When I saw seeing littlestar's entry about the San Jose State University Department of English Guilt List, I looked at the list of books she had posted and thought to myself "I haven't really read very many of the books on her list", not realizing until after a second re-reading and a click to the guilt list that those books listed were just the books that littlestar read, not the entire list of books on the list. Sadly, while I read six of the twenty-three books on her booklist, I fared much worse percentage-wise against the real booklist.
Here's the list of books I've read:
- Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness
- Doestoevski, F. M. The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment
- Doyle, Arthur Conan. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter
- Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird
- Orwell, George. 1984, Animal Farm
- Salinger, J. D. The Catcher in the Rye
- Twain, Mark. Huckleberry Finn
- Wright, Richard. Black Boy, Native Son
and Genesis, Psalms, Job, Ecclesiastes, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
12 books, and 4 short works. I need to read more, for I have no joy.
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