Theduckthief's views on being well-read

Submitted by cmonster on Fri, 04/28/2006 - 11:12
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  1. Beowulf
  2. Davy Crockett
  3. The Epit of Gilgamesh
  4. Wild Bill Hickock
  5. Kit Carson - John Abbott
  6. The King of the Mountains - Edmond About
  7. Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
  8. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams*
  9. Watership Down - Richard Adams
  10. Prometheus Bound - Aeschylus
  11. A Death in the Family - James Agee
  12. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
  13. The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri
  14. Fairy Tales and Stories - Hans Christian Anderson
  15. Mahabharata - Anonymous
  16. Njal's Saga - Anonymous
  17. The Book of Job - Anonymous
  18. Kane and Abel - Jeffrey Archer
  19. Nicomachean Ethics - Aristotle
  20. The Clan of the Cave Bear - Jean M Auel*
  21. Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
  22. Emma - Jane Austen
  23. Persuasion - Jane Austen
  24. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen*
  25. Daniel Boone - John Bakeless
  26. Go Tell it on the Mountain - James Baldwin
  27. Trilogy: Molly, Malone Dies, The Unamable - Samuel Beckett
  28. Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett
  29. The Adventures of Augie March - Saul Bellow
  30. Captain Corell's Mandolin - Louis de Berniers
  31. Carmen - George Bizet
  32. Noughts and Crosses - Malorie Blackman
  33. Lorna Doone - Richard Doddridge Blackmore*
  34. The Magic Faraway Tree - Enid Blyton
  35. Decameron - Giovanni Boccacio
  36. Collected Fictions - Jorge Luis Borges
  37. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte*
  38. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte*
  39. Fang and Claw - Frank Buck
  40. On Jungle Trails - Frank Buck
  41. Bring 'em Back Alive - Frank Buck and Edward Anthony
  42. Last Days of Pompeii - Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  43. The Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan
  44. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
  45. The Way of All Flesh - Samuel Butler
  46. Marco Polo - Donn Byrne
  47. The Princess Diaries - Meg Cabot
  48. Caesar's Conquests - Julius Caesar
  49. The Stranger - Albert Camus
  50. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
  51. Death Comes for the Archbishop - Willa Cather
  52. Poems of Paul Celan - Paul Celan
  53. Journey to the End of Night - Louis-Ferdinana D. Celine
  54. The Adventures of Cellini - Benvenuto Cellini
  55. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
  56. Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
  57. Selected Stories of Anton Chekov - Anton Pavlovich Chekov
  58. The Cherry Orchard - Anton Chekov
  59. The Awakening - Kate Chopin
  60. The Crises - Winston Churchill
  61. The Oxbow Incident - Walter Van Tillburn Clark
  62. Buffalo Bill - William F Cody
  63. The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
  64. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  65. Artemis Fowl - Eoin Colfer
