Reading Goals

For my list for THE CLASSICS CLUB organized by Jillian of A Room of One’s Own, I have 30 novels, 5 novellas, and 300 short stories (counted as 15 books). Those in red have been read already.

Novels

Atwood, Margaret - The Handmaid’s Tale
Atwood, Margaret - Lady Oracle
Bowen, Elizabeth - Friends and Relations
Bronte, Charlotte - Villette
Carroll, Lewis - Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Dickens, Charles - The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Dickens, Charles - Bleak House
Dostoevsky, Fyoder - The Idiot
Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
Golding, William - Lord of the Flies
Haggard, H. Rider - She
Hemmingway, Ernest - For whom the Bell Tolls
Huxley, Aldous - Brave New World
Kafka, Franz - The Metamorphosis
Kipling, Rudyard - Captains Courageous
Knowles, John - A Separate Peace
Lang, Andrew (editor) - Arabian Nights
L’engle, Madeleine - A Wrinkle in Time
Lowry, Lois - The Giver
MacDonald, George - The Princess and the Goblin
Mitchell, Margaret - Gone with the Wind
Montgomery, L. M. - Anne of Green Gables
Montgomery, L. M. - Anne of Ingleside
Nesbit, E. - The Railway Children
Plath, Sylvia - The Bell Jar
Speare, Elizabeth George - The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Webster, Jean - Daddy-Long-Legs
Wells, H. G. - The Island of Dr. Moreau
Wharton, Edith - The Age of Innocence
Wilde, Oscar - The Picture of Dorian Gray

Novellas

Dickens, Charles - A Christmas Carol
James, Henry - The Turn of the Screw
James, Henry - The Beast in the Jungle
James, Henry - Washington Square
James, Henry - The Aspern Papers (re-read)

Short Stories

Aesop’s Fables (80 tales)
Alcott, Lousia May (15 stories)
Chekhov, Anton (15 stories)
Edgeworth, Maria (15 stories)
  - The Purple Jar
Henry, O. (20 stories)
Mansfield, Katherine (15 stories)
Poe, Edgar Allan Poe (15 stories)
Stowe, Harriet Beecher (15 stories)
Thackeray, William Makepeace (15 stories)
Turgenev, Ivan (15 stories)
Twain, Mark (15 stories)
Wharton, Edith (15 stories)
Wells, H. G. (15 stories)
Wilde, Oscar (20 stories)
  - The Happy Prince
  - The Selfish Giant
Yeats, William Butler (15 stories)

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I made this reading list in January 2012 for my own pleasure and to keep track of what I have been reading. Those titles in red mean they have been read. Please feel free to make recommendations. I would greatly appreciate them. Thanks!

Children’s Classics/Books

Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The First Four Years by by Laura Ingalls Wilder
By the Shores of Silver Lake by by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder
On the Barns of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
The Bobbsey Twins # 3: The Secret at the Seashore
Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
The Middle Moffat by Eleanor Estes

Fantasy

The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart

Short Stories

Sitting in the Moonlight and Other Stories by Elmer A. Ordonez
Real Time: short stories by Amit Chaudhuri
  - Real Time
  - The Second Marriage
  - Confessions of a Sacrifice

Philippine Novels

Salamanca by Dean Francis Alfar
Love & Other Firsts by Tilay Angbetic

Asian Literature

Luka and the Fire of Life by Salman Rushdie

Young Adult

First Date by Krista McGee

Romance

Captain Fawley's Innocent Bride by Annie Burrows
The Doctor's Lady by Jody Hedlund
With This Kiss by Victoria Lynne
The Maiden’s Bequest by George MacDonald
Mistress of Mellyn by Victoria Holt
In Name Only by Ellen Gable

Fairytale Retellings

The Fairy's Mistake by Gail Carson Levine
Beauty by Robin McKinley
Cinderella’s Secret Diary by Ron Vitale

Poetry

Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

Recommends

A brief history of fables by Lee Rourke (recommended by Parrish Lantern)
Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (recommended by Toni D.)
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire (recommended by Toni D.)


- Nancy -