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 Merlin
- Geoffrey of Monmouth: The History of the Kings of Britain
- Troyes, Chrétien de: Cligès
- Troyes, Chrétien de: Erec and Enide
- Troyes, 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 Dream
- Shakespeare, William: Henry V
- Shakespeare, William: As You Like It
- Shakespeare, William: Julius Caesar
XVII century:
- Milton, John: Paradise Lost
- Shakespeare, William: Macbeth*
- Shakespeare, William: Twelfth Night
XVIII century:
- Laclos, Choderlos de: Dangerous Liaisons
- Prevost, A. F.: Manon Lescaut
- Radcliffe, Anne: The Mysteries of Udolpho
- Swift, Jonathon: Gulliver’s Travels
- Voltaire: Candide
- Walpole, Horace: The Castle of Otranto
XIX century:
- Alcott, Louisa May: Little Women
- Austen, Jane: Mansfield Park
- Austen, Jane: Persuasion
- Balzac, Honore: Eugenie Grandet
- Brontë, Charlotte: Jane Eyre*
- Chekhov, Anton: The Seagull
- Dickens, Charles: A Christmas Carol
- Dickens, Charles: Great Expectations
- Dickens, Charles: Tale of Two Cities
- Dickens, 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 Hollow
- Melville, 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: Germinal
- Zola, Émile: The Fortune of the Rougons
XX century:
- Borges, Jorge Luis: Ficciones
- Chekhov, Anton: Three Sisters
- Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan: The Lost World
- Dreiser, Theodore: American Tragedy
- Du Maurier, Daphne: Rebecca
- Eco, Umberto: The Name of the Rose
- Faulkner, William: Light in August
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott: The Beautiful and Damned
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott: The Great Gatsby
- Harper, Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird
- Hemingway, 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 Desire
- Woolf, 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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