Classics

Books Read (Classic Literature)

A selection of classics I've read through the years, organized first by author, then by date read (most recently read books at the bottom of each listing).


Alcott, Louisa May

• Little Women
• Little Men

Alighieri, Dante

• The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso

Aurelius, Marcus

• Meditations

Austen, Jane

• Sense and Sensibility
• Pride and Prejudice
• Emma
• Mansfield Park
• Northanger Abbey
• Persuasion
• Love and Freindship [sic]

Barrie, J. M. 

• Peter-Pan
• Peter-Pan in Kensington Gardens

Baum, L. Frank

• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Benson, Robert Hugh

• Lord of the World

Bierce, Ambrose

• "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"

Boyle, Frederick

• About Orchids: A Chat

Bronte; Charlotte, Emily, and Anne

• Jane Eyre
• Wuthering Heights
• Villette
• Shirley
• Agnes Grey

Brown, Charles Brockden

• Wieland; or, The Transformation

Browning, Robert

• Incident of the French Camp
• The Patriot
• My Last Duchess
• Count Gismond
• Mesmerism
• Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came

Burnett, Frances Hodgson

• The Secret Garden
• A Little Princess (abridged)

Capote, Truman

• Breakfast at Tiffany's

Carroll, Lewis

• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
• Through the Looking-Glass
• A Tangled Tale
• Sylvie and Bruno
• Sylvie and Bruno Concluded 

Chekov, Anton

• The Kiss and Other Stories

Chesterton, G. K.

• The Man Who Was Thursday
• The Club of Queer Trades 
• Eugenics and Other Evils
• Orthodoxy 
• The Man Who Knew Too Much 
• Manalive (did not finish)
• Heretics

Christie, Agatha

• Miss Marple
• The Thirteen Problems
• The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
• A Caribbean Mystery
• Nemesis
• 4.50 from Paddington, or What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw!
• The Body in the Library
• A Murder is Announced
• They Do It with Mirrors, or Murder With Mirrors
• A Pocket Full of Rye
• At Bertram's Hotel
• The Moving Finger
• The Murder at the Vicarage
• Sleeping Murder

• Tommy and Tuppence
• N or M?
• By the Pricking of My Thumbs
• The Secret Adversary
• Postern of Fate
• Partners in Crime

• Hercule Poirot
• The Murder of Roger Acroyd
• Death on the Nile  
• Curtain
• Thirteen At Dinner, or Lord Edgware Dies
• The ABC Murders, or Alphabet Murders
• The Murder on the Links
• Elephants Can Remember 
• Cards on the Table
• Murder on the Orient Express, or Murder in the Calais Coach
• Hercule Poirot’s Christmas,or Murder for Christmas, or Holiday for Murder
• Hercule Poirot’s Casebook (short stories)

                    •    Poirot Investigates
                    •    Dead Man’s Mirror
                    •    The Regatta Mystery
                    •    The Labors of Hercules
                    •    Three Blind Mice
                    •    The Under Dog
                    •    Double Sin

• Third Girl
• Poirot Loses a Client, or Dumb Witness
• Evil Under the Sun
• The Hollow, or Murder After Hours
• Funerals Are Fatal, or After the Funeral
• Crooked House
• Hickory Dickory Dock, or Hickory Dickory Death
• Peril at End House
• Mrs. McGinty’s Dead
• The Mystery of the Blue Train
• The Patriotic Murders, or One, Two, Buckle My Shoe, or An Overdose of Death
• There is a Tide, or Taken At the Flood
• Dead Man’s Folly
• Murder in Three Acts, or Three Act Tragedy
• Death in the Air, or Death in the Clouds
• The Big Four

• The Witness for the Prosecution
• And Then There Were None, or Ten Little Indians
• The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Mysteries
• Ordeal by Innocence
• The Pale Horse
• The Mysterious Mr Quin

Collins, Wilkie

• The Woman in White - skim read

Collodi, Carlo

• Pinocchio

Conrad, Joseph

• Heart of Darkness
• Youth
• The Shadow-Line
• Under Western Eyes
• The Secret Sharer
• Within the Tides
• Lord Jim; more thoughts here
• Tales of Unrest 
• Nostromo

