#1001books

The goal is to read as many of the book on the list here, or here, in a year. For my first year of trying this, I will set my goal for 20. If you would like to try this yourself, you can find the challenge on here.

Metamorphoses by Ovid Part 1/17

When I first started reading this, it did take me a long time to get used to the language change. Oh how different it is from the style we use today! It is a real eye opener and I couldnt help but think about the people who were living in the same time the piece was written. They wouldnt have had such a hard time adapting! But then again, I then wonder how many of them could actually read?…

Italics indicate I own a copy of the book.

Bold indicates I have read the book.

The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr by Hoffman

The Albigenses – Charles Robert Maturin 

Melmoth the Wanderer – Charles Robert Maturin

The Monastery – Sir Walter Scott

Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott

Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen 

Persuasion – Jane Austen 

Ormond – Maria Edgeworth 

Rob Roy – Sir Walter Scott

Emma – Jane Austen

Mansfield Park – Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen

Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen

Michael Kohlhaas by von Kleist 

The Absentee – Maria Edgeworth 

Elective Affinities – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 

Rameau’s Nephew – Denis Diderot 

Henry of Ofterdingen by Novalis 

Castle Rackrent – Maria Edgeworth

Hyperion – Friedrich Hölderlin 

The Nun – Denis Diderot

Jacques the Fatalist – Denis Diderot

Camilla – Fanny Burney

The Monk – M.G. Lewis

Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 

The Mysteries of Udolpho – Ann Radcliffe

The Interesting Narrative – Olaudah Equiano

The Adventures of Caleb Williams – William Godwin

A Dream of Red Mansions by Xueqin 

Justine – Marquis de Sade 

Vathek – William Beckford

Anton Reiser by Moritz 

The 120 Days of Sodom – Marquis de Sade

Cecilia – Fanny Burney 

Confessions – Jean-Jacques Rousseau  

Dangerous Liaisons – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

Reveries of a Solitary Walker – Jean-Jacques Rousseau 

Evelina – Fanny Burney

The Sorrows of Young Werther – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Humphrey Clinker – Tobias George Smollett

The Man of Feeling – Henry Mackenzie

A Sentimental Journey – Laurence Sterne

Tristram Shandy – Laurence Sterne

The Vicar of Wakefield – Oliver Goldsmith

The Castle of Otranto – Horace Walpole

Émile; or, On Education – Jean-Jacques Rousseau 

Julie; or, the New Eloise – Jean-Jacques Rousseau 

Rasselas – Samuel Johnson

Candide – Voltaire

The Female Quixote – Charlotte Lennox

Amelia – Henry Fielding 

Peregrine Pickle – Tobias George Smollett

Fanny Hill – John Cleland

Tom Jones – Henry Fielding

Roderick Random – Tobias George Smollett 

Clarissa – Samuel Richardson

Pamela – Samuel Richardson

Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus – J. Arbuthnot, J. Gay, T. Parnell, A. Pope, J. Swift

Joseph Andrews – Henry Fielding

A Modest Proposal – Jonathan Swift

Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift

Roxana – Daniel Defoe 

Moll Flanders – Daniel Defoe

Love in Excess – Eliza Haywood

Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe

A Tale of a Tub – Jonathan Swift 

Oroonoko – Aphra Behn

The Princess of Clèves – Marie-Madelaine Pioche de Lavergne, Comtesse de La Fayette 

The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan 

The Adventurous Simplicissimus by von Grimmelshausen 

The Conquest of New Spain by Diaz del Castillo 

The Travels of Persiles and Sigismunda by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 

The Golden Ass – Lucius Apuleius

Thomas of Reading by Deloney 

The Unfortunate Traveller – Thomas Nashe

Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit – John Lyly 

Monkey: Journey to the West by Wu Cheng’en 

The Lusiad by Vaz de Camoes 

Gargantua and Pantagruel – Françoise Rabelais 

The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes 

Amadis of Gaul by de Montalvo 

La Celestina by de Rojas 

Tirant lo Blanc by Martorell 

The Water Margin by Nai’an 

Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Guanzhong 

The Tale of Gengi 

The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter 

The Thousand and One Nights – Anonymous 

Aithiopika – Heliodorus 

Chaireas and Kallirhoe – Chariton 

Metamorphoses – Ovid 

Aesop’s Fables – Aesopus 

Bold indicates I have read the book.

Martin Fierro by Hernandez

Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy 

Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy  

Drunkard – Émile Zola

The Crime of Father Amaro by de Queiros

Pepita Jimenez by Valera 

Virgin Soil – Ivan Turgenev

Daniel Deronda – George Eliot 

The Hand of Ethelberta – Thomas Hardy 

The Temptation of Saint Anthony – Gustave Flaubert

Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy 

The Enchanted Wanderer – Nicolai Leskov 

Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne

In a Glass Darkly – Sheridan Le Fanu

The Devils – Fyodor Dostoevsky 

Erewhon – Samuel Butler

Spring Torrents – Ivan Turgenev

Middlemarch – George Eliot

Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll

King Lear of the Steppes – Ivan Turgenev 

He Knew He Was Right – Anthony Trollope 

War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy  

Sentimental Education – Gustave Flaubert

Phineas Finn – Anthony Trollope

Maldoror – Comte de Lautréaumont 

The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoevsky 

The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins

Little Women – Louisa May Alcott

Thérèse Raquin – Émile Zola 

The Last Chronicle of Barset – Anthony Trollope

Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne 

Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky  

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll

Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens

Uncle Silas – Sheridan Le Fanu

Notes from the Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Water-Babies – Charles Kingsley

