Sunday, December 04, 2011

Republic of Letters

So I thought recently about all the books I've had to read, and those I've read for pleasure. I'll omit purely technical works and focus on literature.
High School Assigned Readings
  • Romeo and Juliet
  • Julius Caesar
  • As I Lay Dying
  • Things Fall Apart
  • The Awakening
  • The Old Man and the Sea
  • Ethan Frome (didn't read it)
  • The Red Badge of Courage (also didn't read it)
  • Fahrenheit 451
  • Animal Farm
  • Thus Spake Zarathustra (I'd read it once and followed up to do a term paper)
College assigned readings
  • Hamlet
  • Henry V
  • History of the Peloponnesian War
  • Crito
  • Phaedo
  • Apology
  • Symposium
Personal Reading (In no particular order)
  • The Trial
  • The Castle
  • Amerika
  • The Stranger
  • Man in Revolt
  • Essays of Montaigne
  • Republic
  • Why I am Not a Christian
  • Power
  • Conquest of Happiness
  • Marriage and Morals
  • The House of Mirth
  • Farewell to Arms
  • In Our Time
  • Mrs Dalloway
  • The Years
  • Orlando
  • To the Lighthouse
  • This Side of Paradise
  • Adam Bede
  • Middlemarch
  • Silas Marner
  • Moll Flanders
  • Felix Holt, the Radical
  • Daniel Deronda
  • Vanity Fair
  • Pride and Prejudice
  • Emma
  • Jane Eyre
  • Wuthering Heights
  • Sense and Sensibility
  • Tess of the D'Urbervilles
  • Rameau's Nephew
  • D'Alembert's Dream
  • The Gay Science
  • Geneology of Morals
  • Ecce Homo
  • Beyond Good and Evil
  • The Antichrist
  • Crime and Punishment
  • Anna Karenina
  • Brothers Karamazov
  • The Merchant of Venice
  • King Lear
  • Macbeth
  • Titus Andonicus
  • Timon of Athens
  • Pericles
  • Dead Souls
  • The Nose, The Overcoat, How Ivan Fyodorovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovitch
  • Plays of Aeschylus
  • Plays of Sophocles
  • Plays of Euripides
  • Brideshead Revisited
  • Devil in Paradise
  • Tropic of Cancer
  • Stand Still Like the Hummingbird
  • The Air Conditioned Nightmare
  • Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch
  • The Crime of Father Amaro
  • The Master and Margarita
  • Faust (Goethe's version)
  • Angle of Repose
  • The Mill on the Floss
  • 1984
  • Point Counter Point
  • Island
  • Brave New World
  • My Antonia
  • Hard Times
  • Great Expectations
  • Our Mutual Friend
  • Bleak House
  • Franny and Zooey
  • Nine Stories
  • Dubliners
  • Foundation/Robot cycle
  • Dune cycle

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