Reading For Fun

1.Shakespear, William, playwright 1564-1616 Tragedies: Julius Ceasar; Richard III; Macbeth; Romo and Juliet Comedies: the Comedy of Errors; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Much Ado about Nothing; As you Like it; Twelfth Night; All is Well that Ends Well; The Faming of the Shrew; The Merry Wives of Windsor; & others 2.Scott, Sir Walter, poet, novelist 1771-1832 Novels: Waverley; Rob Roy; The Heart of Midlothian; Quentin Durward; Ivanhoe; & others 3.Austen,Jane,novelist 1775-1817 Novels: Pride & Prejudice; Mansfield Park; Emma; Sense & Sensibility;& others 4.Dickens,Charles, novelist 1812-1870 Novels: Oliver Twist; Nicholas Nickleby; The Old Curiosity Shop; David Copperfield; Bleak House; Hard Times; Little Dorrit; A Tale of Two Cities; Great Expectations, Dombey & Son; the Pickwick Papers; & others 5.Thackeray,William Makepeace, novelist 1811-1863 Novel: Vanity Fair 6.Bronte,Charlotte,novelist & poet 1816-1855 Novel: Jane Eyre 7.Bronte, Emily, novelist & poet 1818-1848 Novel: Wuthering Heights 8.Hardy, Thomas, poet & novelist 1840-1928 Novels: Return of the Native, the Woodlanders, Tess of the d’Urbervilles; & others 9.Eliot,George, novelist & poet 1819-1880 Pseudonym of Mary Anne Evans Novels: Middlemarch, Silas Marner; & others 10.Conrad, Joseph, short-story writer & novelist 1857-1924 Novels: Lord Jim, Nostromo, The Secret Agent ; & others 11. Galsworthy, John, novelist & dramatist 1867-1933 Novels: The Forsyte Saga (The Man of Property, In Chancery, To Let); A Modern Comedy; end of the Chapter;& others 12.Wells, Herbert George, novelist & author of works on politics, history &society,science-fiction. 1866-1946 Novels: The Time Machine; The War of the Worlds; The First Men in the Moon; The Invisible Man; & others 13.Shaw, George Bernard, playwright & novelist 1856-1950 Plays: Widower’s Houses; Mrs. Warren’s Profession; The Devil’s Disciple; Man & Superman; Ceaser & Cleopatra; Pygmalion; & others 14.Lawrence,David Herbert, novelist, short-story writer,poet 1885-1930 Novels: Sons & Lovers; Women in Love; Lady Chatterley’s Lover; & others 15.Aldington, Richard, novelist& poet 1892-1962 Novels: Death of a Hero; The Colonel’s daughter; All Men are Enemies; & others 16.Huxley, Aldous(Leonard), novelist & short-story writer 1894-1963 Novels: Brave New World; Crome Jellow; After Many & Summer;&others 17.Jerome, Jerome Klapka, humorist & novelist 1859-1927 His works: Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow; Three Men in a boat; Three Men on the Bummel 18.Kipling, Rudyard, poet, novelist, short-story writer 1865-1936 Collections of stories: The Jungle Book; Just So Stories; Traffic & Discoveries; & others 19.Mansfield, Katherine, short-story writer 1888-1923 Collections of stories: In a German Pension; The Garden Party & Other Stories; & others 20.Woolf, Virginia, novelist 1882-1941 Novels: Night & Day; Jacob’s Room; Mrs. Dalloway; To the Lighthouse; Orlando; & others 21.Priestley, John, novelist,playwright 1894-1984 Novels: The Good Companions, Angel Pavement; & others Plays: Dangerous Corner, The Time & the Conways; I have been Here Before; & others 22.Greene, (Henry) Graham, novelist 1904-91 Novels: Stamboul Train; England Made Me; Our Man in Havana; The Power & the Glory; The Heart of the Matter; the Quiet American; The Comedians; & others 23.Durrell, Gerald, writer on travel & natural history 1925- His works: my Family & Other Animals; A Zoo in My Luggage; The Whispering Laud; & others 24.Waugh,Evelyn, novelist 1902-1966 Novels: Decline & Fall; A Handful of Dust; Scoop; Black Mischief; Brideshead Revisited; Sword of Honour; & others 25.Orwell, George , novelist, essayist 1903-50 Novels: Animal Farm, Nineteen