I stole this from my husband’s blog and I thought it would give me something to do in all my spare time (bahahaha). It’s a list of 100 great literary works, edited by my husband to reflect his own personal likes LOL. Anyway, I’m adding it here and highlighting the ones I’ve read. Maybe someday they’ll all be bold!
Alcott, Louisa May – Little Women
Austen, Jane – Emma
Austen, Jane – Northanger Abbey
Austen, Jane – Pride and Prejudice
Austen, Jane – Sense and Sensibility
Austen, Jane – Persuasion
Asimov, Isaac – Foundation
Beowulf
Bradbury, Ray – Fahrenheit 451
Bradbury, Ray – The Martian Chronicles
Bradbury, Ray – Something Wicked This Way Comes
Brontë, Charlotte – Jane Eyre
Brontë, Emily – Wuthering Heights
Browning, Robert – Collected Poems
Carroll, Lewis – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass
Christie, Agatha – Murder on the Orient Express
Clarke, Arthur C. – 2001 A Space Odyssey
Conrad, Joseph – Heart of Darkness
Cooper, James Fenimore – The Last of the Mohicans
Crane, Stephen – The Red Badge of Courage
Dante – The Divine Comedy
de Cervantes, Miguel – Don Quixote
Defoe, Daniel – Robinson Crusoe
Dickens, Charles – A Tale of Two Cities
Dickens, Charles – Great Expectations
Dickens, Charles – Oliver Twist
Dickens, Charles – A Christmas Carol
Dickens, Charles – David Copperfield
Dickens, Charles –Nicholas Nickelby
Dickens, Charles –Bleak House
Dickinson, Emily – Collected Poems
Dostoevsky, Fyodor – The Brothers Karamazov
Dostoevsky, Fyodor – Crime and Punishment
Dumas, Alexandre – The Count of Monte Cristo
Dumas, Alexandre – The Three Musketeers
Dumas, Alexandre – The Man in the Iron Mask
Eliot, George – Silas Marner
Eliot, George – Mill on the Floss
Eliot, George – Middlemarch
Emerson, Ralph Waldo – The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Faulkner, William – The Sound and the Fury
Fitzgerald, F. Scott – The Great Gatsby
Forester, E.M. – Howards End
Forester, E.M. – A Room with a View
Forester, E.M. – Passage to India
Frost, Robert – Collected Poems
Golding, William – Lord of the Flies
Hardy, Thomas – Tess of the D’Ubervilles
Hammet, Dashiell – The Maltese Falcon
Hawthorne, Nathaniel – The Scarlet Letter
Hawthorne, Nathaniel – The House of Seven Gables
Henry, O. – The Gift of the Magi and other Stories
Hugo, Victor – The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hugo, Victor – Les Miserables
Irving, Washington – The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Keats, John – Collected Poems
Kipling, Rudyard – Captains Courageous
Lee, Harper – To Kill a Mockingbird
London, Jack – The Sea Wolf
London, Jack – White Fang
London, Jack – The Call of the Wild
Melville, Herman – Moby Dick
Melville, Herman – Billy Bud
Milton, John – Paradise Lost
Montegomery, LM – Anne of Green Gables
Orwell, George – 1984
Orwell, George – Animal Farm
Poe, Edgar Allan – Tales of Mystery and Imagination
Remarque, Erich Maria – All’s Quiet on the Western Front
Salinger, J.D. – The Catcher in the Rye
Scott, Sir Walter – Ivanhoe
Scott, Sir Walter – The Talisman
Shakespeare, William – Hamlet
Shakespeare, William – Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare, William – A Midsummer’s Night Dream
Shakespeare, William – Macbeth
Shakespeare, William – Julius Ceasar
Shelley, Mary – Frankenstein
Stevenson, Robert Louis – The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Stevenson, Robert Louis – Treasure Island
Stevenson, Robert Louis – Kidnapped
Stoker, Bram – Dracula
Swift, Jonathan – Gulliver’s Travels
Tolstoy, Leo – Anna Karenina
Tolstoy, Leo – War and Peace
Thoreau, Henry David – Walden
Tolkien, JRR – The Hobbit
Tolkien, JRR – Lord of the Rings
Twain, Mark – Huckleberry Finn
Twain, Mark – Tom Sawyer
Verne, Jules – 20,000 Leagues under the Sea
Verne, Jules – Around the World in 80 Days
Verne, Jules – Journey to the Center of the Earth
Wells, H.G. – The Time Machine
Wells, H.G. – The War of the Worlds
Wells, H.G. – The Invisible Man
White, T H – The Once and Future King
Whitman, Walt – Leaves of Grass
Wilde, Oscar – The Picture of Dorian Gray
Yeats, William Butler – Collected Poems
Gotta read catcher in the rye! I think youd really like it!
sweet. a james patterson fan.
my mom bought me Little Women. can we say boring? never read it.
i’ve read lots you haven’t and haven’t read some you have. But, that’s what i get from 6 years of Lit classes.
ah, Moby Dick. i’m the only person I know who read it twice…the second time, for fun. even my prof laughed at me. ‘no body reads mody dick for fun’. oh.
Read A Brave New World. just don’t let your kids read it. ever. I missed the point the first THREE times I read it.
Not that you need my input, since this is quite a list you’ve compiled, but you MUST READ Pride & Prejudice next. It is my all time favorite book and I have read it at least 754 times. It is the best love story I know. Please, Please, Please read it. You won’t regret it.
I’m all for Pride and Prejudice next, but can I also put in a vote for A Room with a View? I recently read it for the first time and it was so good I wanted to read it again, right away. It’s short, but wonderful.
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society.
I’ve read Moby Dick at least 4 or 5 times, every single time I’ve read it for fun!
We should read Pride and Prejudice apparently…but can we read “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” instead?