4 posts tagged “making lists”

Over on listography, I have "read the classics" as a life goal. I've been trying to find the perfect list before finally deciding to cull one together myself . . . Am I missing any of the great ones? Are there any I should take off? I have crossed through the ones I have read. How embarrasingly few. I am working on Wuthering Heights right now.

Interesting how Vox numbered them.

1. A Death in the Family, James Agee
2. A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
3. A Good Man is Hard to Find, Flannery O’Connor
4. A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams
5. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
6. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain
7. Aesop's Fables, Aesop
8. The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton
9. Agnes Grey, Anne Bronte
10. All the King’s Men, Robert P. Warren
11. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
12. The Ambassadors, Henry James
13. An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser
14. Animal Farm, George Orwell
15. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
16. Antigone, Sophocles
17. The Arabian Nights, Anonymous
18. The Art of War, Sun Tzu
19. As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner
20. The Beautiful and Damned, F. Scott Fitzgerald
21. The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
22. Beowulf, Anonymous
23. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
24. The Bostonians, Henry James
25. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
26. The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky
27. The Call of the Wild and White Fang, Jack London
28. Candide, Voltaire
29. The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer
30. Catch 22, Joseph Heller
31. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
32. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
33. The Collected Oscar Wilde, Oscar Wilde
34. The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson, Emily Dickinson
35. Common Sense and Other Writings, Thomas Paine
36. The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx
37. The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Vol. I, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
38. The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Vol. II, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
39. Confessions, St. Augustine of Hippo
40. A Connecticut Yankee in King Authur's Court, Mark Twain
41. Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky
42. The Crucible, Arthur Miller
43. Cyrano de Bergerac, Edmond Rostand
44. Daisy Miller, Henry James
45. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
46. Dead Souls, Nikolai Gogol
47. Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller
48. The Death of Ivan Ilych, Leo Tolstoy
49. The Diary of Anne Franks, Ann Frank
50. The Divine Comedy, Dante
51. Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak
52. Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes
53. Dracula, Bram Stoker
54. Emma, Jane Austen
55. The Enchanted Castle, Edith Nesbit
56. Essays and Poems, Ralph Waldo Emerson
57. Essential Dialogues , Plato
58. Essential Fiction and Poems, Edgar Allan Poe
59. Ethan Frome and Selected Stories, Edith Wharton
60. Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
61. Fairy Tales, Hans Christian Andersen
62. Fathers and Sons, Ivan Turgenev
63. For Who the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway
64. The Four Feathers, A.E.W. Mason
65. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
66. The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams
67. Go Tell It on the Mountain, James Baldwin
68. The Good Soldier, Ford Madox Ford
69. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
70. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
71. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
72. Grimm's Fairy Tales, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
73. Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift
74. Hamlet, Shakespeare
75. Hard Times, Charles Dickens
76. Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
77. The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton
78. The House of Spirits, Isabel Allende
79. The House of the Dead and Poor Folk, Fyodor Dostoevsky
80. The House of Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne
81. Howards End, E. M. Forster
82. The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo
83. The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoevsky
84. The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde
85. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Harriet A. Jacobs
86. The Inferno, Dante
87. Ivanhoe, Sir Walter Scott
88. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
89. Journey to the Center of the Earth, Jules Verne
90. Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy
91. The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
92. The Jungle Books, Rudyard Kipling
93. Kim, Rudyard Kipling
94. King Solomon's Mines, H. Rider Haggard
95. Lady Chatterley's Lover, D. H. Lawrence
96. Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman
97. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving
98. Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Choderlos de Laclos
99. Les Misérables, Victor Hugo
100. The Life of Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell
101. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
102. Lord Jim, Joseph Conrad
103. Lost Illusions, Honore de Balzac
104. Macbeth, Shakespeare
105. Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
106. Main Street, Sinclair Lewis
107. Mansfield Park, Jane Austen
108. The Mayor of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy
109. The Metamorphoses, Ovid
110. The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
111. Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare
112. Middlemarch, George Eliot
113. Moby-Dick, Herman Melville
114. Moll Flanders, Daniel Defoe
115. Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
116. My Ántonia, Willa Cather
117. My Bondage and My Freedom, Frederick Douglass
118. Nana, Emile Zola
119. Narrative of Sojourner Truth, Sojourner Truth
120. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Frederick Douglass
121. Nicholas Nickleby, Charles Dickens
122. Night, Elie Weisel
123. Night and Day, Virginia Woolf
124. Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen
125. Notes from Underground, Fyodor Dostoevsky
126. The Odyssey, Homer
127. Oedipus Rex, Sophocles
128. Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
129. O Pioneers!, Willa Cather
130. The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin
131. Our Town, Thornton Wilder
132. Out of Africa, Isak Dinesen
133. Paradise Lost, John Milton
134. Persuasion, Jane Austen
135. Peter Pan, J. M. Barrie
136. The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
137. The Pilgrim's Progress, John Bunyan
138. Poetics and Rhetoric, Aristotle
139. The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James
140. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce
141. The Possessed, Fyodor Dostoevsky
142. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
143. The Prince, Niccolò Machiavelli
144. The Prince and the Pauper, Mark Twain
145. Pudd'nhead Wilson, Mark Twain
146. Purgatorio, Dante
147. Pygmalion and Three Other Plays, George Bernard Shaw
148. The Red and the Black, Stendhal
149. The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane
150. Republic, Plato
151. The Return of the Native, Thomas Hardy
152. Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe
153. Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare
154. A Room with a View, E. M. Forster
155. Sailing Alone Around the World, Joshua Slocum
156. The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
157. The Scarlet Pimpernel, Baroness Orczy
158. The Secret Agent, Joseph Conrad
159. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
160. Selected Stories, O. Henry
161. Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen
162. Sentimental Education, Gustave Flaubert
163. Silas Marner, George Eliot
164. Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser
165. Six Plays, Henrik Ibsen
166. Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
167. Sons and Lovers, D. H. Lawrence
168. The Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B. Du Bois
169. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
170. Sula, Toni Morrison
171. Swann's Way, Marcel Proust
172. A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
173. Tao Te Ching, Lao Tzu
174. Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
175. This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald
176. Three Lives, Gertrude Stein
177. Three Theban Plays, Sophocles
178. The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas
179. Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche
180. The Time Machine, H. G. Wells
181. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
182. Tom Jones, Henry Fielding
183. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
184. The Turn of the Screw, Henry James
185. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne
186. Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe
187. Utopia, Thomas More
188. Vanity Fair, William Thackeray
189. The Voyage Out, Virginia Woolf
190. Walden and Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau
191. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
192. The War of the Worlds, H. G. Wells
193. Ward No. 6, Anton Chekhov
194. The Waste Land , T. S. Eliot
195. The Way We Live Now, Anthony Trollope
196. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
197. The Wings of the Dove, Henry James
198. Wives and Daughters, Elizabeth Gaskell
199. The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins
200. Women in Love, D. H. Lawrence
201. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum
202. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë

