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The Complete List!

The complete list of classic literature and other books I have read since 2016. You ready? Have you read any of these? I wonder which are your favorites if so! My favorite of all time is still DON QUIXOTE! Hands down! In fact, I intend to read that one a second time. Other favorites of mine include, in no particular order those with * * * * * below them in the list here: Lady Audley's Secret, The Moonstone, The Idiot, The House of Ulloa, A Pair of Blue Eyes, The Vicomte of Braggelione, The Decameron, Ivanhoe, The Brothers Karamazov, Bleak House, Pere Goriot, War and Peace, Germinal, Voss, The Red and the Black, Passage to India, Moll Flanders, Therese Raquin, Manon Lescaut, Kim, Anna Karanina, Lorna Doone, The Spanish Bawd, Sentimental Education, The Betrothed, L'Assamoir, The Italian, La Bette Humaine, Cyrano de Bergerac, The Monk, Mauprat, Middlemarch, . . .

2016
  • The Purple Land
  • Don Quixote
  • * * * * *
  • The Philosophy of Santayana
  • Jane Eyre
  • Plays of Moliere
2017
  • Great Russian Short Stories
  • Lady Audley's Secret
  • * * * * *
  • The Moonstone
  • * * * * *
  • Dream of the Red Chamber
  • Melmoth the Wanderer
  • Great Irish Short Stories
  • The Compleate Angler
  • The Idiot
  • * * * * *
  • King Solomon's Mines
  • Tao Te Ching
  • The Marrow of Tradition
  • Utopia
  • Ethan Frome
  • Heart of Darkness and the Secret Sharer
  • A Hero of Our Time
  • Sonnets from the Portuguese
  • Emma
  • Authurian Romances
  • Agnes Grey
  • The Invisible Man
  • Mabinogion
  • The House of Ulloa
  • * * * * *
  • A Tale of Two Cities
  • Great German Short Stories
  • Miss Marjoribanks
  • Great Russian Short Stories
  • Jaws of Darkness
  • Five Great Modern Irish Plays
  • A Pair of Blue Eyes
  • * * * * *
  • Ivanhoe
  • * * * * *
  • Frankenstein
  • The Half Sisters
  • Egil's Saga
  • Jose Marti - Selected Writings
  • By the Open Sea
  • Far from the Madding Crowd
  • Spring Torrents
  • Voltaire - Candide and Other Stories
  • The Portable Voltaire
  • The Vicomte de Bragelonne
  • * * * * *
  • Of Mice and Men
  • Middlemarch
  • * * * * *
2018
  • Tristram Shandy
  • The Epic of Gilgamesh
  • The Princesse de Cleves
  • Adophe
  • Effi Briest
  • The Moon is Down
  • The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm
  • The Brothers Karamazov
  • * * * * *
  • The Decameron
  • * * * * *
  • STOPPED 25PGS INTO FINNEGAN'S WAKE
  • Tom Jones
  • Tess of the D'Urbervilles
  • Bleak House
  • * * * * *
  • The Time Machine
  • War and Peace
  • * * * * *
  • Louise de la Valliere
  • Favorite Celtic Fairy Tales
  • Shen of the Sea
  • African Folk Tales
  • The Absentee
  • Pere Goriot
  • * * * * *
  • O Pioneer!
  • Germinal
  • * * * * *
  • The Conference of the Birds
  • The Treqasure of the City of Ladies
  • Weep Not, Child
  • Mary Barton
  • Plato's Republic
  • Mauprat
  • * * * * *
  • The Saga of the Volsungs
  • American Indian Stories
  • The Crucible
  • Anna Karanina
  • * * * * *
2019
  • Mythology
  • Cry, The Beloved Country
  • The Nature of the Universe
  • Of Human Bondage
  • Ancient Myths
  • Voss
  • * * * * *
  • The Dhammapada
  • Oblomov
  • Glory
  • The Winter of Our Discontent
  • Norwegian Folk Tales
  • South American Fairy Tales
  • The Art of Ingeniously Tormenting
  • Testament of Youth
  • The King of the Fields
  • The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
  • The Real life of Sebastian Knight
  • Scaramouche
  • The House of Mirth
  • On War
  • Hiroshima
  • The Island of Dr. Moreau
  • The Beautiful and Damned
  • The Red and the Black
  • * * * * *
  • A Passage to India
  • * * * * *
  • The Twelve Caesars
  • On Sparta
  • Vanity Fair
  • Moll Flanders
  • * * * * *
  • Therese Raquin
  • * * * * *
  • Manon Lescaut
  • * * * * *
  • Babbitt
  • Pamela
  • Japanese No Dramas
  • Kim
  • * * * * *
  • The Nicomachean Ethics
  • Symposium
  • Alcestis
  • The Three Theban Plays - Sophocles
  • Electra - Sophoclese
  • The Art of Rhetoric
  • Aesop's Fables
2020
  • The Old Man and the Sea
  • Uncle Vanya
  • The Haunting of Hill House
  • Nightmare Abbey & Crochet Castle
  • Lorna Doone
  • * * * * *
  • The Souls of Black Folk
  • Caleb Williams
  • The Hobbit
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame
  • The Great Influenza
  • Buddenbrooks
  • Carpenter's Gothic
  • India - The Land of the Black Pagoda
  • The Land
  • Dragon Seed
  • The Flaming Forest
  • The Thread of Flame
  • The Good Soldier
  • In a German Pension
  • The Private Memoires and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
  • The Four Feathers
  • Anything Can Happen
  • Exit a Dictator
  • Wife for Sale
  • The Philosophy of Spinoza
  • Fathers and Sons
  • Wives and Daughters
  • Dangerous Liasons
  • Joseph Andrews & Shamela
  • Looking Backward
  • The Marquise of O__ and Other Stories
  • The Sorrows of Young Werther
  • The Razor's Edge
  • The Return of the Soldier
  • The Last of the Mohicans
  • Around the World in Eighty Days & Five Weeks in a Balloon
  • Plautus - Four Comedies
  • Three Early Modern Utopia's
  • A Terrible Glory
  • The Nibelungenlied
  • Bend Sinister
  • Lady Chatterly's Lover
  • The First Men in the Moon
  • Pamela
  • * * * * *
2021
  • Madame Bovary
  • Ovid - The Erotic Poems
  • Chaucer's 'Love Visions'
  • The Betrothed
  • Nasreddin Hodja
  • Selected poems of Emily Dickinson
  • Eugene Onegin
  • Meditations
  • Six Records of a Floating Life
  • Tales of Unrest
  • Paul and Virginia
  • A Room with a View
  • Parzival
  • Cousin Pons
  • The Spanish Bawd
  • * * * * *
  • Sentimental Education
  • * * * * *
  • Lucien Leuwen
  • The History of the Franks
  • The Duchess of Malfie & Other Plays
  • Marco Polo - The Travels
  • Thus Spoke Zarathustra
  • Paradise Lost
  • War of the Worlds
  • Moby Dick
  • Andersen's Fairy Tales
  • The Betrothed
  • * * * * *
  • The Sonnets - Poems of Love by Shakespeare
  • LaFontaine - Selected Fables
  • Bread and Wine
  • A House for Mr. Biswas
  • Emily Dickenson's Poems
  • The Queen of Spades and Other Stories
  • A Journal of the Plague Year
  • The Letters of Abelard and Heloise
  • Metamorphoses
  • Chronicles
  • Six Yuan Plays
  • The Wayward Bus
  • The Painted Veil
  • L'Assommoir
  • * * * * *
  • The Rescue
  • Green Mansions
  • The Europeans
  • Washington Square
  • The Loves of Lady Arabella
  • Dover Beach & Other Poems
  • The Italian
  • * * * * *
  • The Prince

