Well, I'm not good at making time, so hopefully I won't be the fail-whale of the blog... but I'm hoping that having a goal will make me more likely to do what I intend. My list is kind of kludgy - some of the books are reference, I guess, and on some it's a bit vague, but I just felt funny, for instance, putting a specific play by somebody... but here goes:
Guevara, Che - Motorcycle Diaries
Goldman, Emma - Living My Life
Farr, Judith - Gardens of Emily Dickinson
Toole, Betty - Ada, the Enchantress of Numbers
Jacobs, Harriet - Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Shakespeare, William - Plays
Goethe, J - Faust
Aeschylus - Plays
Sophocoles - Plays
Euripides - Plays
Schiller - Plays
Shelley, Percy Bryce -
Virgil -
Anonymous -
Anonymous -
Chaucer - Canterbury Tales
Eliot, T.S. -
Milton, John - Paradise Lost
Spenser, Edmund - The Faerie Queene
Pushkin, Aleksandr -
Anonymous - Poetic Edda
Ovid - Metamorphoses
Blok, Aleksandr -
Homer -
Marx, Karl -
Gaskell, Elizabeth -
Spengler, Oswald - The Decline of the West
Mill, John Stuart - On Liberty
Nightingale, Florence - Cassandra
Emerson, Ralph Waldo - Selected Works
Fuller, Margaret - Papers on Literature and Art
Riis, Jacob - How the Other Half Lives
Bly, Nellie -
De Pizan, Christina - Book of the City of Ladys
Whitman, Walt - Leaves of Grass
Plath, Sylvia - Collected Poems
Rossetti, Christina - Collected Poems
Hughes, Langston - Selected Poems
Blake, William -
Shakespeare, William - Poetry
Bronte, Emily -
Akhmatova, Anna - Selected Poems
Tsvetaeva, Marina -
Coleridge, Samuel - Poetry
Yeats, WB - Collected Poems and Prose
Sappho -
Hunt, Tristram -
Williams, Rosalind -
Gelbart, Nina - The King’s Midwife
Campbell, Joseph -
Joyce, James -
Joyce, James -
Steinbeck, John - East of Eden
Hugo, Victor - Toilers of the Sea
Eliot, George - Daniel Deronda
Gaskell, Elizabeth -
Bronte, Anne -
Zimmer Bradley, Marion - Mists of Avalon
Cather, Willa -
Dostoevsky, Fyodor - The Brothers Karamozov
Lewis, Sinclair - Babbit
Zola, Emile - Germinal
Renault, Mary - The Alexander Trilogy
Montgomery, L.M. -
Bronte, Anne -
Scott, Walter - Rob Roy
Gogol, Nikolai - Dead Souls
Bronte, Charlotte -
Barrie, J. M. - The Little White Bird
Agee, James - A Death in the Family
Behn, Aphra -
Woolf, Virginia - Orlando
Gaskell, Elizabeth -
Stendahl - The Red and the Black
Doctorow, EL -
Dickens, Charles -
Greene, Graham -
Burney, Frances -
Stephenson, Neal - Snow Crash
Gibson, William - The Difference Engine
Stowe, Harriet Beecher -
Davis, Rebecca Harding - Life in the Iron Mills and Other Stories
Atwood, Margaret - Handmaid’s Tale
Colette - Cheri, The End of Cheri
Colette - The Cat
Gorky, Maxim - Mother
Kerouac, Jack - Dharma Bums
Ellison, Ralph - Invisible Man
Salinger, JD - Frankie and Zooey
Salinger, JD - Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters
Le Fanu, Sheridan - Uncle Silas
Sinclair,Upton -
Sinclair,Upton -
Anonymous - Buddhist Scriptures
Teresa of Avila - Autobiography
Graves, Robert - The White Goddess
D’Aulnoy, Madame - Fairy Tales
Frazier, James -
Briggs, Katherine -
Campbell, Joseph - The Masks of God
Number-wise, I think that's 5 biographies, 7 drama, 12 epic poetry, 9 Literary Nonfiction, 12 Lyric Poetry, 4 general nonfiction, 42 novels, and 8 religion/folklore books (though some could have been in more than one category, like Teresa of Avila). I have 37 books by women, and 4 anonymous (a dissapointingly low number, but, for instance, I don't know any epic poems by women except Aurora Leigh, which I'm already friends with :D), 29 by non-English diaspora writers (thoguh James Joyce is BARELY English, I'm told...), and 5 books by people named William.
8 comments:
That's a great list, Jason. Funny, I am reading The Aeneid now, and just finished The Canterbury Tales again. You've got some great titles on your list — the next 5 years are going to be fun!
Oh, what a terrific list - your cardigan is right at home, I think!
I love Uncle Silas SO INEXPRESSIBLY MUCH - it's a constant on my 'to be re-read list'.
I've never read it, but I read Carmilla, and still get gushy-slushy sometimes. Dracula can't hold a candle, in terms of real human emotion... (though, I'm ill-disposed to Mr. Stoker, ever since having suffered through Lair of the White Worm...)
So...are you planning to read ALL of Shakespeare's plays, or just some select ones, whatever you feel like? 'Cuz all of 'em is a LOT of reading - my Riverside Shakespeare is bigger than most dictionaries, with that kind of really thin onion-skin paper that Bibles often use, and very small text...
Yikes, The Faerie Queene! I had to read that for a British Lit class almost six years ago and I still feel sick thinking about it. Epic poetry hurts my head. Not to say you won't enjoy it. :)
Now THIS is a different list. You make our "classics" look contemporary -- you've got the really good, old stuff here. My son is currently enrolled in a Great Books course and he has been reading a lot of the Greek titles on your list. I am impressed with him and I am impressed with you -- I don't think my own brain could manage.
You also mentioned J. M. Barrie. I'd completely forgotten how much I loved reading the real Peter Pan a few years back. Never heard of "The Little White Bird." Thanks for mentioning it.
wish i could read RAISE HIGH THE ROOF BEAMS, CARPENTER again for the first time.
awesome list.
OMG i love Christina Rosseti - 'song' is one of my favourites (their are numnerous songs - this begines with 'remember me when i am gone away'
i love your list, its so diverse and you have poetry too!! i should have thought of that!! Definitly will be touching on your list
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