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songstress, born in may, old soul, prone to maenadic whims, full of too many words. interests: tea, literature, breakfast, lush melodies, writing, wanderlust, narnian winters, history, jane austen. current obsessions: i capture the castle, felicity.

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While it is inevitable that I have left a few titles out, this list contains the bulk of classic literature I have read up to this point. Note that I have included the texts of plays I find equally culturally significant;

  • Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
  • Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen
  • Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen
  • Mansfield Park, Jane Austen
  • Persuasion, Jane Austen
  • Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
  • Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
  • The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
  • 1984, George Orwell
  • Animal Farm, George Orwell
  • Lord of the Flies, William Golding
  • The Scarlett Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton
  • Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton
  • Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
  • The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde
  • Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
  • Little Men, Louisa May Alcott
  • Peter Pan, JM Barrie
  • Anne of Green Gables series, LM Montgomery
  • The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
  • A Little Princess, Frances Hodgson Burnett
  • Swiss Family Robinson, Johann David Wyss
  • The Iliad, Homer
  • The Odyssey, Homer
  • The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer
  • Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
  • Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo
  • The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexander Dumas
  • The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
  • Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
  • A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
  • A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
  • Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
  • Nicholas Nickleby, Charles Dickens
  • Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw
  • Saint Joan, George Bernard Shaw
  • Walden, Henry David Thoreau
  • The Diary of Anne Frank, Anne Frank
  • The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
  • The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
  • The Chronicles of Narnia, CS Lewis
  • A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams
  • Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Tennessee Williams
  • Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift
  • Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
  • The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
  • Le Morte d'Arthur, Sir Thomas Malory
  • Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
  • Alice Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll
  • Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
  • The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins
  • The Call of the Wild, Jack London
  • White Fang, Jack London
  • The Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling
  • Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
  • A Long Day's Journey into Night, Eugene O'Neill
  • Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
  • Complete works of Henrik Ibsen
  • Complete works of Anton Chekov
  • Mrs Dalloway, Virgina Woolf
  • A Room with a View, EM Forster
  • Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Pilgrim's Progress, John Bunyan
  • Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Kate Douglas Wiggin
  • To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee
  • In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
  • No Exit, John Paul Sartre
  • One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
  • Heidi, Johanna Spyri
  • The Mayor of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy
  • Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
  • The Color Purple, Alice Walker
  • Antigone, Sophocles
aug 9 2008 ∞
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