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#FridayReads for 3 October 2014

For this #FridayReads, I shall be reading a classic novel and a work of poetry.

Book:  Fahrenheit 451

Author:  Ray Bradbury

Published: 1953

Publisher:  Del Ray Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group

Format: 50th Anniversary Edition. Mass Market Paperback

Source:  Personal Library

First Line:  "It was a pleasure to burn."

GoodReads Rating: 3.94

 

Book: Winter Morning Walks: one hundred postcards to Jim Harrison

Author:  Ted Kooser 

Published: 2000

Publisher:  Carnegie Mellon University Press

Format: Softcover

Source:  Personal Library

First Line:  "Rainy and cold."

GoodReads Rating: 4.50

Estella's Revenge Classics Club

Andi, who blogs at Estella's Revenge, has created a Classics Club in which she has determined to read 50+ books by 27 June 2018.  In an attempt to broaden my experience with classical literature, I will be joining Andi on this quest.  Following is a list of all the books Andi will be reading, plus some additions of my own.

1. Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier
2. A Little Price by Frances Hodgsdon Burnett
3. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
4. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
5. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
6. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
7. Persuasion by Jane Austen
8. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
9. Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
10. North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
11. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
12. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
13. The Inferno by Dante
14. Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote
15. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
16. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
17. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
18. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
19. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
20. The Plague by Albert Camus
21. The Bell by Iris Murdoch
22. The Red and the Black by Stendahl
23. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
24. Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
25. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
26. Daddy Long Legs by Jean Webster
27. Roast Beef Medium by Edna Ferber
28. The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham
29. Middlemarch by George Eliot
30. The Collector by John Fowles
31. The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles
32. Terminal by Emile Zola
33. The Portrait of a Lady by DH Lawrence
34. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
35. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
36. Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
37. Dracula by Bram Stoker
38. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
39. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
40. 1984 by George Orwell
41. Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
42. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
43. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
44. Wise Blood by Angela Carter
45. The Outsiders by SE Hinton
46. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
47. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
48. The Robber Bridegroom by Eudora Welty
49. The Optimist’s Daughter by Eudora Welty
50. Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
51. The Professor’s House by Willa Cather
52. Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
53. Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
54. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
55. The Theban Plays by Sophocles

Not on the original list, but read within the 5-year window:

56. Matilda by Roald Dahl
57. We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
58. The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
59. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
60. The Frozen Deep by Wilkie Collins

My Additions to the List:

61.  Three Men in a Boat - Jerome K. Jerome
62.  The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
63.  The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fistzgerald
64.  The Old Man and the Sea by Ernes Hemingway
65.  Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
66.  The Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde
67.  Night, Dawn, Day by Elie Wiesel
68.  The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
69.  American Pastoral by Philip Roth
70.  Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
71.  The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
72.  Beloved by Toni Morrison
73.  The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
74.  Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
75.  Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
76.  The Brothers Karamozov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
77.  Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
78. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
79.  Dream of Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin
80.  Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
81.  Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
82.  The Golden Bowl by Henry James
83.  The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
84.  The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
85.  A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul
86.  if on a winter's night a traveler by Italo Calvino
87.  Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
88.  Invisible man by Ralph Ellison
89.  Lolita by Vladamir Nabokov
90.  Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
91.  Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
92.  Moby Dick by Herman Melville
93.  Narcissus and Goldmund by Herman Hesse
94.  Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
95.  A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
96. A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
97.  The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
98.  Their Eyes were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
99.  Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
100.  The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
101.  How Green was My Valley by Richard Lewellyn
102.  To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
103.  Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee
104.  1984 by George Orwell
105.  Animal Farm by George Orwell
106.  Les Misrables by Victor Hugo

-Joseph
Soli Deo Gloria

 

October 2012 TBR

Welcome to October, my most favorite month of the entire year, for it ushers in Autumn which I dearly love.  This month, I will be reading six books.

CLASSICAL LITERATURE:  Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte.  In September, I read Jasper Fforde's The Eyre Affair which whetted my appetite to read this overlooked piece of classical literature. 

HISTORICAL  FICTION:  Russka by Edward Rutherfurd.  I am reading this as a precursor to Glenn Meade's The Romanov Conspiracy.  Russian history fascinates me; especially, the history of the Tsars. 

CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE:  The Romanov Conspiracy by Glenn Meade.  I stumbled upon this in the new book section of the public library.

SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY:  The Initiate Brother by Sean Russell.  This was recommended to me by a Canadian friend.  I am really looking forward to it because it combines fantasy with Asian themes!

MYSTERY:  The Murder at the Vicarage by Dame Agatha Christie.   In my early teens, I was a huge Agatha Christie fan, probably due to my facsination with Murder She Wrote.  The Murder at the Vicarage is the novel which introduces Miss Jane Marple.

REVIEW COPY:  The Fourth Fisherman by Joe Kissack.  This book was provided as a free, review copy from WaterBrook Press