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I really like lists. I make them for myself, so even the non-private ones aren't meant to be read by anyone but me.

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  • NOTE: read the UNABRIDGED Journey to the West, Dream of Red Chambers, and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
  • A Call to Arms by Lu Xun (I've read Kong Yiji, Medicine, and An Incident)
  • Wandering by Lu Xun (I've read A New Year's Sacrifice)
  • In the Shade of spring Leaves (Higuchi Ichiyo)
  • The Victorian Chaise Lounge by Laski
  • The Dunciad by Alexander Pope
  • Pierre Bottero books (en francais)
  • The Twelve Kingdoms series by Fuyumi Ono
  • The Ingoldsby Legends
  • The Alchemist by Ben Jonson
  • Portrait of the artist as a Young Man
  • Le Testement (Francois Villon)
  • Gigi and the Cat by Colette
  • Arsene Lupin stories by Maurice Leblanc
  • Stanzas and Poems by Sully Prudhomme
  • Kidnapped by RL Stevenson
  • Brixton Brothers 4
  • Epic of Gilgamesh
  • The Perils of Pauline by Charles Goddard
  • Acton's Feud
  • Mapp & Lucia stories by E. F. Benson (first is Queen Lucia)
  • The Woman in Black
  • Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson
  • The Uninvited Guests by Sadie Jones
  • Lorna Doone
  • Unwind?
  • House of Leaves?
  • Lucian's True History
  • Awaken Trilogy by Katie Kacvinsky
  • Life of Faith books (Violet and Kathleen)
  • The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
  • The Adventures of Augie March
  • Doctor Birch and his Young Friends (better insights into Victorian age?)
  • The Heiresses by Allison Rushby
  • Cassidy Jones
  • Doris Miles Disney mystery
  • The Vanishing Game by Kate Kae Myers
  • The Book of Blood and Shadow by Robin Wasserman
  • The Sweetest Spell by Suzanne Selfors
  • Daisy Dalrymple books
  • The Man Who Knew by Edgar Wallace
  • Jane Austen mysteries by Stephanie Barron
  • Rose Cottage by Mary Stewart
  • Beach Bags and Burglaries by Dorothy Howell
  • Death on the Family Tree by Patricia Sprinkle
  • Twisted Threads by Lea Wait
  • Inherit Midnight by Kate Kae Myers
  • More Daphne Du Maurier books
  • Kingdom Keepers series by Ridley Pearson
  • Whatever After series
  • The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter
  • The Magician by W. Somerset Maugham
  • Secret History by Donna Tartt
  • On Beauty by Zadie Smith
  • Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
  • A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
  • Short stories of Guy De Maupassant
  • Father and Son by Edmund Gosse
  • The Grand Babylon Hotel by Arnold Bennett
  • Ravenshoe by Henry Kingsley
  • Mr. Churchill's Secretary by Susan Elia Macneal
  • Bittersweet by Colleen Mccullough
  • Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani
  • The Headmistress of Rosemere by Sarah E. Ladd
  • Punishment by Lindon MacIntyre
  • something by Hector Hugh Munro "Saki"
  • The Female Quixote by Charlotte Lennox
  • Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
  • Outlander
  • Patricia C. Wrede's Enchanted Forest Chronicles
  • The Strange Case of Peter the Lett (or The Case of Peter the Lett, or Maigret and the Enigmatic Lett)
  • Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
  • Thousand and One Nights
  • Uncle Silas by Le Fanu
  • Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Hardy
  • My Heart and Other Black Holes by Jasmine Wanga
  • Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard
  • Becoming Jinn by Lori Gilbert
  • Tracked by Jenny Martin
  • After the Woods by Kim Savage
  • The Wrong Side of Right by Jenn Marie Thorne
  • In a World Just Right by Jen Brooks
  • Sandford & Merton by Thomas Day
  • Horatio Hornblower
  • North and South
  • The Idiot
  • Emile by Rousseau
  • Fantasmagoriana
  • Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Naughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman
  • Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey
  • Orlando by Virginia Woolf
  • Vanity Fair
  • Ivanhoe by Walter Scott
  • Wheel of Time series
  • Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
  • Fire Watch by Connie Willis
  • Blitz by Connie Willis
  • Peter Wimsey mysteries
  • Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams
  • The rest of the Hitchhiker series by Douglas Adams
  • Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
  • Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
  • Anna Karenina by Tolstoy
  • Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
  • Watership Down
  • something by Dawn Powell
  • something by Dorothy Parker
  • Cousin Bette by Honore de Balzac
  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime
  • Little Dorrit
  • The Merry Wives of Windsor
  • Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Reading Lolita in Tehran
  • Complete letters of Jane Austen
  • Diaries of Queen Victoria
  • Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
  • Now You're One of Us by Asa Nonami
  • Books on folklore/faitytales
  • Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World by Vicki Myron
  • Lilian Jackson Braun's cat mysteries
  • Tristram Shandy
  • something by George Sand (Valentine?)
  • Nero Wolfe mysteries by Rex Stout
  • Friday the Thirteenth by Thomas W. Lawson
  • Love & Misadventure (Lang Leav)
  • The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo
  • The Bridal Season by Connie Brockway
  • The Raphael Affair by Iain Pears
  • The Eyre Affair
  • Ruby Red by Kerstin Gier
  • No and Me by Delphine de Vigan
  • Awkward by Svetlana Chmakova
