Thursday, September 25, 2003

Classic Books

Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum
The Bible
The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson,
The Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm,
The Civil Wars by Appian of Alexandria,
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas,
The Debacle by Emile Zola
The Emerald City of Oz by L. Frank Baum
The Enchanted Castle by Edith Nesbit ,
The Epic of Gilgamesh translated by Andrew George,
The Histories by Herodotus
The Iliad by Homer
The Iron Heel by Jack London
The Karamazov Brothers by Fyodor Dostoevsky ,
The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexander Dumas, 
The Martian Tales Trilogy by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum
The Odyssey by Homer,
The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum
The Road to Oz by L. Frank Baum
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas (Revisited)
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
The Vicomte De Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas 
The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells ,
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll,
Tik-Tok of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Tom Sawyer Abroad  by Mark Twain,
Tom Sawyer Detective by Mark Twain,
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson,
Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

(This is my complete list.  For my favorites from this list, see HERE)

Modern Classics (i.e. after 1914)

A Passage to India by E.M. Forster,
All Quiet On the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque,
Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis,
Beloved by Toni Morrison, 
Burmese Days by George Orwell
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
Coming Up for Air by George Orwell
Crash by J.G. Ballard
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway,
It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien--addendum ,
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov,
Peace Breaks Out by John Knowles
Rabbit Redux by John Updike
Rabbit, Run by John Updike
Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow
Seek My Face by John Updike
Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
Sugar Street by Naguib Mahfouz ,
Thank You, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse,
The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Malayan Trilogy by Anthony Burgess,
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury ,
The Mousetrap by Agatha Christie,
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, Addendum 
The Quiet American by Graham Greene ,
The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway ,
The Way of the Kings by Andre Malraux ,
This Gun for Hire by Graham Greene,

Playlist HERE

1 comment:

  1. Since I'm using my own criteria here, I should perhaps clarify.
    I consider anything published before World War I to be old enough to be automatically considered a classic. If it's that old, I don't even take quality into consideration, I just automatically grandfather it in as a classic. That's why there are a few old pulp fiction books being counted as "classics" here.

    I've added an addendum for modern classics (i.e. books published after 1914). For modern classics, I've had to use my own judgement call as to what is considered respected and influential enough to be considered a "classic"

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