[Laus]

Following on from my TSR reading list thread, I decided to cast a vote so we can narrow down some of your suggestions. By the end of this, I hope to have two books for each letter (bar U, X and Y, which all have one).

Post each letter with the TWO books you would like to read. Alternatively, you can copy and paste the books and highlight the two you would like to read. Majority wins! If you *really* don't want to read a particular book that wins, you can select another one from the reject list . I will vote too .

Thank you for taking part!

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A:

Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe.
The House of Spirits - Isabel Allende.
Beowulf - Anonymous authorship.
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen.
A Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood.

B:

Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis de Bernières.
The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov.
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte.
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Bronte.
The Pilgrim’s Progress - John Bunyan.
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess.
Nothing Like the Sun - Anthony Burgess.
Mf - Anthony Burgess.
Junky - William S. Burroughs.

C = Decision made as only two were submitted.
The Plague - Camus
Heart of Darkness - Conrad

D:

The Divine Comedy - Dante.
Hard Times - Charles Dickens.
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens.
Crime and Punishment and Devils - Dostoyevsky.
The Double, Notes from Underground - Dostoevsky.

E:

The Waste Land - T.S. Eliot
Middlemarch - George Eliot.
The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides.

F:

Howard’s End - E.M. Forster.
A Room With A View -E. M. Forster.
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald.

G:

Brighton Rock - Graham Greene.
The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
Lord of the Flies - William Golding.

H:

Tess of the D'ubervilles - Thomas Hardy.
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy.
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller.
The Iliad - Homer.
The Odyssey - Homer.
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley.

I = Decision made as only two were submitted.

The Cider House Rules - John Irving.
The World According to Garp - John Irving.

J:

A Portrait of the Artist as A Young Man - James Joyce.
Ulysses - James Joyce.
The Turn of the Screw - Henry James.

K = Decision made as only two were submitted.

The File on H - Kadare’s.
Girl, Interrupted - Susanna Kaysen.


L:

Sons and Lovers - D.H. Lawrence.
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee.
If This Is a Man / The Truce - Primo Levi. - Added later.


M:
Rebecca - Daphe Du Maurier.
One Hundred Years of Solitute - Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Atonement - Ian McEwan.
Under the Net - Iris Murdoch.
All My Sons - Arthur Miller.

N:

Lolita - Vladamir Nabokov.
The Unfortunate Traveller - Thomas Nashe.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche.

O:

Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring - Kenzaburo Oe.
1984 - Orwell.
Animal Farm - Orwell.
Metamorpheses - Ovid.

P:

The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath.
Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose, and Diary Excerpts - Plath. - Added later.
Symposium - Plato.
The Queen of Spades - Alexksandr Pushkin.
V - Thomas Pynchon.

Q:

Exercises in Style - Raymond Queneau.
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater - Thomas de Quincey.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - Don Quixote.

R:

All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Remarque.
Wide Sargasso - Jean Rhys.
The Changeling - Middleton & Rowley.
Une Saison en Enfer (A Season in Hell) - Arthur Rimbaud.

S:

Catcher in the Rye - J.D Salinger.
Nausea - Jean Paul Sartre.
Les Mouches (The Flies) - Jean Paul Sartre.
Hamlet - William Shakespeare.
Macbeth - Shakespeare.
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley.
Dracula - Bram Stoker.

T:

Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray.
Collection of short stories - Tolstoy.
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole.

U = one.

Rabbit, Run - John Updike

V:

Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne.
The Aeneid - Virgil.
Zadig - Voltaire.

W:

The Colour Purple - Alice Walker.
Decline and Fall - Evelyn Waugh.
Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh.
The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton.
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde.
To the Lighthouse - V Woolf.

X = one.

Soul Mountain - Gao Xingjian.

Y = one.

Memoirs of Hadrian - Marguetire Yourcenar.

Z = Decision made as only two were submitted.

Amok - Stefan Zweig.
Germinal - Emile Zola.

Optional:

The Bible is pretty important. I would recommend, The King James Bible in the Standard Revised Version - Genesis, Job, Song of Solomon, Isaiah and Matthew.

Mein Kampf (someone recommended it)!

Laus .

[Laus]

Originally Posted by Laus

A:

Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe.
The House of Spirits - Isabel Allende.
Beowulf - Anonymous authorship.
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen.
A Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood.

B:

Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis de Bernières.
The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov.
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte.
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Bronte.
The Pilgrim’s Progress - John Bunyan.
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess.
Nothing Like the Sun - Anthony Burgess.
Mf - Anthony Burgess.
Junky - William S. Burroughs.


D:

The Divine Comedy - Dante.
Hard Times - Charles Dickens.
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens.
Crime and Punishment and Devils - Dostoyevsky.
The Double, Notes from Underground - Dostoevsky.

E:

The Waste Land - George Eliot.
Middlemarch - George Eliot.
The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides.

F:

Howard’s End - E.M. Forster.
A Room With A View -E. M. Forster.
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald.

G:

Brighton Rock - Graham Greene.
Oscar Wilde - Dorian grey.
The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
Lord of the Flies - William Golding.

H:

Tess of the D'ubervilles - Thomas Hardy.
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy.
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller.
The Iliad - Homer.
The Odyssey - Homer.
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley.


J:

A Portrait of the Artist as A Young Man - James Joyce.
Ulysses - James Joyce.
The Turn of the Screw - Henry James.


M:
Rebecca - Daphe Du Maurier.
One Hundred Years of Solitute - Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Atonement - Ian McEqan.
Under the Net - Iris Murdoch.
All My Sons - Arthur Miller.

