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04-23-2008, 06:25 AM
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1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die pt 2
here is part 2:
- At Swim-Two-Birds Flann OBrien
- Coming Up for Air George Orwell
- Goodbye to Berlin Christopher Isherwood
- Tropic of Capricorn Henry Miller
- Good Morning, Midnight Jean Rhys
- The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler
- After the Death of Don Juan Sylvie Townsend Warner
- Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day Winifred Watson
- Nausea Jean-Paul Sartre
- Rebecca Daphne du Maurier
- Cause for Alarm Eric Ambler
- Brighton Rock Graham Greene
- Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck
- Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston
- The Hobbit J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Years Virginia Woolf
- In Parenthesis David Jones
- The Revenge for Love Wyndham Lewis
- Out of Africa Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen)
- To Have and Have Not Ernest Hemingway
- Summer Will Show Sylvia Townsend Warner
- Eyeless in Gaza Aldous Huxley
- The Thinking Reed Rebecca West
- Gone With the Wind Margaret Mitchell
- Keep the Aspidistra Flying George Orwell
- Wild Harbour Ian MacPherson
- Absalom, Absalom! William Faulkner
- At the Mountains of Madness H.P. Lovecraft
- Independent People Halldσr Laxness
- Auto-da-Fι Elias Canetti
- The Last of Mr. Norris Christopher Isherwood
- They Shoot Horses, Dont They? Horace McCoy
- The House in Paris Elizabeth Bowen
- England Made Me Graham Greene
- Burmese Days George Orwell
- The Nine Tailors Dorothy L. Sayers
- Threepenny Novel Bertolt Brecht
- Novel With Cocaine M. Ageyev
- The Postman Always Rings Twice James M. Cain
- Tropic of Cancer Henry Miller
- A Handful of Dust Evelyn Waugh
- Tender is the Night F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Thank You, Jeeves P.G. Wodehouse
- Call it Sleep Henry Roth
- Miss Lonelyhearts Nathanael West
- Murder Must Advertise Dorothy L. Sayers
- The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas Gertrude Stein
- Testament of Youth Vera Brittain
- A Day Off Storm Jameson
- The Man Without Qualities Robert Musil
- A Scots Quair (Sunset Song) Lewis Grassic Gibbon
- Journey to the End of the Night Louis-Ferdinand Cιline
- Brave New World Aldous Huxley
- Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons
- To the North Elizabeth Bowen
- The Thin Man Dashiell Hammett
- The Radetzky March Joseph Roth
- The Waves Virginia Woolf
- The Glass Key Dashiell Hammett
- Cakes and Ale W. Somerset Maugham
- The Apes of God Wyndham Lewis
- Her Privates We Frederic Manning
- Vile Bodies Evelyn Waugh
- The Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett
- Hebdomeros Giorgio de Chirico
- A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway
- Red Harvest Dashiell Hammett
- The Time of Indifference Alberto Moravia
- All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque
- Berlin Alexanderplatz Alfred Dφblin
- The Last September Elizabeth Bowen
- Harriet Hume Rebecca West
- The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner
- Les Enfants Terribles Jean Cocteau
- Look Homeward, Angel Thomas Wolfe
- Story of the Eye Georges Bataille
- Lady Chatterleys Lover D.H. Lawrence
- The Well of Loneliness Radclyffe Hall
- The Childermass Wyndham Lewis
- Decline and Fall Evelyn Waugh
- Parades End Ford Madox Ford
- Steppenwolf Herman Hesse
- Remembrance of Things Past Marcel Proust
- To The Lighthouse Virginia Woolf
- Tarka the Otter Henry Williamson
- The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway
- The Good Soldier vejk Jaroslav Haek
- The Plumed Serpent D.H. Lawrence
- One, None and a Hundred Thousand Luigi Pirandello
- The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Agatha Christie
- The Making of Americans Gertrude Stein
- Manhattan Transfer John Dos Passos
- Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf
- The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Counterfeiters Andrι Gide
- The Artamonov Business Maxim Gorky
- The Professors House Willa Cather
- Billy Budd, Foretopman Herman Melville
- The Green Hat Michael Arlen
- The Magic Mountain Thomas Mann
- A Passage to India E.M. Forster
- The Devil in the Flesh Raymond Radiguet
- Zenos Conscience Italo Svevo
- Antic Hay Aldous Huxley
- The Garden Party Katherine Mansfield
- The Enormous Room E.E. Cummings
- Jacobs Room Virginia Woolf
- Siddhartha Herman Hesse
- The Glimpses of the Moon Edith Wharton
- Life and Death of Harriett Frean May Sinclair
- The Last Days of Humanity Karl Kraus
- Aarons Rod D.H. Lawrence
- Crome Yellow Aldous Huxley
- The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton
- Main Street Sinclair Lewis
- Women in Love D.H. Lawrence