  66. The Moonstone - William Wilkie Collins*
  67. The Woman in White - William Wilkie Collins*
  68. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
  69. Nostromo - Joseph Conrad
  70. Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad
  71. Last of the Mohicans - James Fenimoore Cooper
  72. The Deerslayer - James Fenimoore Cooper
  73. The Pathfinder - James Fenimoore Cooper
  74. The Pilot - James Fenimoore Cooper
  75. The Pioneers - James Fenimoore Cooper
  76. The Red Rover - James Fenimoore Cooper
  77. The Spy - James Fenimoore Cooper
  78. The Prairie - James Fenimoore Cooper
  79. The Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane
  80. Charlie and the Chocolate Facotory - Roald Dahl
  81. Matilda - Roald Dahl
  82. The BFG - Roald Dahl
  83. The Twits - Roald Dahl
  84. Two Years Before the Mast - Richard Henry Dana Jr.
  85. Inferno - Dante
  86. The Origin of Species - Charles Darwin
  87. Soldiers of Fortune - Richard Harding David
  88. De Balzac, Honore – Old Goriot
  89. Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe
  90. Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe (1719)
  91. Conquest of Mexico - Bernal Diez Del Castillo (1632)
  92. How We Think - Dewey, John
  93. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens*
  94. A Tale of Two Cities - Dickens, Charles (1859)*
  95. Bleak House - Charles Dickens*
  96. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens (1850)*
  97. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (1861)*
  98. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
  99. Jacques the Fatalist and His Master - Denis Diderot
  100. Berlin Alexanderplatz - Alfred Doblin
  101. Crime and Punishment - Feodor Dostoyevsky (1866)
  102. The Brothers Karamazov - Feodor Dostoyevsky
  103. The Idiot - Feodor Dostoyevsky
  104. The Possessed - Feodor Dostoyevsky
  105. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - Frederick Douglass*
  106. A Study in Scarlet - Arthur Conan Doyle (1887)
  107. The Hound of the Baskervilles - Arthur Conan Doyle(1902)
  108. The Sign of the Four - Arthur Conan Doyle
  109. The Speckled Band - Arthur Conan Doyle (1892)
  110. The White Company - Arthur Conan Doyle (1891)
  111. Camille - Alexandre Dumas (1852)
  112. The Black Tulip - Alexandre Dumas (1850)
  113. The Conspirators - Alexandre Dumas (1843)
  114. The Corsican Brothers - Alexandre Dumas (1845)
  115. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas (1844)
  116. The Forty-Five Guardsmen - Alexandre Dumas (1848)
  117. The Man in the Iron Mask - Alexandre Dumas (1850)
  118. The Queen’s Necklace - (Alexandre Dumas (1849)
  119. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas (1844)*
  120. Twenty Years After - Alexandre Dumas (1845)
  121. The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot*
  122. Middlemarch - George Eliot
  123. Silas Marner - George Eliot (1861)
  124. Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
  125. Nature - Ralph Waldo Emerson*
  126. Self-Reliance - Ralph Waldo Emerson*
  127. Waterloo - Emile Erckmann & Alexandre Chatrian
  128. Medea - Euripides
  129. The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
  130. Absalom, Absalom! - William Faulkner
  131. As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
  132. Birdsong - Sebastien Faulks
  133. Magician - Raymond E. Feist
  134. Bridget Jone’s Diary - Helen Fielding
  135. Tom Jones - Henry Fielding
  136. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald*
  137. A Sentimental Education - Gustave Flaubert
  138. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
  139. The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
  140. The Good Soldier - Ford Madox Ford
  141. The Magus - John Fowles
  142. Benjamin Franklin - Benjamin Franklin (1817)
  143. Arabian Nights - Anthony Galland(1704)
  144. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
  145. Dead Souls - Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol
  146. The Cossack Chief - Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol (1839)
  147. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
  148. The Lord of the Flies - William Golding
  149. Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
  150. The Tin Drum - Gunter Grass
  151. Cleopatra - H Rider Haggard (1889)
  152. King Solomon's Mines - H Rider Haggard (1885)
  153. Man Without a Country - Edward Everett Hale (1863)
  154. Hunger - Knut Hamsun
  155. Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
  156. Return of the Native - Thomas Hardy
  157. Tess of the D'Ubervilles - Thomas Hardy
  158. The Luck of Roaring Camp - Bret Harte (1870)
  159. The Outcasts of Poker Falts - Bret Harte (1870)
