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message 1: by Deborah (last edited Mar 08, 2014 08:23PM) (new)

Deborah Read:
Brave New World
Fahrenheit 451
Animal Farm
Gone with the Wind
Macbeth
The Tempest
Pride and Prejudice
Hamlet
The Canterbury Tales
1984
Beowulf
The Scarlet Letter
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
My Antonia
The Great Gatsby
The Oedipus Cycle
The Odyssey
Much Ado About Nothing
The Catcher in the Rye
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Romeo and Juliet
To Kill A Mockingbird
Twelfth Night
A Midsummer's Night Dream
The Scarlet Pimpernel
The Importance of Being Earnest
The Yellow Wallpaper
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
The Chronicles of Narnia
Billy Budd Sailor
The Prince
Ethan Frome
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
The Member of the Wedding
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Our Town
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
The Overcoat
Dubliners
Othello
Great Expectations
The Merchant of Venice
Little Women
Gulliver's Travels
A Streetcar Named Desire
A Doll's House
King Lear
The Bhagavad Gita
Phaedo
The Master and Margarita

Read in French:
The Little Prince
The Necklace and Other Short Stories
- Voyage de Santé
- Le Tic
- La Peur
- Sur l'Eau
- Par un Soir de Printemps
- Un Fou?
- La Parure
The Stranger

Read in Russian:
Poems of Akhmatova
Царевна-лягушка
The Nose

To Read:
Sense and Sensibility
Persuasion
Mansfield Park
Northanger Abbey
Emma
Lord of the Flies
Madame Bovary
The Taming of the Shrew
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Jane Eyre
Frankenstein
Anna Karenina
The Idiot
War and Peace
Beloved
Lolita
Crime and Punishment
Eugene Onegin

Currently Reading:
The Brother's Karamazov
The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol

If some of these aren't classics, please let me know! I'm still a little confused on what is a classic and what isn't. And I'm open to any suggestions on what to read as well! :)


message 2: by Nicolle (new)

Nicolle As far as I'm concerned all of those are indeed classics.


message 3: by Jill (new)

Jill (jillelise) Agreed! And, Confession of an English Opium Eater sounds intriguing!


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