Cooper, James Fenimore

• The Prairie

Corbeau, Adrien Le

• The Forest Giant (Le Gigantesque, transl. by T. E. Lawrence)

Crane, Stephen

• The Red Badge of Courage

Dickens, Charles

• Great Expectations
• Oliver Twist
• Nicholas Nickleby
• Martin Chuzzlewit
• The Old Curiosity Shop
• Our Mutual Friend
• A Tale of Two Cities
• "Hunted Down"

Dickinson, Emily

• Selected Poems and Letters

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

• The Idiot 
• Notes from Underground
• The Brothers Karamazov 
• White Nights and Other Stories

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan 

• Sherlock Holmes
• A Study in Scarlet
• The Sign of Four
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
• The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
• The Hound of the Baskervilles
• The Return of Sherlock Holmes
• His Last Bow
• The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes
• Two Parodies by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

                    •    The Field Bazaar
                    •    How Watson Learned the Trick

• The Complete Brigadier Gerard
• The Refugees
• The White Company
• Sir Nigel
• Professor Challenger
• The Lost World
• When the World Screamed
• The Disintegration Machine
• The Poison Belt

• The Captain of the Polestar and Other Tales
• Round the Red Lamp
• The Dealings of Captain Sharkey and Other Tales of Pirates 
• The Stark Munro Letters
• The Tragedy of the Korosko 

Dumas, Alexandre

• The Tale of the Nutcracker

Du Maurier, Daphne

• Rebecca

Eliot, George

• Silas Marner

Endo, Shusaku

• The Sea and Poison

Faulkner, William

• The Sound and the Fury

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

• The Great Gatsby
• This Side of Paradise

Forester, C. S.

• Horatio Hornblower
• Mr. Midshipman Hornblower
• Lieutenant Hornblower

Forster, E. M.

• A Passage to India
• "The Machine Stops" 
• A Room with a View

Gaskell, Elizabeth

• North & South

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins

• "The Yellow Wallpaper"

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

• The Sorrows of Young Werther

Golding, William

• Lord of the Flies

Grossmith, George

• The Diary of a Nobody

Haggard, H. Rider

• She

Hardy, Thomas

• Far From the Madding Crowd

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

• Fanshawe
• The Blithedale Romance
• A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys
• The Marble Faun
• The House of the Seven Gables 
• Twice-Told Tales

Hemingway, Ernest

• The Old Man and the Sea
• The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories (Read all of them except "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," "Fifty Grand," and "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber.")

Henty, G. A.

• In Freedom’s Cause
• In the Reign of Terror
• Under Drake's Flag
• Winning His Spurs

Hoffmann, E. T. A.

• Nutcracker and Mouse King
• "The Golden Pot"
• "The Sandman"
• "Princess Brambilla"
• "Master Flea"
• "My Cousin's Corner Window"

Homer

• The Odyssey

Ibsen, Henrik

• An Enemy of the People

Irving, Washington

• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
• Rip Van Winkle

Ishiguro, Kazuo

• The Remains of the Day
• An Artist of the Floating World
• The Buried Giant (48%, did not finish)
• Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall
• A Pale View of Hills
• When We Were Orphans
  

Jerome, Jerome K.

• Three Men in a Boat
• Three Men on the Bummel

Kafka, Franz

• The Metamorphosis  - also see 2017 review
• The Trial 
• Selected Shorter Writings 
• Amerika; or, The Missing Person 
• "In the Penal Colony"
• The Complete Short Stories
• The Castle

Kierkegaard, Søren 

• The Present Age
• "Of the Difference Between a Genius and an Apostle"
• Fear and Trembling
• Works of Love 
• The Concept of Anxiety

Kipling, Rudyard

• "In the Rukh"
• The Jungle Book

Krzhizhanovsky, Sigizmund

• Memories of the Future

Lindsay, Joan

• Picnic at Hanging Rock

Lee, Harper

• To Kill a Mockingbird
• Go Set a Watchman

Leroux, Gaston

• The Phantom of the Opera

Lewis, C.S.

