read more classic books

I’m trying to make a dent in this list. The ones I’ve read so far have a Y next to them

1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen …
2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien… Y
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte …
4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling …
5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee…
6 The Bible…
7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte…
8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell… Y
9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman …
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens…
11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott…
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy…
13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller …
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare…
15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier …
16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien … Y
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks…
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger…Y
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger… Y
20 Middlemarch – George Eliot …
21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell…
22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald…
23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens…
24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy…
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams…
26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh…
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky…
28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck…
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll… Y
30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame… Y
31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy…
32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens…
33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis… Y
34 Emma – Jane Austen…
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen…
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis… Y
37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini… Y
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres… Y
39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden… Y
40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne… Y
41 Animal Farm – George Orwell… Y
42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown… Y
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez…
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving…
45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins… currently reading
46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery…
47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy…
48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood…
49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding… Y
50 Atonement – Ian McEwan…
51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel…
52 Dune – Frank Herbert…
53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons…
54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen…
55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth…
56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon… Y
57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens…
58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley… Y
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night – Mark Haddon… Y
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez… Y
61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck…
62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov…
63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt…
64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold… Y
65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas…
66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac…
67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy…
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding… Y
69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie…
70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville…
71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens…
72 Dracula – Bram Stoker… Y
73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett… Y
74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson…
75 Ulysses – James Joyce…
76 The Inferno – Dante…
77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome…
78 Germinal – Emile Zola…
79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray…
80 Possession – AS Byatt…
81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens…
82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell…
83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker… Y
84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro…
85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert…
86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry…
87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White…
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom… Y
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle…
90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton… Y
91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad…
92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery…
93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks… Y
94 Watership Down – Richard Adams… Y
95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole…
96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute…
97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas…
98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare…
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl… Y
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo…
101 Perfume – Patrick Suskind …Y

32 isn’t a bad start

1. 20,000 leagues under the seas – Jules Verne
2. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
3. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
4. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
5. Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne
6. Beowulf – Anonymous
7. Beyond Good and Evil – Friedrich Nietzsche
8. Candide – Voltaire
9. Carmilla – Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
10. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
11. Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes
12. Dracula – Bram Stokers
13. Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
14. Emma – Jane Austen
15. Grimm’s Fairy Tales – Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
16. Gulliver’s Travels –Jonathan Swift
17. Hamlet – William Shakespeare
18. Hard Times – Charles Dickens
19. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
20. King Solomon’s Mines – Henry Rider Haggard
21. Moby-Dick – Herman Melville
22. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
23. Paradise Lost – John Milton
24. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
25. Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
26. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
27. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
28. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Arthur Conan Doyle
29. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain
30. The Art of War – Sun Tzu
31. The Brothers Karamasov – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
32. The Call of Cthulhu – H.P. Lovecraft
33. The Call of the Wild – Jack London
34. The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
35. The Divine Comedy – Dante
36. The Hound of Baskervilles – Arthur Conan Doyle
37. The Iliad – Homer
38. The Jungle Book – Rudyard Kipling
39. The Lost Continent – C.J. Cutcliffe Hyne
40. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
41. The Prince – Niccolo Machiavelli
42. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
43. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
44. The Vicar of Wakefield – Oliver Goldsmith
45. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz – Frank Baum
46. The Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
47. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
48. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
49. White Fang – Jack London
50. Wuthering Heights – Charlotte Bronte

I got the DS game 100 Classic Book Collection so that’s going to help me complete this goal.
I’m hoping to read
Pride & Prejudice
Sense & Sensibility
Black Beauty (again, I love it)
The Picture of Dorian Grey
Little Women (again)
Mansfield Park
Emma
Wuthering Heights
Romeo & Juliet
Jane Eyre
Northanger Abbey
Persuasion
What Katy Did

Recently finished: Siddhartha, The Good Earth,

So I’m crossing it off my list. Since I never made it a “concrete” goal, I think it is time for it to come off.

So many more to read, so maybe I’ll come up with a concrete list one of these days!

To Kill a Mockingbird
Catcher in the Rye
Pride and Prejudice
Of mice and men.
Black like me
Flowers for Algernon
Emma
Roll of thunder, hear my cry
Scarlett letter
A tree grows in Brooklyn
War and Peace
Red badge of courage
The grapes of wrath

These are just of few on my “wish list to read”. Some I have read in middle and high school but I guess I really didn’t appreciate them, for I have forgotten the story. :(

I’m in…

...and with sooo much cool media to consume, I just can’t.

i finally got these in the mail! :) hopefully i can read one of these rather than my dang CPA book while on my way to new york :)

my short list of what i can remember and what i have voluntarily read in the past few years (excluding modern books):

Picture of dorian gray
Catcher in the rye
Animal Farm
1984 – not finished though :\
Of Mice and Men
Grapes of Wrath
Plato’s Republic

need to read:
Siddhartha
Madame Bovary
Pride and Prejudice
Aesop’s Fables
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass
The Odyssey
Jane Eyre
Don Quixote
Odyssey

this website has changed my life. I am very easily distracted, and it’s really hard for me to concentrate on something I’m reading unless it’s absolutely fascinating. And unfortunately, most classics have long sections of boring-ness that cause me to lose interest. But if I can listen to someone else reading and knit at the same time…

I finished three books in a week by listening to them on my mp3 player whenever I had a spare moment. And it’s free.