This year I’ve decided to re-read the books I’ve only read the abridged versions of, including a few of the classics, other well known books, as well as a few lesser known books that have to be read by any self respecting book owl. And since I’m a Christian, I’ve also included some Christian literature.
This is the year I experiment with my reading tastes, and hopefully improve myself, my taste in books, and my reading habits in the process.
- Alcott, Louisa – Little Men
- Alcott, Louisa – Little Women
- Amini, Lannon, and Lewis – A General Theory of Love
- Austen, Jane – Emma
- Austen, Jane – Northanger Abbey
- Ballantyne, R.M. – The Coral Island
- Bronte, Emily – Wuthering Heights
- Burgess, Anthony – A Clockwork Orange
- Burnett, Frances Hodgson – Little Lord Fautleroy
- Bunyan, John – Pilgrim’s Progress
- Camus, Albert – The Rebel
- Cervantes, Miguel – Don Quixote
- Chekov, Anton – The Major Plays
- Colfer, Eoin – Artemis Fowl
- Collins, Wilkie – The Moonstone
- Cronin, A.J. – Keys of the Kingdom
- Defoe, Daniel – Robinson Crusoe
- Dodge, Mary Mapes – Hans Brinker (or) The Silver Skates
- Donleavy, J.P. – The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B.
- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor – Crime and Punishment
- Doyle, Arthur Conan – The Lost World
- Dumas, Alexandre – The Count of Monte Cristo
- Dumas, Alexandre – The Three Musketeers
- Eliot, George – Middlemarch
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott – The Great Gatsby
- Golding, William – Lord of the Flies
- Grahame, Kenneth – The Wind in the Willows
- Hardy, Thomas – Far from the Madding Crowd
- Hardy, Thomas – Return of the Native
- Heller, Joseph – Catch 22
- Hesse, Hermann – Siddhartha
- Hoffman, Heinrich – Slovenly Peter
- Hugo, Victor – Les Miserables
- Ibsen, Henrik – A Doll’s House
- James, Henry – The Bostonians
- Joyce, James – Ulysses
- Kerouac, Jack – On the Road
- Kipling, Rudyard – The Jungle Book
- Lawrence, D.H. – Fantasia of the Unconscious
- Lawrence, D.H. – Lady Chaterley’s Lover
- Lee, Harper – To Kill a Mockingbird
- Lewis, C.S. – Mere Christianity
- Lewis, C.S. – The Abolition of Man
- Lewis, C.S. – The Four Loves
- Lewis, C.S. – Surprised by Joy
- Lewis, C.S. – The Problem of Pain
- Leroux, Gaston – The Phantom of the Opera
- Maurier, Daphne – Rebecca
- McCullough, Colleen – The Thorn Bird
- Milton, John – Paradise Lost
- Mitchell, Margaret – Gone With the Wind
- Morrison, Toni – The Bluest Eye
- Potok, Chaim – My Name is Asher Lev
- Potok, Chaim – The Chosen
- Powell, Anthony – The Acceptance World
- Sachar, Louis – Holes
- Saint-Exupery, Antoine – The Little Prince
- Salinger, J.D. – Catcher in the Rye
- Scott, Walter – Ivanhoe
- Spyri, Johanna – Heidi
- Steinbeck, John – Of Mice and Men
- Stevenson, R.L. – Kidnapped
- Stevenson, R.L. – Treasure Island
- Swift, Jonathan – Gulliver’s Travels
- Tagore, Rabindranath – Gitanjali
- Thakeray, William Makepeace – Vanity Fair
- Thoreau, Henry David – Walden
- Tolkien, J.R.R. – The Hobbit
- Tolkien, J.R.R. – The Lord of the Rings
- Tolstoy, Leo – Anna Karenina
- Trollope, Anthony – The Way We Live Now
- Uris, Leon – Exodus
- Verne, Jules – Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sun
- Waugh, Evelyn – Brideshead Revisited
- White, E.G. – The Great Controversy
- Wilde, Oscar – The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Wodehouse, P.G. – Leave it to Psmith
- Woolf, Virginia – The Voyage Out
- Wyss, Johann David – Swiss Family Robinson
Oh! I just love this list. Quite ambitious I must add. Part of what makes it so delicious I guess. With your permission will borrow from the list sometimes. : ) Inspires me to make a list of my own to read this year.
I would love it if we were reading the same books! We’d have so much to dissect and discuss!
Aunty Reena, you should begin a book blog this year! You really should
Some of my favorites:
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
The Sound and Fury by William Faulkner
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
A Farewill to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
Sophie’s Choice by William Styron
The Problem of Pain by C.S. Lewis
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
Some of these books are on my list and I can’t wait to get to them. Some of them I’ve already read. David Copperfield and Oliver Twist are two of Charles Dickens books that I’ve read many times growing up. I’ve also read the Problem of Pain twice and it’s on my TBR list again this year. He’s one of my favourite writers! In fact I just completed Surprised by Joy this afternoon.
I tried reading For Whom the Bell Tolls a few years ago but I wasn’t able to appreciate it as I had expected to. I must try to read it again. I’m also looking forward to reading the other books you’ve mentioned.
Great! I admire you very much. There is much to be learned and enjoyed in great literature. All joy in reading and writing. HF
Thank you! I hope I get to where you’re at in my appreciation of good literature.
You must try and read ‘The Last Poem’ by Rabindranath Tagore, translated by Dilip Basu, I was completely dazed by the story and it’s aesthetics!
I will definitely try and get a copy of The Last Poem! I looked it up online and it sounds like something I’d want to read. Thank you!
We seem to like similar books! Some of them mentioned here are already on my blog under ‘salon libre – book lounge’ ! Keep sharing and a superb book list !! Cheers.
I’ve been going through your book list just now! You’re right, we do have quite a few of the same books on our lists. But yours is way more intellectual than mine is! I need to add more non fiction to my reading diet.
I was really excited to know that you like Herman Hesse. I just completed Siddhartha, and I loved it! Plus it’s my brother’s namesake
Uhmmmm, My name is Siddharth, not Siddhartha. Geetanjali! how could you do this to my name???
Excuse me, I didn’t do anything to your name. Your name, Siddharth, was taken from Herman Hesse’s book Siddhartha. Ask Papa
Love this book list! May I suggest you add,
A song of ice and fire – George RR Martin
Inheritance cycle – Christopher Paolini
The wheel of time – Robert Jordan
I’ll think about it. Thank you for taking the time to comment, Siddharth
How come you have no Wilde and Shaw in that list – probably two of the best writers ever !!!
I completely agree with you about Wilde and Shaw being amazing writers. And the only reason they haven’t been included in the list is because I’ve already read their books. Although I still need to get around to reading The Picture of Dorian Gray. Perhaps I’ll add it to the list. Thanks for the suggestion!
WOW:)