"The most renowned works of literature by history’s greatest authors," according to the Editorial Advisory Board of Easton Press. It is an interesting mix because it goes back to ancient times, covers the globe, and includes fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Easton Press sells the whole set in very fancy covers, but all of these books are available in about a zillion different editions.Those I have read are in red. I've read 63 of them, plus bits and pieces of others in high school or college, but I don't count those as finished. Those currently on my TBR shelf are in blue.
As always, if anyone else is reading the books on this list, please feel free to leave a comment with a link to your progress report and I will add it to this post.
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea by Jules Verne
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Gulliver's Travels by Johnathan Swift
Moby Dick by Herman Melville (reviewed here)*
A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling*
The Odyssey by Homer
The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (reviewed here)
Paradise Lost by John Milton
Tales From The Arabian Nights by Richard Burton
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (reviewed here)
Candide by Voltaire
Oedipus the King by Sophocles
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper*
The Sea Wolf by Jack London
Cyrano De Bergerac by Edmund Rostand
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Collected Poems by Robert Browning
Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (reviewed here)
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Collected Poems by John Keats
On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Collected Poems by Robert Frost
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories by Washington Irving
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
The Iliad by Homer
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas*
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Aesop's Fables by Aesop
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas*
Politics and Poetics by Aristotle
The Aeneid by Virgil
Madam Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Pygmalion and Candida by George Bernard Shaw
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe*
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
The Cherry Orchard and The Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
The Analects of Confucius by Confucius
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
Collected Poems by William Butler Yeats
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
Beowulf
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Necklace and Other Tales by Guy de Maupassant
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
The History of Early Rome by Livy
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Alice's Adventure in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Dracula by Bram Stoker (reviewed here)
The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám by Omar Khayyám
The Red and the Black by Stendhal
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
The Republic by Plato
Collected Poems by Emily Dickinson
Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding*
The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay
Silas Marnerby George Eliot
The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Billy Budd by Herman Melville
The Confessions by St. Augustine
Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler*
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (reviewed here)*
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain*
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
NOTES
* Marks those that I have in the fancy Easton Press edition, thanks to a lovely Christmas gift from Hubby.
OTHERS READING THESE BOOKS
(If you would like to be listed here, please leave a comment with your links to any progress reports or reviews and I will add them here.)