Literature to Read
This is a list of literature I wish to read. It ranges from fiction to poetry to non-fiction, totaling 85 titles.
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Ada
– Vladimir Nabokov
Adam Bede
– George Eliot
The Alchemist
– Paolo Coelho
Atlas Shrugged
– Ayn Rand
The Beautiful and the Damned
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Body Snatcher
– Robert Louis Stevenson
Caligula
– Albert Camus
The Colonel's Lady
– William Somerset Maugham
Coming Up for Air
– George Orwell
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
Daisy Miller
– Henry James
Daniel Deronda
– George Eliot
Deceit, Desire and the Novel: Self and Other in Literary Structure
– Rene Girard
Demian
– Herman Hesse
Doctor Faustus
– Thomas Mann
Doctor Faustus and Other Plays: Parts 1-2
– Christopher Marlowe
Evelina
– Frances Burney
Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
– John Cleland
A Farewell to Arms
– Ernest Hemingway
Fight Club
– Chuck Palahniuk
Les Fleurs du Mal
– Charles Baudelaire
For Whom the Bell Tolls
– Ernest Hemingway
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
– Stieg Larsson
The Good Soldier
– Ford Maddox Ford
The Hand of Ethelberta
– Thomas Hardy
The Hunger
– Whitley Strieber
I See Satan Fall Like Lightning
– Rene Girard
The Invisible Girl and The Dream
– Mary Shelley
The Italian
– Ann Radcliffe
King Lear
– William Shakespeare
King Solomon's Mines
– H. Rider Haggard
Lady Susan
– Jane Austen
The Lifted Veil
– George Eliot
The Magic Mountain
– Thomas Mann
The Magician
– W. Somerset Maugham
Maid in Waiting
– John Galsworthy
Manfred
– George Gordon Byron
The Mortal Immortal and the Evil Eye
– Mary Shelley
Mother Night
– Kurt Vonnegut
A Moveable Feast
– Ernest Hemingway
Nana
– Emile Zola
The Nazis and the Occult
– Dusty Sklar
Nostromo
– Joseph Conrad
Of Human Bondage
– W. Somerset Maugham
An Old Man's Love
– Anthony Trollope
A Pair of Blue Eyes
– Thomas Hardy
Pale Fire
– Vladimir Nabokov
The Pilgrims
– Mary Shelley
The Plumed Serpent
– D.H. Lawrence
Pnin
– Vladimir Nabokov
The Poor Clare
– Elizabeth Gaskell
The Professor
– Charlotte Bronte
Quartet
– Jean Rhys
The Queen's Necklace
– Alexandre Dumas
Resurrection from the Underground: Feodor Dostoevsky
– Rene Girard
The Rider on the White Horse
– Theodor Storm
A Rogue's Life
– Wilkie Collins
Salome
– Oscar Wilde
The Scapegoat
– Rene Girard
The Screwtape Letters
– C.S. Lewis
The Secret Agent
– Joseph Conrad
Shirley
– Charlotte Bronte
Shutter Island
– Dennis Lehane
Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography
– Jean Rhys
A Son at the Front
– Edith Wharton
The Sound and the Fury
– William Faulkner
The Talisman
– Sir Walter Scott
Tender is the Night
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Theatre of Envy: William Shakespeare
– Rene Girard
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
– Rene Girard
The Thirteenth Tale
– Diane Setterfield
‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore
– John Ford
The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
– Douglas Adams
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
– Milan Kundera
Violence and the Sacred
– Rene Girard
The Violent Bear It Away
– Flannery O’Connor
The Warden
– Anthony Trollope
Welcome to the Monkey House
– Kurt Vonnegut
The White Monkey
– John Galsworthy