  • The School for Good and Evil
  • Texts From Jane Eyre
  • Faking Normal by Courtney C. Stevens
  • Indiana by George Sand
  • Belinda by Maria Edgeworth
  • The Heroine, or, Adventures of a Fair Romance Reader
  • Self Control by Mary Brunton
  • Reflections of a Bachelor Girl by Helen Rowland (if you like it, there are 2 more books, The Rubaiyat of a Bachelor and A Guide to Men)
  • Corinne by De Stael
  • The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe
  • Clermont by Regina Maria Roche
  • The Children of the Abbey by Roche
  • The Castle of Wolfenbach by Eliza Parsons
  • How to be a Heroine by Samantha Ellis
  • Outlaws of the Water Margin
  • Dream of the Red Chamber
  • Romance of the Three Kingdoms
  • Journey to the West
  • The Novel of the Next Century (by a Hungarian)
  • The Old English Baron by Clara Reeve
  • The Recess by Sophia Lee
  • La Celestine by de Rojas
  • Effi Briest by Theodor Fontane
  • William Tell by Schiller
  • Faust by Goethe
  • Eugene Onegin by Pushkin
  • Nostromo by Joseph Conrad
  • The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg
  • The Judge & His Hangman, Suspicion, and The Pledge: Requiem for the Detective Novel, all by Friedrich Durrenmatt
  • Boris Gudenov by Pushkin
  • The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
  • Looking for Alibrandi
  • The Romanov Sisters by Helen Rapport
  • The Ladies' Paradise by Emile Zola
  • Zorba the Greek
  • Zeno's Conscience by Italo Svevo
  • Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
  • Diary of a Madman and other stories by Lu Xun
  • The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes and of His Fortunes and Adversities
  • The Kite Runner
  • Nectar in a Sieve
  • The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay
  • Her Royal Spyness mysteries by Rhys Bowen
  • Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
  • The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
  • On the Road by Kerouac
  • The Cherry Orchard by Chekhov
  • Margot by Jillian Cantor
  • Shift by Em Bailey
  • Wouldn't It Be Deadly by D.E. Ireland
  • The Tell-Tale Start by Gordon McAlpine
  • Zainab by Haikal
  • The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Delirium by Laura Restrepo
  • Cloudstreet by Tim Winton
  • The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
  • Beneath the Lion's Gaze by Maaza Mengiste
  • Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer
  • The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak
  • The Circle of Karma by Kunzang Choden
  • So Long a Letter by Mariama Ba
  • The Year of the Hare by Arto Paasilinna
  • The Whistler by Ondjaki
  • Mata Sara (Crooked Eyes) by Regis Tove Stella
  • Kassandra and the Wolf by Margarita Karapanou
  • Mauve Desert by Nicole Brossard
  • The Beauty of History by Viivi Luik
  • The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives by Lola Shoneyin
  • The Joys of Motherhood by Buchi Emecheta
  • White Teeth by Zadie Smith
  • East of Eden by Steinbeck
  • Of Human Bondage by Maugham
  • The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
  • Please Look After Mom by Kyung-sook Shin, Kim Chi-Young (Translator)
  • Our Twisted Hero by Yi Mun-Yol
  • The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, William Weaver (Translator)
  • The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
  • Poker! by Zora Neale Hurston
  • I am a Cat by Natsume Soseki
  • The Master and Margarita
  • War and Peace
  • Moby-Dick
  • The Red and the Black by Stendhal
  • Le Grand Meaulnes (The Lost Estate) by Henri Alain-Fournier
  • Chrome Yellow by Aldous Huxley
  • Three Exemplary Novels by Miguel de Unamuno
  • The Shadow of the Wind
  • Girl with a Pearl Earring
  • The Memoirs of Cleopatra by Margaret George
  • On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness
  • The Princess Bride
  • The Three Musketeers
  • The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende
  • Elizabeth is Missing
  • Gone With the Wind
  • Memoirs of a Geisha
  • It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini
  • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
  • The Forgotten Garden
  • The Virgin Suicides
  • An American Tragedy
  • The Collected Short Stories of Eudora Welty
  • Comedy of Errors
  • The Fool of Quality by Henry Brooke
  • Agnes Grey
  • Vilette
  • A Journal of the Plague Year
  • A Pocket Philosophical Dictionary
  • The Italian by Radcliffe
  • The Way We Live Now
  • The Vicar of Wakefield
  • Far From the Madding Crowd
  • Middlemarch
  • Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
  • Lorna Doone
  • The Forsyte Saga
  • The Romance of the Rose
  • Complete Short Stories of Anton Chekhov
  • The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon by W. Irving
  • We by Zamyatin
  • East Lynne by E Wood
  • Hard Cash by Reade
  • A Blighted Life by Rosina Bulwer-Lytton
  • An Exchange of Souls by Barry Pain
  • The Master Mind of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • My Lady, My Lord by Katharine Ashe
  • Switch by Carol Snow
  • The Thing on the Doorstep by H. P. Lovecraft
  • Melmouth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin
  • The Vanishing American by Charles Beaumont
  • The Willows by Algernon Blackwood
  • Ramona by Helen Hunt Jackson
  • The Maid of Maiden Lane by Amelia E. Barr
  • (Only after I've read Pamela) An Apology for the Life of Shamela Andrews
  • sequels to Scarlet Pimpernel (book 2-I Will Repay)
  • Lady molly of Scotland Yard by Baroness Orczy
  • When Marnie Was There

