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05-15-2004, 12:55 PM
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How many of these books have you read?
Achebe, Chinua - Things Fall Apart
Agee, James - A Death in the Family
Austin, Jane - Pride and Prejudice
Baldwin, James - Go Tell It on the Mountain
Beckett, Samuel - Waiting for Godot
Bellow, Saul - The Adventures of Augie March
Bronte, Charlotte - Jane Eyre
Bronte, - Emily Wuthering Heights
Camus, Albert - The Stranger
Cather, Willa - Death Comes for the Archbishop
Cervantes, Miguel de - Don Quixote
Chaucer, Geoffrey - The Canterbury Tales
Chekhov, Anton - The Cherry Orchard
Chopin, Kate - The Awakening
Conrad, Joseph - Heart of Darkness
Cooper, James Fenimore - The Last of the Mohicans
Crane, Stephen - The Red Badge of Courage
Dante - Inferno
Defoe, Daniel - Robinson Crusoe
Dickens, Charles - A Tale of Two Cities
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - Crime and Punishment
Douglass, Frederick - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Dreiser, Theodore - An American Tragedy
Dumas, Alexandre - The Three Musketeers
Eliot, George - The Mill on the Floss
Ellison, Ralph - Invisible Man
Emerson, Ralph Waldo - Selected Essays
Faulkner, William - As I Lay Dying
Faulkner, William - The Sound and the Fury
Fielding, Henry - Tom Jones
Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Great Gatsby
Flaubert, Gustave - Madame Bovary
Ford, Ford Madox - The Good Soldier
Goethe, Johann - Wolfgang von Faust
Golding, William - Lord of the Flies
Hardy, Thomas - Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Hawthorne, Nathaniel - The Scarlet Letter
Heller, Joseph - Catch 22
Hemingway, Ernest - A Farewell to Arms
Homer - The Iliad
Homer - The Odyssey
Hugo, Victor - The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hurston, Zora Neale - Their Eyes Were Watching God
Huxley, Aldous - Brave New World
Ibsen, Henrik - A Doll's House
James, Henry - The Portrait of a Lady
James, Henry - The Turn of the Screw
Joyce, James - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Kafka, Franz - The Metamorphosis
Kingston, Maxine Hong - The Woman Warrior
Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird
Lewis, Sinclair - Babbitt
London, Jack - The Call of the Wild
Mann, Thomas - The Magic Mountain
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia - One Hundred Years of Solitude
Melville, Herman - Bartleby the Scrivener
Melville, Herman - Moby Dick
Miller, Arthur - The Crucible
Morrison, Toni - Beloved
O'Connor, Flannery - A Good Man is Hard to Find
O'Neill, Eugene - Long Day's Journey into Night
Orwell, George - Animal Farm
Pasternak, Boris - Doctor Zhivago
Plath, Sylvia - The Bell Jar
Poe, Edgar Allen - Selected Tales
Proust, Marcel - Swann's Way
Pynchon, Thomas - The Crying of Lot 49
Remarque, Erich Maria - All Quiet on the Western Front
Rostand, Edmond - Cyrano de Bergerac
Roth, Henry - Call It Sleep
Salinger, J.D. - The Catcher in the Rye
Shakespeare, William - Hamlet
Shakespeare, William - Macbeth
Shakespeare, William - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Shakespeare, William - Romeo and Juliet
Shaw, George Bernard - Pygmalion
Shelley, Mary - Frankenstein
Silko, Leslie Marmon - Ceremony
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Sophocles - Antigone
Sophocles - Oedipus Rex
Steinbeck, John - The Grapes of Wrath
Stevenson, Robert Louis - Treasure Island
Stowe, Harriet Beecher - Uncle Tom's Cabin
Swift, Jonathan - Gulliver's Travels
Thackeray, William - Vanity Fair
Thoreau, Henry David - Walden
Tolstoy, Leo - War and Peace
Turgenev, Ivan - Fathers and Sons
Twain, Mark - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Voltaire - Candide
Vonnegut, Kurt Jr. - Slaughterhouse-Five
Walker, Alice - The Color Purple
Warton, Edith - The House of Mirth
Welty, Eudora - Collected Stories
Whitman, Walt - Leaves of Grass
Wilde, Oscar - The Picture of Dorian Gray
Williams, Tennessee - The Glass Menagerie
Woolf, Virginia - To the Lighthouse
Wright, Richard - Native Son
Which books would you add?
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05-15-2004, 01:12 PM
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I’d like to think of myself as a fairly literate person, so it’s embarrassing to admit that I’ve only read 20 books on the list. That’s pretty lame of me... |
05-15-2004, 01:24 PM
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34.
But I've heard of most of them. :thumbs:
Yeah, okay. It was worth a try.
