The atrocity that is high school gets over in less than a month. I've made up my mind to read thirteen classics by the end of the year because I need street cred. I mean, a bookworm needs to have a few Catcher In The Rye's in her repertoire right?
I kid, people. I just want a break from YA. It's TOO MUCH ANGST.
I've read the popular pre requisites, David Copperfield, Great a Expectations, Oliver Twist, Little Women, Pride and Prejudice (which Lyra convinced me to read, bless her) and the like.
Currently, my list is this-
Crime and Punishment Anne of Green Gables Catcher in the Rye Catch-22 Of Mice and Men
Add to it? Your niceness is appreciated.
The Young Codger.2014-02-24T17:11:28Z
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The Brothers Karamazov Heart of Darkness. Tess of the D'Urbervilles. Moby Dick. Don.Quixote One by Zola maybe Germinal. 100 years of solitude. Madame Bovary. Faulkner ---The Snopes Trilogy. Murakami maybe The Wind up Bird. Salman Rushdie. Midnight's children. Naipaul. A house for Mr Biswas. Bulgakov----Master and Margarita.
From Here to Eternity by James Jones Anthony Adverse by Hervey Allen The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens anything by Thorne Smith not a classic, quick and will round out your reading, besides it's funny anything by P.G. Wodehouse Wooster & Jeeves same as above. Ben Hur by Lew Wallace who was governor of New Mexico at the time The Prince of Foxes by Samuel Shellabacher Atlas Shrugged and/or The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand something by H. G Wells The Tontine by Thomas B. Costain a very long two books, but it's not unpleasant.
To Kill a Mockingbird The Great Gatsby The Count of Monte Cristo Frankenstein 1984 Fahrenheit 451 Animal Farm Watership Down One Hundred Years of Solitude Jane Eyre (though watch out for the ANGST!!!! in this book) Anna Karenina (ditto) Gone With The Wind (again) A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Breakfast at Tiffany's
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas Les Miserables by Victor Hugo Lilith by George MacDonald (haven't read yet but the summary intrigues me like you have no idea) War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Nightwood by Djuna Barnes