{"id":150,"date":"2004-04-27T19:36:06","date_gmt":"2004-04-27T19:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.95.25.178\/maggie\/2004\/04\/27\/reading_list\/"},"modified":"2004-04-27T19:36:06","modified_gmt":"2004-04-27T19:36:06","slug":"reading_list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/2004\/04\/27\/reading_list\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading list*"},"content":{"rendered":"

Via Steve<\/a>.
\nCopy the list, then indicate what you’ve read in bold. I’ve taken the liberty of making occasional comments.
\nAuthor – Title
\n— Beowulf<\/b>
\nAchebe, Chinua – Things Fall Apart
\nAgee, James – A Death in the Family
\nAusten, Jane – Pride and Prejudice<\/b> among others<\/i>
\nBaldwin, James – Go Tell It on the Mountain but I have sung the song<\/i>
\nBeckett, Samuel – Waiting for Godot<\/b> also among others<\/i>
\nBellow, Saul – The Adventures of Augie March
\nBronte, Charlotte – Jane Eyre<\/b>
\nBronte, Emily – Wuthering Heights<\/b>
\nCamus, Albert – The Stranger
\nCather, Willa – Death Comes for the Archbishop
\nChaucer, Geoffrey – The Canterbury Tales<\/b> a.o.<\/i>
\nChekhov, Anton – The Cherry Orchard<\/b>
\nChopin, Kate – The Awakening but I have read other works<\/i><\/b>
\nConrad, Joseph – Heart of Darkness does seeing the movie count?<\/i>
\nCooper, James Fenimore – The Last of the Mohicans
\nCrane, Stephen – The Red Badge of Courage<\/b>
\nDante – Inferno
\nde Cervantes, Miguel – Don Quixote
\nDefoe, Daniel – Robinson Crusoe
\nDickens, Charles – A Tale of Two Cities Oh, come on – it’s like the only one I <\/i>haven’t read.<\/i><\/b>
\nDostoyevsky, Fyodor – Crime and Punishment other stuff<\/i><\/b>
\nDouglass, Frederick – Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
\nDreiser, Theodore – An American Tragedy
\nDumas, Alexandre – The Three Musketeers
\nEliot, George – The Mill on the Floss see note above re Dickens<\/b><\/i>
\nEllison, Ralph – Invisible Man I did date him once, though. I think.<\/i>
\nEmerson, Ralph Waldo – Selected Essays
\nFaulkner, William – As I Lay Dying
\nFaulkner, William – The Sound and the Fury
\nFielding, Henry – Tom Jones
\nFitzgerald, F. Scott – The Great Gatsby<\/b>
\nFlaubert, Gustave – Madame Bovary
\nFord, Ford Madox – The Good Soldier
\nGoethe, Johann Wolfgang von – Faust other stuff<\/i><\/b>
\nGolding, William – Lord of the Flies<\/b>
\nHardy, Thomas – Tess of the d’Urbervilles<\/b>
\nHawthorne, Nathaniel – The Scarlet Letter<\/b>
\nHeller, Joseph – Catch 22
\nHemingway, Ernest – A Farewell to Arms<\/b>
\nHomer – The Iliad
\nHomer – The Odyssey<\/b>
\nHugo, Victor – The Hunchback of Notre Dame
\nHurston, Zora Neale – Their Eyes Were Watching God
\nHuxley, Aldous – Brave New World
\nIbsen, Henrik – A Doll’s House
\nJames, Henry – The Portrait of a Lady<\/b>
\nJames, Henry – The Turn of the Screw
\nJoyce, James – A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man<\/b> among others<\/i>
\nKafka, Franz – The Metamorphosis<\/b> among others<\/i>
\nKingston, Maxine Hong – The Woman Warrior
\nLee, Harper – To Kill a Mockingbird
\nLewis, Sinclair – Babbitt
\nLondon, Jack – The Call of the Wild on the summer reading list<\/i>
\nMann, Thomas – The Magic Mountain
\nMarquez, Gabriel Garcia – One Hundred Years of Solitude<\/b>
\nMelville, Herman – Bartleby the Scrivener
\nMelville, Herman – Moby Dick<\/b> twice, even<\/i>
\nMiller, Arthur – The Crucible<\/b>
\nMorrison, Toni – Beloved
\nO’Connor, Flannery – A Good Man is Hard to Find<\/b>
\nO’Neill, Eugene – Long Day’s Journey into Night
\nOrwell, George – Animal Farm and, of course, 1984<\/u>.<\/i><\/b>
\nPasternak, Boris – Doctor Zhivago movie<\/i>
\nPlath, Sylvia – The Bell Jar
\nPoe, Edgar Allan – Selected Tales<\/b>
\nProust, Marcel – Swann’s Way Monty Python sketch only<\/i>
\nPynchon, Thomas – The Crying of Lot 49
\nRemarque, Erich Maria – All Quiet on the Western Front<\/b>
\nRostand, Edmond – Cyrano de Bergerac
\nRoth, Henry – Call It Sleep
\nSalinger, J.D. – The Catcher in the Rye among others<\/i>
\nShakespeare, William – Hamlet
\nShakespeare, William – Macbeth
\nShakespeare, William – A Midsummer Night’s Dream
\nShakespeare, William – Romeo and Juliet<\/b> need I add, among others<\/i>
\nShaw, George Bernard – Pygmalion but I have seen My Fair Lady<\/u>.<\/i>
\nShelley, Mary – Frankenstein<\/b>
\nSilko, Leslie Marmon – Ceremony
\nSolzhenitsyn, Alexander – One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
\nSophocles – Antigone
\nSophocles – Oedipus Rex
\nSteinbeck, John – The Grapes of Wrath
\nStevenson, Robert Louis – Treasure Island
\nStowe, Harriet Beecher – Uncle Tom’s Cabin
\nSwift, Jonathan – Gulliver’s Travels
\nThackeray, William – Vanity Fair<\/b>
\nThoreau, Henry David – Walden
\nTolstoy, Leo – War and Peace
\nTurgenev, Ivan – Fathers and Sons
\nTwain, Mark – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn<\/b> among others<\/i>
\nVoltaire – Candide
\nVonnegut, Kurt Jr. – Slaughterhouse-Five<\/b>
\nWalker, Alice – The Color Purple<\/b>
\nWharton, Edith – The House of Mirth
\nWelty, Eudora – Collected Stories
\nWhitman, Walt – Leaves of Grass
\nWilde, Oscar – The Picture of Dorian Gray The Importance of Being Ernest<\/u> should be on the list, too…<\/i>
\nWilliams, Tennessee – The Glass Menagerie not to mention Streetcar<\/u>.<\/i>
\nWoolf, Virginia – To the Lighthouse among others<\/i><\/b>
\nWright, Richard – Native Son
\n*in case you’re wondering, this was way easier than trying to think of something original to say. Scary busy (see below<\/a>). Back soon.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Via Steve. Copy the list, then indicate what you’ve read in bold. I’ve taken the liberty of making occasional comments. Author – Title — Beowulf Achebe, Chinua – Things Fall Apart Agee, James – A Death in the Family Austen, Jane – Pride and Prejudice among others Baldwin, James – Go Tell It on the … <\/p>\n

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