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Reading Classic Literature
Level: Master's Degree (20 books)
Read to date: 22/20
Justine - Lawrence Durrell
Evelina - Fanny Burney
Raintree County - Ross Lockridge, Jr.
The Awakening - Kate Chopin
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Brontë
The Go-Between - L. P. Hartley
To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
Howard's End - E. M. Forster
The Woodlanders - Thomas Hardy
Oroonoko - Aphra Behn
The Heart of the Matter - Graham Greene
In Our Time - Ernest Hemingway
The Razor's Edge - W. Somerset Maugham
The Glimpses of the Moon - Edith Wharton
Decline and Fall - Evelyn Waugh
Scott-King's Modern Europe - Evelyn Waugh
A Question of Upbringing - Anthony Powell
A Buyer's Market - Anthony Powell
The Acceptance World - Anthony Powell
A Month in the Country - J. L. Carr
The Hand of Ethelberta - Thomas Hardy
The Well-Beloved - Thomas Hardy
Reading Books Set in Cornwall
Goal for 2011: 12 books
Read to date: 14/12
A Pair of Blue Eyes - Thomas Hardy
Frenchman's Creek - Daphne du Maurier
Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
Mrs. de Winter - Susan Hill
The Four Swans - Winston Graham
The Forgotten Garden - Kate Morton
Sea of Lost Love - Santa Montefiore
The Angry Tide - Winston Graham
The Stranger From the Sea - Winston Graham
The Miller's Dance - Winston Graham
Enchanted Cornwall - Daphne du Maurier
The Loving Cup - Winston Graham
The Twisted Sword - Winston Graham
Bella Poldark - Winston Graham
Page to Screen Challenge
Goal for 2011: 10 books and movie adaptations
Read to date: 14/10
I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith & I Capture the Castle (2003)
The Mayor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy & The Mayor of Casterbridge (2003)
The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson & The Haunting (1963)
The Go-Between - L. P. Hartley & The Go-Between (1970)
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald & The Great Gatsby (1974)
Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons & Cold Comfort Farm (1995)
The Turn of the Screw - Henry James & The Innocents (1961), The Turn of the Screw (1999)
Daniel Deronda - George Eliot & Daniel Deronda (2002)
A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute & A Town Like Alice (1981)
East of Eden - John Steinbeck & East of Eden (1955)
The Man Who Would Be King - Rudyard Kipling & The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
Vile Bodies - Evelyn Waugh & Bright Young Things (2003)
Far From the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy & Far From the Madding Crowd (1967)
A Month in the Country - J. L. Carr & A Month in the Country (1987)
One, Two, Theme! Reading Challenge
Themes:
Books About Books, Left-Handedness, Trains, Cornwall, Literary France (1920s-1930s)
Physics, Australia, Scandinavia, The Art of Wit
Read to date: 26
A Pair of Blue Eyes - Thomas Hardy (Cornwall)
Frenchman's Creek - Daphne du Maurier (Cornwall)
Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier (Cornwall)
Mrs. de Winter - Susan Hill (Cornwall)
The Four Swans - Winston Graham (Cornwall)
The Forgotten Garden - Kate Morton (Cornwall)
Sea of Lost Love - Santa Montefiore (Cornwall)
The Angry Tide - Winston Graham (Cornwall)
The Stranger From the Sea - Winston Graham (Cornwall)
The Miller's Dance - Winston Graham (Cornwall)
Enchanted Cornwall - Daphne du Maurier (Cornwall)
The Loving Cup - Winston Graham (Cornwall)
The Twisted Sword - Winston Graham (Cornwall)
Bella Poldark - Winston Graham (Cornwall)
The Science of Doctor Who - Paul Parsons (Physics)
A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute (Australia)
Fly Away Peter - David Malouf (Australia)
Leave It to Psmith - P. G. Wodehouse (The Art of Wit)
Howard's End is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home - Susan Hill (Books About Books)
The Paris Wife - Paula McLain (Literary France in the 1920's and 1930's)
The Bodley Head Fitzgerald, Vol. V (Literary France in the 1920's and 1930's)
The Summer We Read Gatsby - Danielle Ganek (Literary France in the 1920's and 1930's)
In Our Time - Ernest Hemingway (Literary France in the 1920's and 1930's)
One Writer's Beginnings - Eudora Welty (Left-handedness/Left-handed writers)
A Walk in the Woods - Bill Bryson (Left-handedness/Left-handed writers)
Travels With My Aunt - Graham Greene (Trains)
