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[kiralamouse]

Gacked from tristmasjedi:

Like Jedi said, I have no independent verification this is an accurate list, but it looks largely reasonable.

Note: I'm adding strikethrough on books I read that I wouldn't reread if it were the last book on earth. Not that I'm bitter or anything.

Bold the ones you've read. Italicize the ones you've read part of. Underline the ones you want to read (at least part of). Read more. Convince others to read some.

#1 The Bible
#2 Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
#3 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
#4 The Koran
#5 Arabian Nights
#6 Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
#7 Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
#8 Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (though I've read so much of this and so thoroughly that it seems it shouldn't matter that I haven't read half of it!)
#9 Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
#10 Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
#11 The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
#12 Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
#13 Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
#14 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
#15 Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
#16 Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
#17 Dracula by Bram Stoker
#18 Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin
#19 Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
#20 Essays by Michel de Montaigne
#21 Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
#22 History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
#23 Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
#24 Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
#25 Ulysses by James Joyce
#26 Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
#27 Animal Farm by George Orwell
#28 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell --Yeeeurgh. (Jedi's comment, but I'll let it stand.)
#29 Candide by Voltaire
#30 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
#31 Analects by Confucius
#32 Dubliners by James Joyce I may have mentioned that I hate Joyce with the fire of a million burning suns. Which is why Ulysses is not on my "want to read" list.
#33 Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
#34 Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
#35 Red and the Black by Stendhal
#36 Das Capital by Karl Marx
#37 Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire
#38 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
#39 Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence
#40 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley -Debated striking this one. Decided I might be able to survive it again.
#41 Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
#42 Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell -See #40.
#43 The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
#44 All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
#45 Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
#46 Lord of the Flies by William Golding
#47 Diary by Samuel Pepys
#48 Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
#49 Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
#50 Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
#51 Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
#52 Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
#53 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
#54 Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus
#55 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
#56 Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
#57 Color Purple by Alice Walker
#59 Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke
#60 Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
#61 Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
#62 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#63 East of Eden by John Steinbeck
#64 Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
#65 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
#66 Confessions by Jean Jacques Rousseau
#67 Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais
#68 Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
#69 The Talmud
#70 Social Contract by Jean Jacques Rousseau
#71 Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
#72 Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
#73 American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
#74 Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
#75 Separate Peace by John Knowles
#76 Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
#77 Red Pony by John Steinbeck
#78 Popol Vuh
#79 Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith
#80 Satyricon by Petronius -I've been told it's quite... interesting.
#81 James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
#82 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
#83 Black Boy by Richard Wright
#84 Spirit of the Laws by Charles de Secondat Baron de Montesquieu
#85 Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
#86 Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
#87 Metaphysics by Aristotle
#88 Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
#89 Institutes of the Christian Religion by Jean Calvin
#90 Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
#91 Power and the Glory by Graham Greene - I actually was supposed to read this for class. Never got around to it. Note that it's not underlined.
#92 Sanctuary by William Faulkner
#93 As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner - Got through this one on a mix of reading and Spark Notes. Developed a grudge almost to match my grudge against Joyce.
#94 Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
#95 Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig -Say what?
#96 Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#97 General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
#98 Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
#99 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Alexander Brown
#100 Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
#101 Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines
#102 Emile Jean by Jacques Rousseau
#103 Nana by Emile Zola
#104 Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
#105 Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
#106 Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#107 Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
#108 Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck
#109 Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
#110 Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes - Great story. Horribly depressing.

Hmm. 27 books read at least partially. I'm surprised Harry Potter isn't on the list. Notice how most of the books I want to read were written before the twentieth century... modernism and postmodernism just don't agree with me. And then, there's several books on the list that I've not heard of.

In other news: the truly disgusting weather combined with feeling a bit achy is pushing me in the direction of declaring a sickday.

Comments

[ueberx.livejournal.com]

Oh, you'd like Candide. It's a good one. I think it would appeal to your sense of humor.

And Catch-22's good, too. You should read them. *Nods sagely, then realizes that tristmasjedi has most likely already beaten him to telling Kirala how much she should read Catch-22*

[kiralamouse]

:) Look at my comments. I have not yet received any such recommendation today. (Though I think it's been recommended in the past. Not sure. I'm suspicious of all literature recommended by middle school librarians.)

[ueberx.livejournal.com]

A wise attitude, to be sure. Never trust those middle school librarians. They always want to guide you towards some wholesome book. Eeyurgh.

[tristmasjedi.livejournal.com]

I have recommended it in the past, but my recollection is that someone had beaten me to anti-recommending it.

[dypsidollierats.livejournal.com]

I just read Candide. It's pretty good, actually. Voltaire seemed to have a dry funny bone.