tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7521348297206014365.post5396888208797455961..comments2024-03-28T08:49:59.941-05:00Comments on Laura's Reviews: How Well Read Are You - Modern Library Classics?Laura's Reviewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13904763940307902364noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7521348297206014365.post-82077394450755243492009-09-19T00:43:11.015-05:002009-09-19T00:43:11.015-05:00I have read 20 books from the Board’s List, 24 fro...I have read 20 books from the Board’s List, 24 from the reader’s list. (The books by Ayn Rand are on there because they are great literature.)<br /><br /><br />Not on either of these lists are the following, almost all of which used to be on lists of books to read when I was in high school and college (age 63), and which I have read:<br /><br />1. Les Miserables – Victor Hugo<br />2. Notre Dame de Paris - same<br />3. The Man who Laughs - same<br />4. The Toilers of the Sea - same<br />5. The Scarlet Letter - Hawthorne<br />6. The Three Musketeers - Dumas<br />7. Twenty Years After - Dumas<br />8. The Vicomte de Bragelonne - Dumas<br />9. Louise de la Valliere -Dumas<br />10. Ten Years Later - Dumas<br />11. The Man in the Iron Mask - Dumas<br />12. The Count of Monte Cristo - Dumas<br />13. The Black Tulip - Dumas<br />14. other series of novels by Dumas<br />15. Pride and Prejudice - Austen<br />16. Emma - Austen<br />17. Persuasion -Austen<br />18. Mansfield Park - Austen<br />19. The Scarlet Pimpernel - Orczy<br />20. Babbitt - Lewis<br />21. Tom Jones - Fielding<br />22. Joseph Andrews - Fielding<br />23. Victory - Conrad<br />24. It Can’t Happen Here - Lewis<br />25. Camille - Dumas<br />26. Tom Sawyer - Twain<br />27. Huckleberry Finn - Twain<br />28. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court - Twain<br />29. Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky<br />29. The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoevsky<br />30. The Idiot - Dostoevsky<br />31. Demons - Dostoevsky<br />32. War and Peace - Tolstoy<br />33. Anna Karenina - Tolstoy<br />34. Barometer Rising - McKennan<br />35. Any works by Agatha Christie/Mary Westmacott<br />36. Any works by Dick Francis<br />37. Quo Vadis - Sienkiewicz<br />38. Gulliver’s Travels - Swift<br />39. Moby Dick - Melville<br />40. Jane Eyre - Bronte<br />41. Wuthering Heights - Bronte<br />42. Madame Bovary - Flaubert<br />43. Little Women – Alcott<br />44. Pere Goriot – Balzac<br />45. The Little Minnister – Barrie<br />46. The Good Earth – Buck<br />47. Cervantes – Don Quixote<br />48. Shogun – Clavell<br />49. Tai-Pan – Clavell<br />50. The Moonstone – Collins<br />51. The Last of the Mohicans – Cooper<br />52. David Copperfield – Dickens<br />53. Oliver Twist – Dickens<br />54. Bleak House – Dickens<br />55. A Tale of Two Cities – Dickens<br />56. Typhoon – Conrad<br />57. The Red Badge of Courage – Crane<br />58. Robinson Crusoe – Defoe<br />59. Rebecca – du Maurier<br />60. The Forsyte Saga – Galsworthy<br />61. From the Terrac – O’Hara<br />62. Dr. Zhivago – Pasternak<br />63. Scott – Ivanhoe<br />64. The First Circle – Solzhenitsyn<br />65. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Stevenson<br />66. the Palliser novels – Trollope<br />67. The short stories of O. Henry<br />68. Ninety-Three - Hugo<br /><br /><br />And why are there no plays on the list?<br />Shakespeare<br />Schiller<br />Rostand<br />Shaw<br />Corneille<br />Moliere<br />Maeterlinck<br />Ibsen<br />Coward<br />Rattigan<br /><br />Unlike the reader’s list, there is very little on this list of what would be called pop fiction (which is valuable too, up to a point). But they are all worth reading.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7521348297206014365.post-51104092541993944962009-09-08T09:04:48.286-05:002009-09-08T09:04:48.286-05:00I am running a blog where I chronicle reading the ...I am running a blog where I chronicle reading the Modern Library's Board's list Top 100. 1.5 books down, 98.5 to go!Socrmom78http://100booksin100weeks.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7521348297206014365.post-348299258991265102009-08-22T23:46:45.416-05:002009-08-22T23:46:45.416-05:00These lists are really eye-opening to me! I got 2...These lists are really eye-opening to me! I got 2 for the Board's list and 8 for the Reader's! Wow!! I guess I'm not really that well-read!! :(Tif Sweeneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06015299390676538748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7521348297206014365.post-66725841379552365342009-08-19T09:02:27.227-05:002009-08-19T09:02:27.227-05:00Why is there such a lack of women writers? It'...Why is there such a lack of women writers? It's not like there aren't great women writers on the Pulitzer Prize winners list or even in the entertainment weekly "new classics" list. It seems like women writers often get the "shaft" critically, but I must admit I on average, enjoy women authors better than men.Laura's Reviewshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13904763940307902364noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7521348297206014365.post-90321633118660489972009-08-19T08:05:50.378-05:002009-08-19T08:05:50.378-05:00How very embarrassing. I've only read four fr...How very embarrassing. I've only read four from the Board's list and eight from the reader's list. Of course, most of the women who got their book listed (Harper Lee, Margaret Mitchell), that's one of the books I read!!Linda Kagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00259042112816376940noreply@blogger.com