So my writing group has been discussing classics lately, what everyone liked, what they plan to read, etc. Rachelle linked to a list of 100 classics she posted on her blog, I’m not sure where she got it, but she put a star by the ones she had read. When I looked at the list I was pleased to see I had read more than I thought, though admittedly my high school and college teachers are responsible for most of that. Apparently I still have a long list ahead of me, and there were a few I couldn’t remember if I read for a class or not–so I didn’t count them.

Here’s my list:

• Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
• The Scarlet Letter* by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
• Walden by Henry David Thoreau
• Gulliver’s Travels by Johnathan Swift
• Moby-Dick or, The Whale* by Herman Melville
• A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
• The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
• The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
• The Odyssey* by Homer
• The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man* by James Joyce
• Paradise Lost* by John Milton
• Tales from the Thousand and one nights (Arabian Nights) by Richard Burton
• Great Expectations* by Charles Dickens
• Candide* by Voltaire
• Oedipus the King by Sophocles
• Notre-Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre Dame) by Victor Hugo
• The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
• The Sea Wolf by Jack London
• Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmund Rostand
• The Canterbury Tales* by Geoffrey Chaucer
• Collected Works by Robert Browning
• Essays & Poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The Portrait of a Lady* by Henry James
• Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• Collected Poems by John Keats
• On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
• Don Quixote* by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
• The Collected Poems, Complete and Unabridged* by Robert Frost
• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories* by Washington Irving
• Animal Farm* by George Orwell
• Wuthering Heights* by Emily Brontë
• She Stoops To Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith
• Of Mice and Men* by John Steinbeck
• Pride and Prejudice* by Jane Austen
• The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Les Misérables* by Victor Hugo
• The Iliad by Homer* by Homer
• Lady Chatterly’s Lover* by D.H. Lawrence
• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• Aesop’s Fables by Aesop
• Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
• Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
• The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
• The Poetics by Aristotle
• The Aeneid* by Virgil
• Madam Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
• The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
• Jane Eyre* by Charlotte Brontë
• Hamlet* by William Shakespeare
• Pygmalion and Candida* by George Bernard Shaw
• Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
• Romeo and Juliet* by William Shakespeare
• The Cherry Orchard and The Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov
• Divine Comedy* by Dante Alighieri
• The Analects of Confucius by Confucius
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream* by William Shakespeare
• The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• The Picture of Dorian Gray* by Oscar Wilde
• Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
• The Decameron* by Giovanni Boccaccio
• Beowulf* by Anonymous
• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
• The Necklace and Other Short Stories* by Guy de Maupassant
• The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
• Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
• Heart of Darkness* by Joseph Conrad
• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
• The History of Early Rome by Livy
• Little Women* by Louisa May Alcott
• The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott
• Tess of the d’Urbervilles* by Thomas Hardy
• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland* by Lewis Carroll
• Dracula* by Bram Stoker
• Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám by Omar Khayyám
• The Red and The Black by Stendhal
• A Tale of Two Cities* by Charles Dickins
• The Republic by Plato
• Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson* by Emily Dickinson
• Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• The History of Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
• The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay
• Silas Marner by George Eliot
• The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine
• Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
• Billy Budd by Herman Melville
• The Confessions of Saint Augustine by St. Augustine
• Tales of Mystery & Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe
• Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
• The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler
• The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm* by Jacob Ludwig and Wilhelm Grimm
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn* by Mark Twain
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
• David Copperfield by Charles Dickens