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 and interesting:
The Odyssey, Homer – ~8th century BCE
The Iliad, Homer – ~8th century BCE
Genesis, Bible (Revised Standard Version) – ~5th century BCE
Exodus, Bible (Revised Standard Version) – ~5th century BCE
The March to The Sea, Xenophon – 400 BCE
The Apology, Plato – ~399 BCE
The Republic, Plato – ~380 BCE
On Overtalkativeness, Plutarch – ~100 CE
On Controlling Your Anger, Plutarch – ~100 CE
The Eruption of Vesuvius, Pliny the Younger – 79 CE
On the Education of Children, Montaigne – 1588
Twelfth Night, Shakespeare – 1602
Macbeth, Shakespeare – 1606
Battle With The Cannon, Victor Hugo – 1837
Two Friends, Guy De Maupassant – 1882
The Killers, Ernest Hemingway – 1927
Tell-Tale Heart, Edgar Allan Poe – 1843
Masque of the Red Death, Edgar Allan Poe – 1842
The Open Boat, Stephen Crane – 1897
The Happy Prince, Oscar Wilde – 1888
The Two Drovers, Sir Walter Scott – 1827
Mowgli's Brothers, Rudyard Kipling – 1894
The Legend of St. Julian The Hospitaller, Gustave Flaubert – 1877
The Rocking-Horse Winner, D. H. Lawrence – 1926
The Three Hermits, Leo Tolstoy – 1899
Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe – 1719
Billy Budd, Herman Melville – 1891
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, Mark Twain – 1899
The Making of Americans, Hector Saint John de Crèvecoeur – 1782
How Should One Read A Book, Virginia Woolf – 1926
The Land of Montezuma, William H. Prescott – 1843
Death of Abraham Lincoln, Walt Whitman – 1865
The Lantern Bearers, Robert Louis Stevenson – 1900
Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift – 1726
Last Public Address, Abraham Lincoln – 1865
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain – 1884
Robin Hood, Sir Walter Scott – 1820
Walden, Henry David Thoreau – 1854
Self-Reliance, Ralph Waldo Emerson – 1841
The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky – 1880
Politics and the English Language, George Orwell – 1946
1984, George Orwell – 1949