N:

Lolita - Vladamir Nabokov.
The Unfortunate Traveller - Thomas Nashe.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche.

O:

Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring - Kenzaburo Oe.
1984 - Orwell.
Animal Farm - Orwell.
Metamorpheses - Ovid.

P:

The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath.
Symposium - Plato.
The Queen of Spades - Alexksandr Pushkin.
V - Thomas Pynchon.

Q:

Exercises in Style - Raymond Queneau.
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater - Thomas de Quincey.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - Don Quixote.

R:

All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Remarque.
Wide Sargasso - Jean Rhys.
The Changeling - Middleton & Rowley.
Une Saison en Enfer (A Season in Hell) - Arthur Rimbaud.

S:

Catcher in the Rye - J.D Salinger.
Nausea - Jean Paul Sartre.
Les Mouches (The Flies) - Jean Paul Sartre.
Hamlet - William Shakespeare.
Macbeth - Shakespeare.
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley.
Dracula - Bram Stoker.

T:

Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray.
Collection of short stories - Tolstoy.
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole.


V:

Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne.
The Aeneid - Virgil.
Zadig - Voltaire.

W:

The Colour Purple - Alice Walker.
Decline and Fall - Evelyn Waugh.
Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh.
The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton.
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde.
To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf.

My vote .

[Reverie.]

A: Beowulf - Anonymous authorship.
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen.

B: Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte.
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte.

C = Decision made as only two were submitted.
The Plague - Camus
Heart of Darkness - Conrad

D: The Divine Comedy - Dante.
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens.

E: The Waste Land - T.S. Eliot.
Middlemarch - George Eliot.

F: Howard’s End - E.M. Forster.
A Room With A View - E. M. Forster.

G: Oscar Wilde - A Picture of Dorian Grey.
Lord of the Flies - William Golding.

H: Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy.
The Odyssey - Homer.

I = Decision made as only two were submitted.

The Cider House Rules - John Irving.
The World According to Garp - John Irving.

J: A Portrait of the Artist as A Young Man - James Joyce.
Ulysses - James Joyce.

K = Decision made as only two were submitted.

The File on H - Kadare’s.
Girl, Interrupted - Susanna Kaysen.

L: Decision made as only two were submitted.

Sons and Lovers - D.H. Lawrence.
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee.

M: One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Under the Net - Iris Murdoch.

N: Lolita - Vladamir Nabokov.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche.

O: 1984 - Orwell.
Metamorpheses - Ovid.

P: Symposium - Plato.
The Queen of Spades - Alexksandr Pushkin.

Q: Exercises in Style - Raymond Queneau.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - Don Quixote.

R: All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Remarque.
Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys.

S: Hamlet - William Shakespeare.
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley.

T: Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray.
Collection of short stories - Tolstoy.

U = one.

Rabbit, Run - John Updike

V: The Aeneid - Virgil.
Zadig - Voltaire.

W: Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh.
To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf.

B, G and J were the trickiest to decide on...

[Reagan Smash]

A:

Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe.
The House of Spirits - Isabel Allende.
Beowulf - Anonymous authorship.
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen.
A Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood.

B:

Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis de Bernières.
The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov.
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte.
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Bronte.
The Pilgrim’s Progress - John Bunyan.
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess.
Nothing Like the Sun - Anthony Burgess.
Mf - Anthony Burgess.
Junky - William S. Burroughs.

C = Decision made as only two were submitted.
The Plague - Camus
Heart of Darkness - Conrad

D:

The Divine Comedy - Dante.
Hard Times - Charles Dickens.
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens.
Crime and Punishment and Devils - Dostoyevsky.
The Double, Notes from Underground - Dostoevsky.

E:

The Waste Land - George Eliot.
Middlemarch - George Eliot.
The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides.

F:

Howard’s End - E.M. Forster.
A Room With A View -E. M. Forster.
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald.

G:

Brighton Rock - Graham Greene.
Oscar Wilde - Dorian grey.
The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
Lord of the Flies - William Golding.
H:

Tess of the D'ubervilles - Thomas Hardy.
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy.
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller.
The Iliad - Homer.
The Odyssey - Homer.
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley.

I = Decision made as only two were submitted.

The Cider House Rules - John Irving.
The World According to Garp - John Irving.

J:

A Portrait of the Artist as A Young Man - James Joyce.
Ulysses - James Joyce.
The Turn of the Screw - Henry James.

K = Decision made as only two were submitted.

The File on H - Kadare’s.
Girl, Interrupted - Susanna Kaysen.


L: Decision made as only two were submitted.

Sons and Lovers - D.H. Lawrence.
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee.


M:
Rebecca - Daphe Du Maurier.
One Hundred Years of Solitute - Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Atonement - Ian McEqan.
Under the Net - Iris Murdoch.
All My Sons - Arthur Miller.

N:

Lolita - Vladamir Nabokov.
The Unfortunate Traveller - Thomas Nashe.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche.
O:

Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring - Kenzaburo Oe.
1984 - Orwell.
Animal Farm - Orwell.
Metamorpheses - Ovid.

P:

The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath.
Symposium - Plato.
The Queen of Spades - Alexksandr Pushkin.
V - Thomas Pynchon.

Q:

Exercises in Style - Raymond Queneau.
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater - Thomas de Quincey. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - Don Quixote.

R:

All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Remarque.
Wide Sargasso - Jean Rhys.
The Changeling - Middleton & Rowley.Une Saison en Enfer (A Season in Hell) - Arthur Rimbaud.

