Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Literature

I thought it would be interesting to make a list of the books I've read which I consider fine literature. So here goes, in no particular order:

  1. Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist
  2. Charles Dickens: David Copperfield
  3. George Eliot: The Mill on the Floss
  4. J.M. Barrie: Peter Pan
  5. Roald Dahl: Matilda
  6. Roald Dahl: The BFG
  7. Lewis Carroll: Alice in Wonderland
  8. Ted Andrews: Animal-Speak
  9. Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre
  10. Jane Austin: Emma
  11. Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights
  12. Milan Kundera: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
  13. Milan Kundera: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
  14. W. G. Sebald: Austerlitz
  15. Phyllis Rose: Parallel Lives
  16. John Krakauer: Into the Wild
  17. John Krakauer: Into Thin Air
  18. Italo Calvino: The Non Existent Night and the Cloven Viscount
  19. Italo Calvino: The Baron in the Trees
  20. Thomas Carlyle: Sartor Resartus
  21. Voltaire: Candide
  22. Spinoza: Ethics
  23. Aristotle: Nichomacean Ethics
  24. Rita Golden Gelman: Tales of a Female Nomad
  25. Franz Kafka: Metamorphosis
  26. Arundhati Roy: The God of Small Things
  27. Janet Fitch: White Oleander
  28. Aron Ralston: Between a Rock and a Hard Place
  29. Yann Martel: Life of Pi
  30. Barry Lopez: Giving Birth to Thunder, Sleeping with his Daughter
  31. Arthur Golden: Memoirs of a Geisha
  32. Chuck Palahniuk: Fight Club
  33. Emily Yoffe: What the Dog Did
  34. Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo: He's Just Not That Into You
  35. Ian Kerner: Be Honest-You're Just Not That Into Him Either
  36. Plato: The Republic
  37. Viktor Frankl: Man's Search for Meaning
  38. Elie Weissel: Night
  39. Anne Frank: The Diary of Anne Frank
  40. Laura Ingalls Wilder: On The Shores of Silver Lake
  41. Laura Ingalls Wilder: Little House in the Big Woods
  42. Mary Higgins Clark: The Hand That Rocks The Cradle
  43. Mary Higgins Clark: Loves Music Loves to Dance
  44. Flannery O'Connor: A Good Man is Hard to Find
  45. Maya Angelou: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
  46. Louise Hay: You Can Heal Your Life
  47. Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird
  48. Ken Kesey: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  49. J. R. Tolkien: The Hobbit
  50. Henry James: Daisy Miller
  51. Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays
  52. Henry David Thoreau: Walden
  53. Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary
  54. Scott O'Dell: Island of the Blue Dolphins
  55. Gary Paulsen: Hatchet
  56. Wilson Rawls: Summer of the Monkeys

3 comments:

  1. wow! that's a lot of books! :)
    how are you doing? do you check out my blog every once in awhile? feel free to show me love! I love you Liesl!

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  2. I am very happy to see Candide on the list! "We must cultivate our garden."

    :-)

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  3. Hey, we miss your posts! Post a blog silly! :)

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