Master Reading list for 2023-2024
Goal: Read the all the novels/plays by some of my favorite authors in chronological order.
- Charles Portis
- Jon Fosse (Septology series)
- Toni Morrison
- Cormac McCarthy
- Hoke Moseley
- Margaret Atwood
- Charles Dickens
- Shakespeare
- John Steinbeck
- Kurt Vonnegut
- Graham Greene
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Mario Vargas Llosa
- Isabel Allende
Charles Portis – Novels – 0/5
Norwood (1966) – READ – bah…
True Grit (1968)
The Dog of the South (1979)
Masters of Atlantis (1985)
Gringos (1991)
1. The Other Name (2019)
2. I is Another (2020)
3. A New Name (2021)
Toni Morrison – Novels – 1/11
The Bluest Eye (1969)
Sula (1971)
Song of Solomon (1977) – READ
Tar Baby (1981)
Beloved (1987)
Jazz (1992)
Paradise (1997)
Love (2003)
A Mercy (2008)
Home (2012)
God Help the Child (2015)
Miami Blues (1984)
New Hope for the Dead (1985)
Sideswipe (1987)
The Way We Die Now (1988)
M. ATWOOD – Novels – 0/15
Surfacing (1972)
Lady Oracle (1976)
Up in the Tree (1978)
Life before Man (1979)
Bodily Harm (1981)
Unearthing Suite (1983)
The Labrador Fiasco (1986)
Cat’s Eye (1988)
For the Birds (1990) (with Shelly Tanaka)
The Robber Bride (1993)
Alias Grace (1996)
The Blind Assassin (2000)
The Heart Goes Last (2015)
Fourteen Days (2023) (with others)
Charles Dickens – Novels – 10/23
The Adventures of Oliver Twist (1838) – READ
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1839) – READING (817 pg!)
Barnaby Rudge (1841) – READ
Master Humphrey’s Clock (1841)
The Old Curiosity Shop (1841)
A Christmas Carol (1843) – READ
The Chimes (1844)
The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (1844)
The Cricket on the Hearth (1845)
The Battle of Life (1846)
Dombey and Son (1848) – READ
The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain (1848)
David Copperfield (1850) – READ
Bleak House (1853) – READ
Hard Times (1854) – AUDIBLE
Little Dorrit (1857) – READ
A Tale of Two Cities (1859) – READ
Great Expectations (1861) – READ
Our Mutual Friend (1865) – READ
No Thoroughfare (1867) (with Wilkie Collins)
The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870)
The Signalman and Other Ghost Stories (1984)
Shakespeare
The Comedy of Errors (1589)
Henry VI, Part One (1590)
Titus Andronicus (1591)
Henry VI, Part Two (1592)
Henry VI, Part Three (1593)
Richard III (1593) – READ
The Taming of the Shrew (1593)
Love’s Labour’s Lost (1594)
Romeo and Juliet (1594) – READ
King John (1595)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1595) – READ
Richard II (1595)
Henry IV, Part One (1596)
The Merchant of Venice (1596) – READ
Henry IV, Part Two (1597)
The Merry Wives of Windsor (1597)
Much Ado About Nothing (1598)
As You Like It (1599)
Henry V (1599)
Julius Caesar (1599) – READ
Hamlet (1600) – READ
Troilus and Cressida (1600)
Twelfth Night (1601) – READ
All’s Well That Ends Well (1602)
Measure for Measure (1603)
Othello (1603) – READ
Timon of Athens (1604)
King Lear (1605) – READ
Macbeth (1606) – READ
Pericles (1607)
Antony and Cleopatra (1608)
Coriolanus (1608)
Cymbeline (1609)
The Winter’s Tale (1609) – READ
The Tempest (1610)
The Two Noble Kinsmen (1611)
STEINBECK – Novels – 3/19
The Pastures of Heaven (1932)
The Red Pony (1933) – READ
To A God Unknown (1933)
Tortilla Flat (1935)
In Dubious Battle (1936)
Nothing So Monstrous (1936)
Of Mice and Men (1937) – READ
The Grapes of Wrath (1939) – READ
The Forgotten Village (1941)
The Moon Is Down (1942)
The Wayward Bus (1947)
The Pearl (1948) – READ
Burning Bright (1950)
East of Eden (1952)
The Short Reign of Pippin IV (1957)
The Winter of Our Discontent (1961) – READ
The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights (1976)
Zapata (1993)
Vonnegut – Novels – 0/15
Player Piano (1952)
The Sirens of Titan (1959)
Cat’s Cradle (1960)
Mother Night (1961)
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1965)
Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)
Breakfast of Champions (1973)
Slapstick (1976)
Deadeye Dick (1981)
Jailbird (1983)
Galapagos (1985)
Bluebeard (1987)
Between Time and Timbuktu (1990)
Hocus Pocus (1990)
Timequake (1997)
Graham Greene – Novels – 4/26
The Name of Action (1930)
Rumour At Nightfall (1931)
Stamboul Train (1932)
It’s a Battlefield (1934)
England Made Me (1935)
A Gun for Sale (1936)
Brighton Rock (1938)
The Confidential Agent (1939)
The Power and the Glory (1940)
The Ministry of Fear (1943)
The Heart of the Matter (1948) – READ
The Third Man (1950)
The End of the Affair (1951) – READ
Loser Takes All (1955)
The Quiet American (1955) – READ
Our Man in Havana (1958)
A Burnt-Out Case (1960)
The Comedians (1966)
Travels with My Aunt (1969)
The Honorary Consul (1973)
The Human Factor (1978) – READ
Doctor Fischer of Geneva (1980)
Monsignor Quixote (1982)
The Tenth Man (1985)
The Captain and the Enemy (1988)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez – Novels – 2/10 Hispanic Heritage Month 15 Sept – 15 Oct
One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) – READ
In Evil Hour (1968) – READ
The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975)
Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1982)
Fragrance of Guava (1983)
Love in the Time of Cholera (1985) – READ
The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor (1986)
The General in His Labyrinth (1990)
News of a Kidnapping (1997)
Memories of My Melancholy Whores (2005)
Mario Vargas Llosa – Novels – 1/19 Hispanic Heritage Month 15 Sept – 15 Oct
The Green House (1965) – READING
The Time of the Hero (1966)
Conversation in the Cathedral (1975) – READ
Captain Pantoja and the Special Service (1978)
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (1982)
The War of the End of the World (1984)
The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta (1986)
Who Killed Palomino Molero? (1987)
The Storyteller (1989)
In Praise of the Stepmother (1990)
Death in the Andes (1996)
The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto (1998)
The Feast of the Goat (2001) – READ
The Way to Paradise (2003)
The Bad Girl (2007)
The Dream of the Celt (2012)
The Discreet Hero (2015)
The Neighborhood (2018)
Harsh Times (2021)
Isabel Allende – Novels – 0/15 Hispanic Heritage Month 15 Sept – 15 Oct
Of Love and Shadows (1984)
Eva Luna (1988)
The Infinite Plan (1993)
Zorro (2005)
Ines of My Soul (2006)
Island Beneath the Sea (2010)
Maya’s Notebook (2013)
Ripper (2014)
The Japanese Lover (2015)
In the Midst of Winter (2017)
A Long Petal of the Sea (2020)
The Soul of a Woman (2021)
Violeta (2022)
The Wind Knows My Name (2023)
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