Posted by Steven
on 11/2/2009, 16:27:31, in reply to "Re: Guardian List: "1000 Novels Everyone Must Read""
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Here's a list of 100 works I came up with several years ago. At the time I hadn't read most of them, so the list was compiled on reputation, not personal experience.
Novels – Pre-19th Century
1. John Bunyan: Pilgrim’s Progress
2. Miguel Cervantes: Don Quixote
3. Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe
4. Henry Fielding: Tom Jones
5. Laurence Sterne: Tristam Shandy
6. Jonathan Swift: Gulliver’s Travels
7. Voltaire: Candide
Novels – 19th Century
8. Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice
9. Honore de Balzac: Pere Goriot
10. Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre
11. Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights
12. Charles Dickens: David Copperfield
13. Charles Dickens: Great Expectations
14. Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Brothers Karamazov
15. Fyodor Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment
16. George Eliot: Middlemarch
17. Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary
18. Thomas Hardy: Tess of the D’Urbervilles
19. Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter
20. Henry James: Portrait of a Lady
21. Herman Melville: Moby Dick
22. Stendhal: The Red and the Black
23. William Makepeace Thackeray: Vanity Fair
24. Leo Tolstoy: Anna Karenina
25. Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace
26. Ivan Turgenev: Fathers and Sons
27. Mark Twain: Huckleberry Finn
28. Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Novels – 20th Century
29. Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart
30. Albert Camus: The Stranger
31. Theodore Dreiser: An American Tragedy
32. Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man
33. William Faulkner: As I Lay Dying
34. William Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury
35. F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
36. E. M. Forster: A Passage to India
37. Ernest Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms
38. Aldous Huxley: Brave New World
39. James Joyce: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
40. James Joyce: Ulysses
41. Franz Kafka: The Trial
42. D. H. Lawrence: Sons and Lovers
43. Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird
44. Sinclair Lewis: Babbitt
45. Thomas Mann: The Magic Mountain
46. Gabriel Garcia Marquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude
47. Vladimir Nabakov: Lolita
48. George Orwell: 1984
49. Marcel Proust: In Search of Lost Time
50. J. D. Salinger: Catcher in the Rye
51. John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath
52. Edith Wharton: The Age of Innocence
53. Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse
54. Richard Wright: Native Son
Short Story Collections
55. Anton Chekhov: Selected Short Stories
56. Edgar Allan Poe: Collected Short Stories
57. The Thousand and One Nights
58. Eudora Welty: Collected Stories
Drama
59. Aeschylus: The Oresteia
60. Anton Chekhov: The Cherry Orchard
61. Aristophanes: The Birds
62. Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot
63. Euripides: Medea
64. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust
65. Henrik Ibsen: A Doll’s House
66. Henrik Ibsen: Peer Gynt
67. Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman
68. Moliere: Tartuffe
69. Eugene O’Neill: Long Day’s Journey into Night
70. William Shakespeare: Hamlet
71. William Shakespeare: Macbeth
72. William Shakespeare: The Tempest
73. George Bernard Shaw: Pygmalion
74. George Bernard Shaw: Saint Joan
75. Sophocles: The Theban Plays (Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone)
Epic Poetry
76. Beowulf
77. Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales
78. Dante Alighieri: The Divine Comedy
79. Homer: The Iliad
80. Homer: The Odyssey
81. John Milton: Paradise Lost
82. Virgil: The Aeneid
Poetry Collections
83. William Blake: Complete Poetry
84. Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Collected Poetry (including Rime of the Ancient Mariner)
85. John Donne: Complete Poetry
86. T. S. Eliot: Collected Poems
87. John Keats: Poems
88. William Shakespeare: Sonnets
89. Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass
90. William Wordsworth: Collected Poetry (including The Prelude)
91. William Butler Yeats: Collected Poems
Philosophy
92. Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics
93. Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays (including Nature)
94. Lucretius: Of the Nature of Things
95. Niccolo Machiavelli: The Prince
96. Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays
97. Plato: Republic
98. Henry David Thoreau: Walden
Other Non-Fiction
99. Henry Adams: The Education of Henry Adams
100. James Boswell: The Life of Samuel Johnson
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