Biographies?

  • Agatha Christie's autobio
  • P G Wodehouse
  • Charles Dickens
  • John Keats
  • E B Browning
  • Sarah Grimke

Manga:

  • Hana-Kimi (4)
  • Lady Victorian (chapter 2)
  • Maid-Sama (volume 7)
  • FMA (volume 17)
  • Daily Lives of High School Boys
  • Spiral (5)
  • Pandora Hearts
  • Adolf?
  • Akira???
  • Amulet?
  • Boys Over Flowers?
  • Hirunaka no Ryuusei?
  • Lovely Complex?
  • Dramacon?
  • Liselotte (3)
  • Love Attack?
  • Sailor V
  • Twinkle Stars
  • Yotsuba&! (13)
  • Hana-Kimi
  • Black Bird
  • The Wallflower
  • My Love Story!!
  • Say I Love You (3)
  • Crest of the Royal Family
  • Red River/Anatolia Story
  • Food Wars!
  • Emma
  • Young Miss Holmes
  • Agent Luna (11)
  • Horimiya
  • Orange (or watch anime)
  • A Silent Voice (and then watch the film!)
  • Honey So Sweet
  • My Ordinary Life (watch anime too?)
  • Btooom!
  • Blood Lad
  • Murder Princess

Working through:

  • Sherlock Holmes
    • The Hound of the Baskervilles
    • The Return of Sherlock Holmes
    • His Last Bow
    • The Valley of Fear
    • The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes
  • Agatha Christie
  • P. G. Wodehouse
  • Discworld Series (book 2)
  • Rex Stout (book 3)
aug 27 2012 ∞
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