Text Box: I have this list I got in high school from my senior AP English teacher.  It is the World’s 100 greatest books.  I don’t know according to who, but I have recently decided as a goal that I want to read all of them.  Here is my quest:

Coloring-denotes read
underlining-denotes movie/play watched

Novels, Epic Poems, Legends

The Iliad					Homer
The Odyssey					“
The Aeneid					Virgil
Beowulf						Unknown
The Divine Comedy				Dante Alighieri
The Travels of Marco Polo			Marco Polo
The Canterbury Tales				Geoffrey Chaucer
Don Quixote de la Mancha			Cervantes
Paradise Lost					John Milton
The Pilgrim’s Progress				John Bunyan
Robinson Crusoe					Daniel Defoe
Moll Flanders					“
Gulliver’s Travels				Jonathan Swift
Tom Jones					Henry Fielding
Candide						Voltaire
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner			Samuel Coleridge
The Tragedy of Faust				Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The Lady in the Lake				Sir Walter Scott
Ivanhoe						“
Pride and Prejudice				Jane Austen
Frankenstein					Mary Shelley
The Red and the Black				Stendahl
The Last of the Mohicans				James Fenimore Cooper
The Three Musketeers				Alexandre Dumas		
Carmen						Prosper Merimee
Jane Eyre					Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights				Emily Bronte
Vanity Fair					William Makepeace Thackeray
David Copperfield				Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities				“
Great Expectations				“
The Scarlett Letter				Nathaniel Hawthorne
Camille						Alexander Dumas Fils
Moby Dick					Herman Melville
Madame Bovary					Gustave Flaubert
Idylls of the King					Alfred Lord Tennyson
Silas Marner					George Eliot
Middlemarch					“
Les Miserables					Victor Hugo
Fathers and Sons					Ivan Turgenev
Crime and Punishment				Feodor Dostoyesky
The Brothers Karamazov				“
Little Women					Louisa May Alcott
Far from the Madding Crowd			Thomas Hardy
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer			Mark Twain
The Prince and the Pauper				“
Huckleberry Finn					“
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court	“
Anna Karenina					Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace					“
The Return of the Native				Thomas Hardy
Tess of the D’Urbervilles				“
The Portrait of a Lady				Henry James
The Turn of the Screw				“
Treasure Island					Robert Louis Stevenson
The Picture of Dorian Gray			Oscar Wilde
The Time Machine				H.G. Wells
Dracula						Bram Stoker
The Way of All Flesh				Samuel Butler
Call of the Wild					Jack London
Babbitt						Sinclair Lewis
An American Tragedy				Theodore Dreiser
The Great Gatsby					F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Farewell to Arms				Ernest Hemingway
For Whom the Bell Tolls				“
The Old Man and the Sea				“
The Maltese Falcon				Dashiell Hammett
Of Mice and Men					John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath				“
To Kill a Mockingbird				Harper Lee

Science and Civilization

The Republic					Plato
The Prince					Machiavelli
The Social Contract				Jean Jacques Rousseau
The Wealth of Nations				Adam Smith
The Origin of Species				Charles Darwin
Das Kapital					Karl Marx
The Decline of the West				Oswald Spengler

Plays

Prometheus Bound				Aeschylus
Oedipus Rex					Sophocles
Hamlet						Shakespeare
The Taming of the Shrew				“
Othello						“
Macbeth						“
The Tempest					“
Tartuffe						Moliere
Peer Gynt					Henrik Ibsen
A Doll’s House					“
The Importance of Being Ernest			Oscar Wilde
Cyrano de Bergerac				Edmond Rostand
The Cherry Orchard				Anton Chekhov
Our Town					Thornton Wilder
Death of a Salesman				Arthur Miller

Philosophy

The Nicomachean Ethics				Aristotle
Meditations					Rene Descartes
The Critique of Pure Reason			Immanuel Kant
The World as Will and Idea			Arthur Schopenhauer
Nature						Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-Reliance					“
Walden						Henry David Thoreau
How We Think					John Denver


Other Lists:

The Guardian

Time Magazine

Lists of Many Bests