New Isabella in Augusta is doing 39 things including…

read at least 43 of the World's 100 Greatest Books

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I forgot to update this goal... 2 months ago

...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. :(



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”.



My version of CC's list of the World's 100 Greatest Books... 8 months ago

with the books that I’ve read shown in bold:

  1. The Iliad – Homer
  2. The Odyssey – Homer
  3. The Aeneid – Virgil
  4. Beowulf – Unknown
  5. The Divine Comedy – Dante Alighieri
  6. The Travels of Marco Polo – Marco Polo
  7. The Canterbury Tales – Geoffrey Chaucer
  8. Don Quixote – Cervantes
  9. Paradise Lost – John Milton
  10. The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan
  11. Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
  12. Moll Flanders – Daniel Defoe
  13. Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
  14. Tom Jones – Henry Fielding
  15. Candide – Voltaire
  16. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  17. The Tragedy of Faust – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
  18. The Lady of the Lake – Sir Walter Scott
  19. Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott
  20. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
  21. Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
  22. The Red and the Black – Stendahl
  23. The Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper
  24. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
  25. Carmen – Prosper Merimee
  26. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
  27. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
  28. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
  29. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
  30. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
  31. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
  32. The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
  33. Camille – Alexandre Dumas
  34. Moby Dick – Herman Melville
  35. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
  36. Idylls of the King – Alfred Lord Tennyson
  37. Silas Marner – George Eliot
  38. Middlemarch – George Eliot
  39. Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
  40. Fathers and Sons – Ivan Turgenev
  41. Crime and Punishment – Feodor Dostoyevsky
  42. The Brothers Karamazov – Feodor Dostoyevsky
  43. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
  44. Far From the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
  45. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain
  46. The Prince and the Pauper – Mark Twain
  47. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
  48. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court – Mark Twain
  49. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
  50. War and Peace – Leo Tolstory
  51. The Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy
  52. Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
  53. The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James
  54. The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
  55. Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
  56. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
  57. The Time Machine – H. G. Wells
  58. Dracula – Bram Stoker
  59. The Way of All Flesh – Samuel Butler
  60. Call of the Wild – Jack London
  61. Babbitt – Sinclair Lewis
  62. An American Tragedy – Theodore Dreiser
  63. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
  64. A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
  65. For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
  66. The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
  67. The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett
  68. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
  69. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
  70. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
  71. The Republic – Plato
  72. The Prince – Machiavelli
  73. The Social Contract – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  74. The Wealth of Nations – Adam Smith
  75. The Origin of Species – Charles Darwin
  76. Das Kapital – Karl Marx
  77. The Decline of the West – Oswald Spengler
  78. Prometheus Bound – Aeschylus
  79. Oedipus Rex – Sophocles
  80. The Taming of the Shrew – William Shakespeare
  81. Hamlet – William Shakespeare
  82. Othello – William Shakespeare
  83. Macbeth – William Shakespeare
  84. The Tempest – William Shakespeare
  85. Tartuffe – Moliere
  86. Peer Gynt – Henrik Ibsen
  87. A Doll’s House – Henrik Ibsen
  88. The Importance of Being Earnest – Oscar Wilde
  89. Cyrano de Bergerac – Edmond Rostand
  90. The Cherry Orchard – Anton Chekhov
  91. Our Town – Thornton Wilder
  92. Death of a Salesman – Arthur Miller
  93. The Nicomachean Ethics – Aristotle
  94. Meditations – Rene Descartes
  95. The Critique of Pure Reason – Immanuel Kant
  96. The World as Will and Idea – Arthur Schopenhauer
  97. Nature – Ralph Waldo Emerson
  98. Self-Reliance – Ralph Waldo Emerson
  99. Walden – Henry David Thoreau
  100. 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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