Books
This is a blatant ripoff from Maggie's
webpage, but I'm not going to let that stop me. The purpose of hers is
apparently to show the books that are "part of her;" however, my motive is
much more base. I just want to show off how much I've read, and to remind
myself of the good books in my life.
So I have compiled this list of books, primarily ones that I have read, but
also some that I have partly read or that I intend to read. However, this
is by no means a comprehensive list of the books that I have read or that I
intend to read. For example, I have heavily abridged the list of books by
Terry Pratchett, since there are nearly thirty of them (to be exact, I've
only listed the first of the Discworld novels instead of the whole list).
Feel free to suggest contributions to the list; I'm always on the lookout
for good books. I've also taken the liberty of eliminating all the bad teen
books books that I read years ago (as well as the bad adult books I've read
recently) that I don't really want anybody to know I read. As Mara says,
bad novels have their uses, especially for mental cleansing, but I don't
want anybody to know the levels to which I can stoop.
Key: |
Books that I have read
Books that I have partly read
Books that I want to read |
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| | Beowulf |
| | Tristan et Iseult |
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| Chinua Achebe |
Things Fall Apart |
| Edward Albee | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
| Jane Austen | Emma |
| Jane Austen | Mansfield Park |
| Jane Austen | Northanger Abbey |
| Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice |
| Jane Austen | Persuasion |
| Jane Austen | Sense and Sensibility |
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| Samuel Beckett | Endgame |
| Marion Zimmer Bradley | The Firebrand |
| Marion Zimmer Bradley | The Forest House |
| Marion Zimmer Bradley | Lady of Avalon |
| Marion Zimmer Bradley | The Mists of Avalon |
| Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre |
| Emily Bronte | Wuthering Heights |
| Anthony Burgess | A Clockwork Orange |
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| Albert Camus | L'Étranger |
| Geoffrey Chaucer | The Canterbury Tales |
| Kate Chopin | The Awakening |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" |
| Colette | Claudine en menage |
| Joseph Conrad | Heart of Darkness |
| James Fenimore Cooper | The Last of the Mohicans |
| Susan Cooper | The Dark is Rising |
| Stephen Crane | The Red Badge of Courage |
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| Anita Desai | Clear Light of Day |
| Charles Dickens | Great Expectations |
| Alfred Döblin | Berlin Alexanderplatz |
| John Donne | "The Flea" |
| Fyodor Dostoevsky | Crime and Punishment |
| Alexandre Dumas | La Reine Margot |
| Alexandre Dumas | Les Trois Mousquetaires |
| Alexandre Dumas | Le Vicomte de Bragelonne |
| Friedrich Dürrenmatt | Der Besuch der alten Dame |
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| Sylvia Louise Engdahl |
Enchantress from the Stars |
| Richard J. Evans |
Death in Hamburg: Society and Politics during the Cholera Years 1830-1910 |
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| Anne Fadiman | Ex Libris |
| William Faulkner | Light in August |
| Gustave Flaubert | Madame Bovary |
| Anne Frank | The Diary of Anne Frank |
| Monica Furlong | Juniper |
| Monica Furlong | Wise Child |
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| Neil Gaiman |
American Gods |
| Neil Gaiman | Death: the High Cost of Living |
| Neil Gaiman | Neverwhere |
| Neil Gaiman | Sandman Library |
| Neil Gaiman | Stardust |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Die Leiden des jungen Werther |
| William Golding | Lord of the Flies |
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| Thomas Hardy | Tess of the d'Urbervilles |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | The Scarlet Letter |
| Ernest Hemingway | The Old Man and the Sea |
| Homer | The Odyssey |
| Homer | The Iliad |
| Victor Hugo | Hernani |
| Victor Hugo | Les Misérables |
| Victor Hugo | Notre-Dame de Paris |
| Zora Neale Hurston | Their Eyes Were Watching God |
| Aldous Huxley | Brave New World |
