So there I was, reading "The Taming of the Shrew", when I looked in the very back of the book and found a list of classic literature. It got me thinking about how few people ever read as much classic literature as they can in their lives. So I decided I would try it myself. My intention is to get through all of these classic works and report about them here. So here we go, page one...

Sunday, February 14, 2010

The List

So here I have THE LIST of all 170 works that I intend to read.  I've crossed out the books I've already read, but I will report on them later.


  1. 1984
  2. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  3. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
  4. The Aeneid
  5. All Quiet on the Western Front
  6. And Then There Were None
  7. Angela’s Ashes
  8. Animal Farm
  9. Anna Karenina
  10. Anne of Green Gables
  11. Anthem
  12. Antony and Cleopatra
  13. Aristotle’s Ethics
  14. As I lay Dying
  15. As You Like It
  16. Atlas Shrugged
  17. The Autobiography of Malcolm X
  18. The Awakening
  19. The Bean Trees
  20. The Bell Jar
  21. Beloved
  22. Beowulf
  23. Billy Budd
  24. Black Boy
  25. Bless Me, Ultima
  26. The Bluest Eye
  27. Brave New World
  28. The Brothers Karamazou
  29. The Call of the Wild
  30. Candide
  31. The Cantebury Tales
  32. Catch-22
  33. The Catcher in the Rye
  34. The Chocolate War
  35. The Chosen
  36. Cold Mountain
  37. Cold Sassy Tree
  38. The Color Purple
  39. The Count of Monte Cristo
  40. Crime and Punishment
  41. The Crucible
  42. Cry, the Beloved Country
  43. Cyrano de Bergerac
  44. David Copperfield
  45. Death of a Salesman
  46. The Death of Socrates
  47. The Diary of a Young Girl
  48. A Doll’s House
  49. Don Quixote
  50. Dr. Faustus
  51. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
  52. Dracula
  53. Dune
  54. East of Eden
  55. Edith Hamilton’s Mythology
  56. Emma
  57. Ethan Frome
  58. Fahrenheit 451
  59. Fallen Angels
  60. A Farewell to Arms
  61. Farewell Manzanar
  62. Flowers for Algernon
  63. For Whom the Bell Tolls
  64. The Fountainhead
  65. Frankenstein
  66. The Giver
  67. The Glass Menagerie
  68. Gone With the Wind
  69. The Good Earth
  70. The Grapes of Wrath
  71. Great Expectations
  72. The Great Gatsby
  73. Grendel
  74. Gulliver’s Travels
  75. Hamlet
  76. The Handmaid’s Tale
  77. Hard Times
  78. Heart of Darkness
  79. Henry IV, Part I
  80. Henry V
  81. Hiroshima
  82. The Hobbit
  83. The House of Seven Gables
  84. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
  85. The Iliad
  86. Inferno
  87. Inherit the Wind
  88. Invisible Man
  89. Jane Eyre
  90. Johnny Tremain
  91. The Joy Luck Club
  92. Julius Caesar
  93. The Jungle
  94. The Killer Angels
  95. King Lear
  96. The Last of the Mohicans
  97. Les Miserables
  98. A Lesson Before Dying
  99. The Little Prince
  100. Little Women
  101. Lord of the Flies
  102. The Lord of the Rings
  103. Macbeth
  104. Madame Bovary
  105. A Man for All Seasons
  106. The Mayor of Casterbridge
  107. The Merchant of Venice
  108. A Midsummer Night’s Dream
  109. Moby Dick
  110. Much Ado About Nothing
  111. My Antonia
  112. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
  113. Native Son
  114. Night
  115. Notes from Underground
  116. The Odyssey
  117. Oedipus the King
  118. Of Mice and Men
  119. The Old Men and the Sea
  120. Oliver Twist
  121. The Once and Future King
  122. One Day in the life of Ivan Denisovich
  123. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
  124. One Hundred Years of Solitude
  125. Othello
  126. Our Town
  127. The Outsiders
  128. Paradise Lost
  129. A Passage to India
  130. The Pearl
  131. The Picture of Dorian Gray
  132. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
  133. Pride and Prejudice
  134. The Prince
  135. Ragtime
  136. A Raisin in the Sun
  137. The Red Badge of Courage
  138. The Republic
  139. Richard III
  140. Robinson Crusoe
  141. Romeo and Juliet
  142. The Scarlet Letter
  143. A Separate Peace
  144. Silas Marner
  145. Sir Gowain and the Green Knight
  146. Slaughterhouse-Five
  147. Snow Falling on Cedars
  148. Song of Solomon
  149. The Sound of Fury
  150. Steppenwolf
  151. The Stranger
  152. Streetcar Named Desire
  153. The Sun Also Rises
  154. A Tale of Two Cities
  155. The Taming of the Shrew
  156. The Tempest
  157. Tess of the d’Ubervilles
  158. The Things They Carried
  159. Their Eyes Were Watching God
  160. Things Fall Apart
  161. To Kill a Mockingbird
  162. To the Lighthouse
  163. Treasure Island
  164. Twelfth Night
  165. Ulysses
  166. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
  167. Walden
  168. War and Peace
  169. Wuthering Heights
  170. A Yellow Raft in Blue Water
This is one BIG project. Wish me luck!

2 comments:

  1. Sweet idea! good luck with that man! any projected date for when it will be done?

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  2. Thanks! And no idea. I kinda don't want to set a date because I know I'll never make it, then it'll just be a disaster. Haha.

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