Reading Classics, Chronologically Through the Ages discussion

Well, my first list, of course, should be the WEM List:


Novels:
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
The Trial by Franz Kafka
Native Son by Richard Wright
The Stranger by Albert Camus
1984 by George Orwell
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Seize the Day by Saul Bellow
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
If on a winter's night a traveler by Italo Calvino
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
White Noise by Don Dellilo
Possession by A.S. Byatt

Biographies:
Confessions by Augustine
The Book of Margery Kempe
Selected Essays by Michel de Montaigne:
Introduction
Part One
Part Two
Part Three
The Life of Saint Teresa of Àvila by Herself
Meditations by Réne Descartes
Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners by John Bunyan
The Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mary Rowlandson
Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Walden, or My Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs
Narratve of the Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington LOVED IT!
Ecce Homo by Friedrich Nietzsche
Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth by Mohandas Gandhi
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein
The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton
Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life by C.S. Lewis
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
Journal of a Solitude by May Sarton
The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
Born Again by Charles W. Colson
Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez
The Road from Coorain by Jill Ker Conway
All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs


Histories:
The Histories by Herodotus
The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
The Republic by Plato
Plutarch's Lives
The City of God by Augustine
The Ecclesiastical History of the English People by the Venerable Bede
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
Utopia by Sir Thomas More
The True End of Civil Government by John Locke
The History of England, Vol. V by David Hume
The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Common Sense by Thomas Paine
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
Democracy in America by Alexis De Tocqueville
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt
The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber
Queen Victoria by Lytton Strachey
The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell
The New England Mind by Perry Miller
The Great Crash 1929 by John Kenneth Galbraith
The Longest Day by Cornelius Ryan
The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made by Eugene D. Genovese
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century by Barbara Tuchman
All the President's Men by Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James M. McPherson
A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama



Plays:
Agamemnon by Aeschylus
Oedipus the King
Medea by Euripides
The Birds by Aristophanes
Poetics by Aristotle
Everyman
Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
Richard III by William Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Tartuffe by Molière
The Way of the World by William Congreve
She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith
The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw
Murder in the Cathedral by T.S. Eliot
Our Town by Thornton Wilder
Long Day's Journey Into Night by Eugene O'Neill
No Exit by Jean Paul Satre
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
A Man For All Seasons by Robert Bolt
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
Equus by Peter Shaffer


Poetry
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Iliad by Homer
The Odyssey
Greek Lyricists
Odes by Horace
Beowulf
Inferno by Dante Alighieri
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Sonnets by William Shakespeare
John Donne
Bible: Psalms (King James Version)
Paradise Lost by John Milton
Songs of Innocence and of Experience by William Blake
William Wordsworth
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
John Keats
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Walt Whitman
Emily Dickinson
Christina Rossetti
Gerard Manley Hopkins
William Butler Yeats
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Robert Frost
Carl Sandburg
William Carlos Williams
Ezra Pound
T.S. Eliot
Langston Hughes
W.H. Auden

The Rougon Macquart series by Émila Zola :
(in Zola's recommended order - thanks Sharon for reminding me of this project!)

La Fortune des Rougon (1871)
Son Excellence Eugène Rougon (1876)
La Curée (1871-2)
L'Argent (1891)
Le Rêve (1888)
La Conquête de Plassans (1874)
Pot-Bouille (1882)
Au Bonheur des Dames (1883)
La Faute de l'Abbé Mouret (1875)
Une Page d'amour (1878)
Le Ventre de Paris (1873)
La Joie de vivre (1884)
L'Assommoir (1877)
L'Œuvre (1886)
La Bête humaine (1890)
Germinal (1885)
Nana (1880)
La Terre (1887)
La Débâcle (1892)
Le Docteur Pascal (1893)

Trollope Project:

The Barsetshire Chronicles

The Warden
Barchester Towers
Doctor Thorne
Framley Parsonage
The Small House at Allington
The Last Chronicle of Barset


The Palliser Novels:

Can You Forgive Her?
Phineas Finn
The Eustace Diamons
Phineas Redux
The Prime Minister
The Duke's Children

Greek & Roman Challenge

Homer
The Iliad
The Odyssey
Homeric Hymns


Aeschylus
The Persians
The Suppliant Maidens
Seven Against Thebes

The Orestia:
Agamemnon by Aeschylus
The Libation Bearers
The Eumenides

Promethus Bound


Sophocles
Electra
Ajax

The Theban Trilogy:
Oedipus Rex
Oedipus at Colonus
Antigone

Women of Trachis
Philoctetes


Euripides
Electra
Heracles
Medea
Hippolytus
Hecuba
The Trojan Women
Iphigenia at Tarsis
The Bacchae
Iphigenia at Aulis
Ion
Rhesus


Aristophanes
The Frogs

Herodotus
The Histories

Thucydides
The History of the Peloponnesian War


Plato
Apology
The Republic


Aristotle

Roman Literature

Virgil

.....