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| James Joyce | Ulysses |
| James Joyce | Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man |
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| Franz Kafka | Die Verwandlung |
| Erich Kästner | Emil und die Detektive |
| John Knowles | A Separate Peace |
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| Pierre Choderlos de Laclos | Les Liaisons dangeureuses |
| D.H. Lawrence | Lady Chatterley's Lover |
| Harper Lee | To Kill a Mockingbird |
| Ursula LeGuin | The Beginning Place |
| Madeleine L'Engle | A Wrinkle in Time |
| Jack London | White Fang |
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| Niccolo Machiavelli | The Prince |
| Christopher Marlowe | Doctor Faustus |
| André Malraux | La Condition humaine |
| Thomas Mann | Der Zauberberg |
| Karl Marx | Das Kapital |
| Andrew Marvell | "To His Coy Mistress" |
| Robin McKinley |
Deerskin |
| Herman Melville | Moby Dick |
| Arthur Miller | The Crucible |
| Arthur Miller | Death of a Salesman |
| John Milton | Paradise Lost |
| Molière |
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme |
| Molière | Dom Juan |
| Charles de Secondat, Baron de la Brède et de Montesquieu |
De l'Esprit des lois |
| Charles de Secondat, Baron de la Brède et de Montesquieu |
Les Lettres persanes |
| Toni Morrison | Beloved |
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| Vladimir Nabokov | Lolita |
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| George Orwell | 1984 |
| George Orwell | Animal Farm |
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| Blaise Pascal | Pensées |
| Edgar Allan Poe | |
| Alexander Pope | |
| Terry Pratchett |
The Carpet People |
| Terry Pratchett | The Colour of Magic |
| Abbe Prevost | Manon Lescaut |
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| Jean Racine | Phèdre |
| Wilson Rawles | Where the Red Fern Grows |
| Rousseau | La Nouvelle Héloïse |
| Mary Rowlandson | The Sovereignty and Goodness of God |
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| Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | Le Petit prince |
| J.D. Salinger | The Catcher in the Rye |
| Sir Walter Scott | Ivanhoe |
| William Shakespeare | Hamlet |
| William Shakespeare | Julius Caesar |
| William Shakespeare | King Lear |
| William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet |
| William Shakespeare | Macbeth |
| William Shakespeare | Midsummer Night's Dream |
| George Bernard Shaw | Joan of Arc |
| Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley | Frankenstein |
| Robert Silverberg | Lord Valentine's Castle |
| Upton Sinclair | The Jungle |
| Sophocles | Antigone |
| Sophocles | Oedipus Rex |
| Art Spiegelman | Maus |
| David Starkey | Elizabeth: the Struggle for the Throne |
| John Steinbeck | The Grapes of Wrath |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | Treasure Island |
| Bram Stoker | Dracula |
| Tom Stoppard | Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead |
| Jonathan Swift | Gulliver's Travels |
| Jonathan Swift | "A Modest Proposal" |
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| Amy Tan | The Bonesetter's Daughter |
| Amy Tan | The Hundred Secret Senses |
| Amy Tan | The Joy Luck Club |
| Amy Tan | The Kitchen God's Wife |
| Sherri S. Tepper | Beauty |
| William Thackeray | Vanity Fair |
| Henry David Thoreau | Walden |
| J.R. Tolkein | The Hobbit |
| Leo Tolstoy | Anna Karinina |
| Leo Tolstoy | War and Peace |
| Mark Twain | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
| Mark Twain | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
| Mark Twain | Huckleberry Finn |
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| Joan D. Vinge |
The Snow Queen |
| Voltaire | Candide |
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| T.H. White | The Once and Future King |
| Oscar Wilde | The Importance of Being Ernest |
| Oscar Wilde | A Perfect Husband |
| Christa Wolf | Der geteilte Himmel |
| Virginia Woolf | Orlando |
| Virginia Woolf | A Room of One's Own |
| William Wordsworth | Tintern Abbey |
| Richard Wright | Native Son |
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| Émile Zola | Thérèse Raquin |
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