100 Classic Books
My family has a book with a list of 100 books that should be read. Unfortunately my brother took the book with him to college, but I’ve still got a list. Following is my progress. Bold items are currently being read and Stricken books have been finished.
- Aeneid
- All Quiet on the Western Front
- All the King’s Men
- Animal Farm
- As I Lay Dying
- As You Like It
- The Awakening
- Beowulf
- Billy Budd
- The Bluest Eye
- Brave New World
- The Call of the Wild
- Candide
- The Canterbury Tales
- Catch-22
- The Color Purple
- Crime and Punishment
- The Crucible
- Daisy Miller
- David Copperfield
- Death of a salesman
- Diary of a Young Girl
- The Divine Comedy: Inferno
- Doctor Faustus
- A Doll’s House
- Don Quixote
- Ethan Frome
- Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo
- A Farewell to Arms
- Faust (parts 1&2)
- For Whome the Bell Tolls
- Frankenstein
- The Glass Menagerie
- The Good Earth
- The Grapes of Wrath
- Great Expectations
- The Great Gatsby
- Gulliver’s Travels
- Hamlet
- Hard Times
- Heart of Darkness
- Henry IV (part 1)
- House Made of Dawn
- The House of Seven Gables
- Huckleberry Finn
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- The Iliad
- The Invisible Man
- Jane Eyre
- The Joy Luck Club
- Julius Caesar
- The Jungle
- King Lear
- Light in August
- Lord Jim
- The Lord of the Flies
- The Lord of the Rings
- Macbeth
- Madame Bovary
- The Mayor of Casterbridge
- The Merchant of Venice
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- Moby-Dick
- Native Son
- 1984
- The Odyssey
- The Oedipus Triology
- Of Mice and Men
- The Old Man and the Sea
- Oliver Twist
- One Flew over th Cuckoo’s Nest
- Othello
- Paradise Lost
- The Pearl
- The Plague
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- Pride and Prejudice
- The Prince
- The Red Badge of Courage
- Republic
- The Return of the Native
- Richard III
- Romeo & Juliet
- The Scarlet Letter
- A Seperate Peace
- Silas Marner
- Sons & Lovers
- The Sound and the Fury
- Steppenwolf
- The Stranger
- The Sun Also Rises
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Tess of the D’Ubervilles
- Their Eyes Were Watching God
- Tom Sawyer
- Treasure Island
- Twelfth Night
- Waiting for Godot
- Walden
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Pardon me, but there appears to only be 99 books on this list of proclaimed 100. I’m disappointed.
Hi, I’m Casandra, by the way. =)
Indeed you’re right, I noticed this when I wrote it too. I know there’s supposed to be 100 though, so I’ll have to ask Joe to look in the book and find which one is missing.
and welcome to my blog Casandra
You’re missing The Good Earth–it’s number 34 in the official booklist. You’ve definitely got me beat-I’m 36 to your 41 (and am showing no signs of progress).