Classics for Beginners discussion

TBR - The Ultimate Reading List of Classics. :D
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1. Alexandre Dumas
 1. The Man in the Iron Mask
 2. The Three Musketeers
 3. The Count of Monte Cristo
 4. The Corsican Brothers
 5. Twenty Years After
 6. The Black Tulip
 7. The Forty-Five Guardsmen
 8. The Conspirators
 9. The Queen's Necklace
2. Sir Walter Scott
 1. The Lady of the Lake
 2. Rob Roy
 3. Ivanhoe
 4. The Talisman
 5. Castle Dangerous
3. James Fenimore Cooper
 1. Last of the Mohicans
 2. The Pathfinder
 3. The Deerslayer
 4. The Pioneers
 5. The Spy
 6. The Prairie
 7. The Red Rover
 8. The Pilot
4. Herman Melville
 1. Moby Dick
 2. Typee
5. Charles Dickens
 1. The Pickwick Papers
 2. Oliver Twist
 3. Nicholas Nickleby
 4. David Copperfield
 5. Little Dorrit
 6. A Tale of Two Cities
 7. Great Expectations
 8. A Christmas Carol
6. Howard Pyle
 1. Robin Hood
7. Victor Hugo
 1. The Hunchback of Notre Dame
 2. Les Misérables
 3. Toilers of the Sea
 4. The Man Who Laughs
8. Daniel Defoe
 1. Robinson Crusoe
 2. Moll Flanders
9. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
 1. Don Quixote
10. Washington Irving
 1. Rip Van Winkle
 2. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
11. Lewis Carroll
 1. Alice in Wonderland
 2. Through the Looking-Glass83346
12. Emily Jane Brontë
 1. Wuthering Heights
13. Anne Brontë
 1. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
14. Charlotte Brontë
 1. Jane Eyre
 2. Emma
15. Anna Sewell
 1. Black Beauty
16. Edgar Allan Poe
 1. The Fall of the House of Usher
 2. The Gold Bug
 3. The Pit and the Pendulum
 4. The Murders in the Rue Morgue
 5. Adventures of Hans Pfall
 6. The Tell-Tale Heart
 7. A Cask of Amontillado
 8. The Mystery of Marie Roget
17. Mary Shelley
 1. Frankenstein
18. Jules Verne
 1. Journey to the Center of the Earth
 2. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
 3. From the Earth to the Moon
 4. Around the World in Eighty Days
 5. The Mysterious Island
 6. Michael Strogoff
 7. Off on a Comet
 8. Robur the Conqueror
 9. Master of the World
 10. Tigers and Traitors
19. Johann Wyss
 1. The Swiss Family Robinson
20. Robert Louis Stevenson
 1. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
 2. Treasure Island
 3. Kidnapped
 4. The Black Arrow
 5. The Master of Ballantrae
 6. David Balfour
21. Charles Kingsley
 1. Westward Ho!
 2. The Water Babies
22. Harriet Beecher Stowe
 1. Uncle Tom's Cabin
23. Jonathan Swift
 1. Gulliver's Travels
 2. A Modest Proposal
24. Mark Twain
 1. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
 2. The Prince and the Pauper
 3. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
 4. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
 5. Pudd'nhead Wilson
25. Arthur Conan Doyle
 1. The Complete Sherlock Holmes
 2. The Lost World
26. Nathaniel Hawthorne
 1. The Scarlet Letter
 2. The House of the Seven Gables
27. George Eliot
 1. Silas Marner
28. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
 1. Evangeline
 2. The Song of Hiawatha
 3. Courtship of Miles Standish
29. Benjamin Franklin
 1. Benjamin Franklin
30. William Shakespeare
 1. The Taming of the Shrew
 2. A Midsummer Night's Dream
 3. Romeo and Juliet
 4. Hamlet
 5. Macbeth
 6. Julius Caesar
31. Homer
 1. The Iliad
 2. The Odyssey
32. Francis Parkman
 1. The Oregon Trail
33. Anthony Hope
 1. The Prisoner of Zenda
34. Frederick Schiller
 1. Joan of Arc
 2. William Tell
35. Jack London
 1. The Call of the Wild
 2. White Fang
 3. The Sea Wolf
36. Rudyard Kipling
 1. The Jungle Book
 2. Rikki Tikki Tavi
 3. Captains Courageous
 4. Kim
 5. Just So Stories
37. Charles Bernard Nordhoff/James Norman Hall
 1. Mutiny on the Bounty
38. H.G. Wells
 1. The Time Machine
 2. The Island of Dr. Moreau
 3. The Invisible Man
 4. The War of the Worlds
 5. The First Men in the Moon
39. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
 1. Faust
40. H. Rider Haggard
 1. King Solomon's Mines
 2. Heart of the World
41. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
 1. Crime and Punishment
 2. The Brothers Karamazov
42. Erich Maria Remarque
 1. All Quiet on the Western Front
 2. The Black Obelisk
43. Stephen Crane
 1. The Red Badge of Courage
44. Owen Wister
 1. The Virginian
45. John Bunyan
 1. The Pilgrim's Progress

