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Bibliography

BIBLIOGRAPHY




1001 Books To Read Before You Die 2006 edition




1800s (listed in reverse chronological order- 1899 at top, 1800 at bottom)

Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. – Somerville and Ross
The Stechlin – Theodore Fontane
The Awakening – Kate Chopin
The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells
The Invisible Man – H.G. Wells
What Maisie Knew – Henry James
Fruits of the Earth – André Gide
Dracula – Bram Stoker
Quo Vadis – Henryk Sienkiewicz
The Island of Dr. Moreau – H.G. Wells (4/6/12)
The Time Machine – H.G. Wells (4/5/12)
Effi Briest – Theodore Fontane
Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
The Real Charlotte – Somerville and Ross
The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Born in Exile – George Gissing
Diary of a Nobody – George & Weedon Grossmith
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
News from Nowhere – William Morris
New Grub Street – George Gissing
Gösta Berling’s Saga – Selma Lagerlöf
Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
The Kreutzer Sonata – Leo Tolstoy
La Bête Humaine – Émile Zola
By the Open Sea – August Strindberg
Hunger – Knut Hamsun
The Master of Ballantrae – Robert Louis Stevenson (2/27/12)
Pierre and Jean – Guy de Maupassant
Fortunata and Jacinta – Benito Pérez Galdés (2010)
The People of Hemsö – August Strindberg
The Woodlanders – Thomas Hardy
She – H. Rider Haggard (3/19/12)
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson (3/7/12)
The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy
Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson (2/17/12)
King Solomon’s Mines – H. Rider Haggard (2009)
Germinal – Émile Zola
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
Bel-Ami – Guy de Maupassant
Marius the Epicurean – Walter Pater
Against the Grain – Joris-Karl Huysmans
The Death of Ivan Ilyich – Leo Tolstoy
A Woman’s Life – Guy de Maupassant
Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
The House by the Medlar Tree – Giovanni Verga
The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James
Bouvard and Pécuchet – Gustave Flaubert
Ben-Hur – Lew Wallace
Nana – Émile Zola
The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Red Room – August Strindberg
Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy
Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy  (4/1/13)
Drunkard – Émile Zola
Virgin Soil – Ivan Turgenev
Daniel Deronda – George Eliot
The Hand of Ethelberta – Thomas Hardy
The Temptation of Saint Anthony – Gustave Flaubert
Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy (5/5/13)
The Enchanted Wanderer – Nicolai Leskov
Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne (4/3/12)
In a Glass Darkly – Sheridan Le Fanu  (3/26/13)
The Devils – Fyodor Dostoevsky (4/15/13)
Erewhon – Samuel Butler
Spring Torrents – Ivan Turgenev
Middlemarch – George Eliot (3/3/13)
Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll
King Lear of the Steppes – Ivan Turgenev
He Knew He Was Right – Anthony Trollope (5/15/13)
War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
Sentimental Education – Gustave Flaubert (04/11/12)
Phineas Finn – Anthony Trollope (12/04/12)
Maldoror – Comte de Lautréaumont
The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoevsky (1996)
The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins (03/29/12)
Little Women – Louisa May Alcott (3/9/13)
Thérèse Raquin – Émile Zola (4/12/13)
The Last Chronicle of Barset – Anthony Trollope (12/6/12)
Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne
Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky (1995)
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll (3/18/13)
Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens (3/17/13)