S:

Catcher in the Rye - J.D Salinger.
Nausea - Jean Paul Sartre.
Les Mouches (The Flies) - Jean Paul Sartre.
Hamlet - William Shakespeare.
Macbeth - Shakespeare.
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley.
Dracula - Bram Stoker.

T:

Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray.
Collection of short stories - Tolstoy. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole.

U = one.

Rabbit, Run - John Updike

V:

Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne.
The Aeneid - Virgil.
Zadig - Voltaire.
W:

The Colour Purple - Alice Walker.
Decline and Fall - Evelyn Waugh.
Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh.
The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton.
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde.
To the Lighthouse - V Woolf.

X = one.

Soul Mountain - Gao Xingjian.

Y = one.

Memoirs of Hadrian - Marguetire Yourcenar.

Z = Decision made as only two were submitted.

Amok - Stefan Zweig.
Germinal - Emile Zola.

[Jerking My Gerking]

A:

Beowulf - Anonymous authorship.
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen.

B:
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte.
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess.


C = Decision made as only two were submitted.
The Plague - Camus
Heart of Darkness - Conrad

D:


Crime and Punishment and Devils - Dostoyevsky.
The Double, Notes from Underground - Dostoevsky.

E:

The Waste Land - George Eliot.
The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides.

F:

A Room With A View -E. M. Forster.
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald.

G:

Oscar Wilde - Dorian grey.
The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman.


H:

Catch-22 - Joseph Heller.
Mein Kampf - Hitler


I = Decision made as only two were submitted.

The Cider House Rules - John Irving.
The World According to Garp - John Irving.

J:


Ulysses - James Joyce.
The Turn of the Screw - Henry James.

K = Decision made as only two were submitted.

The File on H - Kadare’s.
Girl, Interrupted - Susanna Kaysen.


L: Decision made as only two were submitted.

Sons and Lovers - D.H. Lawrence.
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee.


M:

One Hundred Years of Solitute - Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Atonement - Ian McEqan.


N:

Lolita - Vladamir Nabokov.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche.

O:

1984 - Orwell.
Animal Farm - Orwell.


P:

The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath.
V - Thomas Pynchon.

Q:

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater - Thomas de Quincey.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - Don Quixote.

R:

All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Remarque.
Une Saison en Enfer (A Season in Hell) - Arthur Rimbaud.

S:

Catcher in the Rye - J.D Salinger.
Hamlet - William Shakespeare.


T:

Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray.
Collection of short stories - Tolstoy.


U = one.

Rabbit, Run - John Updike

V:
The Aeneid - Virgil.
Zadig - Voltaire.

W:

Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh.
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde.


X = one.

Soul Mountain - Gao Xingjian.

Y = one.

Memoirs of Hadrian - Marguetire Yourcenar.

Z = Decision made as only two were submitted.

Amok - Stefan Zweig.
Germinal - Emile Zola.

[Greatleysteg]

A:

Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe.
The House of Spirits - Isabel Allende.
Beowulf - Anonymous authorship.
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen.
A Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood.

B:

Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis de Bernières.
The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov.
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte.
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Bronte.
The Pilgrim’s Progress - John Bunyan.
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess.
Nothing Like the Sun - Anthony Burgess.
Mf - Anthony Burgess.
Junky - William S. Burroughs.

C = Decision made as only two were submitted.
The Plague - Camus
Heart of Darkness - Conrad

D:

The Divine Comedy - Dante.
Hard Times - Charles Dickens.
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens.
Crime and Punishment and Devils - Dostoyevsky.
The Double, Notes from Underground - Dostoevsky.

E:

The Waste Land - George Eliot.
Middlemarch - George Eliot.
The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides.

F:

Howard’s End - E.M. Forster.
A Room With A View -E. M. Forster.
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald.

G:

Brighton Rock - Graham Greene.
Oscar Wilde - Dorian grey. - "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde
The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
Lord of the Flies - William Golding.

H:

Tess of the D'ubervilles - Thomas Hardy.
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy.
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller.
The Iliad - Homer.
The Odyssey - Homer.
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley.

I = Decision made as only two were submitted.

The Cider House Rules - John Irving.
The World According to Garp - John Irving.

J:

A Portrait of the Artist as A Young Man - James Joyce.
Ulysses - James Joyce.
The Turn of the Screw - Henry James.

K = Decision made as only two were submitted.

The File on H - Kadare’s.
Girl, Interrupted - Susanna Kaysen.


L: Decision made as only two were submitted.

Sons and Lovers - D.H. Lawrence.
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee.


M:
Rebecca - Daphe Du Maurier.
One Hundred Years of Solitute - Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Atonement - Ian McEqan.
Under the Net - Iris Murdoch.
All My Sons - Arthur Miller.

N:

Lolita - Vladamir Nabokov.
The Unfortunate Traveller - Thomas Nashe.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche.

O:

Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring - Kenzaburo Oe.
1984 - Orwell.
Animal Farm - Orwell.
Metamorpheses - Ovid.

P:

The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath.
Symposium - Plato.
The Queen of Spades - Alexksandr Pushkin.
V - Thomas Pynchon.

Q:

Exercises in Style - Raymond Queneau.
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater - Thomas de Quincey.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - Don Quixote.

R:

All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Remarque.
Wide Sargasso - Jean Rhys.
The Changeling - Middleton & Rowley.
Une Saison en Enfer (A Season in Hell) - Arthur Rimbaud.

S:

Catcher in the Rye - J.D Salinger.
Nausea - Jean Paul Sartre.
Les Mouches (The Flies) - Jean Paul Sartre.
Hamlet - William Shakespeare.
Macbeth - Shakespeare.
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley.
Dracula - Bram Stoker.

T:

Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray.
Collection of short stories - Tolstoy.
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole.

U = one.

Rabbit, Run - John Updike

V:

Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne.
The Aeneid - Virgil.
Zadig - Voltaire.

W:

The Colour Purple - Alice Walker.
Decline and Fall - Evelyn Waugh.
Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh.
The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton.
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde.
To the Lighthouse - V Woolf.

X = one.

Soul Mountain - Gao Xingjian.

Y = one.

Memoirs of Hadrian - Marguetire Yourcenar.

Z = Decision made as only two were submitted.

Amok - Stefan Zweig.
Germinal - Emile Zola.

Optional:

The Bible is pretty important. I would recommend, The King James Bible in the Standard Revised Version - Genesis, Job, Song of Solomon, Isaiah and Matthew.

Mein Kampf (someone recommended it)!

[emilina]

A:

Beowulf - Anonymous authorship.
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen.

B:

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte.
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte.

C = Decision made as only two were submitted.
The Plague - Camus
Heart of Darkness - Conrad

D:

The Divine Comedy - Dante.
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens.

E:

The Waste Land - George Eliot.
The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides.

F:

A Room With A View -E. M. Forster.
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald.

G:

Oscar Wilde - Dorian grey.
Lord of the Flies - William Golding.

H:

Tess of the D'ubervilles - Thomas Hardy. (i really like this book )
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller.


I = Decision made as only two were submitted.

The Cider House Rules - John Irving.
The World According to Garp - John Irving.

J:

A Portrait of the Artist as A Young Man - James Joyce.
Ulysses - James Joyce.


K = Decision made as only two were submitted.

The File on H - Kadare’s.
Girl, Interrupted - Susanna Kaysen.


L: Decision made as only two were submitted.

Sons and Lovers - D.H. Lawrence.
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee.


M:
Rebecca - Daphe Du Maurier.
All My Sons - Arthur Miller.

N:

Lolita - Vladamir Nabokov.
The Unfortunate Traveller - Thomas Nashe.


O:

Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring - Kenzaburo Oe.
Animal Farm - Orwell.


P:

The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath.
The Queen of Spades - Alexksandr Pushkin.


Q:

Exercises in Style - Raymond Queneau.
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater - Thomas de Quincey.


R:

All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Remarque.
Wide Sargasso - Jean Rhys.


S:


Hamlet - William Shakespeare. (i also love this one lol)
Dracula - Bram Stoker.

T:

Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray.
Collection of short stories - Tolstoy.


U = one.

Rabbit, Run - John Updike

V:

Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne.
The Aeneid - Virgil.

W:

The Colour Purple - Alice Walker.
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde.


X = one.

Soul Mountain - Gao Xingjian.

Y = one.

Memoirs of Hadrian - Marguetire Yourcenar.

Z = Decision made as only two were submitted.

Amok - Stefan Zweig.
Germinal - Emile Zola.

[Holsy]

A:

Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe.
The House of Spirits - Isabel Allende.
Beowulf - Anonymous authorship.
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen.
A Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood.

B:

Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis de Bernières.
The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov.
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte.
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Bronte.
The Pilgrim’s Progress - John Bunyan.
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess.
Nothing Like the Sun - Anthony Burgess.
Mf - Anthony Burgess.
Junky - William S. Burroughs.

C = Decision made as only two were submitted.
The Plague - Camus
Heart of Darkness - Conrad

D:

The Divine Comedy - Dante.
Hard Times - Charles Dickens.
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens.
Crime and Punishment and Devils - Dostoyevsky.
The Double, Notes from Underground - Dostoevsky.

E:

The Waste Land - George Eliot.
Middlemarch - George Eliot.
The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides.

F:

Howard’s End - E.M. Forster.
A Room With A View -E. M. Forster.
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald.

G:

Brighton Rock - Graham Greene.
Oscar Wilde - Dorian grey.
The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
Lord of the Flies - William Golding.

H:

Tess of the D'ubervilles - Thomas Hardy.
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy.
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller.
The Iliad - Homer.
The Odyssey - Homer.
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley.

I = Decision made as only two were submitted.

The Cider House Rules - John Irving.
The World According to Garp - John Irving.

J:

A Portrait of the Artist as A Young Man - James Joyce.
Ulysses - James Joyce.
The Turn of the Screw - Henry James.

K = Decision made as only two were submitted.

The File on H - Kadare’s.
Girl, Interrupted - Susanna Kaysen.


L: Decision made as only two were submitted.

Sons and Lovers - D.H. Lawrence.
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee.


M:
Rebecca - Daphe Du Maurier.
One Hundred Years of Solitute - Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Atonement - Ian McEqan.
Under the Net - Iris Murdoch.
All My Sons - Arthur Miller.

N:

Lolita - Vladamir Nabokov.
The Unfortunate Traveller - Thomas Nashe.
[I]Thus Spoke Zarathustra [/i]- Friedrich Nietzsche.

O:

Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring - Kenzaburo Oe.
1984 - Orwell.
Animal Farm - Orwell.
Metamorpheses - Ovid.

P:

The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath.
Symposium - Plato.
The Queen of Spades - Alexksandr Pushkin.
V - Thomas Pynchon.

Q: None of them interest me enough to recommend them.

Exercises in Style - Raymond Queneau.
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater - Thomas de Quincey.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - Don Quixote.

R:

All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Remarque.
Wide Sargasso - Jean Rhys.
The Changeling - Middleton & Rowley.
Une Saison en Enfer (A Season in Hell) - Arthur Rimbaud.

