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Emma has been meaning to read more ever since she was twelve years old. I have seen a great many lists of her drawing-up, at various times, of books that she meant to read regularly through -- and very good lists they were, very well chosen, and very neatly arranged -- sometimes alphabetically, and sometimes by some other rule.
--from our first book, Jane Austen's "Emma," brought to our attention by WendysList member Andrea L.
n the Forum, we were discussing what we had been reading over the summer, which led to Forum regular Wendy revealing that she carries a list of classic books in her handbag in case she runs into garage sales or other likely repositories of cheapo books. We all clamored to see it, and some folks expressed a desire to read their way through it with Wendy. Wendy has agreed to moderate a book club mailing list to this end. And so, we present to you the first TNH book club (more book clubs have formed since).
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The current book under discussion: Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby"This is a nice paperback edition of "Gatsby" available from Amazon. |
Here is the Unabridged Wendy's List:
| AUTHOR | BOOK |
| George Orwell | 1984 |
| Stephen Hawking | A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes |
| James Agee | A Death in the Family |
| Barbara Tuchman | A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century |
| Henrik Ibsen | A Doll's House |
| Ernest Hemingway | A Farewell to Arms |
| Flannery O'Connor | A Good Man is Hard to Find |
| William Shakespeare | A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| E.M. Forster | A Passage to India |
| James Joyce | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man |
| Lorraine Hansberry | A Raisin in the Sun |
| Aldo Leopold | A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There |
| John Knowles | A Separate Peace |
| Tennessee Williams | A Streetcar Named Desire |
| Charles Dickens | A Tale of Two Cites |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. | A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings of Martin Luther King |
| Michael Dorris | A Yellow Raft in Blue Water |
| Eugene O'Neill | Ah Wilderness |
| Lewis Carroll | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland |
| Lewis Carroll | Alice's Adventures Through the Looking Glass |
| Alistair Cooke | Alistair Cooke's America |
| James Herriot | All Creatures Great and Small |
| Erick Maria Remarque | All Quiet on the Western Front |
| Robert Penn Warren | All the King's Men |
| Maya Angelou | And Still I Rise |
| George Bernard Shaw | Androcles and the Lion |
| George Orwell | Animal Farm |
| Leo Tolstoy | Anna Karenina |
| William Faulkner | As I Lay Dying |
| William Shakespeare | As You Like It |
| Sinclair Lewis | Babbitt |
| James McPherson | Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era |
| Anonymous | Beowulf |
| Herman Melville | Billy Budd |
| Charles Dickens | Bleak House |
| Ron Kovic | Born on the Fourth of July |
| Aldous Huxley | Brave New World |
| Graham Greene | Brighton Rock |
| Dee Brown | Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee |
| Jack London | Call of the Wild |
| Voltaire | Candide |
| Joseph Heller | Catch-22 |
| John Keats | Complete Poems |
| Carl Sandburg | Complete Poems |
| E.E. Cummings | Complete Poems, 1904-1962 |
| Feodor Dostoevski | Crime and Punishment |
| Alan Patton | Cry, The Beloved Country |
| Edmond Rostand | Cryano de Bergerac |
| Henry James | Daisy Miller |
| Charles Dickens | David Copperfield |
| Arthur Ashe & Arnold Rampersad | Days of Grace |
| Willa Cather | Death Comes for the Archbishop |
| Thomas Mann | Death in Venice |
| Arthur Miller | Death of a Salesman |
| Alexis de Tocqueville | Democracy in America |
| William Farnham | Doctor Faustus |
| Christopher Marlowe | Doctor Faustus |
| Boris Pasternak | Doctor Zhivago |
| Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote |
| Jane Austen | Emma |
| Edith Wharton | Ethan Frome |
| Juan Williams | Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-65 |
| Ray Bradbury | Fahrenheit 451 |
| Goethe | Faust |
| Jane Yolen | Favorite Folktales From Around the World |
| Ernest Hemingway | For Whom the Bell Tolls |
| Mary W. Shelley | Frankenstein |
| Norrie Epstein | Friendly Shakespeare: A Thoroughly Painless Guide to the Best of the Bard |