Wow, three days since a post. It's not that I haven't been thinking about it. I've thought of many a post. Transferring from my brain to the keyboard is something else.

Let's see . . .

I've gone back to work. Thank heavens for the three-day workweek.

I did like National Treasure.

I threw away any make-up or face product that could've been a year older away.

Conversation with mom: (holding up handicapped parking hanger) "This thing has been a lifesaver!" So I guess I don't have to say 'I told you so!'? "No."

I got a Ninetendo for Christmas. With a Brain Game 2. My starting mental age is 80. I've been doing the training every day and really enjoy it.

I'm going to try out list-making.

I really enjoyed The Thirteenth Tale.

I've been updating my music collection. Love the Public Library: Spoon, Fall Out Boy, Robin Thicke, Rascal Flats, Carrie Underwood, Chris Rice, Amy Winehouse and a couple of Grammy compilations.

Based on a recommendation from Baylor Girl, I bought the starter set of Bare Minerals/Escentuals. So far, I love it.

My new TV Guide subscription started. It was free, but I realize now with the writer's strike that a different choice might've been the better option.

My friend Jill has back surgery tomorrow. If you gotta sec, would you mind sending up a prayer?

OK, I just wandered off and got lost reading about the Iowa Caucus's tonight. Anyone else think our Electoral process could use an overhaul?

1. Top Five Things You Want To Do
2. Top Five Things You Want To Accomplish
3. Top Five Things You Want To Have
4. Top Five Things You Want To Learn
5. Top Five People You Want To Meet
6. Top Five People You Want To Have Dinner With
7. Top Five People You Want To Thank
8. Top Five Mentors
9. Top Five Places You Want To See
10. Top Five Places You Want To Experience
11. Top Five Places You Want To Live
12. Top Five Places You Want To Eat
13. Top Five Jobs You Want To Have
14. Top Five Businesses You Want To Start
15. Top Five Career Titles You Want
16. Top Five People You Want To Work For
17. Top Five Books You Want To Read
18. Top Five People You Want To Impact
19. Top Five Things You Want To Give
20. Top Five Things You Want To Be Remembered For

In no particular order:

Alaska

Drive the 1/101 up the California Coast

Jackson Hole, WY

The Grand Canyon

Portland, OR

Africa

Oaxaca, Mexico

Australia

Madrid, Spain

Paris, France

Florence, Italy

Jerusalem, Israel and other Biblical sites

Now, this is not an all-inclusive list. There are places I have been to that I would like to see again. And there are Duh! How Could I forget . . .  places to be added.