Readddding Rainbow!!!

...you know you're singing that song in your head right now. You're welcome.


Anyone who knows me, knows that I absolutely love to read. If I could just read my days away I totally would. I came across this list of books that everyone should read before college. Granite I've been in college for a few years now, I still think that I'll give it a try to read over the next few years. I thought it'd be great to make a tab as well as this post to track my progress. The books I have read, I'll highlight or cross off. Granite, I did read a few of these books in high school, but I want to re-read them for pleasure. I take away different things from the book when I know I'm reading it by choice. I hope this gets everyone inspired to start reading books off the list. As much as I love my "junk food" books, there is just something about the classics that I love. Enjoy! 

•   Things Fall Apart- Chinua Achebe

•   A Death in the Family: A Novel-James Agee

•   Pride and Prejudice-Jane Austen

•   Go Tell It on the Mountain-James Baldwin

•   The Adventures of Augie March-Saul Bellow

•   Jane Eyre-Charlotte Bronte

•   Wuthering Heights-Emily Bronte

•   The Stranger-Albert Camus

•   Death comes from the Arehibishop-Willa Cather

•   The Cherry Orchard-Anton Chekhov

•   The Awakening-Kate Chopin

•   Heart of Darkness-Joseph Conrad

•   The Last of the Mohicans-James Fenimore Cooper

•   The Red Badge of Courage-Stephen Crane

•   Inferno-Dante

•   Don Quixote-Miguel De Cervantes

•   A Tale of Two Cities-Charles Dickens

•   Crime and Punishment-Fyodor Dostoyevsky      

•   Narrative of the Life of FrederickDouglass

•   An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser


•   The Three Musketeers (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Alexandre Dumas


•   Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison


•   The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot


•   Selected Essays (Penguin Classics) by Ralph Waldo Emerson

•   As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

•   Tom Jones (Wordsworth Classics) by Henry Fielding

•   Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics) by Gustave Flaubert


•   The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford

•   Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


•   LORD OF THE FLIES by WILLIAM GOLDING


•   Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

•   The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

•   Catch-22 (1961) by Joseph Heller

•   A Farewell to Arms (Scribner Classics) by Ernest Hemingway

•   Homer-The Iliad

•   The Odyssey by Homer


•   The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Signet Classics) by Victor Hugo


•   Brave New World by Aldous Huxley


•   A Doll'sHouse by henrik ibsen

•   The portraitof a lady (The Laurel Henry James) by Henry James

•   The Turn of the Screw - Literary Touchstone Classic by Henry James

•   A Portraitof the Artist as a Young Man (Signet Classics) by JamesJoyce

•   The Soundand the Fury by William Faulkner


•   Robinson Crusoe (Modern Library Classics) by Daniel Defoe

•   The GreatGatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

•   Their EyesWere Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

•   Beowulf(Signet Classics) by Anonymous

•   The Canterbury Tales (original-spelling Middle English edition) (Penguin Classics) byGeoffrey Chaucer

•   The Metamorphosis by FranzKafka




•   
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann

•   One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez




•   Bartleby the Scrivener (Hesperus Classics) by Herman Melville




•   Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Penguin Classics) by Herman Melville




•   The Crucible by Arthur Miller




•   A Good Man is Hard to Find (A Women's Press classic) by Flannery O'Connor




•   Beloved by Toni Morrison




•   
Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill




•   Animal Farm by George Orwell




•   Dr. Zhivago by Boris Pasternak




•   The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath




•   Edgar Allen Poe, Selected Tales (Oxford World's Classics) 



•   Swann's Way (Dover Thrift Editions) by Marcel Proust




•   The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon



•   All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque




•   Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand




•   Call It Sleep: A Novel by Henry Roth




•   The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger




•   Hamlet by William Shakespeare




•   Shakespeare - Macbeth by William Shakespeare




•   A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare




•   Romeo and Juliet (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare




•   Pygmalion By George B. Shaw 



•   Frankenstein 



•   Ceremony - Leslie Marmon Silko 



•   One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich: (50th Anniversary Edition) (Signet Classics) by Alexander Solzhenitsyn




•   Antigone by Sophocles




•   Oedipus Rex by Sophocles




•   The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition) by John Steinbeck




•   Treasure Island (Enriched Classics Series) by Robert Louis Stevenson




•   Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe




•   Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift




•   Vanity Fair by William Thackeray




•   Walden by Henry David Thoreau




•   War and Peace (Vintage Classics) by Leo Tolstoy




•   Turgenev, Ivan Sergeyevich-Fathers And Sons

•   The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain




•   
Candide by Voltaire




•   Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel by Kurt Vonnegut




•   The Color Purple by Alice Walker




•   The House of Mirth (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) by Edith Wharton




•   The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty

•   Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition (Thrift Edition) by Walt Whitman




•   The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde




•   The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams



•   To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf 



•   To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee


•   Babbitt (Dover Thrift Editions) by Sinclair Lewis




•   The Call of the Wild by Jack London

•   The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine


Hong Kingston






An intelligent heart acquires knowledge, and the ear of the wise seek knowledge. Proverbs 18:15