The Canon

The Kannenberg Canon

*=read prior to challenge

1. How to Read a Book :: Mortimer Adler
2. Robinson Crusoe :: Daniel Defoe
3. The Call of the Wild :: Jack London
4. The Red Pony :: John Steinbeck*
5. Treasure Island :: Robert Louis Stevenson
6. The Jungle Book :: Rudyard Kipling
7. The Yearling :: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
8. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer :: Mark Twain
9. Goodbye, Mr. Chips :: James Hilton*
10. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn :: Mark Twain*
11. David Copperfield :: Charles Dickens
12. The Good Earth :: Pearl S. Buck
13. The Old Man and the Sea :: Ernest Hemingway
14. My Antonia :: Willa Cather
15. Gulliver’s Travels :: Jonathan Swift
16. April Morning :: Howard Fast
17. The Pearl :: John Steinbeck
18. Lost Horizon :: James Hilton
19. Oliver Twist :: Charles Dickens
20. Jane Eyre :: Charlotte Bronte*
21. Wuthering Heights :: Emily Bronte*
22. Animal Farm :: George Orwell*
23. Of Mice and Men :: John Steinbeck
24. The Red Badge of Courage :: Stephen Crane
25. A Tale of Two Cities :: Charles Dickens
26. The Merchant of Venice :: William Shakespeare
27. Lord of the Flies :: William Golding
28. The Iliad :: Homer*
29. Pride and Prejudice :: Jane Austen*
30. An Enemy of the People :: Henrik Ibsen
31. Babbitt :: Sinclair Lewis
32. Ethan Frome :: Edith Wharton
33. Julius Caesar :: William Shakespeare
34. All Quiet on the Western Front :: Erich Maria Remarque
35. Death of a Salesman :: Arthur Miller
36. Emerson’s essays
37. Lord Jim :: Joseph Conrad
38. 1984 :: George Orwell*
39. The Oddysey :: Homer*
40. Pygmalion :: George Bernard Shaw
41. Walden :: Henry David Thoreau
42. On the Beach :: Nevil Shute
43. Return of the Native :: Thomas Hardy
44. The Grapes of Wrath :: John Steinbeck
45. As You Like It :: William Shakespeare*
46. Heart of Darkness :: Joseph Conrad*
47. A Farewell to Arms :: Ernest Hemingway
48. Hamlet :: William Shakespeare*
49. For Whom the Bell Tolls :: Ernest Hemingway
50. Crime and Punishment :: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
51. Moby Dick :: Herman Melville
52. An American Tragedy :: Theodore Dreiser
53. The Caine Mutiny :: Herman Wouk
54. Antigone :: Sophocles
55. Main Street :: Sinclair Lewis
56. Tess of the D’Ubervilles :: Thomas Hardy
57. Cyrano De Bergerac :: Edmond Rostand
58. King Lear :: William Shakespeare
59. Of Human Bondage :: W. Somerset Maugham
60. Billy Budd :: Herman Melville
61. The Picture of Dorian Gray :: Oscar Wilde*
62. The Invisible Man :: H.G. Wells
63. A Passage to India :: E.M. Forster
64. Murder in the Cathedral :: T.S. Eliot
65. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man :: James Joyce
66. Waiting for Godot :: Samuel Beckett*
67. Moll Flanders :: Daniel Defoe
68. Far From the Madding Crowd :: Thomas Hardy
69. Giants in the Earth :: Ole Edvart Rølvaag
70. The Great Gatsby :: F. Scott Fitzgerald*
71. Arthurian Tales*
72. The Bible*
73. Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin :: Benjamin Franklin*
74. The Scarlet Letter :: Nathaniel Hawthorne*
75. Mythology*
76. Oedipus :: Sophocles*
77. Aeneid :: Virgil*
78. The Sea Around Us :: Carson
79. Leatherstocking Tales :: James Fenimore
80. Great Expectations :: Charles Dickens*
81. Sherlock Holmes :: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle*
82. The Mill on the Floss :: George Eliot
83. The Federalist Papers :: F. Scott Fitzgerald
84. The House of Seven Gables :: Nathaniel Hawthorne
85. Les Miserables :: Victor Hugo
86. Brave New World :: Aldous Huxley
87. Arrowsmith :: Sinclair Lewis
88. Cry, the Beloved Country :: Alan Paton
89. Northwest Passage :: Kenneth Roberts
90. Robin Hood Takes :: Kenneth Roberts
91. Six Wings: Men of Science in the Renaissance :: George Sarton
92. Quentin Durward :: Walter Scott
93. Saint Joan :: George Bernard Shaw
94. The Rivals :: Richard Brinsley Sheridan
95. Quo Vadis, The Song of Roland :: Henryk Sienkiewicz
96. Vanity Fair :: William Thackeray
97. War and Peace :: Leo Tolstoy
98. Around the World in 80 Days :: Jules Verne
99. Organization Man :: William Hollingsworth Whyte
100. Our Town :: Oscar Wilde*
101. Only Yesterday :: Frederick Lewis Allen
102. Mansfield Park :: Jane Austen
103. Pere Goriot :: Honore de Balzac
104. Looking Backward: 2000-1887 :: Edward Bellamy
105. Way of All Flesh :: Samuel Butler
106. Alice in Wonderland :: Lewis Carroll*
107. Death Comes to the Archbishop :: Willa Cather
108. Canterbury Tales :: Geoffrey Chaucer
109. Father Brown :: G.K. Chesterton
110. The Ox-bow Incident :: Walter Van Tilburg Clark
111. The Moonstone :: Wilkie Collins
112. Victory :: Joseph Conrad
113. Inferno :: Dante
114. The Count of Monte Cristo :: Alexander Dumas
115. The Three Musketeers :: Alexander Dumas
116. Adam Bede :: George Eliot
117. The Bear :: William Faulkner
118. Intruder in the Dust :: William Faulkner
119. Atoms in the Family :: Enrico Fermi
120. Madame Bovary :: Gustave Flaubert
121. The Loon Feather :: Iola Fuller
122. Man of Property :: John Galsworthy
123. Forsyte Saga :: John Galsworthy
124. Vein of Iron :: Ellen Glasgow
125. The Power and the Glory :: Graham Greene
126. Little World of Don Camillo :: Giovanni Guareschi
127. The Mayor of Casterbridge :: Thomas Hardy
128. A Single Pebble :: John Hersey
129. Green mansions :: William Henry Hudson
130. The Turn of the Screw :: James Joyce
131. Kim :: Rudyard Kipling
132. Out of the Silent Planet :: C.S. Lewis*
133. How Green Was My Valley :: Richard Llewellyn
134. The Late George Apley :: John Phillips Marquand
135. Gone With the Wind :: Margaret Mitchell
136. The Cruel Sea :: Nicholas Monsarrat
137. The Tree of Liberty :: Elizabeth Page
138. The Cloister and the Hearth :: Charles Reade
139. The Sea of Grass :: Conrad Richter
140. Lincoln :: Carl Sandburg
141. The Human Comedy :: William Saroyan
142. Ivanhoe :: Sir Walter Scott
143. Androcles and the Lion :: George Bernard Shaw
144. The Prince of Foxes :: Samuel Shellabarger
145. Eminent Victorians :: Lytton Strachey
146. Queen Victoria :: Lytton Strachey
147. Life on the Mississippi :: Mark Twain
148. Kristin Lavransdatter :: Sigrid Undset
149. One Man’s Meat :: E.B. White

Read previously: 28

Books to read this year: 121