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05-15-2004, 01:59 PM
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53, but I mean to read most of them.
Yeah, okay. It seemed like it was worth trying too.
White's The Once and Future King should be on the list. Maybe Sartre's No Exit and Warren's All the King's Men. We could knock off Bartleby the Scrivener to make room if we needed to.
And four by Shakespeare by not 1984? Seems to me we could skip Midsummer's Night Dream and all is mended.
Edited because: Ellison's Invisible Man is on the list. I didn't see it. That's what I get for looking it up under "Ralph."
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05-15-2004, 02:02 PM
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Conrad, Joseph - Heart of Darkness
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - Crime and Punishment
Dumas, Alexandre - The Three Musketeers
Hawthorne, Nathaniel - The Scarlet Letter
Homer - The Iliad
Homer - The Odyssey
Huxley, Aldous - Brave New World
Orwell, George - Animal Farm
Poe, Edgar Allen - Selected Tales
Shakespeare, William - Hamlet
Shakespeare, William - Macbeth
Shakespeare, William - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Shakespeare, William - Romeo and Juliet
Twain, Mark - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Vonnegut, Kurt Jr. - Slaughterhouse-Five
Hmmm - 15. But I know *about* many more than that, and have read abridged versions of several. But y'all know about my allergy to classics, at least when I was in school. 
BTW, I haven't read Hugo's "Hunchback", but I did make it through his "Les Miserables".
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05-15-2004, 02:03 PM
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Beowulf is on the original list, which it seems it should. Was anyone else who had heard of it before reading it surprised at how quickly Grendel is killed and how it is Grendel's mother that is the real challenge? |
05-15-2004, 02:06 PM
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Quote: | eplovejoy said
Beowulf is on the original list, which it seems it should. Was anyone else who had heard of it before reading it surprised at how quickly Grendel is killed and how it is Grendel's mother that is the real challenge? |
You know what they say...
If momma ain't happy, ain't nobody happy.
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05-15-2004, 02:09 PM
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I've read 49. It's an interesting list - I've got several of the unread ones on my bookshelves. I'd add Gunter Grass - The Tin Drum and Anne Frank - The Diary of Anne Frank to the list.
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05-15-2004, 02:21 PM
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Bronte, - Emily Wuthering Heights
Cervantes, Miguel de - Don Quixote
Chaucer, Geoffrey - The Canterbury Tales
Chopin, Kate - The Awakening
Conrad, Joseph - Heart of Darkness
Emerson, Ralph Waldo - Selected Essays
Homer - The Iliad
Homer - The Odyssey
Ibsen, Henrik - A Doll's House
Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird
Melville, Herman - Moby Dick
Miller, Arthur - The Crucible
Orwell, George - Animal Farm
Poe, Edgar Allen - Selected Tales
Shakespeare, William - Hamlet
Shakespeare, William - Macbeth
Shakespeare, William - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Shakespeare, William - Romeo and Juliet
Sophocles - Antigone
Stevenson, Robert Louis - Treasure Island
Swift, Jonathan - Gulliver's Travels
Only around 22, though I've heard of and plan on reading most of them. I own at least two that I haven't read yet that I've been meaning to ^^; I guess I have my summer reading planned out. |
05-15-2004, 02:31 PM
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While you folks are checking your bookshelves for classics, could you please see if you can find at least one of my copies of the Iliad?
I went looking for one this morning and it's nowhere to be found. And, I can recall having at least 2 copies. (I'm so incensed about the Troy movie that I'm compelled to refresh my memory so that I can add to my litany of rants about creative license.)
Tell me, what happens to books that you swear were on your bookshelf? Do they run off with all the single socks that never come out of the dryer?
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05-15-2004, 02:45 PM
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I think it's a conspiracy between washing appliances and bookshelves everywhere designed to make us lose our sanity. Sometimes I could swear my bookshelves just eat them >>
I don't know where my copy of the Illiad is, but I have managed to find The Grapes of Wrath and Their Eyes Were Watching God. |
05-15-2004, 06:20 PM
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A whopping 12.
Can you tell I read kids' books?
They need a list of 101 great kids' books. Bet I'd have read most of those.
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05-16-2004, 08:51 AM
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I've read 42, but I take issue with some of the books on the list by the same author as other books not on the list that I would consider just as worthy (1984 v. Animal Farm, etc.).