Eighty- Four; & others 26.Fowles, Gohn (Robert),novelist 1926- Novels: The Collector; The Magus, The French Lieutenant’s woman, The Ebony Tower; Daniel Martin; & others 27.Murdoch, Dame Iris, novelist 1919- Novels: Under the Net; The Flight from the Enchanter; the Sandcastle, The Bell; & others 28.Drabble, Margaret, novelist 1939- Novels: A Summer Birdcage; The Millstone; The Waterfall, The Ice Age; & others 29. Wesley, Mary, novelist 1912- Novels: The Cammomile Lawn; Jumping the Quene; Second Fiddle; & others American Literature 1.Irwing, Washington, American writer 1783-1859 Collection of Tales: Rip Van Winkle; The Legend of Sleepy Hollow; Bracebridge Hall; & others 2.Cooper, James Fenimore, novelist 1789-1851 Novels: the Spy; The Pioneers; the Last of the  Mohicaus; & others 3.Poe, Edgar Allau, short-story writer & poet 1809-1849 Stories: murder in the Rue Morgue; The Black Cat; the Mask of the Red Death; the Gold Bug; & others 4. Twain, Mark, novelist, short-story writer, humorist 1855-1910 Novels: the Adventures of Tom Sawyer; The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; A Trump Abroad; The Prince & the Pauper; Life on the Mississippi; A Connecticut Jankel in king Authur’s Court; & others 5.O’Henry(a real name-William Sydney Porter), short-story writer, humorist 1862-1910 Collection of stories: Cabbages & Kings; Masters of Art; The Trimmed Lamp; the Roads of Destiny; Strictly Business;& others 6. Dreiser, Theodore, novelist 1871-1945 Novels: Sister Carrie; Jenny Gerhardt; An American Tragedy; & others 7.London, Jack, novelist & short-story writer 1876-1916 Collections of stories: Love of Life; South Sea Tales; Novels: The Call of the Wild; The Sea Wolf; White Fang; The Iron Heel; martin Eden; & others 8. Lewis/Harry/ Sinclair, novelist 1885-1951 Novels: Main Street; Babbit; Arrowsmith; Kingsblood Royal ; & others  9.Faulkner, William, novelist & short-story writer 1897-1962 Novels: The Sound & the Fury; Light in August; Sartoris; Intruder in the Dust; The Mansion; The Town; & others  10.Hemingway, Ernest, novelist & short-story writer 1899-1961 Novels: The Sun Also Rises; A Farwell to Arms; For whom the Bell Tells; Across the River & into the Trees; The Old Man& the Sea; A Moveable Feast; & others Collections of short stories: Green Hills of Africa; The Fifth Column & the First Forty-Nine Stories (includes the story ”The Snows of Kilimanjaro”) & others 11.Fitzgerald (Francis) Scott, novelist & short-story writer 1896-1940 Novels: The Beautiful & the Damned; The Great Gatsby; Tender in the Night;& others Collection of Short Stories: Tales of the Gazz Age, includes “The Diamond as Big as the Ritz”; All the Sad Young Men; & others 12.O’Hara, John, novelist & short-story writer 1905-1970 Novels: Butterfield 8; A Rage to Live; From the Terrace; The Big Laugh; The Lockwood Concern; & others 13.Warren, Robert Penn, poet & novelist 1905-1989 Novels: All the King’s Men; Wilderness; & others 14.Steinbeck, John, novelist 1902-1968 Novels: The Pastures of Heaven; Tortilla Flat; The Grapes of Wrath; The Winter of Our Discontend; & others 15.O’Neil, Eugene, playwright 1888-1953 Plays:Lon’s Days Journey into Night; All God’s Chillun got Wings; Strange Interlude; Mourning Becomes Electra; & others 16.Williams, Tennessee, playwright 1911-1983 Plays: The Glass Menagerie; A Streetcar Named Desire; Cat on A Hot Tin Roof; Sweet Song of Youth; The Night of the Iguana; & others 17.Hellman, Lillian, playwright 1907-1984 Plays: The Little Foxes; Watch on the Rhine; Searching Wind; The Autumn Garden; & others 18.Cheever, John, short-story writer, novelist 1912-1982 Collections of short stories: The Way Some People Live; A Book of Short Stories; The Enormous Radio & Other Stories; The Day the Pig Fell into the Well; & others 19.Salinger, Jerome, David, novelist & short-story writer 1919- Novel: The Catcher in the Rye Collections of short stories: Nine stories; For Asme-With Love& Squalor; Franny & Loolo; Raise High the Rootbeam, Carpenters; & others 20. Kerouak, Jack, novelist 1922-1969 Novels: The Town & the City; On the Road; Visious of Cody; Lonesome Traveller ; & others 21.Vonnegut, Kurt, novelist 1922- Novels: Slaughterhouse Five; Breakfast of Champions 22.Bradbury, Ray, novelist & short-story writer (science fiction) 1920- Novels: The Martian Chronicles; Fahrenheit 45: & others Collection of short stories: The Illustrated Man; The Golden Apples of the Sun; A Medicine for Melancholy; & others 23.Capote, Truman, novelist & short-story writer 1924-86 Novels: The Grass Harp; Breakfast at Tiffany’s; in Cold Blood; & others Stories: A Tree of Night & Other Stories; A Christmas Memory ; & others 24. Vidal, Gore, novelist 1925- Novels: Washington DC; Two Sisters; Burr; A Novel, Creation, Lincoln; & others 25.Updike, John, novelist & short-story writer 1932- Novels: Rabbit Run; Rabbit Redun; Rabbit is Rich; The Centaur; The Witches of Eastwick; Of the Farm; & others Collection of short stories: The Ring, Music Magic Flute; & others 26. Atwood, Margaret, Canadian poet & writer of fiction 1939- Collections of short stories: Wilderness Tips; Dancing girls & Other Stories; The Edible Women; & others 27. Grisham, John, novelist 19 Novels: The Firm; The Client; The Street Lawyer; The Testament: & others 28.Kesey, Ken, novelist 1935- Novels: one Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest; Sometimes a Great Motion; & others Modern English Literature 1.Bainbridge,Bery, novelist. She wrote mostly on historical subjects 1934- Novels: Every Man for himself(1996); Master George(1998); Young Adolf (1978); & others 2.Byatt Antonia, novelist & short-story writer 1936- Novels:The Shadow of the Sun (1964), The Game (1967); The Virgin in the Garden (1978); Still Life (1985); Possession (1990); & others 3. Barnes, Julian, novelist 1946- Novels: Metroland (1981); Before She Met Me (1982); Flaubert’s parrot(1984); Staring at the Sun(1986); The Porcupine(1992); & others 4. Swift, Graham, novelist 1949- Novels: Waterland (1983); The Sweet-shop Owner (1980); Shuttlecock (1981); Light of Day(2001); Out of the World; Last orders; The Light of Day(2001); & others 5. Amis, Martin, novelist 1949- Novels: The Rachel Papers (1973); The Dead Babies (1975); Success (1978); Other People (1981);Money (1984); & others 6. Ackroyd, Peter, novelist & biographer 1949- Novels: The Great Fire of London (1982); The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde (1983); Hawkmoor (1985); & others 7. Banks, Iain, novelist 1954- Novels: The Wasp Factory (1984); Walking on Glass (1985); The Bridge(1986); A Song of Stone (1997); Dead Air (2002);& others 8. Drabble, Margaret, novelist 1939- Novels: A Summer Birdcage (1963); The Garrick Year (1964); The Millstone (1965); The Waterfall (1969); The Ice Age (1977); & others 9.Amis, Sir Kingsley, novelist 1922- Novels: lucky Jim (1954);That Uncertain Feeling (1955); I Like it here(1958); One Fat Englishman(1963); Ending up (1974); The Old Devils(1986); & others. 10. Atwood, Margaret The Blind Assassin, Alias Grace, Oryx and Crake, Lady Oracle, Life Before Man, Edible Woman, The Robber Bride, Cat’s Eye 11. Ishiguro, Kazuo The Remains of the Day, Never Let Me Go 12. McEwan, Ian Atonement, Amsterdam, Saturday, Enduring Love 13. Auster, Paul The Book of Illusions, Oracle Night 14.Tartt, Donna The Secret History, The Goldfinch 15. Spark, Muriel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Driver’s Seat