read all the classics

Well, my first goal on the site. I’ve always heard that classics must be read, and I’ve always avoided them like the plague. I’ve read a few, and some even interested me, so I figured this might be a good thing to get out of the way, and it ought to help with my current job at a bookstore. =] I can complete this fairly easily, I think, since I’m working from the list of Popular Penguin Classics and I read very quickly. <3

Starting with Breakfast At Tiffany’s, I guess. It sounds like a good start. <3 If we have that in stock. And then just pick them up either as I buy them cheap or find them on the shelf at home.

I don’t believe the Koran or Perks Of Being A Wallflower are on the list, but I shall read them too. And Slaughterhouse Five – and now I’m copying someone else’s reading list. <.<;;

Soon to be the complete list, as a reminder:
1. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
2. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
3. The Age of Reason – Jean-Paul Sartre
4. And The Ass Saw The Angel – Nick Cave
5. The Art of War – Sun Tzu
6. The Beach – Alex Garland
7. The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler
8. The Bodysurfers – Robert Drewe
9. Breakfast At Tiffany’s – Truman Capote
10. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
11. Cannery Row – John Steinbeck
12. Casino Royale – Ian Fleming
13. Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut
14. The Chimney Sweeper’s Boy – Barbara Vine
15. The Chrysalids – John Wyndham
16. The Classical World – Robin Lane Fox
17. Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
18. Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
19. A Confederacy Of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
20. Congo Journey – Redmond O’Hanlon
21. The Consolations Of Philosophy – Alain De Botton
22. Crimes Against Humanity – Geoffrey Robertson
23. Dark Star Safari – Paul Theroux
24. Delta Of Venus – Anais Nin
25. Dracula – Bram Stoker
26. Empire: How Britain Made The Modern World – Niall Ferguson
27. Eva Luna – Isabel Allende
28. Everything Is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer
29. The Fabric Of The Cosmos – Brian Greene
30. Farewell My Lovely – Raymond Chandler
31. Fever Pitch – Nick Hornby
32. For The Term Of His Natural Life – Marcus Clarke
33. Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
34. The Getting Of Wisdom – Henry Handel Richardson
35. Going Solo – Roald Dahl
36. Goodbye To All That – Robert Graves
37. The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
38. A Handful Of Dust – Evelyn Waugh
39. The Harp In The South – Ruth Park
40. The Haunted Hotel – Collins Wilkie
41. Hell’s Angels – Hunter S Thompson
42. High Fidelity – Nick Hornby
43. The History Of Sexuality: Volume 1 – Michel Foucault
44. Holding The Man – Timothy Conigrave
45. How I Live Now – Meg Rosoff
46. How Language Works – David Crystal
47. In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
48. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
49. Journey From Venice – Ruth Cracknall
50. Junky – William S Burroughs
51. Kingdom Of Fear – Hunter S Thompson
52. Lady Chatterly’s Lover – D H Lawrence
53. The Language Instinct – Steven Pinker
54. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
55. Love In A Cold Climate – Nancy Mitford
56. Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
57. The Lucky Country – Donald Horne
58. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
59. The Mayor Of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy
60. The Merry-Go-Round In The Sea – Randolph Stow

I will start with the novel bourne ultimatum which is given to me by my mousaji.. it also has movie on it..
next target is nrn’s book “better india better world”

This is a life long goal because I know it will take forever for me to get to reading them. I’m keeping a list of the ones I’ve already read though, and it’s more than one hundred so I can say that I’m proud.

Finished about three weeks ago…..LOVED IT!! Can’t really say too much about it bc i don’t want to spoil it for anyone out there. Just beautifully written…now i’m onto Mansfield Park. I’m halfway through it, but i need to set it down to finish my Master’s, then i’ll pick it back up again…but it’s hard to put a good book down, so chances are I’ll finish it before I graduate. LOL.

Made quite a dent in the Austen’s and Dickens’ however Bronte is still collecting dust on the shelf.

I have actually been working on this for quite a while and I know it will be impossible to read them all, but I’ll try to get in as many as I can!

Reading is good – I bet many people have told you this.It is indeed.I love reading.It’s a whole other world..I love the way people write..their styles.So,classics – yeah the classic are indeed classics.They are a must.So I want to read as more as possible.
I started making a list of the books I’ve read but it turned out to be a long and kind of boring so I’ll tell you my favourite which I reccomend to everyone.
‘Crime and Punishment’ – by Dostoevski It is really a must.
‘Brothers Karamazovi’ – well I love Dostoevski…He’s by far the best author …
‘Anna Karenina’ – pretty nice story..
‘Le pere Goriot’ by Balzac /’La Comedie Humaine’/ – really enchanting style Balzac has.
‘Don Quixote’,’The Count of Monte Cristo’
‘Under the Yoke’- by the bulgarian author Ivan Vazov-it’s the best novel about pride and bravery,brother’s love/I don’t mean brothers by blood but by country/,just grateness..a nation under yoke…I recommend it to everyone..it’s really a must..
‘Master and Margarita’ by Bulgakov…amazing book..
‘Les Miserables’Victor Hugo one of my first ever read books..
Also ‘Stranger’ by Camus is a pretty nice book and ‘The myth of Sisyphus’
I intend to read ‘Pride and Prejudice’ it seems pretty cool..

Just finished this book. It was awesome. The characters were well developed. Jane likes the word “propriety”. lol. I’m on a Jane Austen kick now and my current book is Pride and Prejudice. I think i’m going to read all of Jane’s books. I think with her books, it’s best to read them in a row, bc the style of her writing takes a few chapters to get used to and while my mind has adjusted to her mid-1800’s prose i’m going to finish all her books. :-) After P&P, i think i’ll do Persuasion.

I just finished this book. I read bits and peices of it while in high school(a long time ago), and always intended to read the whole book in its entirety and this time, I did! After I originally set the goal, I had to wait to finish my graduate studies for the spring and summer semesters, but I did it- And I LOVED IT!!! I couldn’t put the book down for the last hundred or so pages and sat up until 3 in the morning to finish it. Such a good book!! No wonder it’s a classic!! I wish Emily Bronte had lived long enough to write another book after this one. She acurately describes the people and places in such thorough detail that you feel that you are there with the characters experiencing what they are going through and wondering what will happen next!! Amazing! Anyways, I guess the next book in my list will be something by Jane Austen.
So, yeah, i highly recommend this book!

I always think about all the classic novels I want to read because there referenced in almost all literary works. I’m starting as soon as I can get to a library.