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My Summer 2010 Reading List

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1. A Christmas Carol (Bantam Classic) - Charles Dickens

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2. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court ... - Mark Twain

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3. A Little Princess - Frances Hodgson Burnett

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4. Aesop - The Complete Fables - Aesop

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5. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

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6. Anne of Avonlea (Anne of Green Gables, Book ... - L.M. Montgomery

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7. Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montgomery

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8. Anne of the Island - L.M. Montgomery

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9. Anne's House of Dreams (Anne of Green Gables... - L. M. Montgomery

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10. Antigone. - Sophokles

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12. Around The World in Eighty Days (Penguin Pop... - Jules Verne

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13. Beowulf: A Verse Translation (Penguin Classi... - Anonymous

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14. Black Beauty - Anna Sewell

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15. Bulfinch's Mythology - Thomas Bulfinch
This includes:

"The Age of Chivalry"
"The Age of Fable"
"The Legends of Charlemagne"

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16. Carmilla - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

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17. Chronicles of Avonlea (L.M. Montgomery Books... - L.M. Montgomery

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18. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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19. Dante's "Paradisio" - Marcus Sanders

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20. Don Quixote (Penguin Classics) - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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21. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson

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22. Dracula - Bram Stoker

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23. Edgar Allan Poe's the Masque of the Red Deat... - Edgar Allan Poe,David Cutts

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24. Emma - Jane Austen

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25. Epic of Gilgamesh - Anonymous

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26. Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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27. Further Chronicles of Avonlea (L.M. Montgome... - L.M. Montgomery

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28. Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift

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29. Heidi (Penguin Popular Classics) - Johanna Spyri

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30. Jane Eyre (Penguin Popular Classics) - Charlotte Brontë

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31. Journey to the Center of the Earth - Jules Verne

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32. Kidnapped (Penguin Classics) - Robert Louis Stevenson

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33. King Solomon's Mines (Penguin Popular Classi... - H. Rider Haggard

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34. Les Misérables - Victor Hugo

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35. Little Lord Fauntleroy (Puffin Classics) - Frances Burnett

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36. Little Women (Penguin Popular Classics) - Louisa M Alcott

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37. Mansfield Park (Penguin Popular Classics) - Jane Austen

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39. Moby Dick: Or, the Whale (Penguin Popular Cl... - Herman Melville

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40. Northanger Abbey (Signet Classics) - Jane Austen

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42. Oedipus the King (Enriched Classics) - Sophocles

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43. Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics) - John Milton

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44. Paradise Regained

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45. Persuasion - Jane Austen

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46. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (Wordsworth ... - J. M. Barrie

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47. Pollyanna (Wordsworth Children's Classics) - Eleanor H. Porter

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48. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
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49. Purgatorio (Bantam Classics) - Dante Alighieri

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50. Rainbow Valley (Anne of Green Gables, No. 7) - Montgomery Lucy Maud



Due to some of the excerpts I have read in my Humanities textbook this semester, I have decided that I want to focus on some classical literature this summer (as opposed to the modern novels that I love to read). This list is primarily made up of novels that have been out for decades and are considered classical in some form or another. I'd like to add to this list, so if anyone has any additional novels that they recommend, let me know and I'll check them out and possibly add them to my list.

This list was originally born of my desire to read truly classical literature (ex. The Iliad, The Odyssey, Sophocles' Three Theban Plays, etc.) as well as more modern classical horror (ex. Frankenstein and Dracula) and the rest ended up on my list when I discovered the website "The Literature Network."

The chances of me actually finishing this list by the end of summer are highly unlikely, but I may start it quite soon so that I may actually have a chance of finishing it by the end of the year.

NOTE: The particular published copies that are on this list are not necessarily the editions that I will be reading. It's just the stories I wanted to list.

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