Yes. *ANOTHER* book meme

[truepenny]

Because they are the good crack.

This one found via pegkerr.

College Board's 101 Greatest Works of Literature

Bold those you have read, underline those you want to read. Asterisk if you've not read this particular work, but have read others by the same author


Beowulf

Achebe, Chinua - Things Fall Apart

Agee, James - A Death in the Family

Austen, Jane - Pride and Prejudice

Baldwin, James - Go Tell It on the Mountain

Beckett, Samuel - Waiting for Godot

Bellow, Saul - The Adventures of Augie March

Brontë, Charlotte - Jane Eyre

Brontë, Emily - Wuthering Heights

*Camus, Albert - The Stranger [I can't remember which Camus I've read. It might even be L'Etranger. It's the one with bridges and the circles of Hell.]

Cather, Willa - Death Comes for the Archbishop

Chaucer, Geoffrey - The Canterbury Tales

Chekhov, Anton - The Cherry Orchard

Chopin, Kate - The Awakening

Conrad, Joseph - Heart of Darkness

Cooper, James Fenimore - The Last of the Mohicans [selections, at least, and more than I wanted to]

Crane, Stephen - The Red Badge of Courage

Dante - Inferno

de Cervantes, Miguel - Don Quixote

Defoe, Daniel - Robinson Crusoe

*Dickens, Charles - A Tale of Two Cities [Bleak House, Great Expectations, Dombey and Son, Hard Times]

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - Crime and Punishment

Douglass, Frederick - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Dreiser, Theodore - An American Tragedy

Dumas, Alexandre - The Three Musketeers

Eliot, George - The Mill on the Floss

Ellison, Ralph - Invisible Man

*Emerson, Ralph Waldo - Selected Essays [I've read some Emerson. And tried very hard to repress the memories ever since]

Faulkner, William - As I Lay Dying

Faulkner, William - The Sound and the Fury

Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Great Gatsby

Flaubert, Gustave - Madame Bovary

Ford, Ford Madox - The Good Soldier

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von - Faust [I've read Marlowe's and seen Gonoud's]

Golding, William - Lord of the Flies

Hardy, Thomas - Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Hawthorne, Nathaniel - The Scarlet Letter

Heller, Joseph - Catch-22

Hemingway, Ernest - A Farewell to Arms [Contender for Most Hated Book, thank you very much]

Homer - The Iliad

Homer - The Odyssey

Hugo, Victor - The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Hurston, Zora Neale - Their Eyes Were Watching God

Huxley, Aldous - Brave New World

Ibsen, Henrik - A Doll's House

James, Henry - The Portrait of a Lady

James, Henry - The Turn of the Screw

Joyce, James - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Kafka, Franz - The Metamorphosis

Kingston, Maxine Hong - The Woman Warrior

Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird

Lewis, Sinclair - Babbitt

*London, Jack - The Call of the Wild (White Fang)

Mann, Thomas - The Magic Mountain

Marquez, Gabriel García - One Hundred Years of Solitude

Melville, Herman - Bartleby the Scrivener

Melville, Herman - Moby Dick

Miller, Arthur - The Crucible

Morrison, Toni - Beloved

O'Connor, Flannery - A Good Man is Hard to Find

O'Neill, Eugene - Long Day's Journey into Night

Orwell, George - Animal Farm [What? Not 1984? Philistines!]

Pasternak, Boris - Doctor Zhivago

Plath, Sylvia - The Bell Jar

Poe, Edgar Allan - Selected Tales [I've no idea which tales they'd select, but I've read most of 'em. So there.]

Proust, Marcel - Swann's Way

*Pynchon, Thomas - The Crying of Lot 49 (Gravity's Rainbow, V)

Remarque, Erich Maria - All Quiet on the Western Front

Rostand, Edmond - Cyrano de Bergerac

Roth, Henry - Call It Sleep

Salinger, J.D. - The Catcher in the Rye [The only book I've tried and failed to read more times is Gone With the Wind.]

Shakespeare, William - Hamlet

Shakespeare, William - Macbeth

Shakespeare, William - A Midsummer Night's Dream

Shakespeare, William - Romeo and Juliet [Oh, puh-leeeeze.]

Shaw, George Bernard - Pygmalion

Shelley, Mary - Frankenstein

Silko, Leslie Marmon - Ceremony

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Sophocles - Antigone

Sophocles - Oedipus Rex

Steinbeck, John - The Grapes of Wrath [Hated this one, too. There's a theme here with my eleventh-grade English class.]

*Stevenson, Robert Louis - Treasure Island (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)

Stowe, Harriet Beecher - Uncle Tom's Cabin

Swift, Jonathan - Gulliver's Travels

Thackeray, William - Vanity Fair

Thoreau, Henry David - Walden

Tolstoy, Leo - War and Peace

Twain, Mark - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Voltaire - Candide

Vonnegut, Kurt Jr. - Harrison Bergeron [with thanks to tzikeh for the catch]

Walker, Alice - The Color Purple

Wharton, Edith - The House of Mirth

*Welty, Eudora - Collected Stories (The Golden Apples)

Whitman, Walt - Leaves of Grass

Wilde, Oscar - The Picture of Dorian Gray

Williams, Tennessee - The Glass Menagerie

Woolf, Virginia - To the Lighthouse

Wright, Richard - Native Son

Comments

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Vonnegut, Kurt Jr. - George Bergeron

Uh... are you sure this shouldn't be Harrison Bergeron?

