Bold the ones you've read.
Literary Test seen at Scotts
Author - Title
-- Beowulf
Achebe, Chinua - Things Fall Apart
Agee, James - A Death in the Family
Austen, Jane - Pride and Prejudice
Baldwin, James - Go Tell It on the Mountain
Beckett, Samuel - Waiting for Godot
Bellow, Saul - The Adventures of Augie March
Brontė, Charlotte - Jane Eyre
Brontė, Emily - Wuthering Heights
Camus, Albert - The Stranger
Cather, Willa - Death Comes for the Archbishop
Chaucer, Geoffrey - The Canterbury Tales
Chekhov, Anton - The Cherry Orchard
Chopin, Kate - The Awakening
Conrad, Joseph - Heart of Darkness
Cooper, James Fenimore - The Last of the Mohicans
Crane, Stephen - The Red Badge of Courage
Dante - Inferno
de Cervantes, Miguel - Don Quixote
Defoe, Daniel - Robinson Crusoe
Dickens, Charles - A Tale of Two Cities
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - Crime and Punishment
Douglass, Frederick - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Dreiser, Theodore - An American Tragedy
Dumas, Alexandre - The Three Musketeers
Eliot, George - The Mill on the Floss
Ellison, Ralph - Invisible Man
Emerson, Ralph Waldo - Selected Essays
Faulkner, William - As I Lay Dying
Faulkner, William - The Sound and the Fury
Fielding, Henry - Tom Jones
Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Great Gatsby
Flaubert, Gustave - Madame Bovary
Ford, Ford Madox - The Good Soldier
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von - Faust
Golding, William - Lord of the Flies
Hardy, Thomas - Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Hawthorne, Nathaniel - The Scarlet Letter
Heller, Joseph - Catch 22
Hemingway, Ernest - A Farewell to Arms
Homer - The Iliad
Homer - The Odyssey
Hugo, Victor - The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hurston, Zora Neale - Their Eyes Were Watching God
Huxley, Aldous - Brave New World
Ibsen, Henrik - A Doll's House
James, Henry - The Portrait of a Lady
James, Henry - The Turn of the Screw
Joyce, James - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Kafka, Franz - The Metamorphosis
Kingston, Maxine Hong - The Woman Warrior
Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird
Lewis, Sinclair - Babbitt
London, Jack - The Call of the Wild
Mann, Thomas - The Magic Mountain
Marquez, Gabriel Garcķa - One Hundred Years of Solitude
Herman - Bartleby the Scrivener
Melville, Herman - Moby Dick
Miller, Arthur - The Crucible
Morrison, Toni - Beloved
O'Connor, Flannery - A Good Man is Hard to Find
O'Neill, Eugene - Long Day's Journey into Night
Orwell, George - Animal Farm
Pasternak, Boris - Doctor Zhivago
Plath, Sylvia - The Bell Jar
Poe, Edgar Allan - Selected Tales
Proust, Marcel - Swann's Way
Pynchon, Thomas - The Crying of Lot 49
Remarque, Erich Maria - All Quiet on the Western Front
Rostand, Edmond - Cyrano de Bergerac
Roth, Henry - Call It Sleep
Salinger, J.D. - The Catcher in the Rye
Shakespeare, William - Hamlet
Shakespeare, William - Macbeth
Shakespeare, William - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Shakespeare, William - Romeo and Juliet
Shaw, George Bernard - Pygmalion
Shelley, Mary - Frankenstein
Silko, Leslie Marmon - Ceremony
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Sophocles - Antigone
Sophocles - Oedipus Rex
Steinbeck, John - The Grapes of Wrath
Stevenson, Robert Louis - Treasure Island
Stowe, Harriet Beecher - Uncle Tom's Cabin
Swift, Jonathan - Gulliver's Travels
Thackeray, William - Vanity Fair
Thoreau, Henry David - Walden
Tolstoy, Leo - War and Peace
Turgenev, Ivan - Fathers and Sons
Twain, Mark - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Voltaire - Candide
Vonnegut, Kurt Jr. - Slaughterhouse-Five
Walker, Alice - The Color Purple
Wharton, Edith - The House of Mirth
Welty, Eudora - Collected Stories
Whitman, Walt - Leaves of Grass
Wilde, Oscar - The Picture of Dorian Gray
Williams, Tennessee - The Glass Menagerie
Woolf, Virginia - To the Lighthouse
Wright, Richard - Native Son
My love of reading came from Mrs. Flaherty whom still teaches 5th grade at Old Orchard Beach elementary school in Maine.
She read to us aloud everyday and took us places that we would have never found on our own.
She gave me her copy of a Secret Garden and once the gate was open, there was no going back.
Comments
*G* Well I sure failed this one. There's maybe 3 that I've read. (ok, maybe 4 :) BUT! I actually Have read War and Peace!! (I think it was the most Boring book I've ever read)
You've done Gooooood :)
Posted by: witchy | April 15, 2004 3:29 PM
I couldn't get through war and peace at all. I have tried so many times but just can't do it. *yawn*
Posted by: Kat | April 15, 2004 3:30 PM
You are well-read! Does it count if I actually have a copy of Canterbury Tales on a shelf, but never read it? ;-)
Books are wonderful things. As a child I always had my nose in a book. I have tried to get my boy interested, but it's not really working. I tell him a good book is like a movie playing in your head, but... not much luck.
Anyone ever read the complete set of Wizard of Oz books?
Posted by: Terry | April 15, 2004 3:42 PM
A lot of great books on the list! I don't know if everyone's library does this, or has a program like this, but ours has a list of the top 100 classics or something like that. You can just go down the list and read what you want, or go for it and read them all. If you do, then you get some little certificate from the library, lol. It's stupid I guess, but fun still.
Posted by: Karri | April 15, 2004 3:46 PM
Terry, I hate to think it might be too late for your son as he's getting up there in age but what worked for me, (thanks teach) and what I did with my boys, was to read to them starting when they were really small. Winnie the pooh, dr. suess and the Lion the Witch and the wardrobe and the wizrd of oz and Prince caspian etc etc etc. Now, Mark has read The Silmarillion and is starting the whole middle earth books. Sebastian reads a book a week. You have to start them young or they just don't find the magic in it.
Posted by: Kat | April 15, 2004 4:06 PM
It's not stupid, I think that's a great idea. Get peoplle to read and be excited about it. I don't think our library does that.
Posted by: Kat | April 15, 2004 4:08 PM