On Senior Learn we have read
1. Don Quijote
2. A Tale of Two Cities
5. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
6. The Hobbit
7. I know we did Agatha Christ - not sure which one though - And Then There Were None
10. The Da Vinci Code
We Read...
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf and we read some Proust. I think it was
Swan's Way - we have done an Edith Wharton, Joseph Conrad, Jane Austin, Trollope, A. Conan Doyle, Shaw's St. Joan and Pygmalion, Dorothy L. Sayers - and many more
When you are reading you may want to check the archives and see the discussion - except for a very few in the beginning they are all there - That being said, as you say Bellamarie there are still so many authors - Joy...
I know I've
Cane by Jean Toomer on my to-read pile - Italo Svevo is another that is on my pile as is D.H. Lawrence and Bulgakov's
The Master and Margarita.
With so many books and still so many classical books we have not yet tackled I just know we can find books and authors that we will all be interested in reading - it is not like the best of them were all read over the last 20 some years - a goodly number yes, but there are soooo many more.
For instance from the Modern Library list of the 100 best we have not done...
DARKNESS AT NOON by Arthur Koestler
SONS AND LOVERS by D.H. Lawrence
UNDER THE VOLCANO by Malcolm Lowry
THE WAY OF ALL FLESH by Samuel Butler
SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut
NATIVE SON by Richard Wright
HENDERSON THE RAIN KING by Saul Bellow
APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA by John O’Hara
ALL THE KING’S MEN by Robert Penn Warren
THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY by Thornton Wilder
GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN by James Baldwin
THE HEART OF THE MATTER by Graham Greene
TROPIC OF CANCER by Henry Miller
ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac
THE SHELTERING SKY by Paul Bowles
THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE by James M. Cain
MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN by Salman Rushdie
TOBACCO ROAD by Erskine Caldwell
Amazon also has a list of classical literature - for as many that we have read there are just as many we have not tackled.
Tucked indoors because of weather seems the perfect time to both read and plan what other authors to read and so we are all looking forward to some great suggestions.