blusmith

i am blessed by my two best friends…when then heard i was headed to volunteer in africa for six months they chipped in to buy me the most meaningful gift they could think of, a 30G ipod. my life is a movie, and as all good movies need good soundtracks, my buds made certain that i would be able to explore africa rockin’ out to my collection. everyone needs friends like this.

wow i’ve been working on this list for about four years now. all my friends know it as my “before 30 book list.” i’m glad i can finally share this with ppl who understand what it’s all about.

my updated list
current read: faust (goethe)
recently finished: medea (euripides)
up next: metamorphoses (ovid)

completed:

Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
Hans Christian Andersen, Fairy Tales and Stories
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Honore de Balzac, Old Goriot
Samuel Beckett, Trilogy: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable
Emily Bronte , Wuthering Heights
Albert Camus, The Stranger
Paul Celan, Poems.
Geoffrey Chaucer , Canterbury Tales
Joseph Conrad , Nostromo
Dante Alighieri , The Divine Comedy
Charles Dickens , Great Expectations
Fyodor M Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment; The Idiot; The Possessed; The Brothers Karamazov
George Eliot, Middlemarch
Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
Euripides , Medea
William Faulkner , Absalom, Absalom; The Sound and the Fury
Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary; A Sentimental Education
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude; Love in the Time of Cholera
Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls
Knut Hamsun, Hunger.
Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
Homer, The Iliad and The Odyssey
Henrik Ibsen, A Doll’s House
The Book of Job
James Joyce, Ulysses
Franz Kafka, The Complete Stories; The Trial; The Castle Bohemia
Yasunari Kawabata, The Sound of the Mountain
Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek
DH Lawrence , Sons and Lovers
Astrid Lindgren, Pippi Longstocking
Herman Melville, Moby Dick
Elsa Morante, History
Toni Morrison, Beloved
Shikibu Murasaki, The Tale of Genji Genji
Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
George Orwell, 1984
Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete Tales
Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children
William Shakespeare , Hamlet; King Lear; Othello
Sophocles, Oedipus the King
Stendhal, The Red and the Black
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels
Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace; Anna Karenina; The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway; To the Lighthouse