Reading List

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I have always been an avid reader, often reading two or three books at a time, yet I realized when I did this I couldn’t recall the finer details of these very much appreciated books, whom, cliché as it may seem, have been my dear friends for a long time. I couldn’t recall the great words (perhaps because there’s just been too many) that made me smirk, tear up, and laugh aloud - the words that made me live with them as they drifted from one sentence into another, the words I would have liked to hold on to, refer back to. Thus, I’ve decided to savor each book that I read. Mark down passages. Think. Contemplate on them. Taste them and ponder at their flavor for a while.

Having said so, the following is a list, which is not in any particular order, of what I’ve read recently, what I’d like to read, what I should read (don’t know what that means), what I’d like to reread, and what I may or may not read. The list may actually grow longer rather than shorter, as I seem to discover a new book each day but that cannot be helped, as I am a very greedy reader.

So, without further ranting here is…

 

The Reading List:

(oh, and suggestions are welcome!) 

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1. The Woman in White (Penguin Classics) by Wilkie Collins
2.  Silk by Alessandro Baricco  (Related Posts: Between Here & The Horizon and  Nothing More)
3. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir by R. A. Dick
4. Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics) by Jane Austen
5. Persuasion (Penguin Classics) by Jane Austen
6. Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics) by Charlotte Brontë
7. Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
8. Washington Square (Signet Classics) by Henry James
9. Katherine by Anya Seton
10. My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier
11. Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics) by Leo Tolstoy
12. Love Story by Erich Segal
13. Possession: A Romance by A.S. Byatt
14. Through a Glass Darkly: A Novel by Karleen Koen
15. Forever Amber by Kathleen Winsor
16. The Devil and Miss Prym: A Novel of Temptation by Paulo Coelho
17. The Crucible (Penguin Classics) by Arthur Miller
18. Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers
19. Madame Bovary (Oxford World’s Classics) by Gustave Flaubert
20. Devil on Horseback by Victoria Holt
21. Rape: A Love Story by Joyce Carol Oates
22. Lady of Quality by Georgette Heyer
23. Far from the Madding Crowd (Modern Library Classics) by Thomas Hardy
24. Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton
25. Les Misérables (Signet Classics) by Victor Hugo
26. A Room with a View (Bantam Classics) by E.M. Forster
27. Villette (Modern Library Classics) by Charlotte Bronte
28. The Black Tulip (Oxford World’s Classics) by Alexandre Dumas père
29. La Dame aux Camelias (Oxford World’s Classics) by Alexandre Dumas
30. Manon Lescaut (Oxford World’s Classics) by Abbe Prevost
31. Les Liaisons dangereuses (Oxford World’s Classics) by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
32. The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham
33. Sylvia’s Lovers (Penguin Classics) by Elizabeth Gaskell
34. Victoria (Penguin Classics) by Knut Hamsun
35. The Lover by Marguerite Duras
36. India Song by Marguerite Duras
37. Hiroshima Mon Amour by M. Duras
38. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
39. North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell (Related Posts: Passages and Ebb and Flow)
40. Atonement by Ian McEwan
41. Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
42. Of Human Bondage (Signet Classics) by W. Somerset Maugham
43. The American (Signet Classics) by Henry James
44. Love in the Time of Cholera (Vintage International) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
45. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
46. The Lady’s Not For Burning. by Christopher Fry
47. Dracula (Enriched Classics Series) by Bram Stoker
48. Felix Holt, the Radical (Oxford World’s Classics) by George Eliot
49. The Picture of Dorian Gray (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Oscar Wilde
50.  White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India by William Dalrymple
51. Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague by Geraldine Brooks
52. Human Traces: A Novel by Sebastian Faulks
53. Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War by Sebastian Faulks
54. The Girl at the Lion d’Or by Sebastian Faulks
55. Of Love and Other Demons (Vintage International) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
56. Corelli’s Mandolin: A Novel by Louis De Bernieres
57. Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
58. Lolita (Everyman’s Library Classics) by Vladimir Nabokov
59. On Chesil Beach by Ian Mcewan
60. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Broadview Edition) by Robert Louis Stevenson
61. She by H. Rider Haggard
62. The Forsyte Saga (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Classics) by John Galsworthy
63. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemmingway
64. The Bell Jar: A Novel (Perennial Classics) by Sylvia Plath
65. The Mysteries of Udolpho (Penguin Classics) by Ann Radcliffe
66. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
67. The Quiet American (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Graham Greene
68. First Love (Penguin Great Loves) by Ivan Turgenev
69. Love (Penguin Classics) by Stendhal
70. The Seducer’s Diary by Sören Kierkegaard
71. Artemisia: A Novel by Alexandra Lapierre
72. Lorna Doone (Penguin Classics) by R. D. Blackmore
73. The Reader by Bernhard Schlink   (Related Posts: Unhappy Happiness)
74. The Crack-Up by F. Scott Fitzgerald
75. Towards Understanding Islam (Wamy Studies on Islam) by Syed Abul Ala Maudoodi
76. The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards
77. Lost Paradise: A Novel by Cees Nooteboom (Related Posts: Angel of History)
78. Waiting: A Novel by Ha Jin
79. Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands by Jorge Amado
80. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind
81. Light Years by James Salter
82. Selected Poems of Langston Hughes by Langston Hughes *Currently Reading* (Related Posts: Gypsy Melodies)