101 great books to read

A friend who loves books directed me to this list tonight. It is called “101 Great Books Recommended for College-Bound Readers”. Some titles are also on the ‘100 books’ list I posted here in January.

Have you read any of these? I did even worse with this list than the other one, having read only four of these and parts of four others. (If I get bogged down I usually put the book away to pick up later – much later.)

TITLE                       AUTHOR
1. Beowulf   – —
2. Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
3. A Death in the Family – James Agee
4. Pride and Prejudice   – Jane Austen
5. Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin
6. Waiting for Godot – Samuel Beckett
7. The Adventures of Augie March – Saul Bellow
8. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
9. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
10. The Stranger – Albert Camus
11. Death Comes for the Archbishop – Willa Cather
12. The Canterbury Tales – Geoffrey Chaucer
13. The Cherry Orchard – Anton Chekhov
14. The Awakening – Kate Chopin
15. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
16. The Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper
17. The Red Badge of Courage – Stephen Crane
18. Inferno – Dante
19. Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes
20. Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
21. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
22. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
23. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass – Frederick Douglass
24. An American Tragedy – Theodore Dreiser
25. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
26. The Mill on the Floss – George Eliot
27. Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
28. Selected Essays – Ralph Waldo Emerson
29. As I Lay Dying – William Faulkner
30. The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
31. Tom Jones – Henry Fielding
32. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
33. Gustave – Madame Bovary Flaubert
34. The Good Soldier – Ford Madox Ford
35. Faust – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
36. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
37. Tess of the d’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
38. The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
39. Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
40. A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
41. The Iliad – Homer
42. The Odyssey – Homer
43. The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo
44. Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
45. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
46. A Doll’s House – Henrik Ibsen
47. The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James
48. The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
49. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
50. The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka
51. The Woman Warrior – Maxine Hong Kingston
52. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
53. Babbitt – Sinclair Lewis
54. The Call of the Wild – Jack London
55. The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann
56. One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel García Marquez
57. Bartleby the Scrivener – Herman Melville
58. Moby Dick – Herman Melville
59. The Crucible – Arthur Miller
60. Beloved – Toni Morrison
61. A Good Man is Hard to Find – Flannery O’Connor
62. Long Day’s Journey into Night – Eugene O’Neill
63. Animal Farm – George Orwell
64. Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak
65. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
66. Selected Tales – Edgar Allan Poe
67. Swann’s Way – Marcel Proust
68. The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon
69. All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
70. Cyrano de Bergerac – Edmond Rostand
71. Call It Sleep – Henry Roth
72. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
73. Hamlet – William Shakespeare
74. Macbeth – William Shakespeare
75. A Midsummer Night’s Dream – William Shakespeare
76. Romeo and Juliet – William Shakespeare
77. Pygmalion – George Bernard Shaw
78. Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
79. Ceremony – Leslie Marmon Silko
80. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Alexander Solzhenitsyn
81. Antigone – Sophocles
82. Oedipus Rex – Sophocles
83. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
84. Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
85. Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe
86. Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
87. Vanity Fair – William Thackeray
88. Walden – Henry David Thoreau
89. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
90. Fathers and Sons – Ivan Turgenev
91. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
92. Candide – Voltaire
93. Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Jr.Vonnegut
94. The Color Purple – Alice Walker
95. The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton
96. Collected Stories – Eudora Welty
97. Leaves of Grass – Walt Whitman
98. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
99. The Glass Menagerie – Tennessee Williams
100. To the Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
101. Native Son – Richard Wright