The challenge, from A Reader's Journal, is to read 5 classics in the months of January and February.
To help you out, I supply this list of short classics:
Kafka, Franz (60 pages) The Metamorphosis
Tolstoy, Leo (60 pages) The Death of Ivan Ilych
Mann, Thomas (71 pages) Death in Venice
James, Henry (83 pages) Daisy Miller
de Saint-Exupéry, Antoine (83 pages) The Little Prince
Hemingway, Ernest (93 pages) The Old Man and the Sea
Melville, Herman (98 pages) Billy Budd
Weisel, Elie (109 pages) Night
Conrad, Joseph (110 pages) Heart of Darkness
Orwell, George (113 pages) Animal Farm
Wells, H.G. (115 pages) The Time Machine
Hesse, Herman (119 pages) Siddhartha
Stevenson, Robert Louis (119 pages) The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Rand, Ayn (123 pages) Anthem
Camus, Albert (123 pages) The Stranger
Steinbeck, John (124 pages) Of Mice and Men
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor (136 pages) Notes from the Underground
Twain, Mark (143 pages) Pudd'nhead Wilson
Wharton, Edith (144 pages) Ethan Frome
-- Try also Wharton's Summer (200 pages)
Voltaire (144 pages), Candide, or Optimism
Wilder, Thornton (148 pages) The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Pynchon, Thomas (152 pages) The Crying of Lot 49
McCullers, Carson (153 pages) The Member of the Wedding
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander (158 pages) One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Goethe, Johan Wolfgang von (167 pages) The Sorrows of Young Werther
Bradbury, Ray (179 pages) Fahrenheit 451
Achebe, Chinua (181 pages) Things Fall Apart
Chopin, Kate (192 pages) The Awakening
Burgess, Anthony (192 pages) A Clockwork Orange
Baldwin, James (197 pages) If Beale Street Could Talk
(page numbers given are approximations and will vary with edition)
I apologize, I can't remember where I got this list, but I thank the anonymous compilers!
1 comments:
I so want to thank you for this list! I just didn't think I had time to do this challenge, until I read your list. I feel so high schoolish! ;)
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