{"id":669,"date":"2004-04-27T11:33:49","date_gmt":"2004-04-27T15:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=669"},"modified":"2010-07-11T09:54:06","modified_gmt":"2010-07-11T13:54:06","slug":"that-book-list-going-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=669","title":{"rendered":"That Book List Going About"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve seen it on a couple different blogs. I got it here<\/a>. If you want to play, just post the list on your own site, putting the titles you have read in bold.<\/p>\n

Beowulf<\/b>
\nAchebe, Chinua – Things Fall Apart
\nAgee, James – A Death in the Family
\nAusten, Jane – Pride and Prejudice<\/b>
\nBaldwin, James – Go Tell It on the Mountain
\nBeckett, Samuel – Waiting for Godot<\/b>
\nBellow, Saul – The Adventures of Augie March
\nBront\u00eb, Charlotte – Jane Eyre
\nBront\u00eb, Emily – Wuthering Heights
\nCamus, Albert – The Stranger<\/b>
\nCather, Willa – Death Comes for the Archbishop
\nChaucer, Geoffrey – The Canterbury Tales<\/b>
\nChekhov, Anton – The Cherry Orchard<\/b>
\nChopin, Kate – The Awakening<\/b>
\nConrad, Joseph – Heart of Darkness
\nCooper, James Fenimore – The Last of the Mohicans
\nCrane, Stephen – The Red Badge of Courage<\/b>
\nDante – Inferno<\/b>
\nde Cervantes, Miguel – Don Quixote
\nDefoe, Daniel – Robinson Crusoe
\nDickens, Charles – A Tale of Two Cities<\/b>
\nDostoyevsky, Fyodor – Crime and Punishment<\/b>
\nDouglass, Frederick – Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass<\/b>
\nDreiser, Theodore – An American Tragedy
\nDumas, Alexandre – The Three Musketeers
\nEliot, George – The Mill on the Floss
\nEllison, Ralph – Invisible Man
\nEmerson, Ralph Waldo – Selected Essays<\/b>
\nFaulkner, William – As I Lay Dying
\nFaulkner, William – The Sound and the Fury
\nFielding, Henry – Tom Jones
\nFitzgerald, F. Scott – The Great Gatsby<\/b>
\nFlaubert, Gustave – Madame Bovary<\/b>
\nFord, Ford Madox – The Good Soldier
\nGoethe, Johann Wolfgang von – Faust<\/b>
\nGolding, William – Lord of the Flies<\/b>
\nHardy, Thomas – Tess of the d’Urbervilles<\/b>
\nHawthorne, Nathaniel – The Scarlet Letter<\/b>
\nHeller, Joseph – Catch 22<\/b>
\nHemingway, Ernest – A Farewell to Arms<\/b>
\nHomer – The Iliad<\/b>
\nHomer – The Odyssey<\/b>
\nHugo, Victor – The Hunchback of Notre Dame
\nHurston, Zora Neale – Their Eyes Were Watching God
\nHuxley, Aldous – Brave New World<\/b>
\nIbsen, Henrik – A Doll’s House<\/b>
\nJames, Henry – The Portrait of a Lady<\/b>
\nJames, Henry – The Turn of the Screw
\nJoyce, James – A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man<\/b>
\nKafka, Franz – The Metamorphosis
\nKingston, Maxine Hong – The Woman Warrior
\nLee, Harper – To Kill a Mockingbird<\/b>
\nLewis, Sinclair – Babbitt
\nLondon, Jack – The Call of the Wild<\/b>
\nMann, Thomas – The Magic Mountain<\/b>
\nMarquez, Gabriel Garc\u00eda – One Hundred Years of Solitude
\nMelville, Herman – Bartleby the Scrivener
\nMelville, Herman – Moby Dick<\/b>
\nMiller, Arthur – The Crucible<\/b>
\nMorrison, Toni – Beloved<\/b>
\nO’Connor, Flannery – A Good Man is Hard to Find<\/b>
\nO’Neill, Eugene – Long Day’s Journey into Night<\/b>
\nOrwell, George – Animal Farm<\/b>
\nPasternak, Boris – Doctor Zhivago
\nPlath, Sylvia – The Bell Jar<\/b>
\nPoe, Edgar Allan – Selected Tales
\nProust, Marcel – Swann’s Way
\nPynchon, Thomas – The Crying of Lot 49
\nRemarque, Erich Maria – All Quiet on the Western Front
\nRostand, Edmond – Cyrano de Bergerac<\/b>
\nRoth, Henry – Call It Sleep
\nSalinger, J.D. – The Catcher in the Rye<\/b>
\nShakespeare, William – Hamlet
\nShakespeare, William – Macbeth
\nShakespeare, William – A Midsummer Night’s Dream
\nShakespeare, William – Romeo and Juliet
\nShaw, George Bernard – Pygmalion
\nShelley, Mary – Frankenstein<\/b>
\nSilko, Leslie Marmon – Ceremony
\nSolzhenitsyn, Alexander – One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
\nSophocles – Antigone
\nSophocles – Oedipus Rex
\nSteinbeck, John – The Grapes of Wrath<\/b>
\nStevenson, Robert Louis – Treasure Island
\nStowe, Harriet Beecher – Uncle Tom’s Cabin
\nSwift, Jonathan – Gulliver’s Travels<\/b>
\nThackeray, William – Vanity Fair
\nThoreau, Henry David – Walden<\/b>
\nTolstoy, Leo – War and Peace
\nTurgenev, Ivan – Fathers and Sons
\nTwain, Mark – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
\nVoltaire – Candide
\nVonnegut, Kurt Jr. – Slaughterhouse-Five
\nWalker, Alice – The Color Purple
\nWharton, Edith – The House of Mirth<\/b>
\nWelty, Eudora – Collected Stories
\nWhitman, Walt – Leaves of Grass
\nWilde, Oscar – The Picture of Dorian Gray
\nWilliams, Tennessee – The Glass Menagerie
\nWoolf, Virginia – To the Lighthouse<\/b>
\nWright, Richard – Native Son<\/p>\n

I thought I would be embarrassed, but it turns out I’ve read many. A couple of blanks in my reading list I need to rectify:<\/p>\n

Eudora Welty<\/b>. My dad gave me her collected stories for Christmas one year, and she was highly influential on many of my favorite writers (Nancy Lemann being one of them) – so I need to check it out.<\/p>\n

I need to read War and Peace<\/i>, <\/b>but quite frankly, the time-commitment is daunting.<\/p>\n

I’ve never read Faulkner.<\/b> Go ahead. Heap scorn upon my brow.<\/p>\n

I’ve also never read any George Eliot,<\/b> although I am sure I would absolutely fall in LOVE with that woman. How could I not?<\/p>\n

Questions to those of you who have read some of my un-bolded books:<\/b><\/p>\n

— What is the big deal with “Tom Jones”? I mean, honestly: tell me. What is the big deal. Should I read it? Can you recommend it?<\/p>\n

— Who the hell is Chinua Achebe?<\/p>\n

— I can tell you right now that I will probably never read The Last of the Mohicans and Don Quixote. Is this really bad?<\/p>\n

— Please talk to me about Ford Madox Ford. His name comes up all the time. Never read a word. Any good?<\/p>\n

Update<\/i>: And here is Dan’s list<\/a>. He adds his own spin to it: Which of these books do you Never<\/i> plan to read?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve seen it on a couple different blogs. I got it here. If you want to play, just post the list on your own site, putting the titles you have read in bold. Beowulf Achebe, Chinua – Things Fall Apart … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16619,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions\/16619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}