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

I was wondering that myself. If it is, I could bold it, since I have read "Harrison Bergeron." But I don't personally know enough about Vonnegut to know for certain it's a mistake.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure they mean Harrison Bergeron. George Bergeron is Harrison's father's name, but I don't think there's a short story about him, too.

[gwyneira.livejournal.com]

What, they couldn't include a nice history play instead of Romeo and Juliet?

Clearly I need to spend more time reading, as I've only read just over half of these. It's embarrassing how many of them I actually have copies of that I haven't read yet.

A-M

[yonmei.livejournal.com]

*Beowulf
Achebe, Chinua - Things Fall Apart
Agee, James - A Death in the Family
Austen, Jane - Pride and Prejudice
Baldwin, James - Go Tell It on the Mountain
Beckett, Samuel - Waiting for Godot
Bellow, Saul - The Adventures of Augie March
Brontë, Charlotte - Jane Eyre
Brontë, Emily - Wuthering Heights
Camus, Albert - The Stranger
Cather, Willa - Death Comes for the Archbishop
Chaucer, Geoffrey - The Canterbury Tales [Well, large chunks of them, anyway, and some in the original...]
Chekhov, Anton - The Cherry Orchard [Haven't read it, but I saw the play.]
Chopin, Kate - The Awakening
Conrad, Joseph - Heart of Darkness
Cooper, James Fenimore - The Last of the Mohicans
Crane, Stephen - The Red Badge of Courage
Dante - Inferno
de Cervantes, Miguel - Don Quixote
Defoe, Daniel - Robinson Crusoe
Dickens, Charles - A Tale of Two Cities
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - Crime and Punishment
Douglass, Frederick - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Dreiser, Theodore - An American Tragedy
Dumas, Alexandre - The Three Musketeers
Eliot, George - The Mill on the Floss
Ellison, Ralph - Invisible Man
Emerson, Ralph Waldo - Selected Essays
Faulkner, William - As I Lay Dying
Faulkner, William - The Sound and the Fury
Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Great Gatsby
Flaubert, Gustave - Madame Bovary
Ford, Ford Madox - The Good Soldier
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von - Faust
Golding, William - Lord of the Flies
Hardy, Thomas - Tess of the d'Urbervilles
*Hawthorne, Nathaniel - The Scarlet Letter
Heller, Joseph - Catch-22
Hemingway, Ernest - A Farewell to Arms
Homer - The Iliad
Homer - The Odyssey [I've read extracts from both, but never sat down to read the whole thing start to finish.]
*Hugo, Victor - The Hunchback of Notre Dame [Les Miserables]
Hurston, Zora Neale - Their Eyes Were Watching God
Huxley, Aldous - Brave New World
*Ibsen, Henrik - A Doll's House [I've read several of his plays, and one of them might have been ADH - but I can't remember...]
*James, Henry - The Portrait of a Lady
*James, Henry - The Turn of the Screw [What Maisie Knew]
Joyce, James - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Kafka, Franz - The Metamorphosis
Kingston, Maxine Hong - The Woman Warrior
Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird
Lewis, Sinclair - Babbitt
London, Jack - The Call of the Wild
Mann, Thomas - The Magic Mountain
*Marquez, Gabriel García - One Hundred Years of Solitude
Melville, Herman - Bartleby the Scrivener
Melville, Herman - Moby Dick
*Miller, Arthur - The Crucible [Death of a Salesman, All My Sons]
Morrison, Toni - Beloved

Re: A-M

[larryhammer]

?? What by the author of Beowulf have you read?

---L.

Re: A-M

[eileenlufkin.livejournal.com]

"that chap Anon's been writing some perfectly lovely stuff, but no-body seems to know who his agent is."

N-Z

[yonmei.livejournal.com]

O'Connor, Flannery - A Good Man is Hard to Find
O'Neill, Eugene - Long Day's Journey into Night
Orwell, George - Animal Farm
Pasternak, Boris - Doctor Zhivago
Plath, Sylvia - The Bell Jar
Poe, Edgar Allan - Selected Tales
Proust, Marcel - Swann's Way
Pynchon, Thomas - The Crying of Lot 49
Remarque, Erich Maria - All Quiet on the Western Front
Rostand, Edmond - Cyrano de Bergerac
Roth, Henry - Call It Sleep
Salinger, J.D. - The Catcher in the Rye
Shakespeare, William - Hamlet
Shakespeare, William - Macbeth
Shakespeare, William - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Shakespeare, William - Romeo and Juliet
Shaw, George Bernard - Pygmalion
Shelley, Mary - Frankenstein
Silko, Leslie Marmon - Ceremony
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Sophocles - Antigone
Sophocles - Oedipus Rex
Steinbeck, John - The Grapes of Wrath
Stevenson, Robert Louis - Treasure Island
Stowe, Harriet Beecher - Uncle Tom's Cabin
Swift, Jonathan - Gulliver's Travels
Thackeray, William - Vanity Fair
Thoreau, Henry David - Walden
Tolstoy, Leo - War and Peace
Twain, Mark - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Voltaire - Candide
*Vonnegut, Kurt Jr. - Harrison Bergeron
Walker, Alice - The Color Purple
Wharton, Edith - The House of Mirth
Welty, Eudora - Collected Stories
*Whitman, Walt - Leaves of Grass [I've read a lot of Walt Whitman's poetry, but don't think I've read this one]
Wilde, Oscar - The Picture of Dorian Gray
Williams, Tennessee - The Glass Menagerie
*Woolf, Virginia - To the Lighthouse [Mrs Dalloway, Flush, Orlando, A Room Of One's Own, Three Guineas, and all her surviving letters to Vita Sackville-West]
Wright, Richard - Native Son