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Austin, Jane - Pride and Prejudice
Beckett, Samuel - Waiting for Godot
Bronte, Charlotte - Jane Eyre
Bronte, - Emily Wuthering Heights
Camus, Albert - The Stranger
Cather, Willa - Death Comes for the Archbishop
Cervantes, Miguel de - Don Quixote
Chaucer, Geoffrey - The Canterbury Tales
Conrad, Joseph - Heart of Darkness
Cooper, James Fenimore - The Last of the Mohicans
Crane, Stephen - The Red Badge of Courage
Defoe, Daniel - Robinson Crusoe
Dickens, Charles - A Tale of Two Cities
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - Crime and Punishment
Ellison, Ralph - Invisible Man
Emerson, Ralph Waldo - Selected Essays
Faulkner, William - As I Lay Dying
Fielding, Henry - Tom Jones
Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Great Gatsby
Golding, William - Lord of the Flies
Hawthorne, Nathaniel - The Scarlet Letter
Heller, Joseph - Catch 22
Hemingway, Ernest - A Farewell to Arms
Homer - The Iliad
Homer - The Odyssey
Huxley, Aldous - Brave New World
Ibsen, Henrik - A Doll's House
Joyce, James - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird
Melville, Herman - Moby Dick
Miller, Arthur - The Crucible
Morrison, Toni - Beloved
O'Neill, Eugene - Long Day's Journey into Night
Orwell, George - Animal Farm
Pasternak, Boris - Doctor Zhivago
Plath, Sylvia - The Bell Jar
Poe, Edgar Allen - Selected Tales
Proust, Marcel - Swann's Way
Pynchon, Thomas - The Crying of Lot 49
Remarque, Erich Maria - All Quiet on the Western Front
Rostand, Edmond - Cyrano de Bergerac
Salinger, J.D. - The Catcher in the Rye
Shakespeare, William - Hamlet
Shakespeare, William - Macbeth
Shakespeare, William - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Shakespeare, William - Romeo and Juliet
Shelley, Mary - Frankenstein
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Steinbeck, John - The Grapes of Wrath
Stevenson, Robert Louis - Treasure Island
Stowe, Harriet Beecher - Uncle Tom's Cabin
Swift, Jonathan - Gulliver's Travels
Thoreau, Henry David - Walden
Twain, Mark - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Vonnegut, Kurt Jr. - Slaughterhouse-Five
Walker, Alice - The Color Purple
Whitman, Walt - Leaves of Grass
Williams, Tennessee - The Glass Menagerie
Wright, Richard - Native Son
I'm pretty sure I read 59, but my memory is a little fuzzy on some of them. When I was in high school, we were all required to take a "Great Books" course in addition to our English courses, and some of the books I read during that course. |
05-16-2004, 11:13 AM
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Quote: | eplovejoy said
Beowulf is on the original list, which it seems it should. Was anyone else who had heard of it before reading it surprised at how quickly Grendel is killed and how it is Grendel's mother that is the real challenge? | You just ruined it for me!
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I'm also at 42, though I'll confess there are books on that list that I never want to read 'cause I can't stand the writing style of the author. I've also not ever gotten much into the Regency novels.
There are probably some modern novels that belong on that list, but it is rather too early to tell. Sure, there were a few modern ones on the list, but not as many as I might add.
Peter, I suppose whoever created the list felt they had to have at least one of Shakespeare's comedies on the list, but I'd agree with you that Midsummer, while being the best known, isn't necessarily the best one.
I also think I would have put Dorothy Sayers' Gaudy Nights on there. And shouldn't Doyle be represented? Generally speaking, I'd say there is a heavy bias against any sort of genre fiction.
I also might add Irving and Attwood, though I'd struggle for a while on which of their books to add.
Now a list of 101 Great Kid's books. Perhaps we should create that list in another thread.
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05-16-2004, 04:47 PM
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I also might add Irving and Atwood, though I'd struggle for a while on which of their books to add. | A Prayer for Owen Meaney and The Handmaid's Tale would get my votes.
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25 to be precise, but I have heard of them all. I think, sometimes, that much too much attention is paid to books of a certain age. I'll be interested to see how many of them are included in such a list when books of the last two or three decades are figured into the mix in another twenty or thirty years...
In any case, uh, yeah. I really liked but a few, Huck Finn, Tale of Two Cities, Slaughterhouse Five, Catch-22, Lord of the Flies, and Brave New World come to mind...
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I'm surprised to find that I've read 29 of them. Most from HS days (so don't ask me to pass a quiz on them or anything...retention is quite another story!)
I would add CS Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia as a set. Some could argue that it's a children's series.....but, I think it belongs.
After reading East of Eden, I'd also like to submit it for the list.
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I've read:
Austin, Jane - Pride and Prejudice
Baldwin, James - Go Tell It on the Mountain
Bronte, Charlotte - Jane Eyre
Bronte, - Emily Wuthering Heights
Conrad, Joseph - Heart of Darkness
Cooper, James Fenimore - The Last of the Mohicans
Crane, Stephen - The Red Badge of Courage
Defoe, Daniel - Robinson Crusoe
Dickens, Charles - A Tale of Two Cities
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - Crime and Punishment
Dumas, Alexandre - The Three Musketeers
Faulkner, William - The Sound and the Fury
Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Great Gatsby
Golding, William - Lord of the Flies
Hardy, Thomas - Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Hawthorne, Nathaniel - The Scarlet Letter
Heller, Joseph - Catch 22
Hemingway, Ernest - A Farewell to Arms
Huxley, Aldous - Brave New World
James, Henry - The Turn of the Screw
Joyce, James - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Kafka, Franz - The Metamorphosis
Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird
Lewis, Sinclair - Babbitt
London, Jack - The Call of the Wild
Melville, Herman - Moby Dick
Miller, Arthur - The Crucible
Orwell, George - Animal Farm
Plath, Sylvia - The Bell Jar
Salinger, J.D. - The Catcher in the Rye
Shakespeare, William - Macbeth
Shakespeare, William - Romeo and Juliet
Shelley, Mary - Frankenstein
Steinbeck, John - The Grapes of Wrath
Thackeray, William - Vanity Fair
Twain, Mark - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Vonnegut, Kurt Jr. - Slaughterhouse-Five
Walker, Alice - The Color Purple
Wilde, Oscar - The Picture of Dorian Gray
Williams, Tennessee - The Glass Menagerie
40... more than I'd thought. But don't ask me to give you really detailed plots on 10 or so of them, I remember having to read them for school but that's a few years ago...
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05-17-2004, 12:11 AM
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What I've read:
Achebe, Chinua - Things Fall Apart
Austin, Jane - Pride and Prejudice
Beckett, Samuel - Waiting for Godot
Bellow, Saul - The Adventures of Augie March
Bronte, Charlotte - Jane Eyre
Bronte, - Emily Wuthering Heights
Chaucer, Geoffrey - The Canterbury Tales
Chekhov, Anton - The Cherry Orchard
Chopin, Kate - The Awakening
Conrad, Joseph - Heart of Darkness
Cooper, James Fenimore - The Last of the Mohicans
Dante - Inferno
Dickens, Charles - A Tale of Two Cities
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - Crime and Punishment
Ellison, Ralph - Invisible Man
Faulkner, William - As I Lay Dying
Faulkner, William - The Sound and the Fury
Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Great Gatsby
Flaubert, Gustave - Madame Bovary
Ford, Ford Madox - The Good Soldier
Hawthorne, Nathaniel - The Scarlet Letter
Homer - The Iliad
Homer - The Odyssey
Hugo, Victor - The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Ibsen, Henrik - A Doll's House
James, Henry - The Portrait of a Lady
James, Henry - The Turn of the Screw
Joyce, James - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Kafka, Franz - The Metamorphosis
Kingston, Maxine Hong - The Woman Warrior
Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird
Melville, Herman - Moby Dick
Morrison, Toni - Beloved
O'Connor, Flannery - A Good Man is Hard to Find
O'Neill, Eugene - Long Day's Journey into Night
Orwell, George - Animal Farm
Poe, Edgar Allen - Selected Tales (though which "selected" ones they mean, I can't be sure...)
Pynchon, Thomas - The Crying of Lot 49
Salinger, J.D. - The Catcher in the Rye
Shakespeare, William - Hamlet
Shakespeare, William - Macbeth
Shakespeare, William - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Shakespeare, William - Romeo and Juliet
Shaw, George Bernard - Pygmalion
Sophocles - Antigone
Sophocles - Oedipus Rex
Stowe, Harriet Beecher - Uncle Tom's Cabin
Thoreau, Henry David - Walden
Tolstoy, Leo - War and Peace
Twain, Mark - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Warton, Edith - The House of Mirth
Williams, Tennessee - The Glass Menagerie
Woolf, Virginia - To the Lighthouse
Wright, Richard - Native Son
So...55 total. Though I've read some of them multiple times (O'Connor, Cooper, Fitzgerald, Dickens, Hawthorne and of course the Shakespeares). Plus, of the books I haven't read, I've seen many of the movies, so that should count for half points, shouldn't it?).
Of "great" books (which have endured the test of time), I might add:
Bunyan, John: The Pilgrim's Progress
Capote, Truman: In Cold Blood
Carver, Raymond: Where I'm Calling From
Dickens, Charles: Dombey and Son...or, Nicholas Nickleby (two of his better, neglected novels)
Eliot, George: Middlemarch
Ford, Richard: Rock Springs
Mailer, Norman: The Executioner's Song
Updike, John: Rabbit, Run
West, Nathaneal: The Day of the Locust
Yates, Richard: Revolutionary Road
Throw out the duplicate authors on the original list since one work would be representative of their canon as a whole, thus allowing more room for diversity.
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