Oh, what the heck, everyone else is doing it.

Blackfive, She Who Will Be Obeyed, Pejmanesque, and other bloggers have put up their lists of which books from the College Board 101 Great Books they have read. As Matt did, my list (books I've read are in bold) is in the extended post. Go visit Matt to see the whole list of who's read what.

I should note that as a elementary and junior high school student I spent most of my life overseas in Germany and France, where there was either no US-television or we were out of range of the Armed Forces Network tv when it finally did arrive. So I read. A lot. Plus, back in the day, you had to read a lot in English classes. And when I went to college, I didn't have a TV and didn't bother to watch it in the lounge. When I went to Germany as a Lieutenant, I didn't watch AFN - I only bought a TV so I could hook up a video disk.

Come to think of it - I still don't watch much TV. Which leaves me out of a lot of water-cooler talk.

So what?

Beowulf
Achebe, Chinua - Things Fall Apart
Agee, James - A Death in the Family
Austen, Jane - Pride and Prejudice
Baldwin, James - Go Tell It on the Mountain
Beckett, Samuel - Waiting for Godot
Bellow, Saul - The Adventures of Augie March
Brontë, Charlotte - Jane Eyre
Brontë, Emily - Wuthering Heights
Camus, Albert - The Stranger
Cather, Willa - Death Comes for the Archbishop
Chaucer, Geoffrey - The Canterbury Tales
Chekhov, Anton - The Cherry Orchard
Chopin, Kate - The Awakening
Conrad, Joseph - Heart of Darkness
Cooper, James Fenimore - The Last of the Mohicans
Crane, Stephen - The Red Badge of Courage
Dante - Inferno
de Cervantes, Miguel - Don Quixote
Defoe, Daniel - Robinson Crusoe
Dickens, Charles - A Tale of Two Cities
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - Crime and Punishment
Douglass, Frederick - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Dreiser, Theodore - An American Tragedy
Dumas, Alexandre - The Three Musketeers
Eliot, George - The Mill on the Floss
Ellison, Ralph - Invisible Man
Emerson, Ralph Waldo - Selected Essays
Faulkner, William - As I Lay Dying
Faulkner, William - The Sound and the Fury
Fielding, Henry - Tom Jones
Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Great Gatsby
Flaubert, Gustave - Madame Bovary
Ford, Ford Madox - The Good Soldier
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von - Faust
Golding, William - Lord of the Flies
Hardy, Thomas - Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Hawthorne, Nathaniel - The Scarlet Letter
Heller, Joseph - Catch 22
Hemingway, Ernest - A Farewell to Arms
Homer - The Iliad
Homer - The Odyssey
Hugo, Victor - The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hurston, Zora Neale - Their Eyes Were Watching God
Huxley, Aldous - Brave New World
Ibsen, Henrik - A Doll's House
James, Henry - The Portrait of a Lady
James, Henry - The Turn of the Screw
Joyce, James - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Kafka, Franz - The Metamorphosis
Kingston, Maxine Hong - The Woman Warrior
Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird
Lewis, Sinclair - Babbitt
London, Jack - The Call of the Wild
Mann, Thomas - The Magic Mountain
Marquez, Gabriel García - One Hundred Years of Solitude
Melville, Herman - Bartleby the Scrivener
Melville, Herman - Moby Dick
Miller, Arthur - The Crucible
Morrison, Toni - Beloved
O'Connor, Flannery - A Good Man is Hard to Find
O'Neill, Eugene - Long Day's Journey into Night
Orwell, George - Animal Farm
Pasternak, Boris - Doctor Zhivago
Plath, Sylvia - The Bell Jar
Poe, Edgar Allan - Selected Tales
Proust, Marcel - Swann's Way
Pynchon, Thomas - The Crying of Lot 49
Remarque, Erich Maria - All Quiet on the Western Front
Rostand, Edmond - Cyrano de Bergerac
Roth, Henry - Call It Sleep
Salinger, J.D. - The Catcher in the Rye
Shakespeare, William - Hamlet
Shakespeare, William - Macbeth
Shakespeare, William - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Shakespeare, William - Romeo and Juliet
Shaw, George Bernard - Pygmalion
Shelley, Mary - Frankenstein
Silko, Leslie Marmon - Ceremony
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Sophocles - Antigone
Sophocles - Oedipus Rex
Steinbeck, John - The Grapes of Wrath
Stevenson, Robert Louis - Treasure Island
Stowe, Harriet Beecher - Uncle Tom's Cabin
Swift, Jonathan - Gulliver's Travels
Thackeray, William - Vanity Fair
Thoreau, Henry David - Walden
Tolstoy, Leo - War and Peace
Turgenev, Ivan - Fathers and Sons
Twain, Mark - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Voltaire - Candide
Vonnegut, Kurt Jr. - Slaughterhouse-Five
Walker, Alice - The Color Purple
Wharton, Edith - The House of Mirth
Welty, Eudora - Collected Stories
Whitman, Walt - Leaves of Grass
Wilde, Oscar - The Picture of Dorian Gray
Williams, Tennessee - The Glass Menagerie
Woolf, Virginia - To the Lighthouse
Wright, Richard - Native Son

What the heck, they have more lists. Let's have at it!

Classic Cultural and Historical Texts

The Arabian Nights
Kennedy, John F. - Profiles in Courage
--- The Bible
King, Martin Luther Jr. - A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Adams, Henry - The Education of Henry Adams
Malory, Sir Thomas - Le Morte D'Arthur
Aesop - Aesop's Fables
Machiavelli, Niccolo - The Prince
Andersen, Hans Christian - Andersen's Fairy Tales
Marx, Karl - The Communist Manifesto
Aristotle -Nicomachean Ethics
Paine, Thomas - Common Sense
DuBois, W.E.B. - The Souls of Black Folk
Plato - The Republic
Franklin, Benjamin - Autobiography
Tocqueville, Alexis de - Democracy in America (rereading now!)
Hamilton, Edith - Mythology
X, Malcolm - The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Hamilton, John, et al. - The Federalist Papers

Poetry

Blake, William - "London" and "The Tyger"
Keats, John - "Ode on a Grecian Urn," "La Belle Dame Sans Merci," and "The Eve of St. Agnes"
Brooks, Gwendolyn - "We Real Cool," "The Mother," and "The Bean Eaters"
Moore, Marianne- "Marriage," "Poetry," and "The Fish"
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor - "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," "Kubla Khan," and "Frost at Midnight"
O'Hara, Frank - "Why I Am Not a Painter," "The Day Lady Died", and "Poem" (Lana Turner Has Collapsed)
Dickinson, Emily - "There's a certain Slant of light" (258), "I felt a Funeral, in my Brain" (280), and "Because I could not stop for Death" (712)
Shakespeare, William - Sonnets
Donne, John - "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning," "Death, be not proud" (Holy Sonnet 10), and "The Flea"
Stein, Gertrude - Tender Buttons, Stanzas in Meditation
Eliot, T.S. - "The Waste Land" and "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
Williams, William Carlos - "The Red Wheelbarrow," "This is Just to Say," and Spring and All
Hopkins, Gerard Manley - "God's Grandeur," "Windhover," and "Carrion Comfort"
Wordsworth, William - "Tintern Abbey," "Prelude," Lyrical Ballads (with S.T. Coleridge)
Hughes, Langston - "Theme for English B" and "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"