Books
Clone of Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge
Submitted by xela on Thu, 05/09/2013 - 10:03Tags:
- 1984 by George Orwell
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
- An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
- Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
- Archidamian War by Donald Kagan
- The Art of Fiction by Henry James
- The Art of War by Sun Tzu
- As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
- Atonement by Ian McEwan
- Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy
- The Awakening by Kate Chopin
- Babe by Dick King-Smith
- Backlash:
Books Read In 2013
Submitted by julesyoung on Wed, 05/08/2013 - 14:25Tags:
- Envy - Sandra Brown (2001)
50 books to read before you die
Submitted by _Iva on Fri, 05/03/2013 - 10:15Tags:
- 1 The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J. R. R. Tolkien Have
- 2 1984 by George Orwell
- 3 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- 4 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- 5 To kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- 6 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
- 7 Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
- 8 A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
- 9 The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- 10 Hamlet by William Shakespeare
- 11 A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul
- 12 The great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald
- 13 The Catcher in the Rye by J. D.
Read of Scaruffi's Greatest Novels
Submitted by Severian on Mon, 04/29/2013 - 16:09Tags:
- Murasaki Shikibu: "Genji Monogatari/ Tale of Genji" (100#)
- Giovanni Boccaccio: "Decameron" (1353)
- Garci Rodriguez-de-Montalvo: "Amadis de Gaula" (1508)
- Francois Rabelais: "Gargantua et Pantagruel" (1552)
- "La Vida de Lazarillo de Tormes/ The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes" (1554)
- Vitzentzos Kornaros: "Erotokritos" (160#)
- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra: "El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha" (1615)
- Cao Xueqin/ Tsao Chan: "Hong-lou Meng/ The Dream of the Red Chamber/ Story of the Stone/ Chronicles of the Stone" (17##)
- Johann-Wolfgang von Goethe (1749): "Wilhelm Meisters Lehrja
The New Lifetime Reading Plan
Submitted by marslike on Fri, 04/26/2013 - 17:32Tags:
- The Epic of Gilgamesh
- The Iliad - Homer
- The Odyssey - Homer
- The Analects - Confucius
- The Oresteia - Aeschylus
- Oedipus Rex - Sophocles
- Oedipus at Colonus - Sophocles
- Antigone - Sophocles
- Alcestis - Euripides
- Medea - Euripides
- Hippolytus - Euripides
- The Trojan Women - Euripides
- Electra - Euripides
- The Bacchae - Euripides
- The Histories - Herodotus
- The History of the Peloponnesian War - Thucydides
- The Art of War - Sun-tzu
- Lysistrata - Aristophanes
- The Clouds - Aristophanes
- The Birds - Aristophanes
- Selected Works - Plato
- Ethics - Aristotle
- Politics - Aristotle
- Poetics - Aris
The Harvard Classics
Submitted by marslike on Fri, 04/26/2013 - 12:57Tags:
- VOLUME I
- His Autobiography - Benjamin Franklin
- Journal - John Woolman
- Fruits of Solitude - William Penn
- VOLUME II
- The Apology of Socrates - Plato
- Crito - Plato
- Phaedo - Plato
- The Golden Sayings of Epictetus - Epictetus
- The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius - Marcus Aurelius
- VOLUME III
- Essays, Civil and Moral - Francis Bacon
- The New Atlantis - Francis Bacon
- Areopagitica - John Milton
- Tractate on Education - John Milton
- Religio Medici - Sir Thomas Browne
Clone of Harold Bloom's Western Canon
Submitted by cliffwalker13 on Fri, 04/26/2013 - 08:18Tags:
- The Theocratic Age
- The Ancient Near East
- Gilgamesh
- Egyptian Book of the Dead
- Holy Bible (King James Version)
- The Apocrypha
- Sayings of the Fathers (Pirke Aboth)
- Ancient India
- Mahabharata
- Bhagavad-Gita
- Ramayana
- The Ancient Greeks
- Iliad - Homer
- Odyssey - Homer
- Works and Days - Hesiod
- Theogony - Hesiod
- The Poetry of Archilochos
- The Poetry of Sappho
- The Poetry of Alkman
- Odes - Pindar
- Oresteia - Aeschylus
- Seven Against Thebes - Aeschylus
- Prometheus Bound - Aeschylus
- Persians - Aeschylus
- Suppliant Women - Aeschylu
Harold Bloom's Western Canon
Submitted by KEFS on Wed, 04/24/2013 - 16:14Tags:
- The Theocratic Age
- The Ancient Near East
- Gilgamesh
- Egyptian Book of the Dead
- Holy Bible (King James Version)
- The Apocrypha
- Sayings of the Fathers (Pirke Aboth)
- Ancient India
- Mahabharata
- Bhagavad-Gita
- Ramayana
- The Ancient Greeks
- Iliad - Homer
- Odyssey - Homer
- Works and Days - Hesiod
- Theogony - Hesiod
- The Poetry of Archilochos
- The Poetry of Sappho
- The Poetry of Alkman
- Odes - Pindar
- Oresteia - Aeschylus
- Seven Against Thebes - Aeschylus
- Prometheus Bound - Aeschylus
- Persians - Aeschylus
- Suppliant Women - Aeschylus
Read of TIME's List of the 100 Best Novels (1923-2005)
Submitted by Severian on Tue, 04/16/2013 - 16:47Tags:
- The Adventures of Augie March (1953), by Saul Bellow
- All the King's Men (1946), by Robert Penn Warren
- American Pastoral (1997), by Philip Roth
- An American Tragedy (1925), by Theodore Dreiser
- Animal Farm (1946), by George Orwell
- Appointment in Samarra (1934), by John O'Hara
- Are You There God?
