Saturday, May 4, 2013

Elizabeth's Reading List

Here are some of the books I want to read, most of which we already own:

1. Blood of the Fold by Terry Goodkind
2. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (actually, I have an old copy that says "Samuel Clemens" as the author)
3. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
4. The Arabian Nights
5. Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
6. Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
7. Bodily Harm by Margaret Atwood
8. Bonhoeffer: Pastor Martyr, Prophet, Spy by Eric Metaxas
9. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
10. Boy: Tales of Childhood by Roald Dahl
11. Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
12. Dear John by Nicholas Sparks
13. The Explicit Gospel by Matt Chandler and Jared Wilson
14. The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan
15. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
16. Dracula by Bram Stoker
17. The  Jungle by Upton Sinclair
18. The Last of the Mohicans James Fenimore Cooper
19. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
20. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J. R. R. Tolkien (read partway through years ago but did not finish)
21. Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick
22. Misery by Stephen King
23. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
24. Orlando by Virginia Woolf
25. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
26. The Prince's Pen by Horatio Clare
27. The Silver Cow: A Welsh Tale by Susan Cooper
28. Star Guard by Andre Norton
29. The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells
30. White Ravens by Owen Sheers
31. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
32. Zen in the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury
33. Live and Let Die by Ian Fleming
34. True Grit by Charles Portis
35. The Complete Works of Shakespeare: Tempest, Two Gentlemen, Merry Wives, Measure for Measure, Comedy of Errors, Much Ado, Love's Labour's Lost, Midsummer Night's Dream, Merchant of Venice, As You Like It, Taming of the Shrew, All's Well, Twelfth Night, Winter's Tale, King John, Richard II, Henry IV 1, Henry IV 2, Henry V, Henry VI 1, Henry VI 2, Henry VI 3, Richard III, Henry VIII, Troilus and Cressida, Coriolanus, Titus Andronicus, Romeo and Juliet, Timon of Athens, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, Antony and Cleopatra, Cymbeline, Pericles, Five Long Poems, and The Sonnets. (There are so many I thought I'd feel better to mark off one at a time which ones I have gotten through. Those Histories are going to take forever.)
36. How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn
37. City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
38. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
39. Time Cat by Lloyd Alexander
40. The Fault in Our Stars or Paper Towns by John Green


Ethnic American Lit and Gender, Genre, and the Gothic for Summer 2013:

1. Pushing the Bear by Diane Glancy
2. Malinche by Laura Esquivel
3. Beloved by Toni Morrison
4. Auto-Biography of an Ex-Colored Man by J. W. Johnson
5. The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
6. The History of Caliph Vathek by William Beckford
7. Caleb Williams by William Godwin
8. The Monk by Matthew Lewis
9. The Italian by Ann Radcliffe
10. Zofloya, or The Moor by Charlotte Dacre
11. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner  by James Hogg

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