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34 read in the past, 77 to go. 1 month ago

Achebe, Chinua – Things Fall Apart
Austen, Jane – Pride and Prejudice
Brontë, Emily – Wuthering Heights
Chaucer, Geoffrey – The Canterbury Tales
Dickens, Charles – A Tale of Two Cities
Fitzgerald, F. Scott – The Great Gatsby
Flaubert, Gustave – Madame Bovary
Golding, William – Lord of the Flies
Hawthorne, Nathaniel – The Scarlet Letter
Homer – The Iliad
Homer – The Odyssey
Hugo, Victor – The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hurston, Zora Neale – Their Eyes Were Watching God
Huxley, Aldous – Brave New World
Lee, Harper – To Kill a Mockingbird
London, Jack – The Call of the Wild
Morrison, Toni – Beloved
Orwell, George – Animal Farm
Plath, Sylvia – The Bell Jar
Salinger, J.D. – The Catcher in the Rye
Shakespeare, William – Hamlet
Shakespeare, William – Macbeth
Shakespeare, William – A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Shakespeare, William – Romeo and Juliet
Shelley, Mary – Frankenstein
Sophocles – Antigone
Sophocles – Oedipus Rex
Swift, Jonathan – Gulliver’s Travels
Twain, Mark – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Voltaire – Candide
Walker, Alice – The Color Purple
Whitman, Walt – Leaves of Grass
Williams, Tennessee – The Glass Menagerie



me reading....? 3 months ago

wow i can’t believe i am about to attempt this. wish me luck:)



Untitled 6 months ago

im gonna try!



12 down so far 18 months ago

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Achebe, Chinua – Things Fall Apart
Agee, James – A Death in the Family

Austen, Jane – Pride and Prejudice
Baldwin, James – Go Tell It on the Mountain
Beckett, Samuel – Waiting for Godot
Bellow, Saul – The Adventures of Augie March

Brontë, Charlotte – Jane Eyre

Brontë, Emily – Wuthering Heights
Camus, Albert – The Stranger
Cather, Willa – Death Comes for the Archbishop
Chaucer, Geoffrey – The Canterbury Tales
Chekhov, Anton – The Cherry Orchard
Chopin, Kate – The Awakening
Conrad, Joseph – Heart of Darkness
Cooper, James Fenimore – The Last of the MohicansCrane, Stephen – The Red Badge of Courage
Dante – Inferno
de Cervantes, Migue – Don Quixote
Defoe, Daniel – Robinson Crusoe
Dickens, Charles – A Tale of Two Cities
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor – Crime and Punishment
Douglass, Frederick – Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Dreiser, Theodore – An American Tragedy
Dumas, Alexandre – The Three Musketeers
Eliot, George – The Mill on the Floss
Ellison, Ralph – Invisible Man
Emerson, Ralph Waldo – Selected Essays
Faulkner, William – As I Lay Dying
Faulkner, William – The Sound and the Fury
Fielding, Henry – Tom Jones
(Fitzgerald, F. Scott – The Great Gatsby)
Flaubert, Gustave – Madame Bovary
Ford, Ford Madox – The Good Soldier
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von – Faust
Golding, William – Lord of the Flies
Hardy, Thomas – Tess of the d’Urbervilles
Hawthorne, Nathaniel – The Scarlet Letter
(Heller, Joseph – Catch 22)
Hemingway, Ernest – A Farewell to Arms
Homer – The IliadHomer – The Odyssey
Hugo, Victor – The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hurston, Zora Neale – Their Eyes Were Watching God
(Huxley, Aldous – Brave New World)
Ibsen, Henrik – A Doll’s House
James, Henry – The Portrait of a Lady
James, Henry – The Turn of the Screw
Joyce, James – A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
(Kafka, Franz – The Metamorphosis)
Kingston, Maxine Hong – The Woman Warrior
(Lee, Harper – To Kill a Mockingbird)
Lewis, Sinclair – Babbitt
London, Jack – The Call of the Wild
Mann, Thomas – The Magic Mountain
Marquez, Gabriel García – One Hundred Years of Solitude
Melville, Herman – Bartleby the Scrivener
(Melville, Herman – Moby Dick)
Miller, Arthur – The Crucible
Morrison, Toni – Beloved
O’Connor, Flannery – A Good Man is Hard to Find
O’Neill, Eugene – Long Day’s Journey into Night
(Orwell, George – Animal Farm)
(Pasternak, Boris – Doctor Zhivago)
Plath, Sylvia – The Bell Jar
Poe, Edgar Allan – Selected Tales
Proust, Marcel – Swann’s Way
Pynchon, Thomas – The Crying of Lot 49
Remarque, Erich Maria – All Quiet on the Western Front
Rostand, Edmond – Cyrano de Bergerac
Roth, Henry – Call It Sleep
(Salinger, J.D. – The Catcher in the Rye)
(Shakespeare, William – Hamlet)
Shakespeare, William – Macbeth
Shakespeare, William – A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Shakespeare, William – Romeo and Juliet
Shaw, George Bernard – Pygmalion
Shelley, Mary – Frankenstein
Silko, Leslie Marmon – Ceremony
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander – One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Sophocles – Antigone
Sophocles – Oedipus Rex
Steinbeck, John – The Grapes of Wrath
Stevenson, Robert Louis – Treasure Island
Stowe, Harriet Beecher – Uncle Tom’s CabinSwift, Jonathan – Gulliver’s Travels
Thackeray, William – Vanity Fair
Thoreau, Henry David – Walden
Tolstoy, Leo – War and Peace
Turgenev, Ivan – Fathers and Sons
Twain, Mark – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Voltaire – Candide
(Vonnegut, Kurt Jr. – Slaughterhouse-Five)
Walker, Alice – The Color Purple
Wharton, Edith – The House of Mirth
Welty, Eudora – Collected Stories
Whitman, Walt – Leaves of Grass
(Wilde, Oscar – The Picture of Dorian Gray)
Williams, Tennessee – The Glass Menagerie
Woolf, Virginia – To the Lighthouse
Wright, Richard – Native Son



Wew! 19 months ago

I can’t believe I’m trying this! Wish me luck.



Untitled 22 months ago

Canturbury Tales by Chaucer
and Inferno by Dante.

27 down 74 left to go.



books, books, books, 23 months ago

I am up to 25 novels of the 101. Thats like 25% (obviously) so now i feel good, but i really would love to make it to eighty.



Requires thought 2 years ago

Lord of the Flies William Golding

finished



22 out of 101 2 years ago

The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald.
Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare
Pygmalion George Bernard Shaw

Not bad for steady slow progress. 3 in three months. need to pick up the pace a bit. I’m starting (hopefully) college in the fall!



One more done, 82 to go... 3 years ago

A Tale Of Two cities -Charles Dickens

done done done!

I enjoyed it so much more that i thought it would, it gave me some great quotes and the ending is wonderful.



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