I have a whole load of books that I have decided to read before I graduate, and so far this is it.
(As you can see, the ones I have finished I have given a “smiley” or “not-so-smiley” face emblem to rate what I thought of it.)
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The Bible – The Author of ALL THINGS (That’d be God, y’all…) -
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen – done -
Mansfield Park – Jane Austen- done -
Emma – Jane Austen- done -
Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen- done - Persuasion – Jane Austen
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Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen- done -
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy – J. J. R. Tolkien- done -
The Hobbit – J. J. R. Tolkien- done -
The Chronicles of Narnia series – C. S. Lewis- done -
The Scarlet Pimpernel – Baroness Emmuska Orczy (gotta love that name)- done - Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
- The Count odf Monte Cristo Alexander Dumas
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo
- North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell
- Wives and Daughters – Elizabeth Gaskell
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Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë- done - Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
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Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll (aka Charles Dodgson)- done -
Alice Through the Looking Glass – Lewis Carroll (aka Charles Dodgson)- done -
The Jungle Book – Rudyard Kipling- done - Kim – Rudyard Kipling
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To Kill a Mockingbird – (Nell) Harper Lee- done - Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
- Animal Farm – George Orwell
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Little Women – Louisa May Alcott- done -
Little Men – Louisa May Alcott- done -
Jo’s Boys – Louisa May Alcott- done -
Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens- done - Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
- Little Dorrit – Charles Dickens
- Nicholas Nickleby – Charles Dickens
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A Tale of Two Cites – Charles Dickens- done - :/ David Copperfield – Charles Dickens- done
- War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
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Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky (I’m working on it now) -
The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Graham- done -
Anne of Green Gables series – Lucy Maude Montgomery- done -
Emily of New Moon series – Lucy Maude Montgomery- done - :/ The Lord of the Flies – William Golding- done
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The Princess Bride – William Goldman- done -
The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett- done - Moby Dick – Herman Melville
- The Inferno – Dante Alighieri
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Charlotte’s Web – E. B. White- done -
The Trumpet of the Swan – E. B. White- done - The Complete Works of Shakespeare – William Shakespeare
- The Importance of Being Earnest – Oscar Wilde
- The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
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Assorted Agatha Christie – (Duh)- done -
The Idylls of the King – Alfred, Lord Tennyson- done -
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson- done - The Suicide Club – Robert Louis Stevenson
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Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson- done - :\ Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson- done
- The Screwtape Letters – C. S. Lewis
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Don Quixote (El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha) – Miguel de Cervantes- done - :\ The Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper- done
- The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
- :/ The Phantom of the Opera – Gaston Leroux- done
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain- done -
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain (ugh I hated that book so much.)- done - Real Christianity – William Wilberforce
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The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan- done - Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
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Peter Pan and Wendy – J. M. Barrie- done -
The Little House on the Prairie – Laura Ingalls Wilder- done -
The House of Christopher Robin – A. A. Milne- done -
Winnie the Pooh, and other fiction (including “The Ugly Duckling!) – A. A. Milne- done -
White Fang/The Call of the Wild – Jack London (I hated those books like no others, excepting possibly “Ever”, but I feel they should be read. If only as a lesson on what not to write like. Ugh. And what a screwy world-view looks like.)- done - Great Tales and Poems – Edgar Allan Poe
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Pinoccio – Carlo Collodi- done -
Black Beauty – Anna Sewell- done -
Robin Hood – Howard Pyle- done -
Beowulf – Nobody knows….
- done - The Iliad and The Odyssey – Homer
- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea – Jules Verne
- Around the World in 80 Days – Jules Verne
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Journey to the Center of the Earth – Jules Verne- done - The Mysteries of Udolpho – Mrs. Anne Radcliffe
- The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne – Mrs. Anne Radcliffe
- The Romance of the Forest – Mrs. Anne Radcliffe
- Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott
- Waverly – Sir Walter Scott
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The Swiss Family Robinson – Johann David Wyss- done -
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl- done - The Red Badge of Courage – Stephen Crane
- The Mill on the Floss – George Elliot (Mary Anne Evans, in reality)
- Frankenstein – Mary Shelley (I think it should be read- however, on so many levels I disagree with the world-view)
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Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift- done - Night – Elie Wiesel
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The Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank- done -
The Story of my Life – Helen Keller- done -
Bulfinch’s Mythology – Thomas Bulfinch- done - A Streetcar Named Desire – Tennessee Williams
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Stepping Heavenward – Elizabeth Prentiss
- Le Morte d’Arthur – Sir Thomas Malory
- Assorted tales of Arthur – Chrétien de Troyes
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Tales of a Wayside Inn – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- done - Dracula – Bram Stoker
I know there are plenty more that should be read, (many people would probably say A Brave New World, or Lost Horizons but I think that my list is fairly good. :/ Hopefully it will suffice with only minor additions.)
