Taking the lead from my friend Cameron who took the lead from his lovely wife, I have opted to make an attempt to read 101 works of literature in 1001 days. Cameron and his friend Jamie came up with a pretty adequate list. It includes books from the full breathe of historical literature. You can click on the era to reveal the titles. I’ll probably make an added page on the site devoted to this, updating the finished books and listing the current reads. This should be fun!
Ancient (up to 5th century A.D.), 10 works
1. The Iliad, Homer (Fagles translation) [currently reading]
2. The Odyssey, Homer
3. History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides
4. The Clouds, Aristophanes
5. The Republic, Plato
6. Poetics, Aristotle
7. Confessions, Augustine
8. On the Incarnation, Athanasius
9. Metamorphoses, Ovid
10. The Aeneid, VirgilMiddle Ages (5th to 14th century), 11 works1. Beowulf
2. The Seafarer (4-30-2007)
3. The Song of Roland
4. Divine Comedy, Dante (Sayers translation)
5. Gawain and the Green Knight
6. Revelations of Divine Love, Julian of Norwich
7. Piers Ploughman, Langland
8. Utopia, More
9. The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer
10. A Parliament of Fowls, Chaucer
11. The Practice of the Presence of God, Lawrence
Early Modern (14th to 18th century), 18 works1. Macbeth, Shakespeare
2. As You Like It, Shakespeare
3. Richard III, Shakespeare
4. Volpone, Ben Jonson
5. Paradise Lost, Milton (with Lewis¹s preface)
6. Pilgrim’s Progress, Bunyan
7. A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life, Law
8. The Faerie Queen, Spenser
9. Select Essays of Michel de Montaigne
10. King Lear, Shakespeare
11. Measure for Measure, Shakespeare
12. The Tempest, Shakespeare
13. Doctor Faustus, Marlowe
14. The Prince, Machiavelli
15. Pensees, Pascal
16. Introduction to the Devout Life, de Sales
17. Candide, Voltaire
18. Phaedra, Jean Racine
Reason, Romanticism, Naturalism (18th to 1901), 18 works1. Emma, Austen
2. Pride and Prejudice, Austen
3. Lyrical Ballads, Wordsworth and Coleridge
4. The Charterhouse of Parma, Stendhal
5. Faust, Goethe
6. Decline and Fall of Roman Empire, Gibbon
9. Tom Jones, Fielding
10. The Social Contract, Rousseau
11. Founding Documents, various -Federalist Papers -Articles of Confederation -The Constitution -The Declaration of Independence
12. The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hugo
13. Tristram Shandy, Sterne
14. Life of Johnson, Boswell
15. Pere Goriot, de Balzac
16. The Red and the Black, Stendhal
17. The Ambassadors, James
18. Frankenstein, Shelley
Modernism (late 19th to early 20th), 18 works 1. Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Neitzsche [currently reading]
2. The Birth of Tragedy, Neitzsche
3. Pygmalion, Shaw
4. A Tale of Two Cities, Dickens
5. Bleak House, Dickens
6. The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky
7. The Origin of Species, Darwin
8. Essays, Emerson
9. Selected Poems, Yeats
10. Hedda Gabler or A Doll’s House, Ibsen
11. Walden, Thoreau
12. Heart of Darkness, Conrad
13. Civil Disobedience, Thoreau
14. Moby Dick, Melville
15. The Mill on the Floss, Eliot
16. Huckleberry Finn, Twain
17. Jane Eyre, C. Bronte
18. Wuthering Heights, E. Bronte
Post-modernism (early to mid-twentieth), 26 works 1. Dubliners, Joyce
2. Ulysses, Joyce
3. Orthodoxy, Chesterton
4. Their Eyes Were Watching God, Hurston
4. 1984, Orwell
5. The Gulag Archipelago, Solzhenitsyn
6. The Moviegoer, Walker Percy
7. How Should We Then Live?, Schaeffer
8. The Seven-Storey Mountain, Merton
9. Amusing Ourselves to Death, Postman
10. The Stranger, Camus
11. The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway
12. This Side of Paradise, Fitzgerald
13. The Wasteland, T.S. Eliot (4-29-2007)
14. The Fountainhead, Rand
15. The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck
16. All Quiet on the Western Front, Remarque
17. Go Tell It on the Mountain, Baldwin
18. Wide Sargasso Sea, Rhys
19. The Wind in the Willows, Grahame
20. A Passage to India, Forster
21. Absalom, Absalom, Faulkner
22. Love in the Time of Cholera, Marquez
23. Catch-22, Heller
24. Mrs. Dalloway, Woolf
25. Slaughterhouse-5, Vonnegut
26. To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee
3 Responsed To This Post
Two Jane Austen books and two our of three Bronte sisters, I’m impressed. I think the Dorothy Sayers translation of Dante is considered the best, I started it in high school but didn’t get very far before I had to return it to the library. She was in the Inklings with Lewis and Tolkien and wrote the Lord Peter Wimsey mystery series, which are amazing, she’s better than Agatha Christie.
I may start a list of my own, I’m caught up and waiting for new books in all the series I read and I actually have time now that I’m done with school!
This looks like fun, I’m in. I’m out of books to read. And I read about a book a week so it’s doable. Ah the joys of having a real job!
Good idea. I’ve really tried to start reading regularly now that I’m not in school but it’s not working on week nights. I can’t read in bed because I’ll fall asleep in 5 mins and forget what I read.
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