S:

Catcher in the Rye - J.D Salinger.
Nausea - Jean Paul Sartre.
Les Mouches (The Flies) - Jean Paul Sartre.
Hamlet - William Shakespeare.
Macbeth - Shakespeare.
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley.
Dracula - Bram Stoker.

T:

Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray.
Collection of short stories - Tolstoy.
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole.

U = one.

Rabbit, Run - John Updike

V:

Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne.
The Aeneid - Virgil. Boring, boring, boring.
Zadig - Voltaire.

W:

The Colour Purple - Alice Walker.
Decline and Fall - Evelyn Waugh.
Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh.
The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton.
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde.
To the Lighthouse - V Woolf.

X = one.

Soul Mountain - Gao Xingjian.

Y = one.

Memoirs of Hadrian - Marguetire Yourcenar.

Z = Decision made as only two were submitted.

Amok - Stefan Zweig.
Germinal - Emile Zola.

[Noémie]

Originally Posted by Laus

Following on from my TSR reading list thread, I decided to cast a vote so we can narrow down some of your suggestions. By the end of this, I hope to have two books for each letter (bar U, X and Y, which all have one).

Post each letter with the TWO books you would like to read. Alternatively, you can copy and paste the books and highlight the two you would like to read. Majority wins! If you *really* don't want to read a particular book that wins, you can select another one from the reject list . I will vote too .

Thank you for taking part!

-----

A:

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen.
A Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood.

B:

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte.
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte.

C = Decision made as only two were submitted.
The Plague - Camus
Heart of Darkness - Conrad

D:

Crime and Punishment and Devils - Dostoyevsky.
The Double, Notes from Underground - Dostoevsky.

E:

The Waste Land - George Eliot.
Middlemarch - George Eliot.

F:

Howard’s End - E.M. Forster.
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald.

G:

Brighton Rock - Graham Greene.
Lord of the Flies - William Golding.

H:

Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy.
The Iliad - Homer.

I = Decision made as only two were submitted.

The Cider House Rules - John Irving.
The World According to Garp - John Irving.

J:

A Portrait of the Artist as A Young Man - James Joyce.
The Turn of the Screw - Henry James.

K = Decision made as only two were submitted.

The File on H - Kadare’s.
Girl, Interrupted - Susanna Kaysen.


L: Decision made as only two were submitted.

Sons and Lovers - D.H. Lawrence.
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee.


M:
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
All My Sons - Arthur Miller.

N:

Lolita - Vladamir Nabokov.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche.

O:

Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring - Kenzaburo Oe.
1984 - Orwell.

P:

The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath.
V - Thomas Pynchon.

Q:

Exercises in Style - Raymond Queneau.
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater - Thomas de Quincey.

R:

All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Remarque.
Une Saison en Enfer (A Season in Hell) - Arthur Rimbaud.

S:

Catcher in the Rye - J.D Salinger.
Dracula - Bram Stoker.

T:

Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray.
Collection of short stories - Tolstoy.

U = one.

Rabbit, Run - John Updike

V:

Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne.
Zadig - Voltaire.

W:

Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh.
To the Lighthouse - V Woolf.

X = one.

Soul Mountain - Gao Xingjian.

Y = one.

Memoirs of Hadrian - Marguetire Yourcenar.

Z = Decision made as only two were submitted.

Amok - Stefan Zweig.
Germinal - Emile Zola.

please can we pop Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams on there, tah. and if this is a man.

[Laus]

Originally Posted by Noémie

please can we pop Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams on there, tah. and if this is a man.

Sure thing.

[JLou01]

Originally Posted by Laus

Following on from my TSR reading list thread, I decided to cast a vote so we can narrow down some of your suggestions. By the end of this, I hope to have two books for each letter (bar U, X and Y, which all have one).

Post each letter with the TWO books you would like to read. Alternatively, you can copy and paste the books and highlight the two you would like to read. Majority wins! If you *really* don't want to read a particular book that wins, you can select another one from the reject list . I will vote too .

Thank you for taking part!

-----

A:

Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe.
The House of Spirits - Isabel Allende.
Beowulf - Anonymous authorship.
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen.
A Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood.

B:

Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis de Bernières.
The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov.
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte.
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Bronte.
The Pilgrim’s Progress - John Bunyan.
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess.
Nothing Like the Sun - Anthony Burgess.
Mf - Anthony Burgess.
Junky - William S. Burroughs.

C = Decision made as only two were submitted.
The Plague - Camus
Heart of Darkness - Conrad

D:

The Divine Comedy - Dante. Hard Times - Charles Dickens.
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens.
Crime and Punishment and Devils - Dostoyevsky.
The Double, Notes from Underground - Dostoevsky.

E:

The Waste Land - George Eliot.
Middlemarch - George Eliot. The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides.

F:

Howard’s End - E.M. Forster.
A Room With A View -E. M. Forster.The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald.

G:

Brighton Rock - Graham Greene.
Oscar Wilde - Dorian grey.
The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
Lord of the Flies - William Golding.

H:

Tess of the D'ubervilles - Thomas Hardy.
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy.
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller.
The Iliad - Homer.
The Odyssey - Homer.
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley.

I = Decision made as only two were submitted.

The Cider House Rules - John Irving.
The World According to Garp - John Irving.

J:

A Portrait of the Artist as A Young Man - James Joyce.
Ulysses - James Joyce.
The Turn of the Screw - Henry James.

K = Decision made as only two were submitted.

The File on H - Kadare’s.
Girl, Interrupted - Susanna Kaysen.


L: Decision made as only two were submitted.

