today's meme

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From ottercat

College Board's 101 Greatest Works of Literature

Bold those you have read, underline those you want to read.

Beowulf

Achebe, Chinua - Things Fall Apart

Agee, James - A Death in the Family I was assigned this in school, but don't actually remember it

Austen, Jane - Pride and Prejudice

Baldwin, James - Go Tell It on the Mountain

Beckett, Samuel - Waiting for Godot

Bellow, Saul - The Adventures of Augie March

Brontë, Charlotte - Jane Eyre

Brontë, Emily - Wuthering Heights

Camus, Albert - The Stranger

Cather, Willa - Death Comes for the Archbishop

Chaucer, Geoffrey - The Canterbury Tales

Chekhov, Anton - The Cherry Orchard

Chopin, Kate - The Awakening

Conrad, Joseph - Heart of Darkness assigned in high school and HATED it

Cooper, James Fenimore - The Last of the Mohicans - I didn't read this because Mark Twain told me not to!

Crane, Stephen - The Red Badge of Courage assigned in high school and HATED it

Dante - Inferno

de Cervantes, Miguel - Don Quixote

Defoe, Daniel - Robinson Crusoe

Dickens, Charles - A Tale of Two Cities

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - Crime and Punishment - assigned in college, never got through it, faked it on the exam

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 depends on which collection, but I've read a lot of Emerson

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

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 in Latin, as part of Latin class

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 one of the scariest stories I ever read.

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 García - 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 Allan - Selected Tales Since I've read a complete stories and most of the complete poems, I guess I can bold this. I went through a Poe phase in high school

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 not only have a read this, I taught it as part of a 19th century history class

Swift, Jonathan - Gulliver's Travels

Thackeray, William - Vanity Fair Ive read this three or four times

Thoreau, Henry David - Walden one of the few books I was assigned in high school I actually liked

Tolstoy, Leo - War and Peace

Twain, Mark - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Voltaire - Candide

Vonnegut, Kurt Jr. - George Bergeron

Walker, Alice - The Color Purple

Wharton, 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

So I've read about half. I guess I'm reasonably well read.

Comments

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

I've read somewhat less. "How many less?" Lots. Um let's just say that unless we're talking SF and Shakespear my total off that list would be under 5%.

I've read so few of these...

[catdeville.livejournal.com]

that it's embarrasing!

And a good percentage of the ones that I *have* read, I have almost entirely forgotten. So thanks for posting this meme (I'll have to thank Ottercat, too, when I get to his post), as it has inspired me to do something which I've intended to do for a long time - *READ the Classics* that I got out of reading through high school (especially since I just got accepted to Community College and will be taking a literature class again.)

So I'm going to start going down the list and just work my way through it, and re-read the ones that I have already read as well as the ones which I have not. Shouldn't take me more than a year or two, riding the bus 3-4 hours every day ;-)

But just to show you what a mass media child I've grown up... I've read almost all of the plays, including the Greek and Latin ones (which *I* hope to read in the original by the time I complete my degrees!), I've read all the Shakespeare (and I do mean *all*, including those not listed), and I've *seen* almost every classic on this list which has been turned into a movie ;-) (well, *except* for most of the romances. i'm not as much into chick flicks as fantasy, horror and sf, so I've managed to miss almost all of the books written by women on the list

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that it's embarrasing!

And a good percentage of the ones that I *have* read, I have almost entirely forgotten. So thanks for posting this meme (I'll have to thank Ottercat, too, when I get to his post), as it has inspired me to do something which I've intended to do for a long time - *READ the Classics* that I got out of reading through high school (especially since I just got accepted to Community College and will be taking a literature class again.)

So I'm going to start going down the list and just work my way through it, and re-read the ones that I have already read as well as the ones which I have not. Shouldn't take me more than a year or two, riding the bus 3-4 hours every day ;-)

But just to show you what a mass media child I've grown up... I've read almost all of the plays, including the Greek and Latin ones (which *I* hope to read in the original by the time I complete my degrees!), I've read all the Shakespeare (and I do mean *all*, including those not listed), and I've *seen* almost every classic on this list which has been turned into a movie ;-) (well, *except* for most of the romances. i'm not as much into chick flicks as fantasy, horror and sf, so I've managed to miss almost all of the books written by women on the list <ducks!>

Never Thirst,
cat