New Year resolution comes in many flavours. As far I am concerned, I would like to spend much of my time on watching movies and reading books. So, the books listed below are my recommendation. I will list the highly recommended movies in my next post.
Author. | Title. | |||
Aeschylus | Prometheus Bound | |||
Alcott, Louisa May | Little Women | |||
Anderson, Sherwood | Winesburg, Ohio | |||
Anderson, Hans Christian | Fairy Tales | |||
Aristotle | The Poetics | |||
Augustine of Hippo | The Confessions | |||
Austen, Jane | Emma | |||
Austen, Jane | Mansfield Park | |||
Austen, Jane | Northanger Abbey | |||
Austen, Jane | Persuasion | |||
Austen, Jane | Pride and Prejudice | |||
Austen, Jane | Sense and Sensibility | |||
Balzac, Honore de | Colonel Chabert | |||
Balzac, Honore de | Cousin Bette | |||
Balzac, Honore de | The Country Doctor | |||
Balzac, Honore de | Father Goriot | |||
Barrie, J.M. | Peter Pan | |||
Bellamy, Edward | Looking Backward | |||
[Anonymous] | Beowulf | |||
The Bible, King James Version | ||||
The Bible, New Testament (KJV) | ||||
The Bible, Old Testament (KJV) | ||||
Blake, William | Songs of Innocence and Experience | |||
Boccaccio, Giovanni | The Decameron | |||
Bronte, Anne | Agnes Grey | |||
Bronte, Anne | The Tenant of Wildfell Hall | |||
Bronte, Charlotte | Jane Eyre | |||
Bronte, Charlotte | Villette | |||
Bronte, Emily | Wuthering Heights | |||
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett | Sonnets from the Portuguese | |||
Browning, Robert | Selected Poetry | |||
Bunyan, John | The Pilgrim's Progress | |||
Cather, Willa | ||||
Cather, Willa | Death Comes for the Archbishop | |||
Cervantes, Miguel de | Don Quixote | |||
Chaucer, Geoffrey | The Canterbury Tales | |||
Chekhov, Anton | The Seagull | |||
Chekhov, Anton | Uncle Vanya | |||
Chopin, Kate | The Awakening & Selected Stories | |||
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor | Poetry & Rime of the Ancient Mariner | |||
Collins, Wilkie | The Law and the Lady | |||
Collins, Wilkie | The Moonstone | |||
Collins, Wilkie | The Woman in White | |||
Conrad, Joseph | Heart of Darkness | |||
Conrad, Joseph | Lord Jim | |||
Conrad, Joseph | Nostromo | |||
Conrad, Joseph | The Secret Sharer | |||
Conrad, Joseph | Typhoon | |||
Crane, Stephen | The Red Badge of Courage | |||
Dana, Richard Henry | Two Years Before the Mast | |||
Dante, Alighieri | The Divine Comedy | |||
Darwin, Charles | Origin of the Species | |||
Defoe, Daniel | Robinson Crusoe | |||
Defoe, Daniel | Moll Flanders | |||
Dickens, Charles | Bleak House | |||
Dickens, Charles | A Christmas Carol | |||
Dickens, Charles | David Copperfield | |||
Dickens, Charles | Great Expectations | |||
Dickens, Charles | Nicholas Nickleby | |||
Dickens, Charles | Oliver Twist | |||
Dickens, Charles | Pictures from Italy | |||
Dickens, Charles | The Pickwick Papers | |||
Dickens, Charles | A Tale of Two Cities | |||
Dickinson, Emily | Collected Poems. | |||
Donne, John | Songs and Sonnets | |||
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor | Crime and Punishment | |||
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor | The Double | |||
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor | The Gambler | |||
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor | Notes from the Underground | |||
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor | The Idiot | |||
Douglass, Frederick | Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass | |||
Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir | The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | |||
Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir | The Hound of the Baskervilles | |||
Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir | Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes | |||
Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir | The Return of Sherlock Holmes | |||
Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir | His Last Bow | |||
Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir | The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes | |||
Dreiser, Theodore | Sister Carrie | |||
Dumas, Alexandre, pere | The Count of Monte Cristo | |||
Dumas, Alexandre | The Three Musketeers | |||
Eliot, George | Adam Bede | |||
Eliot, George | Daniel Deronda | |||
Eliot, George | Middlemarch | |||
Eliot, George | The Mill on the Floss | |||
Eliot, George | Silas Marner | |||
Eliot, T. S. | The Wasteland | |||
Eliot, T. S. | The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock & Other Poems | |||
Emerson, Ralph Waldo | Essays | |||
Fielding, Henry | The History of Tom Jones | |||
Fitzgerald, F. Scott | The Great Gatsby | |||
Flaubert, Gustav | Madame Bovary. | |||
Forster, E. M. | Howard's End. | |||
Forster, E. M. | A Room With a View. | |||
Forster, E. M. | Where Angels Fear to Tread. | |||
Frost, Robert | Collected Poems. | |||
Gibran, Khalil | The Madman | |||
Gibran, Khalil | The Prophet | |||
Gissing, George | New Grub Street | |||
Gissing, George | The Odd Women | |||
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von | The Sorrows of Young Werther | |||
Gogol, Nikolai | Dead Souls | |||
Gogol, Nikolai | The Inspector General | |||
Gogol, Nikolai | The Overcoat | |||
Hardy, Thomas | Far from the Madding Crowd | |||
Hardy, Thomas | Jude the Obscure | |||
Hardy, Thomas | The Mayor of Casterbridge | |||
Hardy, Thomas | The Return of the Native | |||
Hardy, Thomas | Tess of the D'Urbervilles | |||
Hawthorne, Nathaniel | The House of the Seven Gables | |||
Hawthorne, Nathaniel | The Scarlet Letter | |||
Hawthorne, Nathaniel | The Blithedale Romance | |||
Hawthorne, Nathaniel | Twice Told Tales | |||
Hesse, Hermann | Siddhartha | |||
Homer | The Iliad | |||
Homer | The Odyssey | |||
Hugo, Victor | Les Miserables | |||
Huxley, Aldous | Brave New World | |||
Ibsen, Henrik | A Doll's House | |||
Kafka, Franz | The Metamorphosis | |||
James, Henry | Daisy Miller | |||
James, Henry | The Ambassadors | |||
James, Henry | The American | |||
James, Henry | The Turn of the Screw | |||
James, Henry | The Portrait of a Lady | |||
James, Henry | Washington Square | |||
Joyce, Jame | Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | |||
Joyce, James | Dubliners | |||
Joyce, James | Ulysses | |||
Kafka, Franz | The Metamorphosis | |||
Keats, John | Collected Poems | |||
The Koran (Qu'ran) | ||||
Kipling, Rudyard | Captains Courageous | |||
Kipling, Rudyard | Kim | |||
Khayyam, Omar | The Rubaiyat | |||
Lawrence, D. H. | Sons and Lovers | |||
Lawrence, D. H. | Women in Love | |||
Lewis, Sinclair | Babbit | |||
Lewis, Sinclair | Main Street | |||
Locke, John | Second Treatise on Civil Government | |||
London, Jack | The Call of the Wild | |||
Machiavelli, Nicolo | The Prince | |||
Malory, Thomas | Le Mort D'Arthur | |||
Marlowe, Christopher | Dr. Faustus | |||
Marx, Kar | The Communist Manifesto | |||
Melville, Herman | Bartleby, the Scrivener | |||
Mellville, Herman | Billy Budd | |||
Mellville, Herman | Moby Dick | |||
Mellville, Herman | Typee | |||
Meredith, George | The Egoist | |||
Milton, John | Paradise Lost | |||
Milton, John | Paradise Regained | |||
Moliere | The Miser | |||
More, Thomas, Sir, Saint | Utopia | |||
Nietzsche, Friedrich | Beyond Good and Evil | |||
Orwell, George | 1984 | |||
Orwell, George | Animal Farm | |||
Paine, Thomas | Common Sense | |||
Plato | The Republic | |||
Poe, Edgar Allen | Collected Tales | |||
Pope, Alexander | The Rape of the Lock | |||
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques | The Confessions | |||
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques | The Social Contract | |||
