Fancy Books I Have Read (Updated)
Below is a list of books mostly in order that I’ve read over the years that I consider old (by that I mean free from copyright) and interesting:
- Battle With The Cannon, Victor Hugo
- Two Friends, Guy De Maupassant
- The Killers, Ernest Hemingway
- Tell-Tale Heart, Masque of the Red Death, Edgar Allen Poe
- The Open Boat, Sthephen Crane
- The Happy Prince, Oscar Wilde
- The Two Drovers, Sir Walter Scott
- Mowgli’s Brothers, Rudyard Kipling
- The Legend of St. Julian The Hospitaller, Gustave Flaubert
- The Rocking-Horse Winner, D. H. Lawrence
- The Three Hermits, Leo Tolstoy
- Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe
- Billy Budd, Herman Melville
- The Man That Courrputed Hadleyburg, Mark Twain
- The Making Of Americans, Hector Saint John de Crèvecoeur
- How Should One Read A Book, Virginia Woolf
- The Eruption of Vesuvius, Pliny The Younger
- The Land of Montezuma, William H. Prescott
- Death of Abraham Lincoln, Walt Whitman
- The March to The Sea, Xenophon
- The Lantern Bearers, Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Odyssey, Homer
- The Iliad, Homer
- Genesis, Bible (Revised Standard Version)
- Exodus, Bible (Revised Standard Version)
- Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift
- Last Public Address, Abraham Lincoln
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
- Robin Hood, Sir Walter Scott
- The Apology, Plato
- Walden, Henry David Thoreau
- The Republic, Plato
- Self-Reliance, Ralph Waldo Emerson
- On Overtalkativeness, Plutarch
- On Controlling Your Anger, Plutarch