I need to preface this with a quick comment; in many places on my list I have simply placed the authors name due to my belief that all of their particular works, or most of them anyways, should be read, or at the very least a taste of some part of them.
And it is definitely a work in progress.
The Scriptures(daily)
J.R.R. Tolkien
William Shakespeare
Erasmus
Plato's Republic
Jane Austin
The Bronte sisters
Winston Churchill's History of the English Speaking Peoples and History of WW2
Leo Tolstoy
Charles Dickens
History of the Church
Bruce R. McConkie
James E. Talmage
Orson Pratt's Masterful Discourses (family bias)
John Taylor's The Gospel Kingdom (another family bias)
The Teachings of Joseph Smith
John Stienbeck
Robert Frost
Emily Dickenson
Edgar Allen Poe
Homer's Iliad & Odessey
Thomas Paine's Common Sense
The Constitution (annually)
The Declaration of Independance(annually)
Farenheit 451
George Orwell's Animal Farm & 1984
Dostoyevsky
Robert Louis Stevenson
Daniel DeFoe's Robinson Crusoe
Ernest Hemingway
Rudyard Kipling
Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn
Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels
Cervantes-Don Quiote
Alexander Dumas- The 3 Musketeers, The Man in the Iron Mask, The Count of Monte Cristo
Herman Melville- Moby Dick
Chaucer-The Canterbury Tales
William Faulkner
Dante-Divine Comedy
Hans Christian Anderson-Fairy Tales
Bulfinch's Mythology
The Brothers Grimm
Complete Tales of Washington Irving
Ayn Rand
This is only a partial list but I thought I had best post something in order get it up and moving.
I am sure that I will be amending this list continually for the time being.
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West of the Moon, East of the Sun.
6 comments:
scott - i am impressed
i would only add the sacred tomes of betsy-tacy
An ambitious list - I am familiar with all of them - often through Cliff Notes - but you don't have much modern stuff.
There is a lot of good stuff out there - just takes some sifting.
The farther I get away from school, the less interested I feel in "classics." Could be a personal flaw.
Or the belief that if there was lots of good stuff in the past, there is lot of good stuff still to come.
But then again, I could never get through Silas Marner - until I saw "Simple Twist of Fate." Then I breezed through it because I understood the plotline. (I have long depended on Clff Notes and other such sources to help me get the "big picture."
It's still just a start, and I have read many from this list.(many more than once, I am a compulsive re-reader)
The reason for the call for lists is to expand my own list(and my personal library). And Because I have great faith in my family in knowing and passing along great literature, old and new!
I have been kind of obsessed with the classics of late.
Bonnie, I am not familiar with Betsy-tacy, but if that falls anywhere near the Little House books, The Great Brain, or Beatrix Potter, then they have to go on the list. It is not even partially complete.
I am making assumptions by the name of course. You can correct me.
This is an overwhelming feat! I don't even know where to start.
Many years ago I came across a list of "must reads" and I have steadily crossed off many of them.
Your list is very similar to mine. And I do agree that your list is just the tip of the iceberg.
I am actually surprised by how much I have read (being the slow reader that I am). Yeah for me.
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales is still one of my all time favs. I have never forgotten that having a space between one's front teeth is an indication of being a good lover. Comparing myself to the Wife of Bath . . . hmmmm . . . I'm not sure what that says about me!
I think you have a great list. My problem is chosing between my favorites and what I might recommend to others. Not always one and the same because who else besides me and the Terrill girls re-read the Betsy books regularly?
One must read on the top of my list-To Kill a Mocking Bird. Love that book.
Check out some Richard Feynman books. He was a brillant physicist, who worked on the a-bomb.He had a very interesting life and view of life. I've read four or five books on and written by him.
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