Sons and Lovers - D.H. Lawrence.
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee.


M:
Rebecca - Daphe Du Maurier.
One Hundred Years of Solitute - Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Atonement - Ian McEqan.
Under the Net - Iris Murdoch.
All My Sons - Arthur Miller.

N:

Lolita - Vladamir Nabokov.
The Unfortunate Traveller - Thomas Nashe.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche.

O:

Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring - Kenzaburo Oe.
1984 - Orwell.
Animal Farm - Orwell.
Metamorpheses - Ovid.

P:

The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath.
Symposium - Plato.
The Queen of Spades - Alexksandr Pushkin.
V - Thomas Pynchon.

Q:

Exercises in Style - Raymond Queneau.
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater - Thomas de Quincey.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - Don Quixote.

R:

All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Remarque.
Wide Sargasso - Jean Rhys.
The Changeling - Middleton & Rowley.
Une Saison en Enfer (A Season in Hell) - Arthur Rimbaud.

S:

Catcher in the Rye - J.D Salinger.
Nausea - Jean Paul Sartre.
Les Mouches (The Flies) - Jean Paul Sartre.
Hamlet - William Shakespeare.
Macbeth - Shakespeare.
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley.
Dracula - Bram Stoker.

T:

Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray.
Collection of short stories - Tolstoy.
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole.

U = one.

Rabbit, Run - John Updike

V:

Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne.
The Aeneid - Virgil.
Zadig - Voltaire.

W:

The Colour Purple - Alice Walker.
Decline and Fall - Evelyn Waugh.
Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh.
The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton.
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde.
To the Lighthouse - V Woolf.

X = one.

Soul Mountain - Gao Xingjian.

Y = one.

Memoirs of Hadrian - Marguetire Yourcenar.

Z = Decision made as only two were submitted.

Amok - Stefan Zweig.
Germinal - Emile Zola.

Optional:

The Bible is pretty important. I would recommend, The King James Bible in the Standard Revised Version - Genesis, Job, Song of Solomon, Isaiah and Matthew.

Mein Kampf (someone recommended it)!

Laus .

oo

[upturnedpalms]

A:

Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe.
The House of Spirits - Isabel Allende.
Beowulf - Anonymous authorship.
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen.
A Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood.

B:

Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis de Bernières.
The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov.
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte.
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Bronte.
The Pilgrim’s Progress - John Bunyan.
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess.
Nothing Like the Sun - Anthony Burgess.
Mf - Anthony Burgess.
Junky - William S. Burroughs.

C = Decision made as only two were submitted.
The Plague - Camus
Heart of Darkness - Conrad

D:

The Divine Comedy - Dante.
Hard Times - Charles Dickens.
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens.
Crime and Punishment and Devils - Dostoyevsky.
The Double, Notes from Underground - Dostoevsky.

E:

The Waste Land - George Eliot.
Middlemarch - George Eliot.
The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides.

F:

Howard’s End - E.M. Forster.
A Room With A View -E. M. Forster.
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald.

G:

Brighton Rock - Graham Greene.
Oscar Wilde - Dorian grey.
The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
Lord of the Flies - William Golding.

H:

Tess of the D'ubervilles - Thomas Hardy.
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy.
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller.
The Iliad - Homer.
The Odyssey - Homer.
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley.

I = Decision made as only two were submitted.

The Cider House Rules - John Irving.
The World According to Garp - John Irving.

J:

A Portrait of the Artist as A Young Man - James Joyce.
Ulysses - James Joyce.
The Turn of the Screw - Henry James.

K = Decision made as only two were submitted.

The File on H - Kadare’s.
Girl, Interrupted - Susanna Kaysen.


L: Decision made as only two were submitted.

Sons and Lovers - D.H. Lawrence.
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee.


M:
Rebecca - Daphe Du Maurier.
One Hundred Years of Solitute - Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Atonement - Ian McEqan.
Under the Net - Iris Murdoch.
All My Sons - Arthur Miller.

N:

Lolita - Vladamir Nabokov.
The Unfortunate Traveller - Thomas Nashe.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche.

O:

Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring - Kenzaburo Oe.
1984 - Orwell.
Animal Farm - Orwell.
Metamorpheses - Ovid.

P:

The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath.
Symposium - Plato.
The Queen of Spades - Alexksandr Pushkin.
V - Thomas Pynchon.

Q:

Exercises in Style - Raymond Queneau.
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater - Thomas de Quincey.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - Don Quixote.

R:

All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Remarque.
Wide Sargasso - Jean Rhys.
The Changeling - Middleton & Rowley.
Une Saison en Enfer (A Season in Hell) - Arthur Rimbaud.

S:

Catcher in the Rye - J.D Salinger.
Nausea - Jean Paul Sartre.
Les Mouches (The Flies) - Jean Paul Sartre.
Hamlet - William Shakespeare.
Macbeth - Shakespeare.
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley.
Dracula - Bram Stoker.

T:

Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray.
Collection of short stories - Tolstoy.
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole.

U = one.

Rabbit, Run - John Updike

V:

Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne.
The Aeneid - Virgil.
Zadig - Voltaire.

W:

The Colour Purple - Alice Walker.
Decline and Fall - Evelyn Waugh.
Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh.
The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton.
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde.
To the Lighthouse - V Woolf.

X = one.

Soul Mountain - Gao Xingjian.

Y = one.

Memoirs of Hadrian - Marguetire Yourcenar.

Z = Decision made as only two were submitted.

Amok - Stefan Zweig.
Germinal - Emile Zola.

