UPD: I'm the worst at sticking to lists, so if I read some classics which are not on the list, I'll just add them here on the go. But I'll NOT delete anything from the list unless I'm completely desperate :)
Markings:
- read books are
- books in progress are in pink
- abandoned books are in grey
- books marked with an asterisk* are re-reads.
VI century B.C.:
V century B.C.:
I century:
- Ovid: Metamorphoses
II century:
XI century:
XII century:
Geoffrey of Monmouth: Life of MerlinGeoffrey of Monmouth: The History of the Kings of BritainTroyes, Chrétien de: CligèsTroyes, Chrétien de: Erec and EnideTroyes, Chrétien de: Yvain, the Knight of the Lion- Turold: The Song of Roland
XIII century:
XV century:
- Chaucer, Geoffrey: The Canterbury Tales
- Malory, Thomas: Le Morte d'Arthur
XVI century:
Shakespeare, William: A Midsummer Night’s DreamShakespeare, William: Henry VShakespeare, William: As You Like ItShakespeare, William: Julius Caesar
XVII century:
- Milton, John: Paradise Lost
Shakespeare, William: Macbeth*Shakespeare, William: Twelfth Night
XVIII century:
Laclos, Choderlos de: Dangerous LiaisonsPrevost, A. F.: Manon LescautRadcliffe, Anne: The Mysteries of Udolpho- Swift, Jonathon: Gulliver’s Travels
Voltaire: CandideWalpole, Horace: The Castle of Otranto
XIX century:
Alcott, Louisa May: Little WomenAusten, Jane: Mansfield ParkAusten, Jane: PersuasionBalzac, Honore: Eugenie GrandetBrontë, Charlotte: Jane Eyre*Chekhov, Anton: The SeagullDickens, Charles: A Christmas Carol- Dickens, Charles: Great Expectations
Dickens, Charles: Tale of Two CitiesDickens, Charles: The Old Curiousity Shop- Eliot, George: Middlemarch
Gaskell, Elizabeth: Wives and Daughters- Hardy, Thomas: Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Hoffmann, E. T. A.: The Life And Opinions Of the Tomcat Murr- Hugo, Victor: Les Miserables
Irving, Washington: The Legend of Sleepy HollowMelville, Herman: Moby Dick- Scott, Sir Walter: The Lady of the Lake
- Scott, Sir Walter: The Bride of Lammermoor
Trollope, Anthony: the Warden- Twain, Mark: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
Zola,Émile: GerminalZola, Émile: The Fortune of the Rougons
XX century:
Borges, Jorge Luis: FiccionesChekhov, Anton: Three Sisters- Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan: The Lost World
- Dreiser, Theodore: American Tragedy
- Du Maurier, Daphne: Rebecca
Eco, Umberto: The Name of the RoseFaulkner, William: Light in August- Fitzgerald, F. Scott: The Beautiful and Damned
Fitzgerald, F. Scott: The Great GatsbyHarper, Lee: To Kill a MockingbirdHemingway, Ernest: A Farewell to Arms- Hemingway, Ernest: For Whom the Bell Tolls
Huxley, Aldous: Brave New World- Joyce James: Ulysses
Kerouac, Jack: On the Road- Kundera, Milan: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Mann, Thomas: Death in Venice- Marquez, Gabriel Garcia: One Hundred Years of Solitude
- Maugham, W. Somerset: Of Human Bondage
- Orwell, George: Animal Farm
- Rand, Ayn: Atlas Shrugged
- Steinbeck, John: The Grapes of Wrath
- Stoppard, Tom: Rosencratz and Guildenstern are Dead
Waugh, Evelyn: Brideshead Revisited- Waugh, Evelyn: Vile Bodies
- Wharton, Edith: The Age of Innocence
Williams, Tennessee: A Streetcar Named DesireWoolf, Virginia: Mrs. Dalloway- Woolf, Virginia: Orlando
Woolf, Virginia: To the Lighthouse
I like your list. There are some BIG ones on there. Good luck! :)
ReplyDeleteThanks! I tried to choose the books, that I REALLY should have read by now. But there always was something else =)
DeleteWelcome aboard! I just approved your request on Goodreads, so you should be able to get in and comment, etc. :)
ReplyDeleteGreat! Thanks! I'm already halfway through my first book =)
DeleteWonderful list! I love how diverse it is. I loved both Great Expectations and A Streetcar Named Desire.
ReplyDeleteThanks! Yes, Mr. Stotle, I'm looking forward to both of them!
DeleteWhat a list! We should read The Lost World together. It's on my list as well, and I'm soooo lazy to read it alone. Haha. I cheer for Paradise Lost. I've never read Lammermoor, but I've watched the opera. They say the story is a bit different, though. Happy reading.
ReplyDeleteThanks! And don't worry, I'm lazy too, so you just pick a month, and we can have a small readalong for the two of us =)
DeleteI love that you arranged it by century. That will be helpful as I try to decide what to read for pre-17th century books for the Back to the Classics Challenge. I just got done with Little Women for the challenge and Classics Club and loved it! I am with you, I feel like I should have read all the books on my list by now but I suppose better late than never! Happy reading and you're making great progress on your list!
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