Sand, George | Mauprat | |||
Rowlandson, Mary | Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration | |||
Scott, Sir Walter | Guy Mannering | |||
Scott, Sir Walter | Ivanhoe | |||
Shakespeare, William | Sonnets | |||
Shakespeare, William | As You Like It | |||
Shakespeare, William | All's Well That Ends Well | |||
Shakespeare, William | Antony and Cleopatra | |||
Shakespeare, William | A Comedy of Errors | |||
Shakespeare, William | Hamlet | |||
Shakespeare, William | King Lear | |||
Shakespeare, William | Macbeth | |||
Shakespeare, William | The Merchant of Venice | |||
Shakespeare, William | Much Ado About Nothing | |||
Shakespeare, William | Julius Caesar | |||
Shakespeare, William | Romeo and Juliet | |||
Shakespeare, William | A Midsummer Night's Dream | |||
Shakespeare, William | Othello | |||
Shakespeare, William | Twelfth Night | |||
Shakespeare, William | Two Gentlemen of Verona | |||
Shaw, George Bernard | Candida | |||
Shaw, George Bernard | Pygmalion | |||
Shelley, Mary | Frankenstein | |||
Sinclair, Upton | The Jungle | |||
Sophocles | ||||
Stendhal | The Red and the Black | |||
Sterne, Lawrence | Tristram Shandy | |||
Stevenson, Robert Louis | Treasure Island | |||
Stoker, Bram | Dracula | |||
Stowe, Harriet Beecher | Uncle Tom's Cabin | |||
Sun Tzu | The Art of War | |||
Swift, Jonathan | A Modest Proposal | |||
Swift, Jonathan | Gulliver's Travels | |||
Tennyson, Alfred | Idylls of the King | |||
Thackeray, William Makepeace | Vanity Fair | |||
Thoreau, Henry David | On Civil Disobedience | |||
Thoreau, Henry David | Walden | |||
Thucydides | History of the Pelyponnesion Wars | |||
Tolstoy, Leo | Anna Karenina | |||
Tolstoy, Leo | War and Peace | |||
Trollope, Anthony | Barchester Towers | |||
Trollope, Anthony | The Way We Live Now | |||
Truth, Sojourner [Gilbert] | The Narrative of Sojourner Truth | |||
Twain, Mark | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | |||
Twain, Mark | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | |||
Twain, Mark | The Innocents Abroad | |||
Twain, Mark | Life on the Mississippi | |||
Twain, Mark | The Mysterious Stranger | |||
Twain, Mark | On the Decay of the Art of Lying | |||
Twain, Mark | The Prince and the Pauper | |||
Twain, Mark | Pudd'nhead Wilson | |||
U. S. | United States Constitution | |||
U. S. | Declaration of Independence | |||
Verne, Jules | Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea | |||
Verne, Jules | Around the World in Eighty Days | |||
Voltaire | Candide | |||
Wells, H. G. | War of the Worlds | |||
Wells, H. G. | The Time Machine | |||
Wharton, Edith | The Age of Innocence | |||
Wharton, Edith | The House of Mirth | |||
Wharton, Edith | Ethan Frome | |||
Whitman, Walt | Leaves of Grass | |||
Wilde, Oscar | The Picture of Dorian Grey | |||
Wollstonecraft, Mary | A Vindication of the Rights of Woman | |||
Wordsworth, William | Lyrical Ballads | |||
Wordsworth, William | The Prelude | |||
Woolf, Virginia | A Room of One's Own |
3 comments:
Thanks for the long booklist. It would be a great achievement if you could finish reading 5%-10% of the books listed. They are great books by great authors; some of them are heavy stuff. I know you like reading them in digital forms (Ebooks). I have a number of books listed in hard copies & will be too willing to loan them to you if interested. Nowadays my priority is to buy & read books written in Chinese. Bought quite a lot in China whenever going there for tours. They are 50% cheaper than those sold in Malaysia. Happy reading to you!
In fact , I have a full collection of all these books in electronic form. On computer, you could check the meaning of the words online, doing away the hassle of looking it up in hard copy dictionary.
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