Let's make a list...
Dec. 5th, 2005 03:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miss_ytI've said before that I want to start reading more classic works of literature - books, plays, even poetry, which I've never been into before. So I'm going to make a list, off the top of my head, of some of the authors/books/stories I want to read. Please make suggestions for additional works/authors.
Gravity's Rainbow, by Thomas Pynchon
Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov (actually, pretty much anything by Nabokov)
The Glass Menagerie, by Tennessee Williams
Hans Christian Andersen's stories (I've read them, but it was a long time ago)
Franz Kafka
Emily Dickinson
Leaves of Grass and Song of Myself, by Walt Whitman (I know the former is a collection and the latter a poem)
The Bible - I've read parts of the Pentateuch and the New Testament, but I think I should read it all.
The Woman in White, by Wilkie Collins.
Bleak House and A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens.
The Iliad and The Oddyssey (I read most of the latter in high school)
The Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer
Moby-Dick, by Herman Melville
All of Don Quixote, by Miguel Cervantes
The Three Musketeers, by Alexandre Dumas (this one I actually want to read in French, if possible)
I can't think of any more right now. Anyone care to add to the list? Classic science fiction is legit, since I need to read more of that too. As long as it's not the Foundation series.
Gravity's Rainbow, by Thomas Pynchon
Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov (actually, pretty much anything by Nabokov)
The Glass Menagerie, by Tennessee Williams
Hans Christian Andersen's stories (I've read them, but it was a long time ago)
Franz Kafka
Emily Dickinson
Leaves of Grass and Song of Myself, by Walt Whitman (I know the former is a collection and the latter a poem)
The Bible - I've read parts of the Pentateuch and the New Testament, but I think I should read it all.
The Woman in White, by Wilkie Collins.
Bleak House and A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens.
The Iliad and The Oddyssey (I read most of the latter in high school)
The Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer
Moby-Dick, by Herman Melville
All of Don Quixote, by Miguel Cervantes
The Three Musketeers, by Alexandre Dumas (this one I actually want to read in French, if possible)
I can't think of any more right now. Anyone care to add to the list? Classic science fiction is legit, since I need to read more of that too. As long as it's not the Foundation series.
