Charles Todd
  • Tuesday, July 17, 2012

    July 2012 Reading List



    69. Heartburn by Nora Ephron - read
    70. Skating Around The Law - Joelle Charbonneau - read
    71. The Observations - June Harris - read
    72. Whiplash River - Lou Berney - read
    73. A Perfect Evil - Alex Kava - read
    74. Prisoner of Heaven - Carlos Ruiz Zafron - read 
    75. I Feel Bad About My Neck - Nora Ephron - read
    76. If There Be Dragons - Kay Hooper - read
    77. Face To Face - Ellery Queen - reading
    78. 15 Seconds - Andrew Gross - read
    79. Miss Me When I'm Gone - Emily Arsenault 

    Sunday, June 17, 2012


    100 Best Books Ever Written:


    Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea by Jules Verne

    The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne - read

    Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

    Walden by Henry David Thoreau

    Gulliver's Travels by Johnathan Swift

    Mobt Dick, or The Whale by Herman Melville

    A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway

    The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

    The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling

    The Odyssey by Homer

    The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan

    A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man by James Joyce

    Paradise Lost by John Milton

    Tales From The Arabian Nights by Richard Burton

    Great Expectations by Charles Dickens - read

    Candide by Voltaire

    Oedipus The King by Sophocles

    The Hunchback Of Notre Dame [Notre-Dame De Paris] by Victor Hugo

    The Last Of The Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

    The Sea Wolf by Jack London

    Cyrano De Bergerac by Edmund Rostand

    The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer - read

    Collected Poems by Robert Browning

    The Essays Of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

    The Portrait Of A Lady by Henry James

    Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

    Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson - read

    Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

    Collected Poems by John Keats

    On The Origin Of Species by Charles Darwin

    Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

    Collected Poems by Robert Frost

    The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories by Washington Irving - read

    Animal Farm by George Orwell

    Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë - read

    She Stoops To Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith

    Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck

    Pride And Prejudice by Jane Austen - read

    The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

    Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

    The Iliad by Homer

    Lady Chatterly's Lover by D.H. Lawrence

    The Count Of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

    Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

    Aesop's Fables by Aesop

    Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

    The Autobiography Of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

    The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

    Politics And The Poetics by Aristotle

    The Aeneid by Virgil

    Madam Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

    The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

    Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë - read

    Hamlet by William Shakespeare - read

    Pygmalion And Candida by George Bernard Shaw

    Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe - read

    Romeo And Juliet by William Shakespeare - read

    The Cherry Orchard And The Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov

    The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

    The Analects of Confucius by Confucius

    A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare - read

    Collected Poems by William Butler Yeats

    The Picture Of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

    Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

    The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio

    Beowulf

    Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

    The Neclace And Other Tales by Guy de Maupassant

    The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

    Fathers And Sons by Ivan Turgenev

    Heart Of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

    War And Peace by Leo Tolstoy

    The History of Early Rome by Livy

    Little Women by Louisa May Alcott - read

    The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott

    Tess Of The D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

    Alice's Adventure In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll - read

    Dracula by Bram Stoker

    The Rubáiyát Of Omar Khayyám by Omar Khayyám

    The Red And The Black by Stendhal

    A Tale Of Two Cities by Charles Dickins - read

    The Republic by Plato

    Collected Poems by Emily Dickinson

    Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    Tom Jones by Henry Fielding

    The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay

    Silas Marner by George Eliot - read

    The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine

    Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

    Billy Budd by Herman Melville

    The Confessions by St. Augustine

    Tales of Mystery And Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe

    Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott - read

    The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler

    The Sound And The Fury by William Faulkner

    Crime And Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

    Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm

    Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain - read

    Frankenstein by Mary Shelley - read

    David Copperfield by Charles Dickens - read

    I have read 20 of them. Must work on reading the others.


    June 2012 books to read

    My plan to read for June 2012:
     63. Damaged by Pamela Callow - read 
     64. The Seance by John Harwood - read 
     65. Blindsighted by Karin Slaughter - read 
     66. The Girl Below by Bianca Zander - read 
     67. Afterwards by Rosamund Lupton - reading 
     68. The Moment She Was Gone by Evan Hunter 
     69. A Fatal Debt by John 
     70. The Observations by John Harwood 
     71. Bloodman by Robert Pobi 
     72. Mina by Jonathan Ceely 
     73. Indefensible by Pamela Callow 
     74. Cruel Death by M. William Phelps 
     75. The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer 
     76. Kisscut by Karin Slaughter 
     77. Revenger by Rory Clements 
     78. Waiting For Sunrise by William Boyd 
     79. The Legacy by Katherine Webb 
     80. Paris In Love by Eloisa James 
     81. An Experiment In Love by Hilary Mantel