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1ahef1963
Edited: Sep 2, 2014, 2:19 am

My list.....have a lot of reading to do!

Bold-faced type indicates books I've particularly liked.

2ahef1963
Edited: Sep 2, 2014, 2:18 am

Pre-1700

Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
Aesop's Fables by Aesop

3ahef1963
Edited: Sep 2, 2014, 2:19 am

1700s

Justine by the Marquis de Sade
Humphrey Clinker by Tobias Smollett
Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
Candide by Voltaire
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
Clarissa by Samuel Richardson
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

4ahef1963
Edited: Sep 2, 2014, 2:20 am

1800s (Part 1)

The Awakening by Kate Chopin
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
She by H. Rider Haggard
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by R.L. Stevenson
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
Kidnapped by R.L. Stevenson
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Treasure Island by R.L. Stevenson
Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Through the Looking Glass and what Alice found there by Lewis Carroll
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

5ahef1963
Edited: Sep 2, 2014, 2:29 am

1800s (Part 2)

Silas Marner by George Eliot
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Adam Bede by George Eliot
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
Hard Times by Charles Dickens
Villette by Charlotte Bronte
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Jane Austen:
Emma
Mansfield Park
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
Sense and Sensibility
Pride and Prejudice

6ahef1963
Edited: Sep 2, 2014, 2:23 am

1900s (Part 1)

Disgrace - J.M. Coetzee
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
The Hours - Michael Cunningham
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres
The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood
The Crow Road by Iain Banks
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg
Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard
Possession by A.S. Byatt
Moon Palace by Paul Auster
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch

7ahef1963
Edited: Sep 2, 2014, 2:24 am

1900s (Part 2)

Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
The 39 Steps by John Buchan
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
Farewell my Lovely by Raymond Chandler
For Whom the Bell tolls by Ernest Hemingway
Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ulysses by James Joyce
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Nine Tailors by Dorothy L. Sayers
A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett
Nostromo by Joseph Conrad
Thank You, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
The Immoralist by Andre Gide
Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L. Sayers
Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Cakes and Ale by W. Somerset Maugham
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster

8ahef1963
Edited: Sep 2, 2014, 2:26 am

1900s (Part 3)

The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams
The Radiant Way by Margaret Drabble
The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Watchmen by Alan Moore
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Contact by Carl Sagan
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Perfume by Patrick Suskind
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
La Brava by Elmore Leonard
Life and Times of Michael K. by J.M. Coetzee
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
July's People by Nadine Gordimer
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Burger's Daughter by Nadine Gordimer
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
The Shining by Stephen King
Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
The Honorary Consul by Graham Greene
The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch
Surfacing by Margaret Atwood
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
Chocky by John Wyndham
The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
The Magus by John Fowles
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

9ahef1963
Edited: Sep 2, 2014, 2:27 am

1900s (Part 4)

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Once and Future King by T.H. White
The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham
The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
The Quiet American by Graham Greene
The Story of O by Pauline Reage
The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
Foundation by Isaac Asimov
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Third Man by Graham Greene
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
The Spy who came in from the Cold by John Le Carre
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Collector by John Fowles

10ahef1963
Edited: Sep 2, 2014, 2:27 am

2000s

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Saturday by Ian McEwan
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Elizabeth Costello by J.M. Coetzee
Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry
The Double by Jose Saramago
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

12ahef1963
Edited: Sep 2, 2014, 2:28 am

Left off the list accidentally:

1700s:

Fanny Hill by John Cleland

1800s:

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Bleak House by Charles Dickens

1900s:

The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
The Outsider by Albert Camus
Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence

13Simone2
Sep 2, 2014, 3:59 am

You have read a lot of them! You should number them, then you can participate in the 1001 Progress Index, which is fun!

14paruline
Sep 2, 2014, 6:22 am

Welcome!