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lagerlout2006 · Joined: 17 Sep 2003 Posts: 985

There is one in the US. Books of Western Civilization.

Homer

The Bible (King James only)

The Prince

The Confessions

Das Kapital

Wealth of Nations

Wasteland (The)

Ulysses

OK Theres the reading list what should be added??? I missed a couple of centuries so fill in the blanks. In the name of affirmative action toss in Jane Austin. Or other.

Have a nice day.

Teacher in Rome · Joined: 09 Jul 2003 Posts: 1286

I think that if you managed to wade through that lot, you'd probably need a bit of light reading.

Has anybody (truthfully) been able to read though any one of those on the list and feel enlightened at the end? (I have to admit, though, that I haven't heard of some of these.)

I suspect that the UK's "essential" reading list would be slightly different:
Shakespeare, Dickens, Jane Austen, Chaucer, Swift and some of the romantic poets. Not particularly representative, either...

Teacher in Rome · Joined: 09 Jul 2003 Posts: 1286

Just fallen foul of the censor.

I wanted to add Charles D i c k e n s to the UK list and it beeped me. Can't it distinguish between d i c k and d i c k e n s? This thing is a little too over-sensitive...

dmb · Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 8397

A bit like some posters Question

Joachim · Joined: 01 Oct 2003 Posts: 311 Location: Brighton, UK

1984

Brave New World

Macbeth

King Lear

On The Road

The Catcher In the Rye(??)

The Handmaid's Tale(??)

Sense And Sensibility

etc

Shaman · Joined: 06 Apr 2003 Posts: 446 Location: Hammertown

Crime and Punishment

Don Quixote

Huckleberry Finn

Les Miserables

Lord of the Rings

Klamm · Joined: 18 Jun 2003 Posts: 121

Great Books? Sometimes its hard to find a good list. Here's one.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Thus Spake Zarathustra
The Will to Power

Dante
The Divine Comedy

Thomas Mann
The Magic Mountain
Buddenbrooks
Death in Venice (especially if you were in China last year...)

Virgil
The Aeneid

Gunter Grass
Dog Years
The Tin Drum

Flaubert
Madame Bovary

Milan Kundera
Immortality

Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace
Anna Karenina

Ralph Ellison
The Invisible Man

Jean-Paul Sartre
What is Literature?
The Age of Reason

Marcel Proust
In Search of Lost Time

Umberto Eco
Foucault's Pendulum
The Island of the Day Before

Martin Heidegger
Being and Time

Henry James
The Portrait of a Lady

Joseph Conrad
Lord Jim
Heart of Darkness

Dostoyevsky
The Eternal Husband (a collection of some of his short stories)
The Idiot
Brother's K
(Crime and Punishment is one of my favs)

John Milton
Paradise Lost/Regained
Samson Agonistes

Walt Whitman
Leaves of Grass

Herman Melville
Moby Dick
Bartleby Scrivner

Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray

D.H. Lawrence
Women in Love

Franz Kafka
The Castle
The Trial
Amerika
Short stories

James Joyce
Finnegan's Wake
Dubliners
Ulysses
The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Gao Xingjian
Soul Mountain
One Man's Bible

Gogol
Find a collected Tales

Bertrand Russell
The History of Western Philosophy

Virginia Woolfe
To the Lighthouse
Mrs. Dalloway

Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Love in the Time of Cholera
One Hundred Years of Solitude

Paul Golding
The Abomination

William Golding
The Inheritors

Herman Hesse
Siddhartha
Steppenwolfe
Narcissus and Goldmund

I think that will do. Now get going.

K.

Marcoregano · Joined: 19 May 2003 Posts: 872 Location: Hong Kong

Klamm....good list. However, re. William Golding you should add:

Pincher Martin
The Spire
Rights Of Passage

Another favourite of mine:

Waterland by Graham Swift.

johnslat · Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2004 1:00 pm Post subject: Book, 'em, Danno

We had a thread something like this on the Saudi Forum a while back (Reading's a big pastime there). So, I said to myself: "Why reinvent the wheel?".

http://www.eslcafe.com/forums/job/viewtopic.php?p=29381#29381

Regards,
John

worth · Joined: 28 Jan 2003 Posts: 25

Grisham, Sydney Sheldon, Danielle Steele,, Harold Robbins, Tom Clancy

I Luvs Merican intellectuals

Capergirl · Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2004 12:43 am Post subject: