Book Lists

Recently, Leya at Wandeca Reads shared a list of books that I found interesting. It's the 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. Like her I have read a few and am intrigued by others. Since I've been trying to expand my reading material I thought of keeping the link and see what to add to the TBR next.

These are the ones I've read:
The Lusiad - Luis Vaz de Camoes
Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
The Princess of Cleves - Marie-Madelaine Pioche de Lavergne, Comtesse de la Fayette
Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Dafoe
Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
Dangerous Liaisons - Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
The Mysteries of Udolpho - Ann Radcliffe
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
Emma - Jane Austen
Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
The Count of Monte-Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
The Scarlett Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
Cranford - Elizabeth Gaskell
North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
The Woman in White - Wilkie White
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
Journey to the Center of the Earth - Jules Verne
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne
Ben-Hur - Lew Wallace
Nana - Emile Zola
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Quo Vadis - Henryk Sienkiewicz
Sandokan: The Tigers of Mompracem - Emilio Salgari
The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie
The Castle - Franz Kafka
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
Lady Chatterley's Lover - D. H. Lawrence
A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
The Labyrinth of Solitude – Octavio Paz
Memoirs of Hadrian – Marguerite Yourcenar
Silence - Shusaku Endo
The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles
The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
The House of the Spirits - Isabel Allende
Baltasar and Blimunda - Jose Saramago
The Black Dahlia – James Ellroy
Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel
The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje



Lauri, at Online Classes, also sent me recently the list of their 100 All Time Best Historical Fiction Books . While some of my favourites aren't on the list, there's mention of many books I have enjoyed in the past.

These are the ones I've read:
The Read Tent - Anita Diamant
The Mists of Avalon - Marion Zimmer Bradley
Ivanhoe - Walter Scott
Pope Joan - Donna Woolfolk Cross
The Pillars of The Earth - Ken Follett
The Name of The Rose - Umberto Eco
Katherine - Anya Seton
The Sunne In Splendour - Sharon Kay Penman
The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova
The Other Boleyn Girl - Philippa Gregory
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
Girl With a Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier
Outlander - Diana Gabaldon
The Talisman Ring - Georgette Heyer
Wuthering Heights - Emily Brönte
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
The Good Earth - Pearl S. Buck
The Thorn Birds - Coleen McCullough
Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoi
The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje


Most of these books were read in my pre-blog days so I don't have many reviews posted... I'll add more as I read and review them.