| James Baldwin | Go Tell It On the Mountain |
| Margaret Mitchell | Gone With the Wind |
| Charles Dickens | Great Expectations |
| Edgar Allan Poe | Great Tales and Poems |
| Russell Baker | Growing Up |
| Jonathan Swift | Gulliver's Travels |
| William Shakespeare | Hamlet |
| Charles Dickens | Hard Times |
| Sara Delany & A. Elizabeth with Amy Hill Hearth | Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years |
| Joseph Conrad | Heart of Darkness |
| Carson McCullers | Henry IV |
| John Hersey | Hiroshima |
| Isabel Allende | House of the Spirits |
| Allen Gingsberg | Howl and Other Poems |
| Maya Angelou | I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings |
| Alfred Tennyson | Idylls of the King |
| William Faulkner | Intruder in the Dust |
| Ralph Ellison | Invisible Man |
| Donn Rogosin | Invisible Men: Life in Baseball's Negro Leagues |
| Sir Walter Scott | Ivanhoe |
| Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre |
| William Shakespeare | Julius Caesar |
| Mark Mathabane | Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa |
| Sir Walter Scott | Kenilworth |
| William Shakespeare | King Lear |
| Jorge Luis Borges | Labyrinths |
| Mary Crow Dog and Richard Erdoes | Lakota Woman |
| William Faulkner | Light in August |
| Laura Esquivel | Like Water for Chocolate |
| Eugene O'Neill | Long Day's Journey Into Night |
| Thomas Wolfe | Look Homeward, Angel |
| Edward Bellamy | Looking Backward: 2000-1887 |
| Joseph Conrad | Lord Jim |
| William Golding | Lord of the Flies |
| William Shakespeare | MacBeth |
| Gustave Flaubert | Madame Bovary |
| Eve Curie | Madame Curie |
| Sinclair Lewis | Main Street |
| George Bernard Shaw | Major Barbara |
| Bernard Shaw | Man and Superman |
| David Maybury-Lewis | Millenium: Tribal Wisdom and the Modern World |
| Herman Mellville | Moby-Dick |
| Bertolt Brecht | Mother Courage and Her Children |
| Willa Cather | My Antonia |
| Nikki Giovanni | My House |
| Edith Hamilton | Mythology |
| Richard Wright | Native Son |
| Elie Weisel | Night |
| Jean Paul Sarte | No Exit |
| Sophocles | Oedipus Rex |
| Somerset Maugham | Of Human Bondage |
| John Steinbeck | Of Mice and Men |
| Charles Dickens | Oliver Twist |
| Aleksander Solzhenitsyn | One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich |
| Ken Kesey | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| Gabriel Garcia Marquez | One Hundred Years of Solitude |
| William Shakespeare | Othello |
| Thornton Wilder | Our Town |
| John Steinbeck | Paradise Lost |
| Honore de Balzac | Pere Goriot |
| Charles Dickens | Pickwick Papers |
| William Wordsworth | Poems |
| Dylan Thomas | Poems of Dylan Thomas |
| Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice |
| John F. Kennedy | Profiles in Courage |
| George Bernard Shaw | Pygmalion |
| Studs Terkel | Race: How Blacks & Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession |
| Daphne DuMaurier | Rebecca |
| William Shakespeare | Richard III |
| Gavin Maxwell | Ring of Bright Water |
| Daniel DeFoe | Robinson Crusoe |
| William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet |
| Alex Haley | Roots |
| George Bernard Shaw | Saint Joan |
| Jonathan Kozol | Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools |
| Saul Bellow | Seize the Day |
| Gwendolyn Brooks | Selected Poems |
| Langston Hughes | Selected Poems |
| William Carlos Williams | Selected Poems |
| Hermann Hesse | Siddhartha |
| George Eliot | Silas Marner |
| Rachel Carson | Silent Spring |
| Kurt Vonnegut | Slaughterhouse-Five |
| D. H. Lawrence | Sons and Lovers |
| Herman Hesse | Steppenwolf |
| Toni Morrison | Sula |
| Thomas Hardy | Tess of the D'Urbervilles |
| Mark Twain | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
| Vergil | The Aeneid |
| Jacob Bronowski | The Ascent of Man |
| Bernard Malamud | The Assistant |
| Benjamin Franklin | The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin |
| Malcom X w/ Alex Haley | The Autobiography of Malcom X |
| Ernest Gaines | The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman |
| Kate Chopin | The Awakening |
| William Faulkner | The Bear |
| Sylvia Plath | The Bell Jar |
| N/A | The Bible |
| Dostoevsky | The Brothers Karamazov |
| Geoffrey Chaucer | The Canterbury Tales |
| J.D. Salinger | The Catcher in the Rye |
| Anton Chekhov | The Cherry Orchard |
| Robert Cormier | The Chocolate War |
