If you were not at the book club last night, I still want your input into next year’s books! In the comments, please mention three books that you would really love to read. You can also name others that you wouldn’t mind or would like to read. I’m going to try to have one that each person really would love to read for next year. If you already voted at the meeting, please don’t vote again.
- (BC) Homer; Iliad
- (BC) Virgil; Aeneid
- (1000s) The Arabian Nights
- (1400s) Chaucer; Canterbury Tales
- (1710s) Defoe, Daniel; Robinson Crusoe.
- (1720s) Swift, Jonathon; Gulliver’s Travels.
- (1780s) Choderlos de Laclos, Pierre; Dangerous Liaisons.
- (1790s) Helderlin, Friederich; Hyperion.
- (1810s) Austen, Jane; Pride and Prejudice.
- (1810s) Shelley, Mary; Frankenstein.
- (1820s) Cooper, James F.; Last of the Mohicans.
- (1830s) Bronte, Charlotte; Jane Eyre.
- (1830s) Bronte, Emily; Wuthering Heights.
- (1830s) Dickens, Charles; Nicholas Nickleby.
- (1830s) Dickens, Charles; The Pickwick Papers.
- (1830s) Hugo, Victor; Hunchback of Notre Dame
- (1830s) Stendhal; The Charterhouse of Parma (1830s) Stendhal; The Red and the Black
- (1850s) Dickens, Charles; Dombey and Sons.
- (1850s) Dickens, Charles; Great Expectations.
- (1850s) Melville, Herman; Moby Dick.
- (1850s) Trollope, Anthony; The Warden.
- (1860s) Alcott, Louisa; Little Women.
- (1860s) Verne, Jules; Journey to Center of Earth.
- (1870s) Eliot, George; Middlemarch.
- (1870s) Twain, Mark; Tom Sawyer.
- (1870s) Verne, Jules; Around World in 80 Days
- (1870s) Verne, Jules; 20,000 Leagues Under Sea.
- (1880s) Jackson, Helen Hunt; Ramona.
- (1880s) Twain, Mark; Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
- (1890s) Chopin, Kate; The Awakening
- (1890s) Hardy, Thomas; Return of the Native
- (1890s) Ibsen, Henrick; Hedda Gabler
- (1890s) Jewett, Sarah Orne; The Country of the Pointed Firs
- (1890s) Stoker, Bram; Dracula.
- (1900s) Chekhov, Anton; The Cherry Orchard
- (1900s) Conrad; Heart of Darkness
- (1900s) DuBois, W.E.B.; The Souls of Black Folks
- (1900s) Johnson, James Weldon; Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man (A novel)
- (1900s) McCutchin, George Barr; Brewster’s Millions.
- (1910s) Cather, Willa; My Antonia.
- (1910s) Grey, Zane; Riders of the Purple Sage.
- (1910s) Hamsun, Knut; Growth of the Soul
- (1910s) Joyce, James. Dubliners.
- (1910s) Joyce, James. Portrait of the Artist.
- (1910s) Lawrence, D.H.; Sons and Lovers.
- (1910s) Tarkington, Booth; The Magnificent Ambersons.
- (1910s) Wells, H.G.; When the Sleeper Wakes.
- (1920s) Dos Passos, John; Manhatten Transfer.
- (1920s) Faulkner, William; Sound and the Fury.
- (1920s) Forster, E.M.; A Passage to India.
- (1920s) Hammett, Dashiell; Red Harvest.
- (1920s) Loos, Anita; Gentleman Prefer Blondes: The Intimate Diary of a Professional Lady.
- (1920s) Mann, Thomas; The Magic Mountain.
- (1920s) Ostenso, Martha; Wild Geese
- (1920s) Wilder, Thornton; Bridge of San Luis Rey.
- (1930s) Chandler, Raymond; The Big Sleep.
- (1930s) Fitzgerald, F.Scott; Tender is the Night.
- (1930s) Green, Graham; The Power and Glory.
- (1930s) Sackville-West, Vita; All Passion Spent.
- (1940s) Orwell, George; 1984.
- (1940s) McCullers, Carson; The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
- (1940s) Tanizaki, Junichiro; The Makioka Sisters
- (1940s) Warren, Robert Penn; All the King’s Men.
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I vote for Middlemarch, Dubliners, and 1984.
Another one that isn’t on the list but is patiently waiting for me on my shelf is Vanity Fair.
Hi Rebecca!
I’m so sorry I couldn’t make it last month (my car was in the shop waiting for parts….). I LOVED Mrs. Dalloway. Hope you’re enjoying your summer. Next year, the three I would most really like to read are:
Verne, Jules; Journey to Center of Earth
Tanizaki, Junichiro; The Makioka Sisters
Loos, Anita; Gentleman Prefer Blondes: The Intimate Diary of a Professional Lady
Of course, there’s nothing at all on the list that I would NOT read
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See you in two weeks,
Monica
Hi Rebecca,
I’m going to go with Bleak House, Middlemarch & Wuthering Heights.
With Return of the Native, The Sound and the Fury & The Power and the Glory in the 2nd tier. But you know, tomorrow my list would probably be different, so don’t lose any sleep over my list. I’m just happy you started the group. Hope to make it this month (really having schedule problems).
John O