[upturnedpalms]

Two tiny little things, not that it really matters, but I'm annoying :o

The Waste Land is by TS Eliot, not George Eliot. And McEwan with a w, not a q.

[Kater Murr]

I can't ****king do it, man, I can't!

[rainbow drops]

A:

Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe.
The House of Spirits - Isabel Allende.
Beowulf - Anonymous authorship.
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen.
A Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood.

B:

Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis de Bernières.
The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov.
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte.
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Bronte.
The Pilgrim’s Progress - John Bunyan.
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess.
Nothing Like the Sun - Anthony Burgess.
Mf - Anthony Burgess.
Junky - William S. Burroughs.

C = Decision made as only two were submitted.
The Plague - Camus
Heart of Darkness - Conrad

D:

The Divine Comedy - Dante.
Hard Times - Charles Dickens.
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens.
Crime and Punishment and Devils - Dostoyevsky.
The Double, Notes from Underground - Dostoevsky.

E:

The Waste Land - George Eliot.
Middlemarch - George Eliot.
The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides.

F:

Howard’s End - E.M. Forster.
A Room With A View -E. M. Forster.
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald.

G:

Brighton Rock - Graham Greene.
Oscar Wilde - Dorian grey.
The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
Lord of the Flies - William Golding.

H:

Tess of the D'ubervilles - Thomas Hardy.
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy.
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller.
The Iliad - Homer.
The Odyssey - Homer.
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley.

I = Decision made as only two were submitted.

The Cider House Rules - John Irving.
The World According to Garp - John Irving.

J:

A Portrait of the Artist as A Young Man - James Joyce.
Ulysses - James Joyce.
The Turn of the Screw - Henry James.

K = Decision made as only two were submitted.

The File on H - Kadare’s.
Girl, Interrupted - Susanna Kaysen.


L: Decision made as only two were submitted.

Sons and Lovers - D.H. Lawrence.
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee.
If This Is a Man / The Truce - Primo Levi.


M:
Rebecca - Daphe Du Maurier.
One Hundred Years of Solitute - Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Atonement - Ian McEqan.
Under the Net - Iris Murdoch.
All My Sons - Arthur Miller.

N:

Lolita - Vladamir Nabokov.
The Unfortunate Traveller - Thomas Nashe.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche.

O:

Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring - Kenzaburo Oe.
1984 - Orwell.
Animal Farm - Orwell.
Metamorpheses - Ovid.

P:

The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath.
Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose, and Diary Excerpts - Plath.
Symposium - Plato.
The Queen of Spades - Alexksandr Pushkin.
V - Thomas Pynchon.

Q:

Exercises in Style - Raymond Queneau.
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater - Thomas de Quincey.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - Don Quixote.

R:

All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Remarque.
Wide Sargasso - Jean Rhys.
The Changeling - Middleton & Rowley.
Une Saison en Enfer (A Season in Hell) - Arthur Rimbaud.

S:

Catcher in the Rye - J.D Salinger.
Nausea - Jean Paul Sartre.
Les Mouches (The Flies) - Jean Paul Sartre.
Hamlet - William Shakespeare.
Macbeth - Shakespeare.
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley.
Dracula - Bram Stoker.

T:

Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray.
Collection of short stories - Tolstoy.
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole.

U = one.

Rabbit, Run - John Updike

V:

Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne.
The Aeneid - Virgil.
Zadig - Voltaire.

W:

The Colour Purple - Alice Walker.
Decline and Fall - Evelyn Waugh.
Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh.
The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton.
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde.
To the Lighthouse - V Woolf.

X = one.

Soul Mountain - Gao Xingjian.

Y = one.

Memoirs of Hadrian - Marguetire Yourcenar.

Z = Decision made as only two were submitted.

Amok - Stefan Zweig.
Germinal - Emile Zola.



edit: argh, B was hard to decide on. ideally, i'd have all the bronte novels listed, plus the master & margarita, a clockwork orange and junky. haha.

[Laus]

Originally Posted by Kater Murr

I can't ****king do it, man, I can't!

But but but Murrrrrrrrrrr, I'm counting on YOU .

[Laus]

Originally Posted by upturnedpalms

Two tiny little things, not that it really matters, but I'm annoying :o

The Waste Land is by TS Eliot, not George Eliot. And McEwan with a w, not a q.

Well spotted!

[Orwell]

A:

Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe.The House of Spirits - Isabel Allende.
Beowulf - Anonymous authorship.Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen.
A Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood.

B:

Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis de Bernières.
The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov.Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte.
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Bronte.
The Pilgrim’s Progress - John Bunyan.
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess. Nothing Like the Sun - Anthony Burgess.
Mf - Anthony Burgess.
Junky - William S. Burroughs.

C = Decision made as only two were submitted.
The Plague - Camus
Heart of Darkness - Conrad

D:

The Divine Comedy - Dante. Hard Times - Charles Dickens.
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens.
Crime and Punishment and Devils - Dostoyevsky. The Double, Notes from Underground - Dostoevsky.

E:

The Waste Land - T.S. Eliot
Middlemarch - George Eliot.
The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides.

F:

Howard’s End - E.M. Forster.
A Room With A View -E. M. Forster.The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald.

G:

Brighton Rock - Graham Greene.
Oscar Wilde - Dorian grey.
The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
Lord of the Flies - William Golding.

H:

Tess of the D'ubervilles - Thomas Hardy.
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy.
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller.
The Iliad - Homer.
The Odyssey - Homer.
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley.

I = Decision made as only two were submitted.

The Cider House Rules - John Irving.
The World According to Garp - John Irving.