  160. The Dark Frigate - Charles Boardman Hawes (1923)
  161. The Mutineers - Charles Boardman Hawes (1920)
  162. The House of the Seven Gables - Nathaniel Hawthorne (1851)
  163. The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne*
  164. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
  165. A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
  166. For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
  167. The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
  168. In the Reign of Terror - G A Henty (1890)
  169. The Lion of the North - G A Henty (1890)
  170. Won by the Sword - G A Henty (1899)
  171. Dune - Frank Herbert
  172. The Iliad - Homer (962 BCE)
  173. The Odyssey - Homer (927 BCE)
  174. The Prisoner of Zenda - Anthony Hope (1894)
  175. The Covered Wagon - Emerson Hough (1922)
  176. An American Tragedy - Irving Howe
  177. Green Mansions - William Henry Hudson (1904)
  178. Ton Brown's School Days - Thomas Hughes (1856)
  179. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
  180. The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo (1831)*
  181. The Man Who Laughs - Victor Hugo (1869)
  182. Toilers of the Sea - Victor Hugo (1866)
  183. Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
  184. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
  185. A Doll's House - Henrik Ibsen
  186. Peer Gynt - Henrik Ibsen
  187. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
  188. Rip Van Winkle - Washington Irving
  189. The Headless Horseman - Washington Irving
  190. The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
  191. The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
  192. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
  193. Ulysses - James Joyce
  194. The Castle - Franz Kafka
  195. The Complete Stories - Franz Kafka
  196. The Trial - Franz Kafka
  197. The Recognition of Sakuntala - Kalidasa
  198. Critique of Pure Reason - Immanuel Kant
  199. The Sound of the Mountain - Yasunari Kawabata
  200. Zorba the Greek - Nikos Kazantzakis
  201. On the Road - Jack Kerouac
  202. The Stand - Stephen King
  203. Westward, Ho! - Charles Kingsley (1855)
  204. The Woman Warrior - Maxine Hong Kingston
  205. Captains Courageous - Rudyard Kipling (1897)
  206. Kim - Rudyard Kipling (1901)
  207. The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling (1894)
  208. Sons and Lovers - D H Lawrence
  209. Independent People - Halldor Kiljan Laxness
  210. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
  211. Complete Poems of Giacomo Leopardi - Giacomo Leopardi
  212. The Golden Notebook - Doris M Lessing
  213. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C S Lewis
  214. Babbitt - Sinclair Lewis
  215. Pippi Longstocking - Astrid Lindgren
  216. The Call of the Wild - Jack London (1903)
  217. The Sea Wolf - Jack London (1904)
  218. White Fang - Jack London (1906)
  219. The Song of Hiawatha - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1855)
  220. Courtship of Miles Standish - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1858)
  221. Evangeline - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1847)
  222. The Prince - Machiavelli
  223. Goodnight Mister Tom - Michelle Magorian
  224. Children of Gebelawi - Naguib Mahfous
  225. Buddenbrooks - Thomas Mann
  226. The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann
  227. Love in the time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  228. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  229. Mr Midshipman Easy - Captain Frederick Marryat (1836)
  230. The Little Savage - Captain Frederick Marryat (1848)
  231. Das Kapital - Karl Marx
  232. The Flayed Hand - Guy de Maupassant
  233. Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
  234. The Thorn Birds - Colleen McCollough
  235. Bartleby the Scrivener - Herman Melville
  236. Moby Dick - Herman Melville (1851)
  237. Typee - Herman Melville (1846)
  238. Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller
  239. The Crucible - Arthur Miller
  240. Winnie the Pooh - A A Milne
  241. Paradise Lost - John Milton
  242. Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
  243. Tartuffe - Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere
  244. Essays - Michel De Montaigne
  245. Anne of Green Gables - L M Montgomery
  246. History - Elsa Morante
  247. Beloved - Toni Morrison
  248. King of the Khyber Rifles - Talbot Mundy (1916)
  249. The Man Without Qualities - Robert Musil
  250. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
  251. Men Against the Sea - Charles Nordhoff & James Hall (1933)
  252. Mutiny on the Bounty - Charles Nordhoff & James Hall (1932)
