div> Macbeth (Folger Shakespeare Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21572 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21572"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743482794.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Shakespeare</div> Romeo and Juliet (Folger Shakespeare Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/651990 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/651990"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743482808.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Shakespeare</div> Frankenstein http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2124317 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2124317"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1587263815.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mary Shelley</div> Dracula (Norton Critical Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11038 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11038"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393970124.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bram Stoker</div> The Hobbit http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1003206 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1003206"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0618260307.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J.R.R. Tolkien</div> The Lord of the Rings http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17254 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17254"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0618346244.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J.R.R. Tolkien</div> The War of the Worlds (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9393 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9393"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375759239.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by H. G. Wells</div> The Columbia Anthology of American Poetry http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1504251 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1504251"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0231081227.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056426587_.gif" /></a></div> Little Women (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13979 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13979"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451529308.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Louisa May Alcott</div> I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1689687 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1689687"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375507892.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1113627625_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Maya Angelou</div> Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24589 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24589"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0805066691.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dee Brown</div> My Antonia (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/96256 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/96256"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451529723.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Willa Cather</div> The Red Badge of Courage http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/60711 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/60711"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1580495869.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stephan Crane</div> Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/56857 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/56857"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1580495761.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Frederick Douglass</div> The Great Gatsby http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21233 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21233"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743273567.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by F. Scott Fitzgerald</div> The Autobiography and Other Writings (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/142676 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/142676"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142437603.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Benjamin Franklin</div> The Federalist Papers (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13972 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13972"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451528816.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alexander Hamilton</div> The Complete Short Stories Of Ernest Hemingway : The Finca Vigia Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19428 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a 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<div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3534"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142000086.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Herman Melville</div> Death of a Salesman http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1147144 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1147144"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000BU5U40.01-A1UFMIFBRF3M4G._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Arthur Miller</div> Gone with the Wind http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/967922 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/967922"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0446675539.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Margaret Mitchell</div> Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Writings (The World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2177126 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2177126"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192828657.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056423223_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Paine</div> The Grapes of Wrath (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/466410 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/466410"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143039431.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Steinbeck</div> The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Norton Critical Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/292026 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/292026"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393974650.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Louis Stevenson</div> Uncle Tom's Cabin (Norton Critical Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/107646 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/107646"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393963039.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Harriet Beecher Stowe</div> Walden http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11355 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11355"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0395720427.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry David Thoreau</div> The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1016707 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1016707"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439645.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mark Twain</div> The Jungle: The Uncensored Original Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/33726 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/33726"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1884365302.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Upton Sinclair</div> Our Town: A Play in Three Acts (Perennial Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/38492 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/38492"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060512636.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thornton Wilder</div> The Glass Menagerie http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/277566 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/277566"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0413745201.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tennessee Williams</div>