J:

A Portrait of the Artist as A Young Man - James Joyce.
Ulysses - James Joyce.
The Turn of the Screw - Henry James.

K = Decision made as only two were submitted.

The File on H - Kadare’s.
Girl, Interrupted - Susanna Kaysen.


L: Decision made as only two were submitted.

Sons and Lovers - D.H. Lawrence.
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee.
If This Is a Man / The Truce - Primo Levi.


M:
Rebecca - Daphe Du Maurier.
One Hundred Years of Solitute - Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Atonement - Ian McEwan.
Under the Net - Iris Murdoch.
All My Sons - Arthur Miller.

N:

Lolita - Vladamir Nabokov.
The Unfortunate Traveller - Thomas Nashe.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche.

O:

Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring - Kenzaburo Oe.
1984 - Orwell.
Animal Farm - Orwell.
Metamorpheses - Ovid.

P:

The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath.
Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose, and Diary Excerpts - Plath.
Symposium - Plato.
The Queen of Spades - Alexksandr Pushkin.
V - Thomas Pynchon.

Q:

Exercises in Style - Raymond Queneau.
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater - Thomas de Quincey.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - Don Quixote.

R:

All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Remarque.
Wide Sargasso - Jean Rhys.
The Changeling - Middleton & Rowley.
Une Saison en Enfer (A Season in Hell) - Arthur Rimbaud.

S:

Catcher in the Rye - J.D Salinger.
Nausea - Jean Paul Sartre.
Les Mouches (The Flies) - Jean Paul Sartre.
Hamlet - William Shakespeare.
Macbeth - Shakespeare.
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley.
Dracula - Bram Stoker.

T:

Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray.
Collection of short stories - Tolstoy.
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole.

U = one.

Rabbit, Run - John Updike

V:

Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne.
The Aeneid - Virgil.
Zadig - Voltaire.

W:

The Colour Purple - Alice Walker.
Decline and Fall - Evelyn Waugh.
Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh.
The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton.
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde.
To the Lighthouse - V Woolf.

X = one.

Soul Mountain - Gao Xingjian.

Y = one.

Memoirs of Hadrian - Marguetire Yourcenar.

Z = Decision made as only two were submitted.

Amok - Stefan Zweig.
Germinal - Emile Zola.
QUOTE]

Tried to get a fairly broad selection there of works which I believe showcase to a degree the World Literature canon.

[cillitbang]

A:
Beowulf - Anonymous authorship.
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen.


B:
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte.
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess.


D:

The Divine Comedy - Dante.
The Double, Notes from Underground - Dostoevsky.

E:
The Waste Land - T.S. Eliot
The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides.

F:
A Room With A View -E. M. Forster.
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald.

G:
Oscar Wilde - Dorian grey.
The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

H:
The Odyssey - Homer.
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley.

J:

A Portrait of the Artist as A Young Man - James Joyce
The Turn of the Screw - Henry James.

L
Sons and Lovers - D.H. Lawrence.
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee.


M:
Rebecca - Daphe Du Maurier.
All My Sons - Arthur Miller.

N:

Lolita - Vladamir Nabokov.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche.

O:

metamorphoses - ovid
Animal Farm - Orwell.


P:
Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose, and Diary Excerpts - Plath.
The Queen of Spades - Alexksandr Pushkin.

Q:
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater - Thomas de Quincey.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - Don Quixote.

R:

All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Remarque.
Une Saison en Enfer (A Season in Hell) - Arthur Rimbaud.

S:

Catcher in the Rye - J.D Salinger.
Macbeth - Shakespeare.

T:

Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray.
Collection of short stories - Tolstoy.

V:
The Aeneid - Virgil.
Zadig - Voltaire.

W:

Decline and Fall - Evelyn Waugh.
To the Lighthouse - V Woolf.

[Flubi]

A:

Beowulf - Anonymous authorship.
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen.

B:


Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte.
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte.


C = Decision made as only two were submitted.
The Plague - Camus
Heart of Darkness - Conrad

D:


Hard Times - Charles Dickens.
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens.


E:

Middlemarch - George Eliot.
The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides.

F:

Howard’s End - E.M. Forster.
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald.

G:


Oscar Wilde - Dorian grey.
Lord of the Flies - William Golding.

H:

Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy.
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley.

I = Decision made as only two were submitted.

The Cider House Rules - John Irving.
The World According to Garp - John Irving.

J:

Ulysses - James Joyce.
The Turn of the Screw - Henry James.

K = Decision made as only two were submitted.

The File on H - Kadare’s.
Girl, Interrupted - Susanna Kaysen.


L: Decision made as only two were submitted.

Sons and Lovers - D.H. Lawrence.
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee.


M:
Rebecca - Daphe Du Maurier.
Atonement - Ian McEwan.

N:

Lolita - Vladamir Nabokov.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche.

O:

1984 - Orwell.
Animal Farm - Orwell.


P:

The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath.
Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose, and Diary Excerpts - Plath.


Q:

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater - Thomas de Quincey.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - Don Quixote.

R:

All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Remarque.
The Changeling - Middleton & Rowley.

S:

Catcher in the Rye - J.D Salinger.
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley.


T:

Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray.
Collection of short stories - Tolstoy.

U = one.

Rabbit, Run - John Updike

V:

Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne.
Zadig - Voltaire.

W:

The Colour Purple - Alice Walker.
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde.

X = one.

Soul Mountain - Gao Xingjian.

Y = one.

Memoirs of Hadrian - Marguetire Yourcenar.

Z = Decision made as only two were submitted.

Amok - Stefan Zweig.
Germinal - Emile Zola.