WEM Project

This is my self project to delve into the classics pieces using methods from The Well Educated Mind by Susan Wise Bauer. From 150 classics the book has suggested, I have picked 40 that I planned to read (without any time target), and I don't read them in certain order. The list could expanded or updated along the way.

1. Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes
2. The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan
3. Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
4. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens (re-read)
5. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
6. The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
7. Moby Dick – Herman Melville
8. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
9. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
10. The Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy
11. The Portrait of A Lady – Henry James
12. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
13. The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton
14. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald (re-read)
15. Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
16. The Trial – Franz Kafka
17. Native Son - Richard Wright
18. The Stranger – Albert Camus
19. 1984 – George Orwell
20. Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
21. If on a winter's night a traveller - Italo Calvino
22. Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison
23. Possession – A.S. Byatt
24. The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila – St. Teresa of Avila
25. The Confessions – St. Augustine
26. Roman Lives - Plutarch
27. City of God – St. Augustine
28. The Prince – Niccolo Machiavelli
29. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Edward Gibbon
30. All The President’s Men - Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward
31. Agamemnon - Aeschylus
32. Richard III – William Shakespeare
33. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
34. The Cherry Orchard – Anton Chekhov
35. Saint Joan – George Bernard Shaw
36. Dante’s Inferno – Dante Alighieri
37. A Doll's House - Henrik Ibsen
38. Doctor Faustus - Christopher Marlowe
39. A Streetcar Named Desire - Tennesse Williams
40. Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller