1. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol completed 10/2015
2. Beowulf. Translation by Seamus Heaney. in progress 11/2015
3. Catch-22 by Joseph
Heller
4. Doctor Zhivago by
Boris Pasternak (rereading)
5. A Song of Sixpence by
A.J. Cronin
6. Dr. Finlay
Stories—Omnibus by A.J. Cronin in progress late 2015
7. Wives and
Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
8. The Professor’s House by Willa Cather
9. The First Circle
by Alexander Solzhenitsyn (perhaps his other
writings?)
10. Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain
11. Short Stories Heinrich
Boll
12. A Tale of
Two Cities by Charles Dickens
13. Shirley by Charlotte Bronte
14. The Professor by Charlotte Bronte
15. Gunter Grass??
16. Kristin Lavransdatter
by Sigrid Undset, Norwegian winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Vol. 2 The Bride (I read the first volume about 14-15 years ago.) Undset is rarely read and it
is a shame. This is a magnificent trilogy about the life of a young Norwegian woman in
medieval times.
medieval times.
Kristin
Lavransdatter Vol. 3 The Cross
17. Snow by Orhan
Parmuk
18. German classic
women writer
19. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
20. Old Christmas by
Washington Irving slated for 12/2015
21 Adventures of Tom
Jones by Henry Fielding
22. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
23. Short Stories by
Shirley Jackson
24. Henry David Thoreau—A Week on the Concord and Merrimack
Rivers read 10/2015
25. More American Women Writers???
26. Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
27. Bleak House by Charles Dickens
28.
29. Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
30. Of Human Bondage or
The Painted Veil or Short Stories W.
Somerset Maugham
31. Pilgrim at Tinker’s Creek by Annie Dillard
32. Kamouraska Anne Hebert
Canadian Classic Quebecois
33. O Pioneers!
by Willa Cather
34. The Emigrants
by Vilhelm Moberg Swedish classic
35. Winesburg,
Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
36. The Prime of
Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
37. The Fountain
Overflows by Rebecca West
38. John Le
Carre The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
39. Doris
Lessing. The Golden Notebooks.
40. The Good
Earth by Pearl S. Buck
That's an interesting list. I've read 12 of them and have quite a few others in the house. Maybe we could join up to read Red Badge of Courage together, sometime.
ReplyDeleteKatrina--yes, I'd like that! Let me know sometime when you're interested in doing that.
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