Wow! What a list!! I've read a few of them.

Martha wrote: "Wow! What a list!! I've read a few of them."

It is a long list. Lol. I have read some of them, but I wanted a good list to go by and this is working out good. :D Thank you! :D

Woah!

Nicolle wrote: "Woah!"

^_^ Fun times. :D

When you say This list may take me a while,

I think you mean a long long while!

Nicolle wrote: "When you say This list may take me a while,

I think you mean a long long while!"

Nah, just a year, or two or three? Hehe

I love your list! I'd be extremely happy if I read that many classics by the end of my lifetime.

Wow, this list may take me a while just to read it.

Love the list though. Lots of action adventure from the old days, along with some good melodrama and a healthy dose of Shakespeare.

Thank you :D I really wanted to have an eclectic list. :D I think I succeeded.

I definitely think you succeeded. :)

I have to finally get through the unabridged Les Miserable before I can think of starting a classics to be read list. I have a few on my Kindle waiting.

I borrowed the book Les Miserable from a friend. I don't know if it is the unabridged book though. O_o? Oh well, I will read it anyway. :D

The author goes off on many tangents which the abridged version omits, I believe.

Les Mis that I borrowed was abridged. Ended up buying the unabridged version, and I finished and loved it. I am still reading these classics, but havent updated here yet. :)

The unabridged version has entire chapters that don't add anything to the story, but are interesting tangents if you like history I guess. I haven't read the abridged version, but I'm sure you could get all you need from it without all the author's side notes.

Have updated my list. :p

Oh I like the setup of this list, may steal the idea. How did you get the different font?

I had written the list up using WordPad then cut and pasted the list and then I used the < pre > html tags. :D This tag always changes the font to the new one. :D

Thanks will try out.

Have updated some of the read list. :)

Have finished Black Beauty again. It was a re-read from my childhood. I loved it then and it seemed even better this time. This time I listened to it on audio book and could see the book in my mind even better than ever.

Have listened to Macbeth on audio book. :) It was very good as it had sound effects and different narrators. Was a fun "read". :)

Have read The Tell-Tale Heart and Rip Van Winkle. Really enjoyed both short stories although they were as different from each other as they could be. I plan to next read The Gold Bug

I was recently interested in reading Rip an Winkle again, it was prominently referenced in How to Read Literature Like a Professor, it's given me a few new ideas on what to read!

Since my last post in 2022 a lot has happened in my life. Lost my parents to an auto accident and trying to get the estate closed out. Then trying to fix up the house and land to, I think, sell and all the issues with that. Then add work to the equation and I don't have much time to read. I did read the following books from this category:

Ivanhoe
Around the World in Eighty Days
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
The House of the Seven Gables
The Odyssey
The Prisoner of Zenda
The Island of Dr. Moreau

Originally posted in 2022 but deleted and am reposting:

Modern Classics I want to read. Hopefully, if anyone can recommend them, I can get some more modern classics to list here.


01. J.R.R. Tolkien
-- The Hobbit
-- The Fellowship of the Ring
-- The Two Towers
-- The Return of the King

02. C.S. Lewis
-- The Magician's Nephew
-- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
-- Prince Caspian
-- The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
-- The Horse and His Boy
-- The Silver Chair
-- The Last Battle

03. Alice Walker
-- The Color Purple
-- Meridian

04. Toni Morrison
-- Beloved
-- Jazz
-- Paradise
-- The Bluest Eye
-- Song of Solomon
-- Sula
-- Home
-- Tar Baby