This blog was originally designed to be focused on literary topics. So… to get back on task:
A friend brought this reading list to my attention. It is a list of books that every teen should read and I discovered that there are many books on the list that I haven’t read.
Here is a list of the books I will be reading (though not in this order.)
As I read them, I will write an entry about each one.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Animal Farm: a Fairy Story by George Orwell
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thorton Wilder
The Call of the Wild by Jack London (I will read this book first.)
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Daisy Miller by Henry James
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Emma by Jane Austen (I have already read this, but I can’t resist re-reading Jane Austen!!)
Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien (read in high school, over 25 years ago. Time to give it another read)
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes (I read this in high school, too. I loved it and will read it again.)
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
My Antonia by Willa Cather
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (How many times have I read this? SO many!)
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
White Fang by Jack London
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
I will begin with Call of the Wild and move immediately on to White Fang. I have a book with both stories in it, so I will tackle them back-to-back.
When I have finished Call of the Wild, I will posts my thoughts.
If you have a list of books you are planning to read over the cold winter months, share it in the Comments section.
Looking at your list Karenne, I may add a couple more to mine.
These are some novels I’ve always meant to read but haven’t and a few that have been suggested to me. I think we’re going to have a busy but fun winter coming up!
My Novel-a-Month Reading Challenge List
1. The Color Purple – Alice Walker
2. The Joy Luck Club – Amy Tan
3. Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
4. Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
5. Call of the Wild — Jack London
6. Moby Dick – Herman Melville
7. Dune – Frank Herbert
8. Secret Life of Bees — Sue Monk Kidd
9. The Painted Drum – Louise Erdrich
10. Reservation Blues – Sherman Alexie
11. One for the Money – Janet Evanovich
12. Night – Elie Wiesel
13. The List of Adrian Messenger – Phillip MacDonald
14. The Circular Staircase – Mary Roberts Rinehart
15. Lonesome Dove – Larry McMurtry
16. The Shootist – Glendon Swarthout
17. Watership Down – Richard Adams
18. The Mists of Avalon – Marion Zimmer Bradley
19. *A Wizard of Earthsea – Ursula K. Le Guin
20. The Prince of Tides – Pat Conroy
21. The Darkest Evening of the Year – Dean Koontz
22. Salem’s Lot – Stephen King
23. Eat, Pray, Love – Elizabeth Gilbert
24. *Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1 – Mark Twain
25. Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper
26. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
27. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
28. Dr. Zhivago – Boris Pasternak
29. Smilla’s Sense of Snow – Peter Høeg
30. The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
31. Winnie the Pooh – A.A. Milne
32. The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
33. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
34. The Problem of Pain – C.S. Lewis
35. The Diary of Anne Frank
36. The Divine Comedy — Dante Alighieri
37. The Road – Cormac McCarthy
Hi Karenne, I hope you had a nice Thanksgiving? I am busy getting ready for the Christmas season. My Northern family consists of neighbors, Caroline, Peter, his sons, My Bill, Peter’s ex-wife, Judy (she’s also my best friend), her partner and a few others. Again, if you’ll be in Vermont anytime soon, I’d love to have you and your hubbie at my house. I miss you and I think of you often. Caroline had her 1st piano lesson last night and she is hooked!!!!!!!! She is really into it. She begged Peter’s ex, Judy to teach her.
Anyhow, I hope you write soon, Cherie
Oh, sounds fun! One of my favorite novels is Little Women.
Here’s my list for 2011:
http://jillianisreading.wordpress.com/2010/12/04/reading-schedule-for-2011/
I just finished (or look forward to) several on your list. Have fun!
Wonderful list, Karenne!
Just tempting you with the storyline 
Looking forward to reading your thoughts on Jack London’s two books. Have you read his ‘The Sea Wolf’? Though I love ‘The Call of the Wild’ and ‘White Fang’ , I like his ‘The Sea Wolf’ the best. It is a story set in sea, has a wonderful heroine, Maud, has an interesting literary critic hero, Humphrey who gets shipwrecked and the bad character is the ship’s captain Wolf Larsen, who is a complex personality and who loves reading
Happy Reading!
This book challenge wasn’t too successful for me, but it’s still a great book list!