(in progress .....)

Holding for list #5

Cleo wrote: "Well, my first list, of course, should be the WEM List:


Novels:
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift (Review)
Pride and Pr..."

Excellent linking to your blog reviews!

This is a wonderful list and your blog is very engaging!

Cleo wrote: "Trollope Project:

The Barsetshire Chronicles

The Warden
Barchester Towers
Doctor Thorne
Framley Parsonage
The Small House at Allington
The Last Chronicle of Barset


The Palliser Novels:

Can You..."

Yes to Trollope!! I will probably add him to my list, too. Thank you, Cleo!

Cleo wrote: " The Rougon Macquart series by Émila Zola :
(in Zola's recommended order - thanks Sharon for reminding me of this project!)

La Fortune des Rougon (1871)
Son Excellence Eugène Rougon (1876)
La Curé..."

You are very welcome! Thank you for putting them in Zola's order!

Nicky wrote: "This is a wonderful list and your blog is very engaging!"

Thanks! I have too many lists but at least I'm never at a loss for a book to read! :-D

Reading Plans:

January 2017

WEM Histories:
The Histories by Herodotus
The Republic by Plato

Read-Alongs:
Don Quixote by Cervantes (with Bookstooge)
The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens (with O)
The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser

Challenges:
Trollope: The Small House at Allington
Deal Me In: Vulgarity-Chesterton, A Little Woman-Kafka, Le Horla-Maupassant, etc.
Russian Lit: Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak; The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (possibles)
Great Ideas: The Difference Between Knowledge and Opinion; Opinion and Human Freedom

Book Group:
Wounded by Love

I'm hoping that it will help me stay on track to lay out my month reading plans. Focus, focus, focus!

That all looks so exciting! Out of the 2017 starting gate at full speed!

Kenia wrote: "That all looks so exciting! Out of the 2017 starting gate at full speed!"

LOL! I just hope that I don't crash! ;-)

Just make it glorious, Cleo. Make it glorious.

;-D

Kenia wrote: "Just make it glorious, Cleo. Make it glorious.

;-D"

LOL! You've given me my big laugh for the day! ;-)

I'm going to post some of my 2019 plans here to hopefully help keep on top of them. A work-in-progress:


January:

Deal Me In:

Dec 31st week: An Apology for Idlers and Other Essays (9 of spades)
Jan 7th week: Just David (4 of hearts)
Jan 14th week: Signs and Symbols (Ace of clubs)
Jan 21st week: The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Writings (5 of clubs)
Jan 28th week: The Story of a Farm Girl (6 of clubs)


Phantastes Chapters I-IV before January 2nd
Phantastes Chapters V-VIII before January 9th
Phantastes Chapters IX-XII before January 16th
Phantastes Chapters XIII-XIV before January 23rd
Phantastes Chapters XV-XIX before January 30th

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

February:

Moby-Dick or, The Whale


Phantastes Chapters XX-XXII before February 6th
Phantastes Chapters XXIII-XV before February 13th

February:

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (where has the read-along gone though?)

Time to celebrate the new blog and put up some challenges!~

Back To The Classics Challenge 2019

(Listing books which are planned)

19th Century Classic: Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson or The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo
20th Century Classic: Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Classic by a Female Author: The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot or Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
Classic In Translation: The Stranger by Albert Camus
Classic Comedy: Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais or The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
Classic Tragedy Novel: The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (✔)
A Very Long Classic: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Classic Novella: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
Classic From The Americas: Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville
Classic From Africa, Asia or Oceania: The Garden Party and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield
Classic From A Place You’ve Lived: Roughing It in the Bush (Canada) by Susanna Moodie
Classic Play: Ajax by Sophocles

52 Books in 52 Weeks

1. The True Saint Nicholas: Why He Matters to Christmasby William J. Bennett
2. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
3. The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
4. The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie
5. Phantastes by George MacDonald
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Newbery Reading Challenge 2019

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Picture Book Reading Challenge 2019

January 2019

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Deal-Me-In Challenge 2019 (thanks to Sandy for the template!)

