Book Smart Challenge

Book Smart by Jane Mallison

Works in Translations

Beowulf

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

Inferno by Dante Alighieri

The Odyssey by Homer

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu

Tales from Ovid

Oedipus Rex by Sophocles

The Aeneid by Virgil

Some Notable Biographies

Flaubert’s Parrot by Julian Barnes

The Path to Power by Robert Caro

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin

W.E.B. De Bois by David L. Lewis

The Peabody Sisters by Megan Marshall

The Five of Hearts by Patricia O’Toole

The Life and Times of Cotton Mather by Kenneth Silverman

Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey

Young Men on a Quest

Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

The Assistant by Bernard Malamud

The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann

Walden by Henry David Thoreau

Strong Women

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe

Medea by Euripides

Vanity Fair by William Thackeray

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset

The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf

Crimes

Continental Drift by Russell Banks

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Atonement by Ian McEwan

Paradise Lost by John Milton

Early Autumn by Robert B. Parker

Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe

Varied Venues

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata

Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz

Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry

A House for Mr. Biswas by V. S. Naipaul

My Dream of You by Nuala O’Faolain

Noli Me Tangere by Jose Rizal

Mr. Mani by A. B. Yehoshua

Unaccustomed Places

Time and Again by Jack Finney

A Passage to India by E. M. Forster

Brave New World by Aldoux Huxley

The Ambassadors by Henry James

Linden Hills by Gloria Naylor

Animal Farm by George Orwell

The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

The Song of the Kings by Barry Unsworth

The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh

Smiles

Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis

Headlong by Michael Frayn

The Satires by Juvenal

Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie

Birds of America by Lorrie Moore

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov

Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais

Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

Fables for Our Time by James Thurber

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

Great Eighteenth Century Works

The Life of Johnson by James Boxwell

Letters from an American Farmer by J. de Crevecoeur

Tom Jones by Henry Fielding

A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson

The Female Quixote by Charlotte Lennox

The School for Scandal by Richard B. Sheridan

Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne

Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift

Thraliana by Hester Thrale

Candide by Voltaire

Pain and Pleasure

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

My Antonia by Willa Cather

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon

The Go-Between by L. P. Hartley

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Emperor’s Children by Claire Messud

The Chosen by Chaim Potok

The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

Battlefield

Regeneration by Pat Barker

March by Geraldine Brooks

The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

The Iliad by Homer

In Country by Bobbie Ann Mason

The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien

The Long March by William Styron

Patriotic Gore by Edmund Wilson

Award Winners

A Death in the Family by James Agee

Herzog by Saul Bellow

Absalom, Absalom by William Faulkner

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Leopard by Giuseppe di Lampedusa

The Moviegoer by Walker Percy

Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner

The Lives of a Cell by Lewis Thomas

All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren

Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

 

 

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