Revised my list again (my living situation at present has made it difficult to get to some of the books that were on my list) and restarted (original challenge post).
New revision date: September 12, 2021 (also adding one year to my finish date goal)
My new start date: retroactive to May 1, 2019
My new start date: retroactive to May 1, 2019
Finish date goal: September 12, 2025
- Books in red are re-reads
- Read dates are linked to my star rating or review on Goodreads.
(I reserve the right to switch out titles and/or add/remove titles)
Anthologies (fiction)
1. Classic Tales of Horror - Ernest Hilbert (Editor)
2. Collected Works - Algernon Blackwood
3. Complete Ghost Stories - M.R. James
4. The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales - Chris Baldick (Editor)
Maya Angelou
5. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid's Tale Read in March 2017
6. Negotiating with the Dead
Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey Read in March 2019
Ray Bradbury
Something Wicked This Way Comes Read October 2018
Margaret Atwood
6. Negotiating with the Dead
Jane Austen
7, Emma
8. Mansfield Park
James Baldwin
9. The Fire Next Time
Elizabeth Berg
10. Escaping into the Open
Elizabeth Berg
10. Escaping into the Open
Ray Bradbury
Dorothea Brande
11. Becoming a Writer
George Brewer
George Brewer
12. The Witch of Ravensworth
Julia Cameron
Charlotte Bronte
13. Jane Eyre
14. Villette
Emily Bronte
15. Wuthering Heights
16. The Vein of Gold
The Woman in White Read December 2020
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
25. The Brothers Karamazov
Bonnie Friedman
30. Writing Past Dark
Elizabeth Gaskell
Nathaniel Hawthorne
36. The Marble Faun
Shirley Jackson
We Have Always Lived in the Castle Read September 2019
Henry James
41. The Golden Bowl
42. Roderick Hudson
Madame de Lafayette
The Princess of Cleves Read in February 2019
Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird Read in July 2018
Sheridan Le Fanu
43. Uncle Silas
Gaston Leroux
44. The Phantom of the Opera
Ursula K. Le Guin
45. Steering the Craft
Betsy Lerner
46. The Forest for the Trees
W. Somerset Maugham
The Painted Veil Read in February 2021
Sylvia Plath
50. The Bell Jar
Steven Pressfield
51. The War of Art
Ann Radcliffe
52. The Mysteries of Udolpho
Mary Shelley
Frankenstein Read in February 2019
Evelyn Waugh
55. Brideshead Revisited
Edith Wharton
56. The Age of Innocence
57. Ethan Frome
58. The House of Mirth
59. The Writing of Fiction
Truman Capote
17. In Cold Blood
Wilkie Collins
Daniel Defoe
18. Roxana
18. Roxana
Charles Dickens
19. David Copperfield
20. Great Expectations
21. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
22. Little Dorritt
23. A Tale of Two Cities
Annie Dillard
24. The Writing Life
24. The Writing Life
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
25. The Brothers Karamazov
Daphne du Maurier
My Cousin Rachel Read in April 2017
George Eliot
26. The Mill on the Floss
27. Silas Marner
T.S. Eliot
28. Murder in the Cathedral
T.S. Eliot
28. Murder in the Cathedral
John Fowles
29. The Collector
Bonnie Friedman
30. Writing Past Dark
Elizabeth Gaskell
Nikolai Gogol
33. Collected Works
Natalie Goldberg
Thunder and Lightning Read in September 2019
34. Writing Down the Bones
Natalie Goldberg
34. Writing Down the Bones
Robert Graves
35. The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic MythNathaniel Hawthorne
36. The Marble Faun
William Hope Hodgson
37. The House on the Borderland
Victor Hugo
38. The Hunchback of Notre Dame
39. Les Miserables currently reading
Victor Hugo
38. The Hunchback of Notre Dame
39. Les Miserables currently reading
Paul Huson
40. Mastering Witchcraft: A Practical Guide for Witches, Warlocks, and Covens
Shirley Jackson
Henry James
41. The Golden Bowl
42. Roderick Hudson
Madame de Lafayette
Harper Lee
Sheridan Le Fanu
43. Uncle Silas
Gaston Leroux
44. The Phantom of the Opera
Ursula K. Le Guin
45. Steering the Craft
Betsy Lerner
46. The Forest for the Trees
W. Somerset Maugham
J.M.E. McTaggart
47. Some Dogmas of Religion
47. Some Dogmas of Religion
Joyce Carol Oates
48. The Faith of a Writer
48. The Faith of a Writer
Mervyn Peake
49. The Gormenghast Trilogy
Sylvia Plath
50. The Bell Jar
Steven Pressfield
51. The War of Art
Ann Radcliffe
52. The Mysteries of Udolpho
Mary Shelley
Twyla Tharp
53. The Creative Habit
Brenda Ueland
54. If You Want to Write
53. The Creative Habit
Brenda Ueland
54. If You Want to Write
Evelyn Waugh
55. Brideshead Revisited
Edith Wharton
56. The Age of Innocence
57. Ethan Frome
58. The House of Mirth
59. The Writing of Fiction
T.H. White
60. The Once and Future King
Oscar Wilde
61. The Picture of Dorian Gray
62. A Woman of No Importance
Oscar Wilde
61. The Picture of Dorian Gray
62. A Woman of No Importance
Virginia Woolf
63. Orlando
63. Orlando
Jane Yolen
64. Take Joy
