I’m Reading
The scholar only knows how dear these silent, yet eloquent, companions of pure thoughts and innocent hours become in the season of adversity. When all that is worldly turns to dross around us, these only retain their steady value. ~Washington Irving
I absolutely, positively adore reading.
Many times in my posts, and many, many more times in my life, much of what I say or do, what jokes and comments I make, and opinions I have are either directly from, or have been related to something I’ve read! I believe, like Oscar Wilde, that “It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it. ”
I finished my reading list for the Spring (and umm… deleted it… sorry!), but I discovered the Top 100 books of all time, and found out that I hadn’t read them all. So here’s my updated list! {Books I’ve read are crossed out}
Books to Read
Not all of these books are first-timers for me, several of them are worn and battered, but still need to be taken down and worn a bit more!
1984 by George OrwellA Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen
A Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert
Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainThe Aeneid by Virgil
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Doblin
Blindness by Jose Saramago
The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor M Dostoyevsky
Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey ChaucerThe Castle by Franz Kafka
Children of Gebelawi by Naguib Mahfouz
Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
Complete Poems by Giacomo Leopardi
The Complete Stories by Franz Kafka
The Complete Tales by Edgar Allan PoeConfessions of Zeno by Italo Svevo
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor M Dostoyevsky
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy
Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
The Devil to Pay in the Backlands by Joao Guimaraes Rosa
Diary of a Madman and Other Stories by Lu Xun
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraEssays by Michel de Montaigne
Fairy Tales and Stories by Hans Christian AndersenFaust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan SwiftGypsy Ballads by Federico Garcia Lorca
Hamlet by William ShakespeareHistory by Elsa Morante
Hunger by Knut Hamsun
The Idiot by Fyodor M Dostoyevsky
The Iliad by HomerIndependent People by Halldor K Laxness
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Jacques the Fatalist and His Master by Denis Diderot
Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
King Lear by William ShakespeareLeaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia MarquezMadame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil
The Mathnawi by Jalal ad-din Rumi
Medea by Euripides
Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar
Metamorphoses by Ovid
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
Moby-Dick by Herman MelvilleMrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Nostromo by Joseph Conrad
The Odyssey by Homer
Oedipus the King SophoclesOld Goriot by Honore de Balzac
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwayOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Orchard by Sheikh Musharrif ud-din Sadi
Othello by William ShakespeareJuan Rulfo by Pedro Paramo Juan Rulfo
Pippi Longstocking by Astrid LindgrenPoems by Paul Celan
The Possessed by Fyodor M Dostoyevsky
Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Ramayana by Valmiki
The Recognition of Sakuntala by Kalidasa
The Red and the Black by Stendhal
Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust
Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih
Selected Stories by Anton P Chekhov
Sons and Lovers by DH Lawrence
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
The Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari Kawabata
The Stranger by Albert Camus
The Tale of Genji by Shikibu Murasaki
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
The Trial by Franz Kafka
Trilogy: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett
Ulysses by James Joyce
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Wuthering Heights by Emily BrontëZorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis
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