• The Chronicles of Narnia
• The Great Divorce
• Till We Have Faces
• Out of the Silent Planet (Space Trilogy #1)
• Perelandra (Space Trilogy #2)
• That Hideous Strength (Space Trilogy #3) 

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

• Assorted poems
• Hyperion

London, Jack

• The Sea Wolf

Machiavelli, Niccolo

• The Prince

Márai, Sándor

• Embers

Marryat, Captain Frederick

• Percival Keene

Melville, Herman

• Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
• Billy Budd and Other Stories

Miller, Arthur

• All My Sons
• Death of a Salesman
• The Crucible

Montgomery, Lucy Maud

• Anne Shirley
• Anne of Green Gables
• Anne of Avonlea
• Anne of the Island
• Anne of Windy Poplars, or Anne of Windy Willows*  
• Anne's House of Dreams   
• Anne of Ingleside   
• Rainbow Valley   
• Rilla of Ingleside*

*Am 98% sure I read these.  It was so many years ago, I don't much remember. 

More, Sir Thomas

• Utopia

Nordoff, Charles; and Hall, James Norman

• The Bounty Trilogy

O'Connor, Flannery

• Short stories

Orczy, Baroness Emmuska

• The Scarlet Pimpernel
• El Dorado

Poe, Edgar Allan

• C. Augustus Dupin 
• The Murders in the Rue Morgue; more recent review here
• The Mystery of Marie Roget
• The Purloined Letter

• The Raven
• Assorted poems
• The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

Pólya, George

• How to Solve It

Pushkin, Alexander

• Eugene Onegin
• The Queen of Spades 
• The Captain's Daughter

Rand, Ayn

• Anthem

Robida, Albert

• The Twentieth Century

Salten, Felix

• Bambi: A Life in the Woods
  

Scott, Sir Walter

• Ivanhoe

Shakespeare, William

• Romeo and Juliet
• Hamlet

Shaw, George Bernard

• Too True to be Good
  

Shelley, Mary and Percy

• Frankenstein
  

Shiga, Naoya

• The Paper Door and Other Stories
  

Stevenson, Robert Louis

• Treasure Island
• The Black Arrow
• Kidnapped
• Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
• Catriona
• The Master of Ballantrae

Stoker, Bram

• Dracula
• Dracula's Guest

Sun Tzu

• The Art of War

Tolkien, J. R. R.

• The Lord of the Rings
• The Hobbit
• The Father Christmas Letters
• The Children of Húrin

Tranströmer, Tomas

• The Great Enigma

Turgenev, Ivan

• Fathers and Sons

Twain, Mark

• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
• Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Unknown

• Beowulf

Verne, Jules

• Around the World in Eighty Days
• The Mysterious Island
• Journey to the Centre of the Earth
• Five Weeks in a Balloon
• Two Years’ Holiday
• The Green Ray
• The Mighty Orinoco
• The Lighthouse At the End of the World
• The Clipper of the Clouds (Robur the Conqueror)
• Paris in the Twentieth Century
• Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea 
• The Master of the World (sequel to The Clipper of the Clouds)
• Magellania
• An Antarctic Mystery (The Sphinx of the Ice Fields)
• The Begum's Millions 
• Journey Through the Impossible

Wallace, Lew

• Ben-Hur

Wallis, Velma

• Two Old Women

Wells, H. G.

• The Time Machine
• Short Stories
• The Flowering of the Strange Orchid
• In the Avu Observatory

• The Invisible Man
• The War of the Worlds
• The Island of Dr Moreau
• The First Men in the Moon

Wilde, Oscar

• The Picture of Dorian Gray

Wodehouse, P. G.

• My Man Jeeves
• The Code of the Woosters

Woolf, Virginia

• A Room of One's Own

Wordsworth, William

• Poems in Two Volumes

Yonge, Charlotte Mary

• The Heir of Redclyffe

Zamyatin, Yevgeny

• We

Zola, Émile

• The Ladies' Paradise
• The Kill - did not finish