- 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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