Uncle Silas – Sheridan Le Fanu (12/03/12)
Notes from the Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky (1995)
The Water-Babies – Charles Kingsley (11/22/12)
Les Misérables – Victor Hugo (11/19/12)
Fathers and Sons – Ivan Turgenev (1995)
Silas Marner – George Eliot (09/27/12)
Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
On the Eve – Ivan Turgenev (09/20/12)
Castle Richmond – Anthony Trollope (9/26/12)
The Mill on the Floss – George Eliot (1994)
The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins (08/13/11)
The Marble Faun – Nathaniel Hawthorne (09/19/12)
Max Havelaar – Multatuli
A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
Oblomovka – Ivan Goncharov (09/18/12)
Adam Bede – George Eliot (0917/12)
Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert (06/27/11)
North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell (09/14/12)
Hard Times – Charles Dickens (1995)
Walden – Henry David Thoreau (1994)
Bleak House – Charles Dickens  (09/21/12)
Villette – Charlotte Brontë (4/5/11)
Cranford – Elizabeth Gaskell  (7/13/11)
Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely – Harriet Beecher Stowe (09/12/12)
The Blithedale Romance – Nathaniel Hawthorne (05/30/12)
The House of the Seven Gables – Nathaniel Hawthorne (6/21/12)
Moby-Dick – Herman Melville (08/27/12)
The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne (1994)
David Copperfield – Charles Dickens (08/23/12)
Shirley – Charlotte Brontë (08/20/12)
Mary Barton – Elizabeth Gaskell (09/23/11)
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Anne Brontë (08/14/12)
Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë (08/08/12)
Agnes Grey – Anne Brontë (07/31/12)
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë (07/30/12)
Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray (07/18/12)
The Count of Monte-Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
La Reine Margot – Alexandre Dumas (07/24/12)
The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas (07/16/12)
The Purloined Letter – Edgar Allan Poe (03/27/12)
Martin Chuzzlewit – Charles Dickens (07/09/12)
The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe  (3/28/12)
Lost Illusions – Honoré de Balzac (07/23/12)
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens (07/17/12)
Dead Souls – Nikolay Gogol (7/02/12)
The Charterhouse of Parma – Stendhal  (3/18/12)
The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe (3/20/12)
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby – Charles Dickens (6/29/12)
Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens (06/07/12)
The Nose – Nikolay Gogol
Le Père Goriot – Honoré de Balzac (06/01/12)
Eugénie Grandet – Honoré de Balzac (07/03/12)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo (07/06/12)
The Red and the Black – Stendhal (5/3/11)
The Betrothed – Alessandro Manzoni (05/29/12)
Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper (6/18/12)
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner – James Hogg (6/02/11)
The Albigenses – Charles Robert Maturin
Melmoth the Wanderer – Charles Robert Maturin (3/31/11)
The Monastery – Sir Walter Scott (5/9/12)
Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott (4/19/11)
Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1994)
Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen (06/11/12)
Persuasion – Jane Austen (05/31/12)
Ormond – Maria Edgeworth (06/26/12)
Rob Roy – Sir Walter Scott (03/26/11)
Emma – Jane Austen (05/15/12)
Mansfield Park – Jane Austen (05/16/12)
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen (05/14/12)
The Absentee – Maria Edgeworth (05/3/12)
Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen (05/11/12)
Elective Affinities – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Castle Rackrent – Maria Edgeworth(05/2/12)


