{"id":1151,"date":"2002-06-29T18:59:00","date_gmt":"2002-06-29T23:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/2002\/06\/29\/so-many-books-so-little-time\/"},"modified":"2002-06-29T18:59:00","modified_gmt":"2002-06-29T23:59:00","slug":"so-many-books-so-little-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/2002\/06\/29\/so-many-books-so-little-time\/","title":{"rendered":"So many books, so little time…"},"content":{"rendered":"

List stolen from , stolen from :<\/p>\n

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Beowulf
\nAchebe, Chinua -Things Fall Apart
\nAgee, James -A Death in the Family
\nAustin, Jane -Pride and Prejudice
\nBaldwin, James -Go Tell It on the Mountain
\nBeckett, Samuel -Waiting for Godot
\nBellow, Saul -The Adventures of Augie March
\nBronte, Charlotte -Jane Eyre
\nBronte, Emily -Wuthering Heights
\nCamus, Albert T-he Stranger
\nCather, Willa -Death Comes for the Archbishop
\nCervantes,- Miguel de Don Quixote
\nChaucer, Geoffrey -The Canterbury Tales
\nChekhov, Anton- The Cherry Orchard
\nChopin, Kate -The Awakening
\nConrad, Joseph -Heart of Darkness
\nCooper, James Fenimore -The Last of the Mohicans<\/p>\n

Crane, Stephen -The Red Badge of Courage <\/b>
\nDante Inferno
\nDefoe, Daniel -Robinson Crusoe
\nDickens, Charles -A Tale of Two Cities
\nDostoyevsky, Fyodor -Crime and Punishment
\nDouglass, Frederick -Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
\nDreiser, Theodore-An American Tragedy
\nDumas, Alexandre -The Three Musketeers
\nEliot, George -The Mill on the Floss
\nEllison, Ralph -Invisible Man
\nEmerson, Ralph Waldo -Selected Essays
\nFaulkner, William -As I Lay Dying
\nFaulkner, William -The Sound and the Fury
\nFielding, Henry -Tom Jones
\nFitzgerald, F. Scott -The Great Gatsby <\/b>
\nFlaubert, Gustave -Madame Bovary
\nFord, Ford Madox -The Good Soldier
\nGoethe, Johann -Wolfgang von Faust
\nGolding, William- Lord of the Flies <\/b>
\nHardy, Thomas- Tess of the d'Urbervilles
\nHawthorne, Nathaniel -The Scarlet Letter <\/b><\/p>\n

Heller, Joseph Catch -22 <\/b>
\nHemingway, Ernest -A Farewell to Arms
\nHomer -The Iliad
\nHomer -The Odyssey
\nHugo, Victor T-he Hunchback of Notre Dame
\nHurston, Zora Neale -Their Eyes Were Watching God
\nHuxley, Aldous -Brave New World <\/b>
\nIbsen, Henrik -A Doll's House
\nJames, Henry- The Portrait of a Lady
\nJames, Henry -The Turn of the Screw
\nJoyce, James -A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
\nKafka, Franz -The Metamorphosis
\nKingston, Maxine Hong -The Woman Warrior
\nLee, Harper To Kill a Mockingbird <\/b>
\nLewis, Sinclair -Babbitt
\nLondon, Jack -The Call of the Wild <\/b><\/p>\n

Mann, Thomas -The Magic Mountain
\nMarquez, Gabriel- Garcia One Hundred Years of Solitude
\nMelville, Herman- Bartleby the Scrivener
\nMelville, Herman -Moby Dick
\nMiller, Arthur-The Crucible <\/b>
\nMorrison, Toni -Beloved (saw the movie)
\nO'Connor, Flannery- A Good Man is Hard to Find
\nO'Neill, Eugene- Long Day's Journey into Night
\nOrwell, George -Animal Farm <\/b>
\nPasternak, Boris- Doctor Zhivago
\nPlath, Sylvia-The Bell Jar
\nPoe, Edgar Allen -Selected Tales <\/b><\/p>\n

Proust, Marcel -Swann's Way
\nPynchon, Thomas-The Crying of Lot 49
\nRemarque, Erich Maria -All Quiet on the Western Front
\nRostand, Edmond- Cyrano de Bergerac
\nRoth, Henry -Call It Sleep
\nSalinger, J.D. -The Catcher in the Rye <\/b>
\nShakespeare, William -A Midsummer Night's Dream <\/b>
\nShakespeare, William -Hamlet <\/b>
\nShakespeare, William -Macbeth (not sure if I read this or not)
\nShakespeare, William -Romeo and Juliet <\/b><\/p>\n

Shaw, George Bernard -Pygmalion
\nShelley, Mary- Frankenstein <\/b>
\nSilko, Leslie Marmon Ceremony
\nSolzhenitsyn, Alexander -One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
\nSophocles- Antigone
\nSophocles Oedipus Rex
\nSteinbeck, John -The Grapes of Wrath <\/b>
\nStevenson, Robert Louis -Treasure Island <\/b>
\nStowe, Harriet Beecher -Uncle Tom's Cabin<\/b><\/p>\n

Swift, Jonathan -Gulliver's Travels<\/b>
\nThackeray, William -Vanity Fair
\nThoreau, Henry David -Walden
\nTolstoy, Leo -War and Peace
\nTurgenev, Ivan -Fathers and Sons
\nTwain, Mark -The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn <\/b>
\nVoltaire Candide
\nVonnegut, Kurt Jr. Slaughterhouse-Five (tried to read this; can't get into Vonnegut)
\nWalker, Alice -The Color Purple
\nWarton, Edith -The House of Mirth
\nWelty, Eudora -Collected Stories
\nWhitman, Walt -Leaves of Grass
\nWilde, Oscar -The Picture of Dorian Gray
\nWilliams, Tennessee -The Glass Menagerie
\nWoolf, Virginia -To the Lighthouse
\nWright, Richard -Native Son<\/p>\n

Hmm. Perhaps it's time for a library trip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

List stolen from , stolen from : Beowulf Achebe, Chinua -Things Fall Apart Agee, James -A Death in the Family Austin, Jane -Pride and Prejudice Baldwin, James -Go Tell It on the Mountain Beckett, Samuel -Waiting for Godot Bellow, Saul -The Adventures of Augie March Bronte, Charlotte -Jane Eyre Bronte, Emily -Wuthering Heights Camus, Albert T-he Stranger Cather, Willa -Death Comes for the Archbishop Cervantes,- Miguel de Don Quixote 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 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 T-he 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- Garcia One Hundred Years of Solitude Melville, Herman- Bartleby the Scrivener Melville, Herman -Moby Dick Miller, Arthur-The Crucible Morrison, Toni -Beloved (saw the movie) 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 Allen -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 -A Midsummer Night's Dream Shakespeare, William -Hamlet Shakespeare, William -Macbeth (not sure if I read this or not) 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 (tried to read this; can't get into Vonnegut) Walker, Alice -The Color Purple Warton, 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 Hmm. Perhaps it's time for a library trip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}