Lists of Bests: Lady Gray's "Literary Sciences Reading List" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/63877 This Fall, I'm starting my Literary Sciences study in The Netherlands. We were given this list to read before we start. 150 days for 113 books: Let the race begin! Fri, 01 Jun 2012 11:05:53 GMT en-us 0 50 113 50 0 The Epic of Gilgamesh (Penguin Epics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2422424 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2422424"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/514x12mM6gL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anonymous</div> The Odyssey http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2801852 <div id="position">2</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Homer</div> Oedipus the King http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2797209 <div id="position">3</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sophocles</div> The Aeneid http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2826743 <div id="position">4</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Virgil (trans. Robert Fagles)</div> Roelandslied http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5997612 <div id="position">5</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anonymous</div> Il Canzoniere http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5997614 <div id="position">6</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Petrarca</div> The Thousand and One Nights (complete collection) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2453535 <div id="position">7</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anonymous</div> Beowulf http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4594284 <div id="position">8</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> La Divina Commedia http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5997615 <div id="position">9</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dante Alighieri</div> The Decameron (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13969 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13969"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451528662.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Giovanni Boccaccio</div> Yvain, knight of the lion http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5553238 <div id="position">11</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Chretien de Troyes</div> The Canterbury Tales http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3149 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3149"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51XZFZp%2BRTL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Geoffrey Chaucer</div> De vermakelijke lotgevallen van Tijl Uilenspiegel (Dutch Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5997624 <div id="position">13</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> The Lus'iads (The World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2019686 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2019686"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0192831917.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Luis De Camoes</div> The Book of the Courtier (Dover Value Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1315595 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1315595"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/317%2BvRE1cLL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Baldassare Castiglione</div> Lof der Zotheid http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5997627 <div id="position">16</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Desiderius Erasmus</div> Montaigne: Essays http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2750 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2750"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51FdD-f31LL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michel de Montaigne</div> Utopia http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5855294 <div id="position">18</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas More</div> Gargantua et Pantagruel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5997628 <div id="position">19</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rabelais</div> Gerusalemme Liberate http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2811730 <div id="position">20</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Torquato Tasso</div> The Man in the Moon http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5997629 <div id="position">21</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Francis Godwin</div> Don Quixote http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1359 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1359"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/413HGXT0H8L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Miguel De Cervantes</div> Le Cid http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5553325 <div id="position">23</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Pierre Corneille</div> Marlowe - The Tragical History Of Doctor Faustus http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4062596 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4062596"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41C8s%2Bt2wWL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Christopher Marlowe</div> Paradise Lost http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3542742 <div id="position">25</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Milton</div> Pensees http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66533 <div id="position">26</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Blaise Pascal</div> Contes de ma mère l’Oye (Stories of Mother Goose) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5997632 <div id="position">27</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Perrault</div> Shakespeare's Sonnets (Folger Shakespeare Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/114282 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/114282"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0671722875.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Shakespeare</div> Hamlet (The New Folger Library Shakespeare) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21550 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21550"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51BP0-8FxVL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Shakespeare</div> Hyperion http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3608780 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3608780"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41wWk4VGpEL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Friedrich Holderlin</div> Lettres Persanes http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4577884 <div id="position">31</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Montesquieu</div> An Essay on Man http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4006826 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4006826"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31fNqYGqKFL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alexander Pope</div> The Mysteries of Udolpho http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/307608 <div id="position">33</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ann Radcliffe</div> Confessions http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3933429 <div id="position">34</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jean-Jacques Rousseau</div> Gulliver's Travels (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/55072 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/55072"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192805347.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Swift</div> Candide: Or, Optimism (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/182106 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/182106"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/516oTtlLeLL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Francois Voltaire</div> The Sorrows of Young Werther http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4533646 <div id="position">37</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe</div> Robinson Crusoe http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/38133 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/38133"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0689844085.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Daniel Defoe</div> Een nagelaten bekentenis (Dutch Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5997639 <div id="position">39</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marcellus Emants</div> Effi Briest http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2960831 <div id="position">40</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Theodor Fontane</div> Verzen http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5997641 <div id="position">41</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Herman Gorter</div> The Book of Songs http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2888343 <div id="position">42</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Heinrich Heine</div> Nachtstücke http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5997644 <div id="position">43</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by E.T.A. Hoffmann</div> Heinrich von Kleist http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5997646 <div id="position">44</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Der Zerbrochene Krug</div> Collected Poems http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2960853 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2960853"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01W0NFBCT2L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stéphane Mallarmé</div> Lelia http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2999735 <div id="position">46</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Sand</div> The Red and the Black: A Chronicle of the Nineteenth Century (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/46024 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/46024"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192838717.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stendhal</div> Les Illusions perdues http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4577892 <div id="position">48</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Balzac</div> Les Fleurs du Mal http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4577890 <div id="position">49</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Baudelaire</div> Crime and Punishment http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2450129 <div id="position">50</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Fyodor Dostoyevsky</div>