For The L♥ve of Reading discussion

THE TOP 20 SIGNET CLASSICS

For the rest of the year, try reading all of these books (or you can choose specific ones) from the list of the Top 20 Signet Classics.

*You do not necessarily have to read the copies published by Signet.*

1. 1984 by Goerge Orwell
2. Animal Farm by George Orwell
3. A Streetcar Named Desire by Tenessee Williams
4. The Inferno by Dante
5. The Odyssey by Homer *Best translations: Lattimore or Fogels!*
6. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
7. Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya
8. The Iliad by Homer *Best translations: Lattimore or Fogels!*
9. Beowulf (Burton Raffel, Translator)
10. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
11. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
12. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
13. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
14. Heart of Darkness & The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad
15. A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
16. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
17. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
18. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
19. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
20. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

i feel pretty good. i've read all but five of these books (of course my degree is in literature!).

LOL! That would have some ffect on it, haha. I have not read but one of these (Animal Farm), and I am currently reading 1984.

Whatever happened to Dr. Doolittle and Mary Poppins...Oh, yeah, I guess that would be YYA...

Highschool English Teachers would be very happy with this list! :)

yes! i am happy and i teach high school!