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Dec 9, 2025 at 10:27am
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taking a week off life intervening
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I am not writing much this week due to life events interfering. But by this weekend, I hope to return to daily writing on this site and next week to resume some blogging - might be winding down my blog by the end of the year. I hope to finish Tom Jones this weekend. I have about 15 to 20 books left in the three-volume Kindle series of 50 books you must read before you die.

here's the complete list

bolded means I have read it

50 Books to Read Before You Die
Vol 1 starts with Volume One

Alcott, Louisa May: Little Women
Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice
Austen, Jane: Emma
Balzac, Honoré de: Father Goriot
Barbusse, Henri: The Inferno
Brontë, Anne: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Brontë, Charlotte: Jane Eyre
Brontë, Emily: Wuthering Heights
Burroughs, Edgar Rice: Tarzan of the Apes
Butler, Samuel: The Way of All Flesh
Carroll, Lewis: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Cather, Willa: My Ántonia
Cervantes, Miguel de: Don Quixote
Chopin, Kate: The Awakening
Cleland, John: Fanny Hill
Collins, Wilkie: The Moonstone
Conrad, Joseph: Heart of Darkness
Conrad, Joseph: Nostromo
Cooper, James Fenimore: The Last of the Mohicans
Crane, Stephen: The Red Badge of Courage
Cummings, E. E.: The Enormous Room
Defoe, Daniel: Robinson Crusoe
Defoe, Daniel: Moll Flanders
Dickens, Charles: Bleak House
Dickens, Charles: Great Expectations
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor: Crime and Punishment
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor: The Idiot
Doyle, Arthur Conan: The Hound of the Baskervilles
Dreiser, Theodore: Sister Carrie
Dumas, Alexandre: The Three Musketeers
Dumas, Alexandre: The Count of Monte Cristo
Eliot, George: Middlemarch
Fielding, Henry: Tom Jones


Flaubert, Gustave: Madame Bovary
Flaubert, Gustave: Sentimental Education
Ford, Ford Madox: The Good Soldier
Forster, E. M.: A Room With a View
Forster, E. M.: Howard End

Gaskell, Elizabeth: North and South

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von: The Sorrows of Young Werther
Gogol, Nikolai: Dead Souls
Gorky, Maxim: The Mother
Haggard, H. Rider: King Solomon’s Mines
Hardy, Thomas: Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Hawthorne, Nathaniel: The Scarlet Letter
Homer: The Odyssey
Hugo, Victor: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hugo, Victor: Les Misérables


Huxley, Aldous: Crome Yellow
James, Henry: The Portrait of a Lady

Volume 2

- Little Women [Louisa May Alcott]
- Sense and Sensibility [Jane Austen]
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Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) [J.M. Barrie]
- Cabin Fever [ B. M. Bower]
- The Secret Garden [Frances Hodgson Burnett]
- A Little Princess [Frances Hodgson Burnett]
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [Lewis Carroll]
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The King in Yellow [Robert William Chambers]
- The Man Who Knew Too Much [Gilbert Keith Chesterton]
- The Woman in White [Wilkie Collins]
- The Most Dangerous Game [Richard Connell]
- Robinson Crusoe [Daniel Defoe]
- On the Origin of Species, 6th Edition [Charles Darwin]
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The Iron Woman [Margaret Deland]
- David Copperfield [Charles Dickens]
- Oliver Twist [Charles Dickens]
- A Tale of Two Cities [Charles Dickens]
- The Double [Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky]
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes [Arthur Conan Doyle]
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button [Francis Scott Fitzgerald]
- A Room with a View [E. M. Forster]
- Dream Psychology [Sigmund Freud]
- Tess of the d'Urbervilles [Thomas Hardy]
- Siddhartha [Hermann Hesse]
- Dubliners [James Joyce]
- The Fall of the House of Usher [Edgar Allan Poe]
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The Arabian Nights [Andrew Lang]
- The Sea Wolf [Jack London]
- The Call of Cthulhu [Howard Phillips Lovecraft]
- Anne of Green Gables [Lucy Maud Montgomery]
- Beyond Good and Evil [Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche]
- The Murders in the Rue Morgue [Edgar Allan Poe]
- The Black Cat [Edgar Allan Poe]
- The Raven [Edgar Allan Poe]
- Swann's Way [Marcel Proust]
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Romeo and Juliet [William Shakespeare]
- Treasure Island [Robert Louis Stevenson]
- The Elements of Style [William Strunk Jr.



Vol 3 finished keeping for the historical record

This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors' last names.
Starting with volume 3 then will go back and do volumes one, two, and the Harvard classics. The goal is to finish all of these by the end of next year. I almost finished Volume One. Will do some of the WC reading books as well.

- What's Bred in the Bone [Grant Allen]
- The Golden Ass [Lucius Apuleius]
- Meditations [Marcus Aurelius]
- Northanger Abbey [Jane Austen]
- Lady Susan [Jane Austen]
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz [Lyman Frank Baum]
- The Art of Public Speaking [Dale Breckenridge Carnegie]
- The Blazing World [Margaret Cavendish]
- The Wisdom of Father Brown [Gilbert Keith Chesterton]
- Heretics [Gilbert Keith Chesterton]
- The Donnington Affair [Gilbert Keith Chesterton]
- The Innocence of Father Brown [Gilbert Keith Chesterton]
- Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [John Cleland]
- The Moonstone [Wilkie Collins]
- Lord Jim [Joseph Conrad]
- The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe [Daniel Defoe]
- The Pickwick Papers [Charles Dickens]
- A Christmas Carol [Charles Dickens]
- Notes From The Underground [Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky]
- The Gambler par Fyodor [Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky]
- The Lost World [Arthur Conan Doyle]
- The Hound of the Baskervilles [Arthur Conan Doyle]
- The Sign of the Four [Arthur Conan Doyle]
- The Man in the Iron Mask [Alexandre Dumas]
- The Three Musketeers [Alexandre Dumas]
- This Side of Paradise [Francis Scott Fitzgerald]
- Curious, If True: Strange Tales [Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell]
- King Solomon's Mines [Henry Rider Haggard]
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame [Victor Hugo]
- Kim [Rudyard Kipling]
- Captain Courageous [Rudyard Kipling]
- The Jungle Book [Rudyard Kipling]
- Lady Chatterley's Lover [David Herbert Lawrence]
- The Son of the Wolf [Jack London]
- The Einstein Theory of Relativity [Hendrik Antoon Lorentz]
- The Dunwich Horror [Howard Phillips Lovecraft]
- At the Mountains of Madness [Howard Phillips Lovecraft]
- The Prince [Niccolò Machiavelli]
- The Story Girl [Lucy Maud Montgomery]
- The Antichrist [Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche]
- The Republic [Plato]
- The Last Man [Mary Shelley]
- Life On The Mississippi [Mark Twain]
- The Kama Sutra [Vatsyayana]
- In the Year 2889 [Jules Verne]
- Around the World in Eighty Days [Jules Verne]
- Four Just Men [Edgar Wallace]
- Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ [Lewis Wallace]
- Jacob's Room [Virginia Woolf]
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