12 classics from my TBR
Most years I manage to read a dozen or so of some form of classic, but just to keep on track and maybe try to stay within of what's ALREADY THERE in my TBR
- Eugenie Grandet by Honerè de Balzac (22/1)
- Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (16/8)
- The Tennat of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë (22/8)
- O Pioneers! by Willa Cather (25/8)
- The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1/9)
- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (8/9)
- North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell (11/9)
- The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle (11/10)
- The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle (19/10)
- The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole (21/10)
- La Divina Comedia by Dante Alighieri (26/10)
Other Countries, Other Languages
I've noticed I'm reading a lot of works originally written in English (somewhere around a 9 in 10 at least). A bit because England and USA have a long and healthy publishing history, with a lot of classics and pop-culture exponents to their soils. Some, because English is an easy common ground language-wise, and forums like these tend to exchange in it, either opinions or recommendations. A good deal because the market is flooded with them.
But I want more perspectives, different styles and backgrounds.
So I'll start shooting for 20 or so from my TBR and we'll see (availability might be an issue)
- Dante Alighieri, La Divina Comedia (26/10)
- Jorge Amado, Grabriela, Clavo y Canela (just bought it! so happy!)
- Aristophanes, Lysistrata
- Roberto Arlt, Los 7 Locos
- Honerè de Balzac, Eugenie Grandet (22/1)
- Enrique Barrios, Civilizaciones Internas (reading)
- María Brandán Araoz, Vecinos y detectives en Belgrano (3/9)
- Ítalo Calvino, Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore (need to retrieve from hometown)
- Fernándo de Rojas, La Celestina (this one I have on hand, but it's such an archaic Spanish, it gave me head-aches the one time I attempted it. We'll see)
- Marguerite Duras, L'Amant
- José María Eça de Queirós, El Crímen del Padre Amaro
- Umberto Eco, El Nombre de la Rosa (bought it too, will have leisure to read)
- Yasunari Kawabata, Meijin
- Clarice Lispector, Laços de família
- Cixin Liu, The Three-Body Problem
- Guadalupe Loaeza, Las Niñas Bien
- Gabriel García Marquez, El Amor en los tiempos de Cólera (another of the buying spree and mom kept laughing and being amazed by the first third)
- Facundo Manes, Usar el Cerebro (reading)
- Haruki Murakami, Kafka en la Orilla (need to retrieve from hometown)
- Kezaburo Oe, Memushiri kouchi (Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring)
- Ovid, Metamorphoses
- Pairault, Suzanne, Verónica, ¿Estrella de Cine? (31/8)
- Marjane Satrapi, Persépolis
- Tulsidas, Ramayana
- Lisbeth Werner, Puck y la Fierecilla (28/10)
- Marguerite Yourcenar, Mémoires d'Hadrien
- Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen
- Carlos Ruiz Zafón, El Juego del Ángel
25 female authors (22/25)
A follow up on this idea (here Themis-Athena explains in English). Shall construct my tentative list from my TBR as much as possible too, and post read books as I go.
A
B
- Lois McMaster Bujold: I owe to myself to try her. Almost did for Bingo, but couldn't get my hands on one of her books.
- Octavia E. Butler: Ditto
- Anne Brontë: The Tennat of Wildfell Hall (22/8)
- Charlotte Brontë: Shirley and Villete have been there some 7 years too, but I've been procrastinating because I did not care for Jane Eyre when I was a teen.