Week ending January 6th: An Apology for Idlers by Robert Louis Stevenson

DEAL ME IN Challenge 2019

Short Stories

♣️ A ~ Signs and Symbols – Vladimir Nabakov
♣️ 2 ~ Cabbages and Kings – O’Henry
♣️ 3 ~ Love – Leo Tolstoy
♣️ 4 ~ The Queen of Spades – Alexander Pushkin
♣️ 5 ~ The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Gilman
♣️ 6 ~ The Story of A Farm Girl – Guy Maupassant
♣️ 7 ~ The Birds – Anton Chekhov
♣️ 8 ~ The Hammer of God (Father Brown) – G.K. Chesterton
♣️ 9 ~ The Diary of a Madman – Guy Maupassant
♣️ 10 ~ Doubtful Happiness – Guy Maupassant
♣️ J ~ The Unpresentable Appearance of Colonel Crane – G.K. Chesterton
♣️ Q ~ The Honest Thief – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
♣️ K ~ The Mark on the Wall – Virginia Woolf
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Essays

♠️ A ~ A Midsummer Night’s Dream – G.K. Chesterton
♠️ 2 ~ On A Faithful Friend – Virginia Woolf
♠️ 3 ~ A Note on Jane Austen – C.S. Lewis
♠️ 4 ~ In Defence of Literacy – Wendell Berry
♠️ 5 ~ The Tyranny of Bad Journalism – G.K. Chesterton
♠️ 6 ~ The Hotel of a Total Stranger – E.B. White
♠️ 7 ~ Sex, Economy, Freedom and Community – Wendell Berry
♠️ 8 ~ Sense – C.S. Lewis
♠️ 9 ~ An Apology for Idlers – Robert Louis Stevenson
♠️ 10 ~ Reflections on Gandhi – George Orwell
♠️ J ~ The End of the World – G.K. Chesterton
♠️ Q ~ Self-Reliance – Ralph Waldo Emerson
♠️ K ~ On Going A Journey – William Hazlitt
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Poetry

♦️ A ~ Phoenix and the Turtle – William Shakespeare
♦️ 2 ~ From Milton [Jerusalem] – William Blake
♦️ 3 ~ Ode to the West Wind – Percy Bysshe Shelley
♦️ 4 ~ A Sea Dirge – Lewis Carroll
♦️ 5 ~ To A Mouse – Robert Burns
♦️ 6 ~ Gesang Der Geister Über Den Wassern – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
♦️ 7 ~ Ode III – Fray Luis de León
♦️ 8 ~ Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night – Dylan Thomas
♦️ 9 ~ It Is A Beauteous Evening – William Wordsworth
♦️ 10 ~ Love Sonnet XIII – Pablo Neruda
♦️ J ~ The Mad Gardener’s Song – Lewis Carroll
♦️ Q ~ Resolution and Independence – William Wordsworth
♦️ K ~ Sonnet XXIII – Garcilaso de la Vega
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Children's Novels

♥️ A ~ City of the Golden House – Madeleine Polland
♥️ 2 ~ Sprig of Broom – Barbara Willard
♥️ 3 ~ Teddy’s Button – Amy Lefeuvre
♥️ 4 ~ Just David – Eleanor H. Porter
♥️ 5 ~ Beyond the Desert Gate – Mary Ray
♥️ 6 ~ A Triumph for Flavius – Caroline Dale Snedecker
♥️ 7 ~ The Story of the Treasure Seekers – E. Nesbit
♥️ 8 ~ Detectives in Togas – Henry Winterfeld
♥️ 9 ~ Shadow Hawk – Andre Norton
♥️ 10 ~ The Spartan – Caroline Dale Snedecker
♥️ J ~ Three Greek Children – Alfred J. Church
♥️ Q ~ Red Sails to Capri – Ann Weil
♥️ K ~ The Bronze Bow – Elizabeth George Speare
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Christian Greats Challenge 2019

1) A Book on Early Church History

2) A Book About a Prominent Christian Who Was Born Between 500 A.D & 1900

3) A Christian Allegory

4) A Book on Apologetics

5) A Philosophical Book by a Christian Author

6) A Missionary Biography or A Biography of a Prominent Christian: The True Saint Nicholas: Why He Matters to Christmas by William J. Bennett

7) A Seasonal Book

8) A Novel with a Christian Theme

9) A Good Old Detective or Mystery Novel

10) A Substitute

2019 Chunkster Challenge

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2019 Shakespeare Challenge

January to April (comedy):
May to August (history):
September to December (tragedy):

TBR Challenge(s) 2019

1. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
2. The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
3. Phantastes by George MacDonald

Thanks, Sandy. I was conservative with my Goodreads goal but not so much with my challenges. I'm feeling positive but we'll see .... :-)

Cleo, I’m rather new to this group. Something I’ve wanted to do for a long time is to read classics. I want to thank you for your lists of classics. Your first list is a a great place to start. The last classic I read, Beowulf, has sparked my interest in reading classics of old.

You've very welcome, Howard! I'm glad all my lists haven't made your head spin. ;-) I absolutely LOVE Beowulf .... I think I've read it about 4 times and hosted a read-along of it one year on my blog. It's one of my favourites!