Les Misérables – Victor Hugo

Fathers and Sons – Ivan Turgenev 

Silas Marner – George Eliot

Great Expectations – Charles Dickens 

The Marble Faun – Nathaniel Hawthorne 

Max Havelaar – Multatuli

On the Eve – Ivan Turgenev

Castle Richmond – Anthony Trollope

The Mill on the Floss – George Eliot

The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins

A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens

Oblomovka – Ivan Goncharov  

Adam Bede – George Eliot

Indian Summer by Stifter 

Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert

North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell 

Green Henry by Keller 

Hard Times – Charles Dickens

Walden – Henry David Thoreau 

Bleak House – Charles Dickens

Villette – Charlotte Brontë 

Cranford – Elizabeth Gaskell 

Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe

The Blithedale Romance – Nathaniel Hawthorne

The House of the Seven Gables – Nathaniel Hawthorne

Moby-Dick – Herman Melville 

The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne 

David Copperfield – Charles Dickens 

Shirley – Charlotte Brontë 

Mary Barton – Elizabeth Gaskell 

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Anne Brontë 

Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë 

Agnes Grey – Anne Brontë 

Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë 

Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray 

The Count of Monte-Cristo – Alexandre Dumas 

The Devil’s Fool by George Sand 

Facundo by Sarmiento 

La Reine Margot – Alexandre Dumas 

The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas

The Purloined Letter – Edgar Allan Poe 

Martin Chuzzlewit – Charles Dickens 

The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe

Lost Illusions – Honoré de Balzac

A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens

Dead Souls – Nikolai Gogol 

A Hero for our Times by Lermontov 

Camera Obscura by Hildebrand

The Charterhouse of Parma – Stendhal 

The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe

The Lion of Flanders by Hendrik Conscience

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby – Charles Dickens

Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens

The Nose – Nikolay Gogol

Le Père Goriot – Honoré de Balzac 

Eugénie Grandet – Honoré de Balzac 

Eugene Onegin by Pushkin 

The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo 

The Red and the Black – Stendhal 

The Betrothed – Alessandro Manzoni 

Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper

The Life of a Good-for-Nothing by von Eichendorff 

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner – James Hogg

Italics indicate I own a copy of the book.

Bold indicates I have read the book.

