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vorare's 888 challenge

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Muokkaaja: syyskuu 15, 2008, 6:59 pm

Hello all! I'm late to this party, but that's all right since the categories are the main draw to me. I don't need these finished by 2009, I just want to make sure I read them.

The categories are:
Books I really ought to have read by now,
Feminist works,
Fiction by women,
American fiction/drama,
Russian fiction/memoir,
French-related books to prepare me for studying in Paris,
and Nonfiction hodgepodge: atheism, physics, sociology, and history.

...and I call myself an English major: Gaping holes in my reading
King Lear
Mrs. Dalloway* (also counts for fiction by women)
The Canterbury Tales
Inferno
The Aeneid
Gulliver's Travels
Paradise Lost
The Iliad

Feminism
The Second Sex
Sister Outsider
The Dialectic of Sex
Ain't I a Woman
The Female Eunuch
Unbearable Weight
killing rage: Ending Racism
Toward a Feminist Theory of the State

Fiction by women
Middlemarch* (also: gaping hole in my reading)
Mansfield Park
Villette
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Frankenstein* (also: gaping hole in my reading)
Delta of Venus
Orlando
Wide Sargasso Sea

American
Moby Dick* (also: gaping hole in my reading)
Johnny Got His Gun
Bend Sinister* (also: Russian)
The Crying of Lot 49
Wise Blood
The Sound and the Fury
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn* (also: gaping hole in my reading)
A Raisin in the Sun
The Sun Also Rises (number nine! I'm cheating!)

Russian
Dead Souls
The Double
Notes From the Underground
Eugene Onegin
The Enchanter
Invitation to a Beheading
The Defense
Speak, Memory* (also: American)

French
French or Foe
Paris: Biography of a City
Père Goriot
Sentimental Education
The Plague
The Stranger
Swann's Way
Shakespeare Goes to Paris* (also: nonfiction)

Atheism and other nonfiction
God Is Not Great
Misquoting Jesus
Why I Am Not a Christian
Six Easy Pieces
The Fundamentals of Extremism
Getting Off
Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism
History Lessons: How Textbooks From Around the World Portray U.S. History

I have nearly all of these. The four exceptions are The Canterbury Tales, which I'll need for a class this fall anyway; The Sun Also Rises; Sentimental Education; and God Is Not Great. This makes me appreciate my library.