Catching up on Classics (and lots more!) discussion

There is a big, fat zero chance that I will finish these this year. BUT I at least want to make a dent in them. This is a little slapdash, but I'll update properly later.

Mythology, Folklore, Epics, and Sagas
American Indian Myths and Legends
The Arabian Nights
Early Irish Myths and Sagas
Eirik the Red and Other Icelandic Sagas
The Iliad
Jason and the Golden Fleece
King Harald's Saga
The Mabinogion
Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table
Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes
Norse Mythology (02/20/2017)
The Once and Future King
The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic
The Saga of King Hrolf Kraki
Theogony/Works and Days

Classic Non-Fiction
The Art of War
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
The Guns of August
In Cold Blood (01/17/2017)
Meditations
On Obligations
On Sparta
The Prince (reread)
The Secret History
The Symposium

Long Reads
Anna Karenina (12/21/2016)
The Brothers Karamazov
The Count of Monte Cristo
Crime and Punishment
David Copperfield
Great Expectations (06/15/2017)
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Les Misérables
War and Peace
The Woman in White

Pulitzer Prize Winners
✔ All the Light We Cannot See (06/29/2017) ★★★★
Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches
August: Osage County
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
✔ The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo (04/02/2017) ★★★
✔ Buried Child (06/21/2017) ★★★★
Dinner With Friends
Empire Falls
Gone with the Wind
The Grapes of Wrath
✔ Live or Die (06/22/2017) ★★★★★
The Road
Sweat
Stag's Leap: Poems
A Streetcar Named Desire
Washington's Crossing

Sci-Fi/Fantasy Classics
1984
✔ The Dead Zone (01/01/2017) ★★★★★
Dune (reading)
The Handmaid's Tale (reading)
The Invisible Man
I, Robot
✔ Kindred (09/13/2017) ★★★★
✔ The Martian Chronicles (07/09/2017) ★★★★
✔ Slaughterhouse-Five (12/23/2016) ★★★★★
The Silmarillion
The Stand

Contemporary Reads
11/22/63
The Girl Who Chased the Moon
Gone Girl
Ink and Bone
The Librarians and the Lost Lamp (12/18/2016)
Lost Lake
A Man Called Ove
Shutter Island
The Uninvited
White Night

Because They've Gotta Go Somewhere
An Artist of the Floating World
The Big Sleep
Catch-22
Fathers and Sons
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Gone, Baby, Gone
Prayers for Rain
Robinson Crusoe
Treasure Island
The Unvanquished

SHAKESPEARE

I've decided to reread the plays I read in high school or college, so some of these will be rereads. Most of them are first time reads:

Comedies
All's Well That Ends Well
As You Like It
The Comedy of Errors
Cymbeline
Love's Labor's Lost
Measure for Measure
The Merchant of Venice
The Merry Wives of Windsor
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Much Ado About Nothing
Pericles
The Taming of the Shrew
The Tempest
Troilus and Cressida
✔ Twelfth Night (07/02/2017) ★★★★★
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
The Winter's Tale

Histories
Henry IV, Part 1
Henry IV, Part 2
Henry V
Henry VI, Part 1
Henry VI, Part 2
Henry VI, Part 3
King John
Richard II
Richard III

Tragedies
Antony and Cleopatra
Coriolanus
✔ Hamlet (07/18/2016) ★★★
Julius Caesar
King Lear
✔ Macbeth (01/20/2017) ★★★★★
Othello
Romeo and Juliet
Timon of Athens
Titus Andronicus

Brainstorming for 2018

Authors: Faulkner, King, Hemingway, Cather maybe? McCullers? Sam Shepard? Hardy?

Work on the group's bookshelf

Maybe literary periods/movements?

Things to remember for the A to Z author and title challenges:

Q Authors
Salvatore Quasimodo - poetry
Qiu Xiaolong - modern mystery novels
Ellery Queen - Adventures of Ellery Queen
Anna Quindlen - Black and Blue (or other work)
Matthew Quick - Silver Linings Playbook

Q Titles
Q-Squared - Sta Trek novel
Q-Space - Star Trek novel
The Queen of the Damned - Rice
Queer - Burroughs
Quidditch Through the Ages - Rowling
The Quiet American - Greene
The Quiet Man and Other Stories

U Authors
Yoshiko Uchida - memoirs; Japanese internment
Umberto Eco - Name of the Rose
Sigrid Undset - Kristin Lavransdatter
Lisa Unger - Ink and Bone; modern
Upton Sinclair - The Jungle
Ursula K. LeGuin - classic fantasy/sci-fi

U Titles
Ulysses - James Joyce
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Kundera
Uncle Vanya - Chekhov
Under a Cruel Star: A Life in Prague, 1941-1968 - Kovaly; memoir
The Underdogs - Azuela; Mexican Revolution
Under the Greenwood Tree - Hardy
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry - Rachel Joyce
The Unvanquished - Faulkner

X Authors
Malcolm X - autobiography - would be a reread for me
Xenophon - many possible titles
Gao Xingjian - Nobel Prize winner
Lu Xun - short fiction
Qiu Xiaolong - modern mystery novels
Xinran - Nonfiction; China

X Titles
The X Factor - Andre Norton
X-Factor: Madrox - Multiple Choice - Peter David; graphic novel
The Xibalba Murders - cozy mystery
Xingu - Wharton

Y Authors
Yasmina Reza - 'plays
Yasunari Kawabata - Snow Country
Richard Yates - Revolutionary Road
Yevgeny Zamyatin - We
W.B. Yeats
Yoshiko Uchida - memoirs; Japanese internment

Z Authors
Zane Grey - Western
Yevgeny Zamyatin - We
Roger Zelazny - sci-fi
Joshua Zeitz - Lincoln's Boys: John Hay, John Nicolay, and the War for Lincoln's Image
Zitkala-Ša - American Indian Stories
Zlata Filipović - memoirs; Bosnia
Émile Zola

Z Titles
Z for Zachariah - YA dystopian
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
Zigzagging Down a Wild Trail: Stories - Bobbie Ann Mason
Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Wartime Sarajevo
The Zoo Job - modern TV tie-in
Zorba the Greek

General resources for later:

General Links
Project Gutenberg - can search alphabetically by author or title
Icelandic Saga Database
Perseus Digital Library - goes to Xenophon, but other classic texts available there, as well

Links to group challenges so I can find them:


A-Z Author Challenge (2017)

A-Z Title Challenge (2017)

Classics Bingo (2017)

Old and New Challenge (2017)

Women's Century Challenge (2017)

Good luck with your amazing list! Don't worry about how long it takes to get through, just enjoy the process :)

Your list looks good, your long reads are certainly long, but every one is a winner. Enjoy your challenges.

Great idea and inspiring lists. Love the mythology. I am hoping to maybe read Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table next year.