Literacy?
From Owls' Court - in the absence of light, darkness prevails and various other places...
Literacy Test: Highlight in bold those books you've read. (Although I don't know how accurate this may be. I do realize I read a lot of drek but I'm certainly more literate than your average-woman-on-the-street. I just chose not to read classic literature
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Author - Title
-- Beowulf
Achebe, Chinua - Things Fall Apart
Agee, James - A Death in the Family
Austen, Jane - Pride and Prejudice but nothing else. I should, really. Does seeing the movies count?
Baldwin, James - Go Tell It on the Mountain
Beckett, Samuel - Waiting for Godot
Bellow, Saul - The Adventures of Augie March
Bront�, Charlotte - Jane Eyre
Bront�, Emily - Wuthering Heights Have it, haven't read it...
Camus, Albert - The Stranger
Cather, Willa - Death Comes for the Archbishop no, but I did read O, Pioneers! and lordy how I hated it.
Chaucer, Geoffrey - The Canterbury Tales my mom did, and can still remember the first few lines from when she memorized it in high school
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 and the two smash sequels!
de Cervantes, Miguel - Don Quixote
Defoe, Daniel - Robinson Crusoe Does it count if I read the abridged version when I was a kid?
Dickens, Charles - A Tale of Two Cities etc I loved Oliver Twist.
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 I tried to read this once, but I don't think I got through it
Emerson, Ralph Waldo - Selected Essays I know I read essays by him junior year of high school but for the life of my I can't think of which one
Faulkner, William - As I Lay Dying
Faulkner, William - The Sound and the Fury
Fielding, Henry - Tom Jones
Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Great Gatsby It was too hot to read the whole thing so we watched the movie with Robert Redford.
Flaubert, Gustave - Madame Bovary
Ford, Ford Madox - The Good Soldier
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von - Faust in two languages!
Golding, William - Lord of the Flies Lord how I hated this book. And it's so unfortunate that it has the same title form as Lord of the Rings. Bleah.
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 - The Hunchback of Notre Dame but not Les Miserables?
Hurston, Zora Neale - Their Eyes Were Watching God
Huxley, Aldous - Brave New World Another terrible english class requirement.
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 Garc�a - One Hundred Years of Solitude
Herman - Bartleby the Scrivener
Melville, Herman - Moby Dick
Miller, Arthur - The Crucible
Morrison, Toni - Beloved
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 Allan - Selected Tales
Proust, Marcel - Swann's Way
Pynchon, Thomas - The Crying of Lot 49
Remarque, Erich Maria - All Quiet on the Western Front and there goes a sophomore english class horror
Rostand, Edmond - Cyrano de Bergerac
Roth, Henry - Call It Sleep
Salinger, J.D. - The Catcher in the Rye What's the hype about this? I just don't get it. I suppose that's because I don't have the conservative mindset of the time.
Shakespeare, William - Hamlet
Shakespeare, William - Macbeth
Shakespeare, William - A Midsummer Night's Dream Had to do a monologue from this one.
Shakespeare, William - Romeo and Juliet and just about everything else
Shaw, George Bernard - Pygmalion
Shelley, Mary - Frankenstein
Silko, Leslie Marmon - Ceremony
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Sophocles - Antigone in two languages!
Sophocles - Oedipus Rex
Steinbeck, John - The Grapes of Wrath What about Of Mice and Men?
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 and Tom Sawyer
Voltaire - Candide
Vonnegut, Kurt Jr. - Slaughterhouse-Five
Walker, Alice - The Color Purple
Wharton, Edith - The House of Mirth Egad! Not Ethan Frome?
Welty, Eudora - Collected Stories
Whitman, Walt - Leaves of Grass
Wilde, Oscar - The Picture of Dorian Gray I always wanted to.
Williams, Tennessee - The Glass Menagerie
Woolf, Virginia - To the Lighthouse and plusieres autres titres
Wright, Richard - Native Son
Sheesh. Well, at least those boring english class books made me more literate
