Books to Read
- Jane Addams/Twenty Years at Hull House (1912)
- Louisa May Alcott/A Long Fatal Love Chase (1866, 1995)
- Mary Antin/The Promised Land (1912)
- James Baldwin/Giovanni's Room (1956)
- L. Frank Baum/The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900)
- L. Frank Baum/The Marvelous Land of Oz (1904)
- L. Frank Baum/Ozma of Oz (1907)
- Elizabeth Bowen/The Heat of the Day (1949)
- Anne Bronte/The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)
- Emily Bronte/Wuthering Heights (1847)
- Fanny Burney/Evelina (1778)
- Italo Calvino/Invisible Cities (1972)
- Thomas Carlyle/The French Revolution: A History (1837)
- Charles Chestnut/The Marrow of Tradition (1901)
- Erskine Childers/Riddle of the Sands (1903)
- Georgio de Chirico/Hebdomeros, the Metaphysician (1925)
- J. M. Coetzee/Foe (1986)
- Wilkie Collins/Heart and Science (1883)
- Wilkie Collins/The Woman in White (1859)
- Joseph Conrad/The Secret Agent (1907)
- Marie Corelli/Wormwood: A Drama of Paris (1890)
- Richard Henry Dana, Jr./Two Years Before the Mast (1840)
- Daniel Defoe/A Journal of the Plague Year (1722)
- Charles Dickens/American Notes (1842)
- Charles Dickens/Bleak House (1853)
- Charles Dickens/Martin Chuzzlewit (1844)
- Joan Didion/Play It as It Lays (1970)
- Benjamin Disraeli/Tancred (1847)
- Ignatius Donnelly/Caesar's Column (1890)
- Theodore Dreiser/An American Tragedy (1925)
- Theodore Dreiser/The Financier (1912)
- Alexandre Dumas/Memoirs of a Physician [aka Joseph Balsamo] (1848)
- Alexandre Dumas/The Three Musketeers (1844)
- Alexandre Dumas/Twenty Years After (1845)
- George Eliot/Daniel Deronda (1876)
- Henry Fielding/Tom Jones (1749)
- Gustave Flaubert/Salammbo (1862)
- Elizabeth Gaskell/Mary Barton (1848)
- Elizabeth Gaskell/Ruth (1853)
- Théphile Gautier/Mademoiselle de Maupin (1835)
- Andre Gidé/The Immoralist (1902)
- Goethe/Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship (1795)
- Graham Greene/A Burnt-Out Case (1960)
- H. Rider Haggard/People of the Mist (1894)
- H. Rider Haggard/She (1887)
- Radclyffe Hall/The Well of Loneliness (1928)
- Nathaniel Hawthorne/The House of the Seven Gables (1851)
- William Hope Hodgson/The Night Land (1912)
- James Hogg/The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824)
- Anthony Hope/Rupert of Hentzau (1898)
- Richard Hughes/A High Wind in Jamaica (1929)
- Victor Hugo/The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1831)
- Aldous Huxley/Island (1962)
- J.-K. Huysmans/Against Nature (A rebours) (1884)
- J.-K. Huysmans/Là-Bas (1891)
- Gilbert Imlay/The Emigrants (1793)
- Henry James/The Ambassadors (1903)
- Sarah Orne Jewett/A Country Doctor (1884)
- Samuel Johnson/A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (1775)
- Alexander Kinglake/Eothen (1844)
- Charles Kingsley/The Water-Babies (1863)
- D. H. Lawrence/The Plumed Serpent (1926)
- D. H. Lawrence/The Sea and Sardinia (1921)
- T. E. Lawrence/The Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1926)
- Matthew Lewis/The Monk (1796)
- Jack London/Martin Eden (1909)
- Jack London/The Star Rover (1915)
- George MacDonald/Lillith (1895)
- Arthur Machen/The Hill of Dreams (1907)
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez/The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975)
- A. E. W. Mason/The Four Feathers (1902)
- Charles Maturin/Melmoth the Wanderer (1820)
- Somerset Maugham/The Moon and Sixpence (1919)
- Cormac McCarthy/The Road (2006)
- Johnston McCulley/The Mark of Zorro aka The Curse of Capistrano (1919)
- Herman Melville/Mardi (1849)
- Herman Melville/Redburn (1849)
- Herman Melville/Israel Potter (1856)
- George Meredith/The Ordeal of Richard Feverel (1859)
- Octave Mirbeau/The Torture Garden (1899)
- William Least Heat Moon/River Horse (1999)
- V. S. Naipaul/Guerillas (1975)
- Frank Norris/The Octopus (1901)
- Jan Potocki/The Manuscript Found in Saragossa (1815)
- Thomes de Quincy/Confessions of an English Opium Eater (1821)
- Ann Radcliffe/The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794)
- Ayn Rand/Anthem (1938)
- Clara Reeve/The Old English Baron (1777)
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau/Emile: or, On Education (1762)
- Rafael Sabatini/Captain Blood (1922)
- Jose Saramago/The Stone Raft (1986)
- Olive Schreiner/Story of an African Farm (1883)
- Sir Walter Scott/Ivanhoe (1819)
- Mary Shelley/The Last Man (1826)
- Upton Sinclair/King Coal (1917)
- Upton Sinclair/Oil! (1927)
- Tobias Smollett/Roderick Random (1748)
- John Steinbeck/The Moon Is Down (1943)
- Stendahl/The Charterhouse of Parma (1839)
- Robert Louis Stevenson/The Black Arrow (1883)
- Robert Louis Stevenson/The Dynamiter (1885)
- Robert Louis Stevenson/St. Ives: being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England (1897)
- Robert Louis Stevenson/The Wrecker (1892)
- Bram Stoker/A Glimpse of America (1886)
- Bram Stoker/The Lady of the Shroud (1909)
- Gene Stratton-Porter/A Girl of the Limberlost (1909)
- Philip Meadows Taylor/Confessions of a Thug (1839)
- William Thackery/Vanity Fair (1848)
- Leo Tolstoy/Sebastopol Sketches (1855)
- Anthony Trollope/Doctor Thorne (1854)
- Anthony Trollope/The Eustace Diamonds (1871)
- Anthony Trollope/Phineas Redux (1874)
- Fanny Trollope/Domestic Manners of the Americans (1832)
- Bruno Traven/The Death Ship (1926)
- Mark Twain/A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889)
- Mark Twain/The Innocents Abroad (1869)
- Mark Twain/Roughing It (1872)
- Jules Verne/The Mysterious Island (1874)
- Kurt Vonnegut/Player Piano (1952)
- Evelyn Waugh/Brideshead Revisited (1945)
- H. G. Wells/The Food of the Gods (1904)
- H. G. Wells/In the Days of the Comet (1906)
- H. G. Wells/The Invisible Man (1897)
- H. G. Wells/The War in the Air (1908)
- Rebecca West/Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (1941)
- Patrick White/A Fringe of Leaves (1976)
- T. H. White/The Once and Future King (1958)
- Mary Wollstonecraft/The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria (1798)
- Emile Zola/Germinal (1885)
Anyway, too many of these books I already own, and I know I will enjoy them, but I haven't gotten around to them yet. Victorian, adventure, gothic, and early-twentieth century novels seem to dominate the list, but the period from about 1840-1930 fascinates me.
