I noticed the list was pretty bizarre as I did it on my lj, but I was too lazy to come up with my own.
I'm just going to do your list here. 1. The Canterbury Tales (And Sir Gawain) 2. Le Mort d'Arthur -- Thomas Mallory 3. Piers the Ploughman -- or Everyman 4. Complete Works of William Shakespeare 5.[Tamburlaine the Great -- Christopher Marlowe (Hmm, what have I read by Marlowe?) 6. Volpone -- Ben Jonson 7. The Roaring Girl -- Thomas Dekker 8. Women Beware Women -- Thomas Middleton 9. The Maid's Tragedy -- Beaumont and Fletcher 10. The Duchess of Malfi -- John Webster] -- frankly pick any work by these guys. They're often forgotten in the waves of Shakespeare-olotry 11. The King James translation of the Bible (which is something since I'm Catholic) 12. Collected poetry and selected sermons -- John Donne 13. Paradise Lost -- John Milton OMG! OMG indeed! 14. Robinson Crusoe AND Moll Flanders -- Daniel Defoe 15. The Rover 16. Pilgrim's Progress -- John Bunyan 17. Pepys Diary -- yes, most abridgements count -- Samuel Pepys 18. Tom Jones -- Henry Fielding 19. Fanny Hill -- John Cleland (Yeah, it's porn, but it's also well-written) 20. Common Sense -- Thomas Paine 21. A Vindication of the Rights of Women -- Mary Wollstonecraft 22. Frankenstein -- Mary Shelley 23. Sense and Sensibility -- Jane Austen 24. Something by Hawthorne -- House of Seven Gables (nope never read Scarlet Letter) 25. Something by Walter Scott 26. Vanity Fair -- William Thakeray 27. Two Nations -- Benjamin Disraeli 28. Moby Dick -- Herman Melville 29. A Tale of Two Cities -- Charles Dickens 30. Middlemarch -- George Eliot 31. Jane Eyre -- Charlotte Bronte -- I like Villette, too. 32. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall -- Anne Bronte (nope, but I think Emily's overrated too) 33. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court -- Mark Twain (and others 34. Something by Trollope even though I can't stand him 35. The collected poetry of Banjo Paterson -- Clancy of the Overflow is my favorite. 36. The 1896 Boston Cooking-School Cook Book -- Fannie Merritt Farmer 37. The collected short stories of Edgar Allan Poe 38. The Scarlet Pimpernel -- Baroness Orczy 39. The Hound of the Baskervilles -- Arthur Conan Doyle 40. The Prisoner of Zenda -- Anthony Hope 41. The Three Gentlemen -- A.E.W. Mason 42. The Thirty-Nine Steps -- John Buchan (want to read this) 43. Kim -- Rudyard Kipling 44. The Wind in the Willows -- Kenneth Grahame 45. Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman -- E.W. Hornung 46. The Time Machine HG Wells 47. The Seven Pillars of Wisdom -- TE Lawrence 48. The Chronicles of Narnia -- CS Lewis 49. Carry On Jeeves -- PG Wodehouse 50. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd -- Agatha Christie OMG! 51. The Dutch Shoe Mystery -- Ellery Queen 52. Gaudy Night -- Dorothy L. Sayers 53. Brave New World -- Aldous Huxley 54. 1984 -- George Orwell 55. The Collected Short Stories of O. Henry 56. The Collected Short Stories of Saki 57. The Collected Short Stories of MR James 58. Peter Pan -- JM Barrie 59. Anne of Green Gables series -- LM Montgomery 60. To Kill a Mockingbird -- Harper Lee 61. Winter's Tale -- Mark Helprin 62. The Story of My Life -- Helen Keller 63. Fahrenheit 451 -- Ray Bradbury
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I'm just going to do your list here.
1. The Canterbury Tales (And Sir Gawain)
2. Le Mort d'Arthur -- Thomas Mallory
3. Piers the Ploughman -- or Everyman
4. Complete Works of William Shakespeare
5.[Tamburlaine the Great -- Christopher Marlowe (Hmm, what have I read by Marlowe?)
6. Volpone -- Ben Jonson
7. The Roaring Girl -- Thomas Dekker
8. Women Beware Women -- Thomas Middleton
9. The Maid's Tragedy -- Beaumont and Fletcher
10. The Duchess of Malfi -- John Webster] -- frankly pick any work by these guys. They're often forgotten in the waves of Shakespeare-olotry
11. The King James translation of the Bible (which is something since I'm Catholic)
12. Collected poetry and selected sermons -- John Donne
13. Paradise Lost -- John Milton OMG! OMG indeed!
14. Robinson Crusoe AND Moll Flanders -- Daniel Defoe
15. The Rover
16. Pilgrim's Progress -- John Bunyan
17. Pepys Diary -- yes, most abridgements count -- Samuel Pepys
18. Tom Jones -- Henry Fielding
19. Fanny Hill -- John Cleland (Yeah, it's porn, but it's also well-written)
20. Common Sense -- Thomas Paine
21. A Vindication of the Rights of Women -- Mary Wollstonecraft
22. Frankenstein -- Mary Shelley
23. Sense and Sensibility -- Jane Austen
24. Something by Hawthorne -- House of Seven Gables (nope never read Scarlet Letter)
25. Something by Walter Scott
26. Vanity Fair -- William Thakeray
27. Two Nations -- Benjamin Disraeli
28. Moby Dick -- Herman Melville
29. A Tale of Two Cities -- Charles Dickens
30. Middlemarch -- George Eliot
31. Jane Eyre -- Charlotte Bronte -- I like Villette, too.
32. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall -- Anne Bronte (nope, but I think Emily's overrated too)
33. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court -- Mark Twain (and others
34. Something by Trollope even though I can't stand him
35. The collected poetry of Banjo Paterson -- Clancy of the Overflow is my favorite.
36. The 1896 Boston Cooking-School Cook Book -- Fannie Merritt Farmer
37. The collected short stories of Edgar Allan Poe
38. The Scarlet Pimpernel -- Baroness Orczy
39. The Hound of the Baskervilles -- Arthur Conan Doyle
40. The Prisoner of Zenda -- Anthony Hope
41. The Three Gentlemen -- A.E.W. Mason
42. The Thirty-Nine Steps -- John Buchan (want to read this)
43. Kim -- Rudyard Kipling
44. The Wind in the Willows -- Kenneth Grahame
45. Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman -- E.W. Hornung
46. The Time Machine HG Wells
47. The Seven Pillars of Wisdom -- TE Lawrence
48. The Chronicles of Narnia -- CS Lewis
49. Carry On Jeeves -- PG Wodehouse
50. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd -- Agatha Christie OMG!
51. The Dutch Shoe Mystery -- Ellery Queen
52. Gaudy Night -- Dorothy L. Sayers
53. Brave New World -- Aldous Huxley
54. 1984 -- George Orwell
55. The Collected Short Stories of O. Henry
56. The Collected Short Stories of Saki
57. The Collected Short Stories of MR James
58. Peter Pan -- JM Barrie
59. Anne of Green Gables series -- LM Montgomery
60. To Kill a Mockingbird -- Harper Lee
61. Winter's Tale -- Mark Helprin
62. The Story of My Life -- Helen Keller
63. Fahrenheit 451 -- Ray Bradbury