547 of the World’s Greatest Books
April 14th, 2009. Filed under: Tuesday's Tempting Reads.547 is the total of this list. I managed another four books from this section for a grand total of 55. I’m still going to have a lot of the classics left to read before I can report a respectable number. Being able to click on a link and read the books makes it easier in a way, but that’s not really very portable. It’s hard to cozy up to a computer while you’re curled up in your favorite spot. Besides, there’s just something about holding that book in your hand and turning the pages.
William Congreve (1670-1729) Wikipedia The Way of the World (1700) PG
Radclyffe Hall (1880-1943) Wikipedia The Well of Loneliness (1928) PGA
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) Wikipedia The Wild Swans at Coole (1917) PGA
Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932) Wikipedia The Wind in the Willows (1908) Freeread
Henry James (1843-1916) Wikipedia The Wings of the Dove (1902) PGA
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Wikipedia The Winter’s Tale (1611) PG
Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) Wikipedia The Woman in White (1860) PG
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) Wikipedia The Woodlanders (1887) Freeread
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) Wikipedia The Years (1937) PGA
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) Wikipedia The Yellow Wallpaper (1892) Freeread
Émile Zola (1840-1902) Wikipedia Thérèse Raquin (1867) PG
Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) Wikipedia Three Lives (1909) Freeread
Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) Wikipedia Throught the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871) PG
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) Wikipedia Thus Spake Zarathustra (1883) PG
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) Wikipedia To the Lighthouse (1927) PGA
Henry Fielding (1707-1754) Wikipedia Tom Jones (1749) PG
H G Wells (1866-1946) Wikipedia Tono-Bungay (1908) Freeread
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Wikipedia Treasure Island (1883) PG
Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) Wikipedia Tristram Shandy (1759) PG
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Wikipedia Twelfth Night (1600) PG
Jules Verne (1828-1905) Wikipedia Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870) PG
Richard Henry Dana (1815-1882) Wikipedia Two Years Before the Mast (1840) PG
James Joyce (1882-1941) Wikipedia Ulysses (1922) Freeread
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) Wikipedia Uncle Silas (1864) PG
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) Wikipedia Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) PG
Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) Wikipedia Uncle Vanya (1899) Freeread
Henri Barbusse (1873-1935) Wikipedia Under Fire (1916) Freeread
Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) Wikipedia Under Milk Wood (1954) PGA
Sir Thomas More (1478-1535) Wikipedia Utopia (1516) PG
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) Wikipedia Vanity Fair (1847) PG
William Beckford (1760-1844) Wikipedia Vathek (1786) PG
Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855) Wikipedia Villette (1853) PG
Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) Wikipedia Virgin Soil (1877) PG
Ben Jonson (1572-1637) Wikipedia Volpone (1605) PG
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) Wikipedia Walden (1854) PG
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) Wikipedia War and Peace (1865) PG
Henry James (1843-1916) Wikipedia Washington Square (1861) PG
Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884-1937) Wikipedia We (1924)
Henry James (1843-1916) Wikipedia What Maisie Knew (1897) Freeread
Ian Macpherson (1905-1944) Wikipedia Wild Harbour (1936)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) Wikipedia Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship (1795)
Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) Wikipedia Winesburg, Ohio (1919) Freeread
D H Lawrence (1885-1930) Wikipedia Women in Love (1920) Freeread
Emily Brontë (1818-1848) Wikipedia Wuthering Heights (1847) PG
Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938) Wikipedia You Can’t Go Home Again (1940) PGA
Robert Musil (1880-1942) Wikipedia Young Törless (1906)
Italo Svevo (1861-1928) Wikipedia Zeno’s Conscience (1923)