Any comments or recommendations in the same vein?
READ:
12/28/07: E. M. Forster/A Passage to India
12/31/07: E. M. Forster/A Room with a View
1/7/08: P. C. Wren/Beau Geste (1924)
1/10/08: Anthony Hope/The Prisoner of Zenda (1894)
1/23/08: Leopold von Sacher-Masoch/Venus in Furs (1870)
1/27/08: Victor Hugo/Toilers of the Sea (1866)
2/1/08: Robert Louis Stevenson/Weir of Hermiston (1896)
2/4/08: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle/The Mystery of Cloomber (1889)
2/9/08: Robert Louis Stevenson/New Arabian Nights (1882)
2/13/08: Gaston Leroux/The Phantom of the Opera (1910)
2/19/08: George du Maurier/Trilby (1894)
2/25/08: George Orwell/Burmese Days (1934)
3/3/08: Howard Pyle/The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (1883)
3/7/08: Jack London/Before Adam (1907)
3/13/08: Rafael Sabatini/Scaramouche (1921)
3/18/08: Jules Verne/Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864)
3/23/08: Baroness Orczy/The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905)
3/26/08: Anna Sewell/Black Beauty (1877)
4/19/08: H. Rider Haggard/Heart of the World (1895)
4/21/08: Leo Tolstoy/The Cossacks (1863)
4/25/08: Leo Tolstoy/Hadji Murad (1912)
5/16/08: Alexandre Dumas/The Count of Monte Cristo (1846)
5/26/08: Oscar Wilde/The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
5/31/08: George Sand/Indiana (1832)
6/19/08: Jacques-Henri Bernadin de Saint-Pierre/Paul and Virginia (1787)
7/7/08: H. Rider Haggard/Allan Quatermain (1887)
7/9/08: Graham Greene/The Ministry of Fear (1943)
7/12/08: J. M. Falkner/Moonfleet (1898)
7/13/08: Jack London/The Assassination Bureau Ltd (1910/1963)
7/25/08: Gustave Flaubert/Sentimental Education (1869)
8/2/08: Daphne du Maurier/Jamaica Inn (1936)
8/8/08: Robert Louis Stevenson/An Inland Voyage (1878)
8/11/08: Abbe Prevost/Manon Lescaut (1731)
8/12/08: Helene Hanff/84 Charing Cross Road (1970)
8/23/08: Jack London/The Iron Heel (1908)
8/29/08: Yevgeny Zamyatin/We (1921)
11/19/08: Mikhail Lermontov/A Hero of Our Time (1839)
11/24/08: George Orwell/Homage to Catalonia (1938)
11/27/08: Frances Burnett/The Secret Garden (1909)
12/2/08: Wilkie Collins/The Moonstone (1868)
12/11/08: Ann Radcliffe/The Italian (1797)
12/19/08: William Thackery/Barry Lyndon (1844)
12/25/08: Mark Twain/The Mysterious Stranger (1916)
12/30/08: Daphne du Maurier/Frenchman's Creek (1941)
I would say you could enjoy
Howard's End, Return of the Solider, Heat of the Day, Mrs. Dalloway and Keep the Aspidistra Flying .
All right up your alley I would think on the latter end of the time period.
The Modern British Novel
Thanks for the recommendations; I actually haven't read any of these. A Passage to India is the first Forster novel I've read, and I'm really enjoying it, so Howard's End is probably in my future.
A couple of these I haven't heard of, so I need to look up Heat of the Day and Keep the Aspidistra Flying.
Johnny Waco
First one is Elizabeth Bowen and the second by George Orwell.
OMG, I’ve just read She on your list. An archetype, I have seen/read so much rip off of it... To read if you are in the adventure-type-of-book mood. I like the complete title of this novel: She Who Must Be Obeyed. 4/5
Suggestions? The Prisoner Of Chillon by Lord Byron… Short stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Oscar Wilde? I have no idea, I guess I didn't read a lot of this type yet.
I love She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed's full name as well--those kooky Victorians, terrified of strong women!
I love Poe stories, and I've enjoyed the plays I've read by Wilde, but I haven't read any short stories--I'll check them out.
Johnny Waco
Short stories I really like from Wilde:
The Nightingale and the Rose
The Devoted Friend