| Chaim Potok | The Chosen |
| Alice Walker | The Color Purple |
| Karl Marx | The Communist Manifesto |
| Emily Dickenson | The Complete Poems Of Emily Dickinson |
| John Donne | The Complete Poetry of John Donne |
| Arthur Miller | The Crucible |
| Carlos Fuentes | The Death of Artemio Cruz |
| Carol Karlsen | The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England |
| Anne Franke | The Diary of a Young Girl |
| Dante Alighieri | The Divine Comedy |
| Henrik Ibsen | The Doll's House |
| James Watson | The Double Helix |
| Bryher | The Fourteenth of October |
| Tennessee Williams | The Glass Menagerie |
| Pearl S. Buck | The Good Earth |
| John Steinbeck | The Grapes of Wrath |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | The Great Gatsby |
| Shirley Jackson | The Haunting of Hill House |
| Carson McCullers | The Heart is a Lonely Hunter |
| Sir Walter Scott | The Heart of Midlothian |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | The Hobbit |
| Arthur Conan Doyle | The Hound of the Baskervilles |
| Elizabeth Bowen | The House in Paris |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | The House of the Seven Gables |
| Homer | The Iliad |
| Oscar Wilde | The Importance of Being Earnest |
| Ralph Ellison | The Invisible Man |
| Amy Tan | The Joy Luck Club |
| Upton Sinclair | The Jungle |
| Mary Renault | The Last of the Wine |
| Gordon Parks | The Learning Tree |
| David Attenborough | The Living Planet: A Portrait of the Earth |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | The Lord of the Rings |
| Thomas Hardy | The Mayor of Casterbridge |
| Carson McCullers | The Member of the Wedding |
| William Shakespeare | The Merchant of Venice |
| George Eliot | The Mill on the Floss |
| Paul Theroux | The Mosquito Coast |
| The Movie Goer | |
| Norman mailer | The Naked and the Dead |
| Dorothy Sayers | The Nine Tailors |
| Homer | The Odyssey |
| The Oedipus Trilogy | |
| Ernest Hemingway | The Old Man and the Sea |
| T. H. White | The Once and Future king |
| Charles Darwin | The Origin of Species |
| Nilolai Gogol | The Overcoat |
| Walter Van Tilburg Clark | The Oxbow Incident |
| John Steinbeck | The Pearl |
| August Wilson | The Piano Lesson |
| William Butler Yeats | The Poems |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | The Poetical Works of Longfellow |
| Robert Frost | The Poetry of Robert Frost |
| Graham Greene | The Power and the Glory |
| Joseph Campbell | The Power of Myth |
| Niccolo Machiavelli | The Prince |
| Stephen Crane | The Red Badge of Courage |
| Plato | The Republic |
| Thomas Hardy | The Return of the Native |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | The Scarlet Letter |
| Jack London | The Sea Wolf |
| Joseph Conrad | The Secret Sharer |
| Thorton Wilder | The Skin of Our Teeth |
| William Faulkner | The Sound and the Fury |
| Helen Keller | The Story of My Life |
| Albert Camus | The Stranger |
| Ernest Hemingway | The Sun Also Rises |
| William Shakespeare | The Taming of the Shrew |
| William Shakespeare | The Tempest |
| Alexander Dumas | The Three Musketeers |
| H. G. Wells | The Time Machine |
| Gunter Grass | The Tin Drum |
| Franz Kafka | The Trial |
| Henry James | The Turn of the Screw |
| Flannery O'Connor | The Violent Bear It Away |
| T.S. Eliot | The Waste Land |
| Michael Berenbaum | The World Must Know:The History of the Holocaust as told in the U.S. Holocaust Mem. Museum |
| Zora Neale Hurston | Their Eyes Were Watching God |
| Alex Kotlowitz | There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in Urban America |
| Chinua Achebe | Things Fall Apart |
| Eudora Welty | Thirteen Stories |
| Kay Mills | This Little Light of Mine: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer |
| Jan D. Criddle and Teeda Butt Mam | To Destroy You Is No Loss: The Odyssey of a Cambodian Family |
| Harper Lee | To Kill a Mockingbird |
| Henry Fielding | Tom Jones |
| Mark Twain | Tom Sawyer |
| William Shakespeare | Twelfth Night |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| William Thackeray | Vanity Fair |
| Samuel Beckett | Waiting for Godot |
| Henry David Thoreau | Walden |
| Leo Tolstoy | War and Peace |
| Edward Albee | Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf? |
| Sherwood Anderson | Winesburg Ohio |
| Emily Bronte | Wuthering Heights |
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