There are 63 titles on the list, so I have a few alternate choices. I am setting it as a rule for myself that I cannot add to this list, I have to select from these titles. My posts about this project, both this list and the earlier ones, are here.
The unread titles:
No Longer at Ease, Chinua Achibe, 1960
*Aesop's Fables
Eighty Fairy Tales, Hans Christian Andersen
The Gods Themselves, Isaac Asimov, 1972
The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck, 1931
Black Snow, Mikhail Bulgakov, 1965
*Song of the Lark, Willa Cather, 1915
A Lost Lady, Willa Cather, 1923
Diary of a Provincial Lady, E. M. Delafield, 1930
*Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens, 1838
*Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens, 1865
*A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens, 1859
*Hard Times, Charles Dickens, 1854
*Little Dorrit, Charles Dickens, 1857
Middlemarch, George Eliot, 1872
*Come and Get It, Edna Ferber, 1935
The Beautiful and the Damned, F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1922
*Howards End, E. M. Forster, 1910
The Magus, John Fowles, 1965
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1967
In the Year of Jubilee, George Gissing, 1893
Riders of the Purple Sage, Zane Grey, 1912
*Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
*Roots, Alex Haley, 1976
Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein, 1961
*Dune, Frank Herbert, 1965
Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo, 1831
*Three Men in a Boat, Jerome K. Jerome, 1889
Ulysses, James Joyce, 1922
*Profiles in Courage, John F. Kennedy, 1955
*Steamboat Gothic, Francis Parkinson Keyes, 1952
*Russia House, John le Carre, 1989
Dom Casmurro, Machado de Assis, 1899
*The Armies of the Night, Norman Mailer, 1968
Of Human Bondage, W. Somerset Maugham, 1915
*The Razor's Edge, W. Somerset Maugham, 1944
*Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry, 1985
The Black Prince, Iris Murdoch, 1973
A House for Mr Biswas, V. S. Naipaul, 1961
*True Grit, Charles Portis, 1968
*Swann's Way, Marcel Proust, 1913
*Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie, 1988
Indiana, George Sand, 1832
A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth, 1993
*3 Lives, Gertrude Stein, 1909
*A Tale of a Tub, Jonathan Swift, 1704
*Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray, 1847
*Mary Poppins, P. L. Travers, 1934
Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, 1945
Delta Wedding, Eudora Welty, 1946
Harriet Hume, Rebecca West, 1929
Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton, 1920
Book of Merlyn, T. H. White, 1977
The Years, Virginia Woolf, 1937
*Autobiography of Malcolm X, Malcolm X, 1965
We, Yevgeny Zamyatin, 1924
The Masterpiece, Emile Zola, 1886
War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy, 1867 [began reading in Jan. 2024]
*I have a copy of this book on my shelves.
The books I have finished reading:
- Jamaica Inn, Daphne du Maurier, 1936 [Jan. 2024]
- Nightwood, Djuna Barnes, 1937 [Feb. 2024]
- The Quiet American, Graham Greene, 1955 [Mar., 2024]
- The Postman Always Rings Twice, James M. Cain, 1934 [Apr 2024]
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