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

Just finished reading The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway.

...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. :(

Just read The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Coleridge which went fast as it is a short story sized narrative poem. I also realized that I also forgot to list Gulliver’s Travels in the entry of the books that I read before starting this goal like I did on List of Bests so now the numbers match up of 27 books read and 1 book attempted but found not to be worth reading.

Just finished Silas Marner and had previously read and forgot to record Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey when they were read earlier.

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.”

I finished reading Treasure Island a few days ago and will be starting to read Silas Marner next. Although more likely than not it is not a book that I will be starting to read right away from a few other more important things that I want to get in first.

I finished Tom Sawyer yesterday.

That brings my count up to 26 books read.

I’ve also started “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”.

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 (I read it in French…bonus points?)
26. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
27. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte28. 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

14 done…...29 to go!!! I’m currently reading Silas Marner (it’s a short one)

I finished reading The Republic by Plato yesterday and today I started reading Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson.

My new total is 21 books read and 1 book attempted but found not to be worth reading.

I have read a few they are the ones crossed out .

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