- Night and Day Virginia Woolf
- The Return of the Soldier Rebecca West
- The Shadow Line Joseph Conrad
- Growth of the Soil Knut Hamsen
- Bunner Sisters Edith Wharton
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce
- Under Fire Henri Barbusse
- Rashomon Akutagawa Ryunosuke
- The Good Soldier Ford Madox Ford
- The Voyage Out Virginia Woolf
- Of Human Bondage William Somerset Maugham
- The Rainbow D.H. Lawrence
- The Thirty-Nine Steps John Buchan
- Locus Solus Raymond Roussel
- Tarzan of the Apes Edgar Rice Burroughs
- The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists Robert Tressell
- Sons and Lovers D.H. Lawrence
- Death in Venice Thomas Mann
- The Charwomans Daughter James Stephens
- Ethan Frome Edith Wharton
- Fantτmas Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre
- Howards End E.M. Forster
- Impressions of Africa Raymond Roussel
- Three Lives Gertrude Stein
- Martin Eden Jack London
- Strait is the Gate Andrι Gide
- The Inferno Henri Barbusse
- A Room With a View E.M. Forster
- The Iron Heel Jack London
- The Old Wives Tale Arnold Bennett
- The House on the Borderland William Hope Hodgson
- The Secret Agent Joseph Conrad
- The Jungle Upton Sinclair
- Young Tφrless Robert Musil
- The Forsyte Sage John Galsworthy
- The House of Mirth Edith Wharton
- Professor Unrat Heinrich Mann
- Where Angels Fear to Tread E.M. Forster
- Hadrian the Seventh Frederick Rolfe
- The Golden Bowl Henry James
- The Ambassadors Henry James
- The Riddle of the Sands Erskine Childers
- The Immoralist Andrι Gide
- The Wings of the Dove Henry James
- Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
- The Hound of the Baskervilles Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Buddenbrooks Thomas Mann
- Sister Carrie Theodore Dreiser
1800s - Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. Somerville and Ross
- The Stechlin Theodore Fontane
- The Awakening Kate Chopin
- The Turn of the Screw Henry James
- The War of the Worlds H.G. Wells
- The Invisible Man H.G. Wells
- What Maisie Knew Henry James
- Fruits of the Earth Andrι Gide
- Quo Vadis Henryk Sienkiewicz
- The Island of Dr. Moreau H.G. Wells
- The Time Machine H.G. Wells
- Effi Briest Theodore Fontane
- Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy
- The Real Charlotte Somerville and Ross
- The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Born in Exile George Gissing
- Diary of a Nobody George & Weedon Grossmith
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- News from Nowhere William Morris
- New Grub Street George Gissing
- Gφsta Berlings Saga Selma Lagerlφf
- Tess of the DUrbervilles Thomas Hardy
- The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde
- The Kreutzer Sonata Leo Tolstoy
- La Bκte Humaine Ιmile Zola
- By the Open Sea August Strindberg
- The Master of Ballantrae Robert Louis Stevenson
- Pierre and Jean Guy de Maupassant
- Fortunata and Jacinta Benito Pιrez Galdιs
- The People of Hemsφ August Strindberg
- The Woodlanders Thomas Hardy
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Mayor of Casterbridge Thomas Hardy
- Kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson
- King Solomons Mines H. Rider Haggard
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain
- Bel-Ami Guy de Maupassant
- Marius the Epicurean Walter Pater
- Against the Grain Joris-Karl Huysmans
- The Death of Ivan Ilyich Leo Tolstoy
- A Womans Life Guy de Maupassant
- Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson
- The House by the Medlar Tree Giovanni Verga
- The Portrait of a Lady Henry James
- Bouvard and Pιcuchet Gustave Flaubert
- The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Red Room August Strindberg
- Return of the Native Thomas Hardy
- Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy
- Virgin Soil Ivan Turgenev
- Daniel Deronda George Eliot
- The Hand of Ethelberta Thomas Hardy
- The Temptation of Saint Anthony Gustave Flaubert
- Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy
- The Enchanted Wanderer Nicolai Leskov
- Around the World in Eighty Days Jules Verne
- In a Glass Darkly Sheridan Le Fanu
- The Devils Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Spring Torrents Ivan Turgenev
- Middlemarch George Eliot
- Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There Lewis Carroll
- King Lear of the Steppes Ivan Turgenev
- He Knew He Was Right Anthony Trollope
- War and Peace Leo Tolstoy
- Sentimental Education Gustave Flaubert
- Phineas Finn Anthony Trollope
- Maldoror Comte de Lautrιaumont
- The Idiot Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Moonstone Wilkie Collins
- Little Women Louisa May Alcott
- Thιrθse Raquin Ιmile Zola
- The Last Chronicle of Barset Anthony Trollope
- Journey to the Centre of the Earth Jules Verne
- Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Alices Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll
- Our Mutual Friend Charles Dickens
- Uncle Silas Sheridan Le Fanu
- Notes from the Underground Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Water-Babies Charles Kingsley
- Les Misιrables Victor Hugo
- Fathers and Sons Ivan Turgenev
- Silas Marner George Eliot
- Great Expectations Charles Dickens
- On the Eve Ivan Turgenev
- Castle Richmond Anthony Trollope
- The Mill on the Floss George Eliot
- The Woman in White Wilkie Collins
- The Marble Faun Nathaniel Hawthorne
- A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens
- Oblomovka Ivan Goncharov
- Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert
- North and South Elizabeth Gaskell
- Hard Times Charles Dickens
- Walden Henry David Thoreau
- Bleak House Charles Dickens
- Villette Charlotte Brontλ
- Cranford Elizabeth Gaskell
- Uncle Toms Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely Harriet Beecher Stowe
- The Blithedale Romance Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Moby-Dick Herman Melville
- The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne
- David Copperfield Charles Dickens
- Shirley Charlotte Brontλ
- Mary Barton Elizabeth Gaskell
- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Anne Brontλ
- Wuthering Heights Emily Brontλ
- Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontλ
- Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray
- The Count of Monte-Cristo Alexandre Dumas
- La Reine Margot Alexandre Dumas
- The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas
- The Purloined Letter Edgar Allan Poe
- Martin Chuzzlewit Charles Dickens
- The Pit and the Pendulum Edgar Allan Poe
- Lost Illusions Honorι de Balzac
- A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens
- Dead Souls Nikolay Gogol
- The Charterhouse of Parma Stendhal
- The Fall of the House of Usher Edgar Allan Poe
- The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby Charles Dickens
- Oliver Twist Charles Dickens
- Le Pθre Goriot Honorι de Balzac
- Eugιnie Grandet Honorι de Balzac
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame Victor Hugo
- The Red and the Black Stendhal
- The Betrothed Alessandro Manzoni
- Last of the Mohicans James Fenimore Cooper
- The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner James Hogg
- The Albigenses Charles Robert Maturin
- Melmoth the Wanderer Charles Robert Maturin
- The Monastery Sir Walter Scott
- Ivanhoe Sir Walter Scott
- Frankenstein Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Northanger Abbey Jane Austen
- Rob Roy Sir Walter Scott
- Mansfield Park Jane Austen
- Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
- The Absentee Maria Edgeworth
- Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen
- Elective Affinities Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Castle Rackrent Maria Edgeworth
1700s - Hyperion Friedrich Hφlderlin
- Wilhelm Meisters Apprenticeship Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- The Mysteries of Udolpho Ann Radcliffe
- The Interesting Narrative Olaudah Equiano
- The Adventures of Caleb Williams William Godwin
- Justine Marquis de Sade
- Vathek William Beckford
- The 120 Days of Sodom Marquis de Sade
- Confessions Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Dangerous Liaisons Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
- Reveries of a Solitary Walker Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- The Sorrows of Young Werther Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Humphrey Clinker Tobias George Smollett
- The Man of Feeling Henry Mackenzie
- A Sentimental Journey Laurence Sterne
- Tristram Shandy Laurence Sterne
- The Vicar of Wakefield Oliver Goldsmith
- The Castle of Otranto Horace Walpole
- Ιmile; or, On Education Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Rameaus Nephew Denis Diderot
- Julie; or, the New Eloise Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Rasselas Samuel Johnson
- The Female Quixote Charlotte Lennox
- Peregrine Pickle Tobias George Smollett
- Fanny Hill John Cleland
- Tom Jones Henry Fielding
- Roderick Random Tobias George Smollett
- Clarissa Samuel Richardson
- Pamela Samuel Richardson
- Jacques the Fatalist Denis Diderot
- Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus J. Arbuthnot, J. Gay, T. Parnell, A. Pope, J. Swift
- Joseph Andrews Henry Fielding
- A Modest Proposal Jonathan Swift
- Gullivers Travels Jonathan Swift
- Moll Flanders Daniel Defoe
- Love in Excess Eliza Haywood
- Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe
- A Tale of a Tub Jonathan Swift
Pre-1700 - The Princess of Clθves Marie-Madelaine Pioche de Lavergne, Comtesse de La Fayette
- The Pilgrims Progress John Bunyan
- Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- The Unfortunate Traveller Thomas Nashe
- Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit John Lyly
- Gargantua and Pantagruel Franηoise Rabelais
- The Thousand and One Nights Anonymous
- The Golden **** Lucius Apuleius
- Chaireas and Kallirhoe Chariton
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04-23-2008, 08:02 AM
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meanie
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I've read 13 or 14 of these; I can never remember which Hemingway I've read.
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Anita: if she were in front of me i would punch her in the throat just b/c of the way she types
see? it's not just me.
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04-23-2008, 08:39 AM
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I've read more from this set than the other. I'm surprised that Iliad and Odyssey, or even the Bible aren't on the list.
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Coexisting gracefully with the unresolved. - GFisms Vegito ΰ Kimi: "But damn. Why's this so damn scary? This is worse than someone breaking into my house and chasing me with a knife."
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04-23-2008, 09:07 AM
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I've read more from this set than the other. I'm surprised that Iliad and Odyssey, or even the Bible aren't on the list.
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yeah I was really surpised about the Odyssey, but that may just be because its in my top 5 favorite books
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04-23-2008, 10:54 AM
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Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck
The Hobbit J.R.R. Tolkien
A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway
All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque
The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
Dracula Bram Stoker
The Island of Dr. Moreau H.G. Wells
The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain
Walden Henry David Thoreau
Frankenstein Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
My list from this one. I could be wrong about A Farewell to Arms. Not a huge Papa fan.
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Anita: if she were in front of me i would punch her in the throat just b/c of the way she types
see? it's not just me.
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04-23-2008, 10:55 AM
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These are the books I've read from this list:
Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck
At the Mountains of Madness H.P. Lovecraft
The Thin Man Dashiell Hammett
The Glass Key Dashiell Hammett
Tarzan of the Apes Edgar Rice Burroughs
The House on the Borderland William Hope Hodgson
Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
The Hound of the Baskervilles Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The War of the Worlds H.G. Wells
The Invisible Man H.G. Wells
The Time Machine H.G. Wells
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson
Journey to the Centre of the Earth Jules Verne
Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky
Alices Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll
Silas Marner George Eliot
Moby-Dick Herman Melville
The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas
The Pit and the Pendulum Edgar Allan Poe
Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe
The Thousand and One Nights Anonymous
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04-23-2008, 01:21 PM
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All together from both lists I read about 21.
There are many others which I've watched on film/tv but I guess that doesn't count.
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04-24-2008, 05:18 PM
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Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck
Frankenstein Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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I've read those two and three others.
War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
The Awakening by Chopin
A Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.
A Brave New World is my absolute favorite book. Ever.
I've only read the above books... Including the other list. >.>
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Himeko: Let me be your first customer!
Winter: lol i could never charge you
Winter: thats like charging chuck norris for him to beat you up
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04-30-2008, 01:26 PM
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The Jungle has got to be one of the most depressing things I have ever read.
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