  253. Pitcairn's Island - Charles Nordhoff & James Hall (1939)
  254. The Hurricane - Charles Nordhoff & James Hall (1936)
  255. The Octopus - Frank Norris
  256. A Good Man is Hard to Find - Flannery O'Connor
  257. Long Day's Journey into Night - Eugene O'Neill
  258. 1984 - George Orwell
  259. Animal Farm - George Orwell
  260. Under Two Flags - Ouida (1868)
  261. Metamorphoses - Ovid
  262. The Conspiracy of the Pontiac - Francis Parkman (1851)
  263. The Oregon Trail - Franic Parkman (1849)
  264. Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak
  265. Gormenghast - Mervyn Peake
  266. The Book of Disquiet - Fernando Pessoa
  267. The Shell Seekers - Rosamunde Pilcher
  268. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
  269. The Republic - Plato
  270. The Complete Tales - Edgar Allen Poe*
  271. Murders in the Rue Morgue - Edgar Allen Poe
  272. The Gold Bug - Edgar Allen Poe (1843)
  273. The Tell-Tale Heart - Edgar Allen Poe (1845)
  274. A Cask of Amontillado - Edgar Allen Poe (1845)
  275. Pit and the Pendulum - Edgar Allen Poe (1845)
  276. Adventures of Hans Pfall - Edgar Allen Poe (1845)
  277. The Fall of the House of Usher - Edgar Allen Poe (1838)
  278. Travels of Marco Polo - Marco Polo
  279. The Scottish Chiefs - Jane Porter (1809)
  280. Guards! Guards! - Terry Pratchett
  281. Mort - Terry Pratchett
  282. Night Watch - Terry Pratchett
  283. The Colour of Magic - Terry Pratchett
  284. Good Omens - Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
  285. Remembrance of Things Past - Marcel Proust
  286. Swann's Way - Marcel Proust
  287. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
  288. The Godfather - Mario Puzo
  289. Knights of the Round Table - Howard Pyle (1903)
  290. Men of Iron - Howard Pyle (1891)
  291. Robin Hood - Howard Pyle (1883)
  292. The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
  293. Gargantua and Pantagruel - Francois Rabelais
  294. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Rasome
  295. The Cloister and the Hearth - Charles Reade (1861)
  296. All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque (1928)
  297. The Devil to Pay in the Backlands - Joao Guimaraes Rosa
  298. Cyrano de Bergerac - Edmond Rostand (1897)
  299. Call it Sleep - Henry Roth
  300. The Social Contract - Jean Jacques Rousseau
  301. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - J K Rowling
  302. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - J K Rowling
  303. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - J K Rowling
  304. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J K Rowling
  305. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - J K Rowling
  306. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince - J K Rowling
  307. The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
  308. Pedro Paramo - Juan Rulfo
  309. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
  310. Holes - Louis Sachar
  311. A Season of Migration to the North - Tayeb Salih
  312. The Catcher in the Rye - J D Salinger
  313. Blindness - Jose Saramago
  314. Lafitte the Pirate - Lyle Saxon (1930)
  315. Joan of Arc - Frederick Schiller (1801)
  316. William Tell - Frederick Schiller (1804)
  317. The World as Will and Idea - Arthur Schopenhauer
  318. Castle Dangerous - Walter Scott (1831)
  319. Ivanhoe - Walter Scott (1820)*
  320. Rob Roy - Walter Scott (1818)
  321. The Lady of the Lake - Walter Scott (1810)
  322. The Talisman - Walter Scott (1825)
  323. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
  324. Katherine - Anya Seton
  325. Lives of the Hunted - Ernest Thompson Seton (1902)
  326. Wild Animals I have known - Ernest Thompson Seton (1898)
  327. Black Beauty - Anna Sewell (1860)
  328. A Midsummer Night's Dream - William Shakespeare (1600)
  329. Hamlet - William Shakespeare (1603)
  330. Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare (1607)
  331. King Lear - William Shakespeare
  332. Macbeth - William Shakespeare (1606)
  333. Othello - William Shakespeare
  334. Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare (1597)
  335. The Taming of the Shrew - William Shakespeare
  336. The Tempest - William Shakespeare
  337. Pygmalion - George Bernard Shaw
  338. The Bostan of Saadi - Sheikh Musliju-d-Din Sa'adi of Shiraz
  339. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley (1818)
  340. The Tale of Genji - Murasaki Shikibu
  341. A Town like Alice - Nevil Shute
  342. With Fire and Sword - Henry Sienkiewicz (1890)
  343. Ceremony - Leslie Marmon Silko
  344. The Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith
  345. I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith
  346. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Alexander Solzhenitseyn
  347. Antigone - Sophocles
  348. Oedipus the King - Sophocles
  349. The Decline of the West - Oswald Spengler
  350. How I Found Livingstone - Henry M Stanley (1872)
  351. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
  352. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
  353. The Red and the Black - Stendhal
  354. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy - Laurence Sterne
  355. David Balfour - Robert Louis Stevenson (1893)
  356. Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson (1883)
  357. Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson (1886)*
  358. The Black Arrow - Robert Louis Stevenson (1888)
  359. The Master of Ballantree - Robert Louis Stevenson (1889)
  360. Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson (1883)*
  361. The Bottle Imp - Robert Louis Stevenson (1891)
  362. The Beach at Falesa - Robert Louis Stevenson (1892)
  363. Dracula - Bram Stoker*
  364. Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852)*
  365. Mysteries of Pari - Eugene Sue (1842)
  366. Perfume - Patrick Suskind
  367. Confessions of Zeno - Italo Svevo
  368. Gulliver's Travels - Jonathon Swift
  369. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
  370. Idylls of the King - Alfred Tennyson
  371. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
  372. Abramham Lincoln - Benjamin Thomas (1952)
  373. Walden - Henry David Thoreau*
  374. The Hobbit - J R R Tolkien
  375. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - J R R Tolkien*
  376. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers - J R R Tolkien*
  377. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King - J R R Tolkien*
  378. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
  379. The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories - Leo Tolstoy
  380. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
  381. The Raged Trousered Philanthropists - Robert Tressell
  382. Fathers and Sons - Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
  383. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain (1889)
  384. Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain (1884)*
  385. Pudd'nhead Wilson - Mark Twain (1894)
  386. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain (1876)*
  387. The Prince and the Pauper - Mark Twain (1882)
  388. Ramayana - Davi Vanamali
  389. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne (1870)*
  390. A Journey to the Center of the Earth - Jules Verne (1864)
  391. Around the World in 80 Days - Jules Verne (1873)*
  392. From the Earth to the Moon - Jules Verne (1870)
  393. Master of the World - Jules Verne (1904)
  394. Michael Strogoff - Jules Verne (1876)
  395. Mysterious Island - Jules Verne (1874)
  396. Off on a Comet - Jules Verne (1874)
  397. Robur the Conqueror - Jules Verne (1886)
  398. Tigers and Traitors - Jules Verne (1880)
  399. The Aeneid - Virgil*
  400. Candide - Voltaire
  401. Faust - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1808/1832)
  402. Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
  403. The Colour Purple - Alice Walker
  404. Ben Hur - Lew Wallace (1880)
  405. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
  406. The First Men in the Moon - H G Wells (1901)
  407. The Food of the Gods - H G Wells (1904)
  408. The Invisible Man - H G Wells (1897)
  409. The Time Machine - H G Wells (1895)
  410. War of the Worlds - H G Wells (1898)
  411. Collected Stories - Eudora Welty
  412. The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
  413. The Mathnawi - E H Whinfield
  414. Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman
  415. The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
  416. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
  417. Our Town - Thorton Wilder
  418. The Glass Menagerie - Tennessee Williams
  419. Girls in Love - Jacqueline Wilson
  420. The Story of Tracy Baker - Jacqueline Wilson
  421. Vicky Angel - Jacqueline Wilson
  422. Double Act - Jacqueline Wilson
  423. The Virginian - Owen Wister (1902)
  424. Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
  425. To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf*
  426. Native Son - Richard Wright
  427. Swiss Family Robinson - Johann Wyss (1813)*
  428. Diary of a Madman and Other Stories - Xun Lu
  429. The Memoirs of Hadrian - Marguerite Yourcenar
  430. The Downfall - Emile Zola (1892)
Author Comments: 

You all know I am fundamentally incapable of *not* keeping track of ones I've read, right?

* = the ones I own

Current total: 98/430 = 23%

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