1700s (listed in reverse chronological order- 1799 at top, 1700 at bottom)(date of review)


Hyperion – Friedrich Hölderlin (11/1/09)
The Nun – Denis Diderot (4/28/12)
Camilla – Fanny Burney (1/17/12)
The Monk – M.G. Lewis (3/13/10)
Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (4/17/12)
The Mysteries of Udolpho – Ann Radcliffe (04/24/12)
The Interesting Narrative – Olaudah Equiano (3/05/12)
The Adventures of Caleb Williams – William Godwin (4/21/12)
Justine – Marquis de Sade (5/1/12)
Vathek – William Beckford (1/21/10)
The 120 Days of Sodom – Marquis de Sade (2/16/10)
Cecilia – Fanny Burney (4/22/10)
The Confessions – Jean-Jacques Rousseau (5/7/12)
Dangerous Liaisons – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (5/21/12)
Reveries of a Solitary Walker – Jean-Jacques Rousseau (5/8/12)
Evelina – Fanny Burney (3/28/10)
The Sorrows of Young Werther – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (11/1/08).
Humphrey Clinker – Tobias George Smollett (1/30/12)
The Man of Feeling – Henry Mackenzie (4/12/12)
A Sentimental Journey – Laurence Sterne (4/23/11)
Tristram Shandy – Laurence Sterne (10/19/08)
The Vicar of Wakefield – Oliver Goldsmith (9/25/08)
The Castle of Otranto – Horace Walpole (04/26/12)
Émile; or, On Education – Jean-Jacques Rousseau (4/14/12)
Rameau’s Nephew – Denis Diderot  (4/13/12)
Julie; or, the New Eloise – Jean-Jacques Rousseau (*)
Rasselas – Samuel Johnson (3/30/12)
Candide – Voltaire (3/23/12)
The Female Quixote – Charlotte Lennox (5/10/10)
Amelia – Henry Fielding (4/20/12)
Peregrine Pickle – Tobias George Smollett (4/19/12)
Fanny Hill – John Cleland (05/10/12)
Tom Jones – Henry Fielding (9/24/08)
Roderick Random – Tobias George Smollett (10/05/08)
Clarissa – Samuel Richardson (4/30/12)
Pamela – Samuel Richardson (10/12/08)
Jacques the Fatalist – Denis Diderot (05/4/12)
Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus – J. Arbuthnot, J. Gay, T. Parnell, A. PopeJ. Swift (3/21/12)
Joseph Andrews – Henry Fielding (2/8/08)
A Modest Proposal – Jonathan Swift (3/26/12)
Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift (04/25/12)
Roxana – Daniel Defoe (4/18/12)
Moll Flanders – Daniel Defoe (2/10/08)
Love in Excess – Eliza Haywood (11/1/08)
Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe (2/11/08)
A Tale of a Tub – Jonathan Swift (2/12/08)




LITERATURE

Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon (11/5/07)
Europe Central by William Vollmann (12/31/07)
Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon (9/13/09)
Selected Tales by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm;  Translated by Joyce Crick (10/08/09)




MUSIC CULTURE

Teen Age by Jon Savage (6/17/07)
The Social Construction of Reality by Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann (5/5/09)
The Sociology of Philosophies:  A Global Theory of Intellectual Change (9/26/09)
The Birth of Tragedy by Nietzche (9/7/09)
Trout Mask Replica by Kevin Courrier (9/6/09)
Mythologies by Roland Barthes (9/2/09)
William Morris From Romantic to Revolutionary by E.P. Thompson (3/6/10)
Soulsville USA The Story of Stax Records (2/28/10)
Land of Desire: Merchants, Power and the Rise of A New American Culture (2/26/10)
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life by Emile Durkheim (10/5/09)
On The Aesthetic Education of Man by Schiller (10/01/09)
Introductory Lectures in Aesthetics by Hegel (4/25/10)
The Supremes by Mark Ribowsky (5/2/10)
Rock Music in American Popular Culture (5/10/10)

PRE-MODERN HISTORY
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes (10/18/09)
History Begins at Sumer by Samuel Kramer (9/17/09)
Mesopotamia: Reason, Writing and the Gods by Jean Bottero, translated by Zainab Banhrani and Marc Van De Mieroop (9/17/09)
Shamanism Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy by Mircea Eliade (9/6/09)
The Shape of Ancient Thought by Thomas McEvilley (9/1/09)
The Kingdom of the Hittites by Trevor Bryce (7/24/09)
Civilization Before Greece and Rome by H.W.E. Saggs (3/08/10)
Pagans and Christians by Robin Lane Fox (7/18/09)
The First Jesuits by John O'Malley (5/1/10)
HISTORY OF CALIFORNIA
Los Angeles and the Automobile The Making of the Modern City (5/6/07)
Imperial by William Vollmann (8/20/09)

MISC
Revolution in Time by  David S. Landes (6/20/07)
Desert Solitare by Edward Abbey (12/3/07)
The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business (11/20/07)
The Founders and the Classics Greece, Rome and the American Enlightenment
by Carl J. Richard (9/12/09)
Essential Works of Stoicism: Marcus Aurelius: To Himself, Epictetus: The Manual, Diogene Laertius: Life of Zeno, Seneca: On Tranquility Edited and with an introduction by Moses Hadas (10/10/09)


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