Reading Classics, Chronologically Through the Ages discussion

I'm Deanna from Tacoma, Washington. I picked up this book at the library, and just recently bought my own copy, so that I can mark in the book. :)

My plan is to read TWEM first, and then tackle Gilgamesh. I decided to do it this way in order to have all of my notes from TWEM at the beginning of my handwritten journal.

I also bought another journal to keep notes on the various history books by Susan Wise Bauer. I plan on reading the history books in conjunction with the chronological list.

Lastly, check out my blog on this reading project! https://thewelleducatedmindblog.wordp...

Happy reading!

One project that I'd like to continue is to read books before the movie comes out. Here's the list from the past few years to current:
Monuments​ ​Men
Winter’s​ ​Tale
Labor​ ​Day
Therese​ ​Requin​ ​by​ ​Emile​ ​Zola​ ​(movie:​ ​In​ ​Secret)
Divergent​ ​by​ ​Veronica​ ​Roth
Serena​ ​​ ​by​ ​Ron​ ​Rash
Outlander​ ​by​ ​Diana​ ​Gobaldon
The​ ​Fault​ ​in​ ​Our​ ​Stars​ ​by​ ​John​ ​Green
All​ ​You​ ​Need​ ​is​ ​Kill​ ​by​ ​Hiroshi​ ​Sakusazak
The​ ​Hundred-Foot​ ​Journey
The​ ​Giver​ ​by​ ​Lois​ ​Lawry
If​ ​I​ ​Stay​ ​by​ ​Gayle​ ​Forman
Dark​ ​Places​ ​by​ ​Gillian​ ​Flynn
This​ ​is​ ​Where​ ​I​ ​leave​ ​You​ ​by​ ​Jonathan​ ​Trapper
The​ ​Maze​ ​Runner​ ​by​ ​James​ ​Dashner
Gone​ ​Girl​ ​by​ ​Gillian​ ​Flynn
The​ ​Best​ ​of​ ​Me​ ​by​ ​Nicolas​ ​Sparks
Mocking​ ​Jay​ ​by​ ​Suzanne​ ​Collins
Unbroken​ ​by​ ​Laura​ ​Hillebrand
Inherent​ ​Vice​ ​by​ ​Thomas​ ​Pynchon
Macbeth
Suite​ ​Francaise
Child​ ​44​ ​by​ ​Tom​ ​Rob​ ​Smith
Far​ ​From​ ​the​ ​Madding​ ​Crowd​ ​by​ ​Thomas​ ​Hardy
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith (movie: Carol)
Trash by Andy Mulligan
Truth and Duty by Mary Mapes (movie: Truth)
Miss Julie by August Strindberg
Every Secret Thing by Laura Lippman
Then They Came for Me by Maziar Bahari (movie: Rosewater)
A Long Way Down
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
Still Alice by Alisa Genova
Fifty Shades of Grey
Insurgent by Veronica Roth
The Longest Ride by Nicolas Sparks
Heroic Measures by Jill Ciment
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews
A Slight Trick of the Mind by Mitch Cullin
Madam Bovary by Gustive Flaubert edited by Lydia Davis
Although of Course You… by David Lipsky
Black Mass … by Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Niell
The Martian by Andy Weir
Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest
Room by Emma Donoghue
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
The Secret in Their Eyes by Eduardo Sacheri
The Danish Girl by David Ebershoff
The Revenant: A Novel of Revenge by Michael Punke
American Sniper by Chris Kyle
In the Heart of the Sea
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
The Taliban Shuffle by Kim Barker
Allegiant by Veronica Roth
Me Before You by JoJo Moyes
The BFG by Roald Dahl
The Girl on the Train
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
Inferno by Dan Brown
Silence by Shusaku Endo
Let It Snow by John Green
I Take You by Eliza Kennedy
The Zookeeper’s Wife by Diane Ackerman
Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll
The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey
The Lost City of Z by David Grann
The Choice by Nicholas Sparks
Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates and a Thousand Cocktails
Into the Forest by Jean Hegland
Nerve by Jeanne Ryan
Max Perkins by A. Scott Berg
The Light Between Oceans by M. L. Stedman
The Queen of Katwe by Tim Crothers
American Pastoral by Philip Roth
Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by Newt Scamand
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
The Circle by Dave Eggers
Looking for Alaska by John Green
Brain on Fire My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan
The November Criminals by Sam Munson
Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll
A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers
The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
How to Be Single by Liz Tuccillo
The Free State of Jones by Victoria E. Bynum
Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Into the Forest by Jean Hegland
Indignation by Philip Roth
Ben-Hur by Lew Wallace

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I had to take a little break for the past week or so. My grandma had surgery, so I needed to take care of her. it's been a busy week!

Grandma likes to eat breakfast at 4 am sometimes, so I was scrambling eggs at 4 am with only one eye open! hehe

Soon, I will be back to my studies!

I just received my own copy of TWEM from amazon. Today, it went on sale for $19.25. I paid $23.76. :(

Ouch! Do you think you could contact them and they'd give you the sale price?

Oops...the sale price was for the kindle edition and not the hardback edition....Sorry!

I started reading Don Quixote, and I am not sure if I should skip the poems until later. On the kindle version, the poems are missing the ends of the lines.

I looked at the Project Gutenberg copy (a different translation), and the poems are complete. Maybe I should just read the poems online.

In the Prologue, the author's friend said something like you could make up stuff, because no one would bother to check.