Long-term Reads

• The Odyssey (Homer)
• Anabasis (Xenophon)
• Metamorphoses (Ovid)
• The Seven Princesses (Nezami)
• Orlando Furioso (Ludovico Ariosto)
• Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)
• The Life of a Stupid Man (Ryūnosuke Akutagawa)
• Don Quixote (Cervantes, 1605/1615)
• The Divine Comedy (Dante, 1320)
• Gulliver’s Travels (Swift, 1726)
• Pride and Prejudice (Austen, 1813)
• Emma (Austen, 1815)
• Frankenstein (Shelley, 1818)
• Sense and Sensibility (Austen, 1811)
• Jane Eyre (Brontë, 1847)
• Wuthering Heights (Brontë, 1847)
• David Copperfield (Dickens, 1850)
• The Scarlet Letter (Hawthorne, 1850)
• Bleak House (Dickens, 1853)
• Madame Bovary (Flaubert, 1857)
• A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens, 1859)
• Great Expectations (Dickens, 1861)
• Les Misérables (Hugo, 1862)
• Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Stevenson, 1886)
• The Woman in White (Collins, 1859)
• Dubliners (Joyce, 1914)
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Joyce, 1916)
• Ulysses (Joyce, 1922)
• The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald, 1925)
• The Sun Also Rises (Hemingway, 1926)
• The Old Man and the Sea (Hemingway)
• A Farewell to Arms (Hemingway)
• The Sound and the Fury (Faulkner, 1929)
• Brave New World (Huxley, 1932)
• I, Claudius (Graves, 1934)
• Greek Myths (Graves, 1934)
• Tropic of Cancer (Miller, 1934)
• The Grapes of Wrath (Steinbeck, 1939)
• The Stranger (Camus, 1942)
• Invisible Man (Ellison, 1952)
• Lolita (Nabokov, 1955)
• Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
• Lord of the Flies (Golding, 1954)
• Doctor Zhivago (Pasternak, 1957)
• The Bell Jar (Plath, 1963)
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Kesey, 1962)
• The Golden Notebook (Lessing, 1962)
• Wide Sargasso Sea (Rhys, 1966)
• Slaughterhouse-Five (Vonnegut, 1969)
• One Hundred Years of Solitude (Márquez, 1967)
• The Kite Runner (Hosseini, 2003)
• Beloved (Morrison, 1987)
• War and Peace (Tolstoy)
• In Search of Lost Time (Marcel Proust)
• Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
• The Idiot (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
• Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
• The Stories of Anton Chekhov (Anton Chekhov)
• The Red and the Black (Stendhal)
• The Magic Mountain (Thomas Mann)
• Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe)
• Dead Souls (Nikolai Gogol)
• Under the Volcano (Malcolm Lowry)
• The Lover (Marguerite Duras)
• Fathers and Sons (Ivan Turgenev)
• If on a Winter's Night a Traveller (Italo Calvino)
• The House on the Hill (Cesare Pavese)
• Ficciones (Jorge Luis Borges)
• Shuttlecock (Graham Swift)
• 2666 (Roberto Bolaño)
• By Night in Chile (Roberto Bolaño)
• The Trial & All (Kafka)

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