- Leigh Bardugo: Ruin and Rising
- Natalie Babbitt: Tuck Everlasting (21/7)
- Fanny Burney
C
D
- Marguerite Duras: The Lover is one that I've been meaning to read for over a decade but have not yet found a hard copy
- Jeanne DuPrau: The City of Ember (4/8)
E
- George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans): Middlemarch keeps popping (Chist, it's massive)
- Kate Elliott: King's Dragon
F
- Carrie Fisher: The Princess Diarist (9/8)
G
- Elizabeth Gaskell: North and South (11/9)
H
- Patricia Highsmith: Strangers on a Train (4/9)
- Georgette Heyer
- Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Shuttle (26/1)
I
- Laura Ingalls Wilder: Little House in the Big Woods (29/7)
J
- P. D. James: Children of Men (27/8)
- Diana Wynne Jones: Howl's Moving Castle
K
- Barbara Kingsolver: The Poisonwood Bible
- M. M. Kaye: The Ordinary Princess (5/8)
L
- Clarice Lispector: I think mom added one of her books to our library
- Guadalupe Loaeza: Las Niñas Bien
- Ann Leckie: Ancillary Justice
- Madeleine L'Engle: A Wrinkle in Time (9/1)
- Ursula K. Le Guin: The Dispossed (4/1) The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas (24/1) The Word for World is Forest (26/1) Four Ways to Forgiveness (18/4)
M
- Juliet Marillier: I've heard so amazing things about her, and fantasy is my love
- Carson McCullers: scared to, but have The Heart is a Lonely Hunter somewhere around
- Collen McCullough: The Thorn Birds, yeah, another scary prospect
- Marissa Meyer: Cinder (26/9)
- Toni Morrison: Funny thing here: I've had it on my "author to try" list for a long while, but thought her male
- Anchee Min: Empress Orchid
- Lucy Maud Montgomery: The Blue Castle
- Ann McCaffrey: Dragonflight
N
- Audrey Niffenegger: The Time Traveler's Wife
- Anais Nin: Delta of Venus has been waving at me, but I'm unlikely to pick it up this year
- Amelie Nothomb: another on mom's wish-list that I can't remember if we bought
- Naomi Novik: His Majesty's Dragon (5/9)
O
- Joyce Carol Oates: Bellefleur is one I took a stab at when I was 14 and never finished. Might rectify this year (and how did I come to the conclusion Joyce was a male name then? maybe my brain associated James Joyce?)
- Lauren Oliver: Liesl & Po
- Wendy Orr: Nim's Island
- Nnedi Okorafor: Akata Witch (10/9)
P
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman: The Yellow Wallpaper (1/9)
- Eleanor Porter: Pollyana
- Katherine Anne Porter
- Barbara Pym: Excellent Women
- Ann Patchett: Bel Canto
- Katherine Paterson: Bridge to Terabithia... if I'm feeling brave or wanting a good bawl
Q
R
- Ann Radcliffe: The Mysteries of Udolpho
- Mary Roberts Rinehart: The Circular Staircase (23/10)
- Veronica Rossi: Never finished her saga. Might go for it if in the mood for YA
- Mary Doria Russell: The Sparrow
- Carrie Ryan: The Forest of Hands and Teeth
- Jean Rhys: Wide Sargasso Sea
S
- Lisa See: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (some group discussed a buddy read when I was still on goodreads, and the movie renewed my interest)
- Alice Sebold: maybe. The Lovely Bones did a lot of noise
- Betty Smith: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
- Dodie Smith: I Capture the Castle
- Sofia Samatar: Stranger in Olondria (read a short story of hers in Clarkesworld magazine, and oh, my!)
- Marjane Satrapi: Persepolis
- Elizabeth George Speare: The Witch of Blackbird Pond (20/10)
T
- Josephine Tey: Brat Farrar was brought to my attention during the games, and will read as soon as I can get a copy
- Amy Tan
U
V
- Catherynn M. Valente: In the Night Garden is one I want to buy and savor
- Joan D. Vinge: The Snow Queen
W
- Edith Wharton: pure author faith (even if she rips my heart)
- Connie Willis: keeps popping up on my radar
- Virginia Woolf: sure I have a couple of hers back at home
Y
- Banana Yoshimoto: Kitchen is a book that keeps popping up and haven't gotten to yet
- Jane Yolen: I had Tam Lin on my list, but reading up on her... over 365 books! Woman!
- Marguerite Yourcenar: Have Memories of Hadrian on my bed-table
- Chelsea Quinn Yarbro: I'm likely to pick Blood Games for bingo
Z