As I’m bored and am not really into blogging about work right now (synopsis: I’m working retail at Christmas — enough said!), I thought I’d copy Nikkiana and write about what I’ve read off of this list:

Poetry
Gilgamesh (epic)| Bible — Old Testament (Word of God) | Odyssey (Homer) | Illiad (Homer) | Sappho’s poems (sang some of them) | Bible — New Testament (to Logou ha Theou) | Beowulf (epic) | The Poem of the Cid (epic) | The Saga of Burnt Njal (Icelandic saga) | The Divine Comedy** (Dante Aligheri) | Song of Roland (anon) | Canterbury Tales (Chaucer) | Le Morte D’Arthur (Malory) | Sonnets (Shakespeare) | The Pilgrim’s Progress (Bunyan) | Poems…** (Burns) | Poems** (Woodsworth) | Poems** (Poe) | Leave of Grass (Whitman) | Poems (Dickinson) | Poems (Yeats) | Prufrock and Other Poems (Eliot) | Poems (Hopkins) | Selected Poems** (Auden)

Stories
The Thousand and One Nights (a.k.a “Arabian Nights”) | Candide** (Voltaire) | Heptamï??ron** (Marguerite de Navarre) | Grimm’s Fairy Tales (Grimm Brothers) | Tales of the Grotesque and Macabre** (Poe) | Dubliners** (Joyce) | Farenheit 451 (Bradbury) | All Creatures Great and Small** (Herriot)

Drama
Antigone (Sophocles) | Medea (Euripides) | Oedipus Rex (Sophocles) | Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare) | Julius Caesar (Shakespeare) | Hamlet (Shakespeare) | Othello (Shakespeare) | Macbeth (Shakespeare) | A Doll’s House (Ibsen) | Cyrano de Bergerac*** (Rostand) | Murder in the Cathedral* (Eliot) | Our Town (Wilder) | Antigone* (Anouilh) | A Streetcar Named Desire (Williams) | Death of a Salesman (Miller) | Waiting for Godot (Beckett)

Novels before 1899
Pantagruel** (Rabelais) | Gulliver’s Travels** (Swift) | Frankenstein (Shelley) | Ivanhoe (Scott) | The Last of the Mohicans** (Cooper) | Oliver Twist (Dickens) | A Christmas Carol (Dickens) | The Scarlet Letter (Hawthorne) | Moby Dick*** (Melville) | Madame Bovary (Flaubert) | Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland** (Carroll) | Crime and Punishment (Dostoyevsky) | Little Women (Alcott) | Middlemarch** (Eliot) | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Twain) | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Twain) | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (Twain)

Novels 1900-1949
Heart of Darkness (Conrad) | The Call of the Wild (London) | Anne of Green Gables (Montgomery) | Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Joyce) | My Antonia (Cather) | Babbitt (Lewis) | Billy Budd (Melville) | The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald) | Call It Sleep (Roth) | Finnegan’s Wake (Joyce) | Native Son (Wright) | The Outsider (Camus)

Novels 1950 and after
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (Lewis) | The Catcher in the Rye (Salinger) | The Invisible Man (Ellison) | East of Eden (Steinbeck) | Lord of the Flies (Golding) | The Leopard (de Lampedusa) | To Kill A Mockingbird (Lee) | One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest | The Joy Luck Club (Tan)

Key:
*=”I’ve seen it performed at the seminary.”
**=”I’ve read selected poems or large excerpts of the book”
***=”I’ve studied the piece but haven’t read the whole book.” (For some of these, we watched the movie and read parts of the book that weren’t part of the movie in some of my classes in high school.)