I have a BA in English literature. Before I acquired that, I had an unofficial degree in voracious reading. I was the child with the flashlight and a novel under the sheets. Or kneeling on the ground, book open, close up to the night light. Most of my life has been dedicated to American literature. Now I have fallen in love with the British. I love British literature and have certain life goals when it comes to my reading. I want to read the greats of British literature, the classics, the masterpieces! Here is how far I have come and how far I have yet to go. Don't you think it's pretty ambitious? Thank goodness I have the rest of my life to accomplish this feat.
CHARLES DICKENS
A Christmas Carol --- read it
A Tale of Two Cities --- read it
Barnaby Rudge
Bleak House --- read it
David Copperfield --- read it
Dombey and Sons
Great Expectations --- read it
Hard Times --- read it
Little Dorrit
Martin Chuzzlewit
Nicholas Nickleby
Oliver Twist --- read it
Our Mutual Friend
The Old Curiosity Shop
Pictures from Italy
American Notes
The Uncommon Traveller
Sketches by Boz
A Child's History of England
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Christmas Stories
JANE AUSTEN
Northanger Abbey
Pride and Prejudice --- read it
Sense and Sensibility --- read it
Mansfield Park --- half way read it, must re-read in full
Emma --- read it
Persuasion --- read it
CHARLOTTE BRONTE
Jane Eyre --- read it
Shirley
Villette
The Professor
ANNE BRONTE
Agnes Grey --- read it
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall ---read it
EMILY BRONTE
Wuthering Heights --- read it
ELIZABETH GASKELL
Mary Barton
Cranford --- read it
Ruth
North and South
My Lady Ludlow --- read it
Sylvia's Lovers
Wives and Daughters
GEORGE ELIOT
Middlemarch
Daniel Deronda
Adam Bede
The Mill on the Floss
Silas Marner --- read it
THOMAS HARDY
Far From the Madding Crowd
The Return of the Native --- read it
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Jude the Obscure
MARY SHELLEY
Frankenstein
KAZUO ISHIGURO
The Remains of the Day
E. M. FORSTER
Howards End
A Passage to India
A Room with a View
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY
Vanity Fair
STELLA GIBBONS
Cold Comfort Farm
ANTHONY TROLLOPE
Barchester Towers
The Way We Live Now
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