Have You Read This? meme

Update #1--it looks like this list is the College Board's 101 great books list..

I started at Kelley's (who is thankfully feeling quite well, thank you), who sent me to Accidental Verbosity, who sent me to Misty.

The long list of books follows. Why have I read so many? Wonderful academic program in high school--a boarding school, no TV, the heyday (is that how you spell that?) of American Conservatory Theater which we patronized AND read the play afterwards, lots of mountaineering expeditions--good time to read the Russians and more challenging narratives like the Illiad--a love of reading.

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
Brontë, Charlotte - Jane Eyre
Brontë, 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 García - One Hundred Years of Solitude
Melville, 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

Update #2: here are some more players
Ms Frizzle, my favorite middle-school-science teacher
her friend Up The Down Staircase (I can't figure out how to make the blogspot permalink work there).
MissMeliss
Evening Star
,Skatemom who got it from
The Bat, who saw it elsewhere.
Ethereal Reflections
Lynn S., who was embarrassed byhow few she had read (if you aren't an American, you might not have gotten the same 101 books!)
Chriso, who was the first I found who referenced the College Board.
Juliewho loathed Tess of the D'Ubervilles.
She Who Must Be Obeyed
Misty, who was embarassed by what she hadn't read, too. Why are people embarassed?
ThymeWise, who got it from her husband, the gamer, but I couldn't find it on his site.
Besenkopf Love always, Jenny
Andygrrl
Jennifer, who used the game to get her mind off of some troubles
Harsh Betty, who I think is married to a guy in the Navy and is living in Hawaii. She used to live in Davis.

Hmmmn. Yorkshire Soul: Same idea, different list.

And then, of course, there is Harold Bloom's Western Canon.. More commentary here

Comments

[Melissa]

I saw your trackback ping to my "Books I've Read" meme response, and had to check out your blog.

You mention people being embarrassed about what they haven't read. In my case, I'm embarrassed about never completing my degree (in my line of work it's not particularly necessary), so I try to make up for that lack by reading everything I can get my hands on (either to hold, or to scroll through.)

I've added you to my blogroll, for future reading. I hope you don't mind.

[Jimmy]

You owe it to yourself to read Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt!