Summer Reading List

[la_samtyr]

http://www.ala.org/ala/issuesadvocacy/banned/frequentlychallenged/challengedclassics/index.cfm

This is a meme I did that might prove helpful too.

The Most Influential Novelists, Playwrights, and Poets of All Time

For those of you wondering ‘who decides these things?’, the list below is from the book The Literary 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Novelists, Playwrights, and Poets of All Time (Checkmark Books/Facts On File, Inc.: New York, 2001), written by Daniel S. Burt.

Put an [ X ] against the authors you’ve read, total them up, and resolve to read more (if you can).

1 William Shakespeare [ ]
2 Dante Alighieri [ ]
3 Homer [ ]
4 Leo Tolstoy [ ]
5 Geoffrey Chaucer [ ]
6 Charles Dickens [ ]
7 James Joyce [ ]
8 John Milton [ ]
9 Virgil [ ]
10 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [ ]
11 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra [ ]
12 Murasaki Shikibu [ ]
13 Sophocles [ ]
14 William Faulkner [ ]
15 Feodor Dostoevsky [ ]
16 T.S. Eliot [ ]
17 Marcel Proust [ ]
18 Jane Austen [ ]
19 George Eliot [ ]
20 William Butler Yeats [ ]
21 Alexander Pushkin [ ]
22 Euripides [ ]
23 John Donne [ ]
24 Herman Melville [ ]
25 John Keats [ ]

26 Ovid [ ]
27 Tu Fu [ ]
28 William Blake [ ]
29 Aeschylus [ ]
30 Gustave Flaubert [ ]
31 Franz Kafka [ ]
32 Moliere [ ]
33 William Wordsworth [ ]
34 Aristophanes [ ]
35 Thomas Mann [ ]
36 Henrik Ibsen [ ]
37 Anton Chekhov [ ]
38 Henry James [ ]
39 Vladimir Nabokov [ ]
40 Walt Whitman [ ]
41 Honore de Balzac [ ]
42 Jonathan Swift [ ]
43 Stendhal [ ]
44 Thomas Hardy [ ]
45 George Bernard Shaw [ ]
46 Ernest Hemingway [ ]
47 D. H. Lawrence [ ]
48 Charles Baudelaire [ ]
49 Samuel Beckett [ ]
50 Virginia Woolf [ ]

51 Alexander Pope [ ]
52 Francois Rabelais [ ]
53 Francesco Petrarch [ ]
54 Emily Dickinson [ ]
55 Edgar Allan Poe [ ]
56 Henry Fielding [ ]
57 Joseph Conrad [ ]
58 Robert Browning [ ]
59 Albert Camus [ ]
60 Charlotte Bronte [ ]
61 Emily Bronte [ ]
62 Jean Racine [ ]
63 Mark Twain [ ]
64 August Strindberg [ ]
65 Emile Zola [ ]
66 Jorge Luis Borges [ ]
67 Cao Xueqin [ ]
68 Giovanni Boccaccio [ ]
69 Voltaire [ ]
70 Laurence Sterne [ ]
71 William Makepeace Thackeray [ ]
72 Percy Bysshe Shelley [ ]
73 Eugene O'Neill [ ]
74 Wallace Stevens [ ]
75 Lord Byron (George Gordon) [ ]

76 Gabriel Garcia Marquez [ ]
77 Walter Scott [ ]
78 Pablo Neruda [ ]
79 Robert Musil [ ]
80 Alfred Lord Tennyson [ ]
81 Flannery O'Connor [ ]
82 Catullus [ ]
83 Federico Garcia Lorca [ ]
84 Nathaniel Hawthorne [ ]
85 Theodore Dreiser [ ]
86 Ralph Ellison [ ]
87 Anthony Trollope [ ]
88 F. Scott Fitzgerald [ ]
89 Victor Hugo [ ]
90 Rabindranath Tagore [ ]
91 Daniel Defoe [ ]
92 Gunter Grass [ ]
93 Lu Xun [ ]
94 E. M. Forster [X]
95 Isaac Bashevis Singer [ ]
96 Tanizaki Jun'ichiro [ ]
97 Richard Wright [ ]
98 Gertrude Stein [ ]
99 Zeami Motokiyo [ ]
100 Oscar Wilde [ ]