Tono-Bungay – H.G. Wells 

The Inferno – Henri Barbusse 

The Iron Heel – Jack London

The Old Wives’ Tale – Arnold Bennett 

The House on the Borderland – William Hope Hodgson

Mother – Maxim Gorky 

The Secret Agent – Joseph Conrad

The Jungle – Upton Sinclair 

The Forsyte Saga – John Galsworthy 

Young Törless – Robert Musil

Solitude by Catala 

Professor Unrat – Heinrich Mann 

The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton

Where Angels Fear to Tread – E.M. Forster 

Nostromo – Joseph Conrad 

Hadrian the Seventh – Frederick Rolfe 

The Way of All Flesh by Butler

Memoirs of My Nervous Illness by Schreber

The Call of the Wild by Jack London

The Riddle of the Sands – Erskine Childers

The Golden Bowl – Henry James 

The Ambassadors – Henry James 

The Immoralist – André Gide 

The Wings of the Dove – Henry James 

Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad

The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 

Buddenbrooks – Thomas Mann 

Kim – Rudyard Kipling 

None but the Brave by Schnitzler 

Lord Jim – Joseph Conrad 

Sister Carrie – Theodore Dreiser 

Sandokan: The Tigers of Mompracem by Salgari

Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. – Somerville and Ross 

Eclipse of the Crescent Moon by Gardonyi

The Stechlin – Theodor Fontane

The Awakening – Kate Chopin 

Dom Casmurro by de Assis 

As a Man Grows Older by Svevo 

The Turn of the Screw – Henry James 

The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells

Fruits of the Earth – André Gide 

Pharoah by Prus

Compassion by Perez Galdos

The Invisible Man – H.G. Wells 

What Maisie Knew – Henry James 

Dracula – Bram Stoker 

Quo Vadis – Henryk Sienkiewicz 

The Island of Dr. Moreau – H.G. Wells 

The Time Machine – H.G. Wells 

Effi Briest – Theodor Fontane

Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy

The Viceroys by De Roberto 

The Real Charlotte – Somerville and Ross 

The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman 

Born in Exile – George Gissing

Diary of a Nobody – George & Weedon Grossmith 

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

News from Nowhere – William Morris 

New Grub Street – George Gissin

Gösta Berling’s Saga – Selma Lagerlöf 

Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy 

Down There by Huysmans 

The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde 

The Kreutzer Sonata – Leo Tolstoy 

Thais by Anatole France 

La Bête Humaine – Émile Zola

By the Open Sea – st 

Hunger – Knut Hamsun 

Eline Vere by Couperus

The Child of Pleasure by D’Annunzio

Under the Yoke by Vazov 

The Master of Ballantrae – Robert Louis Stevenson 

Pierre and Jean – Guy de Maupassant 

Fortunata and Jacinta – Benito Pérez Galdés 

The People of Hemsö – August Strindberg 

The Manors of Ulloa by Bazan 

The Woodlanders – Thomas Hardy 

She – H. Rider Haggard 

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson

The Quest by van Eeden 

The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy

Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson

King Solomon’s Mines – H. Rider Haggard 

Germinal – Émile Zola 

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain

Marius the Epicurean – Walter Pater

Bel-Ami – Guy de Maupassant 

The Regent’s Wife by Leopoldo Alas 

Against the Grain – Joris-Karl Huysmans

The Death of Ivan Ilyich – Leo Tolstoy  

A Woman’s Life – Guy de Maupassant

Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson

Bouvard and Pécuchet – Gustave Flaubert 

The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas by de Assis 

The House by the Medlar Tree – Giovanni Verga 

The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James

Ben-Hur – Lew Wallace

Nana – Émile Zola

The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky 

The Red Room – August Strindberg

Bold indicates I have read the book.

Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence 

The Well of Loneliness – Radclyffe Hall

Parade’s End – Ford Madox Ford 

Some Prefer Nettles by Tanizaki 

The Childermass – Wyndham Lewis 

Quartet – Jean Rhys 

Decline and Fall – Evelyn Waugh

Quicksand – Nella Larsen 

Nadja – André Breton 

Steppenwolf – Herman Hesse

Remembrance of Things Past – Marcel Proust

To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf 

Tarka the Otter – Henry Williamson 

The Case of Sergeant Grischa by Arnold Zweig 

Amerika – Franz Kafka 

The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway

Blindness – Henry Green 

The Castle – Franz Kafka 

Alberta and Jacob by Sandel 

The Good Soldier Švejk – Jaroslav Hašek 

Under Satan’s Sun by Bernanos

The Plumed Serpent – D.H. Lawrence 

One, None and a Hundred Thousand – Luigi Pirandello 

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie

The Making of Americans – Gertrude Stein 

Chaka the Zulu by Mofolo 

Manhattan Transfer – John Dos Passos 

Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf

The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald 

The Counterfeiters – André Gide 

The Trial – Franz Kafka 

The Artamonov Business – Maxim Gorky 

The Professor’s House – Willa Cather 

The New World by Welde Selasse

Billy Budd, Foretopman – Herman Melville 

The Green Hat – Michael Arlen

The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann 

We – Yevgeny Zamyatin 

A Passage to India – E.M. Forster

The Devil in the Flesh – Raymond Radiguet 

Zeno’s Conscience – Italo Svevo 

Cane – Jean Toomer

Antic Hay – Aldous Huxley 

Amok – Stefan Zweig 

Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset 

The Garden Party – Katherine Mansfield 

The Enormous Room – E.E. Cummings 

Jacob’s Room – Virginia Woolf

Siddhartha – Herman Hesse 

The Forest of the Hanged by Rebreanu 

The Glimpses of the Moon – Edith Wharton 

Life and Death of Harriett Frean – May Sinclair 

Claudine’s House by Colette 

The Last Days of Humanity – Karl Kraus 

Aaron’s Rod – D.H. Lawrence 

Babbitt – Sinclair Lewis 

Ulysses – James Joyce 

Life of Christ by Papini 

The Fox – D.H. Lawrence

Crome Yellow – Aldous Huxley 

The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton 

Main Street – Sinclair Lewis 

Women in Love – D.H. Lawrence 

The Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger 

Night and Day – Virginia Woolf 

Tarr – Wyndham Lewis 

The Return of the Soldier – Rebecca West

The Shadow Line – Joseph Conrad 

Summer – Edith Wharton

Growth of the Soil – Knut Hamsen

The Home and the World by Tagore 

Pallieter by Timmermans 

The Underdogs by Azuela 

Bunner Sisters – Edith Wharton 

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce

Under Fire – Henri Barbusse 

Rashomon – Akutagawa Ryunosuke

The Good Soldier – Ford Madox Ford 

The Voyage Out – Virginia Woolf 

Of Human Bondage – William Somerset Maugham

The Rainbow – D.H. Lawrence

The Thirty-Nine Steps – John Buchan

Kokoro – Natsume Soseki

Locus Solus – Raymond Roussel 

Rosshalde – Herman Hesse 

Tarzan of the Apes – Edgar Rice Burroughs

Platero and I by Jimenez 

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists – Robert Tressell 

Sons and Lovers – D.H. Lawrence 

Death in Venice – Thomas Mann 

The Charwoman’s Daughter – James Stephens 

Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton 

Fantômas – Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre 

Impressions of Africa – Raymond Roussel 

Howards End – E.M. Forster 

The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rilke

Three Lives – Gertrude Stein 

Martin Eden – Jack London

Strait is the Gate – André Gide

A Room With a View – E.M. Forster