2022
  • Ulysses
  • Roughing It
  • American Notes
  • The Riddle of the Sands
  • My Last Duchess and Other Poems by Robert Browning
  • The Cockatoos
  • The Girl of the Limberlost
  • La Bette Humaine
  • * * * * *
  • Lolita
  • Cyrano de Bergerac
  • * * * * *
  • The Monk
  • * * * * *
  • The Man Who was Thursday
  • Three Soldiers
  • Apocalypse
  • The Storm
  • Wieland and Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist
  • The Trespasser
  • Lope De Vega - Three Major Plays
  • Six Plays by Corneille and Racine
  • The Kiss and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov
  • Letters d'un Voyageur
  • The Song of Roland
  • Bel-Ami
  • Nineteenth Century American Poetry
  • Two Lives of Charlemagne
  • Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel
  • The Aeneid
  • Hesiod and Theognis
  • The Death of King Arthur


2023
  • "Man Alive" by GK Chesterton. *Added to Favorites*
  • "In Patagonia" by Bruce Chatwin.
  • "Lark Rise to Candleford" by Flora Thompson - a Triology of "Lark Rise," "Over to Candleford," and "Candleford Green."
  • "Nana" by Emile Zola.
  • "Under The Greenwood Tree" by Thomas Hardy.
  • "Cards of Identity" by Nigel Dennis.
  • "Laxdaela Saga"
  • "The Country of the Pointed Firs" by Sarah Jewett.
  • "Nectar in a Sieve"
  • "Winesburg, Ohio"
  • "Memoirs of a Geisha" by Arthur Golden. *Added to Favorites*
  • "Les Miserables" by Victor Hugo.
  • "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott.
  • "Man of Straw" by Heinrich Mann.
  • "The Story of an African Farm" by Olive Schreiner.
  • "Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow *Added to Favorites*
  • "The Spoils of Poynton" by Henry James
  • "Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure by John Cleland
  • "The Woman in White" by Wilkie Collins
  • "Ward No. 6 and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov


Not Classic Literature:
  • "A Mentor and Her Muse"
  • "Bird Friends"
  • "Holocaust Odysseys"
  • "Awakening the Buddha Within"
  • "In the Buddha's Words"
  • "Forest Sustainabilty"
  • "Ecology"
  • "A Dress the Color of the Sky"
  • Crazy Horse Biography
  • "Forest Ecosystems"
  • "Columbia History of the World"
  • "A Planetful of Poems"
  • "The Great North Trail"
  • "Violet Lost and Trembling"
  • "Nothing Like it in the World"
  • Russia - A History
  • A Delusion of Satan
  • Civil War Stories
  • "The Quest of the Prodigy"
  • "The Witches"
  • Korea - Its Hisotry & Culture
  • A Traveller's History of Portugal
  • The Crimean War
  • The Vikings
  • Forestry and Biodiversity - Learning How to Sustain Biodiversity in Managed Forests
  • Botany
  • Wetlands




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