I hope to read the following 50 books by February 22, 2017. If I finish early, which I hope I do, I get to make a list of 50 books to reread! See also my introductory post to the project.
Progress: 10/50
Ancient
- Gilgamesh
- Grief Lessons (Four plays by Euripides, as translated by Anne Carlson)
- Three Theban Plays by Sophocles
- Oresteia Trilogy (also including Seven Against Thebes and Prometheus Bound) by Aeschylus
- The Republic by Plato
- The Aeneid by Virgil
- Â If Not, Winter by Sappho (fragments, translated by Anne Carlson)Â thoughts
Medieval
- The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Non-Western Early Classics
- The Tale of the Genji by Murasaki
Pre-Victorian England
- Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley  thoughts
Victorian
- Lady Audley’s Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
- Villette by Charlotte Bronte
- Poor Miss Finch by Wilkie Collins thoughts
- Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens thoughts
- Â David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
- The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens
- Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
- Adam Bede by George Eliot
- Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
- Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell
- The Life of Charlotte Bronte by Elizabeth Gaskell
- The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
- Vanity Fair by William Thackeray thoughts
American Classics
- The Awakening by Kate Chopin thoughts
- The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper thoughts
- The Wings of the Dove by Henry James
- Iola Leroy by Frances Harper
- The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. DuBois
Classics in Translation
- The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal
- The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
- Hedda Gabler by Henrick Ibsen
- All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
- The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov (play)
- The Trial byFranz Kafka
- Suite Francaisse by Irene Nemirovsky
- Letters from a Young Poet by Ranier Maria Rilke
- The Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun
Twentieth-Century Classics
- Kim by Rudyard Kipling (1907)
- A Room with a View by E.M. Foster (1908)
- Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw (1912)
- Main Street by Sinclair Lewis (1920)
- The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (1929)Â thoughts
- A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (1929)Â thoughts
- The Waves by Virginia Woolf (1931)
- Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1934)Â thoughts
- Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh (1945)
- The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andric (1945) thoughts
- All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren (1947)