I guess it’s not an English classic, but it’s one of the oldest, most famous novels in Chinese history. It’s not really great writing because I’m reading the English translation, but I’m still really enjoying the stories.
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Right now I’m reading Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. These are some other books that I plan on reading next:
1. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
2. Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne
3. One Thousand and One Arabian Nights
4. The War of the Worlds – H. G. Wells
5. Anne of Green Gables – L. M. Mongomery
6. A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
7. The Screwtape Letters – C. S. Lewis
8. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
9. Moby Dick – Herman Melville
10. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance – Robert Pirsig
11. The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins
12. 20 000 Leagues Under the Sea – Jules Verne
13. The Time Machine – H. G. Wells
14. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
15. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
16. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
17. Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne
18. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
19. The Lord of the Rings – J. R. R. Tolkien
20. 1984 – George Orwell
21. Gulliver’s Island – Swift
22. Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
23. Out of Africa – Isak Dinesen
Note: I make a correction on the list I wrote last entry. The Art of War is not a novel and doesn’t count.
I’ve read abut 30 classic novels already, I hope to finish it within the next four or five years. It wouldn’t be hard for me to finish it within just this next year but there are so many other books I want to read than old classic novels.
These are what I’ve read so far:
1. The Old Man and the Sea – Earnest Hemingway
2. Rascal – Sterling North
3. The Silver Chalice – Thomas B. Costain
4. The Chronicles of Narnia – C. S. Lewis
5. The Railway Children
6. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
7. The Hobbit – J. R. R. Tolkien
8. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
9. Les Miserable – Victor Hugo
10. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
11. The Call of the Wild – Jack London
12. The Chosen – Chaim Potok
13. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
14. Animal Farm – George Orwell
15. The Invisible Man – H. G. Wells
16. Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe
17. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain
18. Wives and Daughters – Elizabeth Gaskell
19. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
20. The Woman in White – William Wilkie Collins
21. On the Beach – Nevil Shute
22. Never Cry Wolf – Farley Mowat
23. Emma – Jane Austen
24. The Art of War – Sun Tse Tzu
25. Persuasion – Jane Austen
26. Treasure Island – Stevenson
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