Wednesday, December 21, 2011

How Many of the 100 Have I Read? 48 (Now I have read them all)


THE BOOK OF GREAT BOOKS 100

  1. Aeneid – Virgil YES
  2. All Quiet on the Western Front – Remarque YES
  3. All the King’s Men – Warren YES
  4. Animal Farm – Orwell YES
  5. As I Lay Dying – Faulkner YES
  6. As You Like It – Shakespeare YES
  7. The Awakening – Chopin YES
  8. Beowulf YES
  9. Bill Budd – Melville
  10. The Bluest Eyes – Morrison 
  11. Brave New World – Huxley
  12. The Call of the Wild – London
  13. Candide – Voltaire
  14. The Canterbury Tales – Chaucer YES
  15. Catch22 – Heller
  16. The Color Purple – Walker
  17. Crime and Punishment – Dostoyevsky YES
  18. The Crucible – Miller
  19. Daisy Miller – James
  20. David Copperfield – Dickens
  21. Death of a Salesman – Miller YES
  22. Diary of a Young Girl – Frank
  23. Inferno – Dante YES
  24. Doctor Faustus – Marlowe YES
  25. A Doll’s House – Ibsen YES
  26. Don Quixote – Cervantes YES
  27. Ethan Frome – Wharton
  28. Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo – Plato
  29. A Farewell to Arms – Hemingway
  30. Faust: Parts 1 and 2 – Goethe
  31. For Whom the Bell Tolls – Hemingway
  32. Frankenstein – Shelly  YES
  33. The Glass Menagerie – Williams
  34. The Good Earth – Buck YES
  35. The Grapes of Wrath – Steinbeck YES
  36. Great Expectations – Dickens YES
  37. The Great Gatsby – Fitzgerald YES
  38. Gulliver’s Travels – Swift YES
  39. Hamlet – Shakespeare YES
  40. Hard Times – Dickens
  41. Heart of Darkness – Conrad YES
  42. Henry IV, Part 1 – Shakespeare
  43. House Made of Dawn – Momaday
  44. The House of Seven Gables – Hawthorne YES
  45. Huckleberry Finn – Twain YES
  46. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Angelou
  47. Iliad – Homer YES
  48. Invisible Man – Ellison YES
  49. Jane Eyre – Bronte YES
  50. The Joy Luck Club – Tan
  51. Julius Caesar – Shakespeare
  52. The Jungle – Sinclair
  53. King Lear – Shakespeare
  54. Light in August – Faulkner
  55. Lord Jim – Conrad
  56. The Lord of the Flies – Golding
  57. The Lord of the Rings – Tolkien YES
  58. Macbeth – Shakespeare
  59. Madame Bovary – Flaubert YES
  60. The Major of Casterbridge – Hardy
  61. The Merchant of Venice – Shakespeare
  62. A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Shakespeare YES
  63. Moby-Dick – Melville YES
  64. Native Son – Wright YES
  65. 1984 – Orwell YES
  66. Odyssey – Homer YES
  67. The Oedipus Trilogy – Sophocles YES
  68. Of Mice and Men – Steinbeck
  69. The Old Man and the Sea – Hemingway
  70. Oliver Twist – Dickens YES
  71. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Kesey
  72. Othello – Shakespeare
  73. Paradise Lost – Milton YES
  74. The Pearl – Steinbeck
  75. The Plague – Camus
  76. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – Joyce YES
  77. Pride and Prejudice – Austen YES
  78. The Prince – Machiavelli YES
  79. The Red Badge of Courage – Crane YES
  80. Republic – Plato YES
  81. The Return of the Native – Hardy YES
  82. Richard III – Shakespeare YES
  83. Romeo and Juliet – Shakespeare
  84. The Scarlet Letter – Hawthorne YES
  85. A Separate Peace – Knowles
  86. Silas Marner – Eliot YES
  87. Sons and Lovers – Lawrence
  88. The Sound and the Fury – Faulkner YES
  89. Steppenwolf – Hesse
  90. The Stranger – Camus YES
  91. The Sun Also Rises – Hemingway
  92. The Taming of the Shrew – Shakespeare
  93. The Tempest – Shakespeare
  94. Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Hardy
  95. Their Eyes Were Watching God – Hurston 
  96. Tom Sawyer – Twain
  97. Treasure Island – Stevenson YES
  98. Twelfth Night – Shakespeare YES
  99. Waiting for Godot – Beckett YES
  100. Walden – Thoreau YES

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