...back when I finished reading Silas Marner. That brings my count up to 28 books read.
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Now I’m attempting to read the Iliad. Three months into it I’m still on Chapter 2. :(
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I forgot to update this goal...
2 months ago
More progress...
6 months ago
I finished Huckleberry Finn yesterday. :)
That brings my count up to 27 books read.
I think I’ll join Celtic_Christian and read “Silas Marner” next. It’s available online here, and I hope it’s also available in the local library. Wikipedia describes it as “a tale of familial love and loyalty, reward and punishment, and humble friendships.”
Progress...
7 months ago
I finished Tom Sawyer yesterday.
That brings my count up to 26 books read.
I’ve also started “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”.
with the books that I’ve read shown in bold:
- The Iliad – Homer
- The Odyssey – Homer
- The Aeneid – Virgil
- Beowulf – Unknown
- The Divine Comedy – Dante Alighieri
- The Travels of Marco Polo – Marco Polo
- The Canterbury Tales – Geoffrey Chaucer
- Don Quixote – Cervantes
- Paradise Lost – John Milton
- The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan
- Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
- Moll Flanders – Daniel Defoe
- Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
- Tom Jones – Henry Fielding
- Candide – Voltaire
- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- The Tragedy of Faust – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
- The Lady of the Lake – Sir Walter Scott
- Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott
- Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
- Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
- The Red and the Black – Stendahl
- The Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper
- The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
- Carmen – Prosper Merimee
- Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
- Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
- Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
- David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
- A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
- Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
- The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Camille – Alexandre Dumas
- Moby Dick – Herman Melville
- Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
- Idylls of the King – Alfred Lord Tennyson
- Silas Marner – George Eliot
- Middlemarch – George Eliot
- Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
- Fathers and Sons – Ivan Turgenev
- Crime and Punishment – Feodor Dostoyevsky
- The Brothers Karamazov – Feodor Dostoyevsky
- Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
- Far From the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain
- The Prince and the Pauper – Mark Twain
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court – Mark Twain
- Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
- War and Peace – Leo Tolstory
- The Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy
- Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
- The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James
- The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
- Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
- The Time Machine – H. G. Wells
- Dracula – Bram Stoker
- The Way of All Flesh – Samuel Butler
- Call of the Wild – Jack London
- Babbitt – Sinclair Lewis
- An American Tragedy – Theodore Dreiser
- The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
- A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
- For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
- The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
- The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett
- Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
- The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
- To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
- The Republic – Plato
- The Prince – Machiavelli
- The Social Contract – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- The Wealth of Nations – Adam Smith
- The Origin of Species – Charles Darwin
- Das Kapital – Karl Marx
- The Decline of the West – Oswald Spengler
- Prometheus Bound – Aeschylus
- Oedipus Rex – Sophocles
- The Taming of the Shrew – William Shakespeare
- Hamlet – William Shakespeare
- Othello – William Shakespeare
- Macbeth – William Shakespeare
- The Tempest – William Shakespeare
- Tartuffe – Moliere
- Peer Gynt – Henrik Ibsen
- A Doll’s House – Henrik Ibsen
- The Importance of Being Earnest – Oscar Wilde
- Cyrano de Bergerac – Edmond Rostand
- The Cherry Orchard – Anton Chekhov
- Our Town – Thornton Wilder
- Death of a Salesman – Arthur Miller
- The Nicomachean Ethics – Aristotle
- Meditations – Rene Descartes
- The Critique of Pure Reason – Immanuel Kant
- The World as Will and Idea – Arthur Schopenhauer
- Nature – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Self-Reliance – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Walden – Henry David Thoreau
- How We Think – John Dewey
My count as of 4/3/09 is 25 books read.
I actually read Don Quixote in high school, but I didn’t absorb very much of it, and my heart wasn’t in it at the time, so I didn’t count it. I’ve started but never really finished a few others. Also, I’ve seen some of the movie and/or play versions of some of these so often that it feels like I’ve read them.EDIT 4/10/09 because of a misplaced asterisk it looked like my count was 27 but when I corrected that the count went down to 25.
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