2015 50 Classic Books to Read Challenge - 5/50 completed

Classic books in genres

Science Fiction 1/10
1. Dreamship - Melissa Scott
2. The Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson
3. A Fire Upon the Deep - Vernor Vinge
4. Ammonite - Nicola Griffith
5. Polar City Blues - Katherine Kerr
6. Fool's War - Sarah Zettel
7. Mars Trilogy - Kim Stanley Robinson - reading
8. The Stars My Destination - Alfred Bester
9.  We - Yevgeny Zamyatin
10. Sunburst - Phyllis Gotlieb - read Jan 16/15

Alternates:
1. Midwich Cuckoos  or Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham
2. Neuromancer - William Gibson
3. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K Dick
4. Revelation Space - Alistair Reynolds
5. Rainbows End - Vernor Vinge

Fantasy
1. Earthsea Trilogy - Ursula K. LeGuin
2.  Under Heaven - Guy Gavriel Kay
3. Wyrd Sisters - Terry Pratchett
4. The Last Unicorn - Peter S. Beagle
5. Little, Big - John Crowley
6. Dark Imaginings - ed Robert Boyer & Kenneth Zahorski
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Alternates:
1. The Fantastic Imagination ll - ed Robert Boyer and Kenneth Zahorski
2. The Book of Three - Lloyd Alexander
3. The Black Cauldron -   "         "

Poetry
1. John Berryman -
2. Selected Poems - William Wordsworth
3. Wendell Berry
4.Sir Thomas Wyatt - Collected Poems, biography: Graven with Diamonds - Nicola Shulman
5. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - Simon Armitage
6. Edna St Vincent Millay - Collected Poems; biography:
7. Beowulf - Seamus Heaney
8. Moy Sand and Gravel - Paul Muldoon
9.  Christina Rosetti: Selected Poems; biography:
10. Anne Sexton: Collected Poems

Alternates:
1. e.e. cummings
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Journals, Letters, Diaries, Essays, Biographies
1. The Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth
2. Journal of a Solitude - May Sarton
3. Reflections on Writing - Diana Wynne Jones
4. The Diary of Virginia Woolf - Volume 1
5. Letters Written in Sweden, Norway and Denmark - Mary Wollstonecraft

Alternates:
1. Letters and Journals - Katherine Mansfield
2. The Voice That Thunders - Alan Garner

Classics - 2/10
1.Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
2. Moby Dick - Herman Melville - read Feb 15/15
3. Barchester Towers - Anthony Trollope
4. The Odyssey - Homer
5. Mansfield Park  - Jane Austen (the only one I haven't read by her!)
6. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
7. Mysteries of Udolpho - Ann Radcliffe
8. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
9. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
10. something by George Eliot
11. Something by Charles Dickens

Alternates:
1.The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
2. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
3. On the Road - Jack Kerouac
4. Beowulf - Seamus Heaney edition
5. Evelina - Fanny Burney - read Jan 25/15

Fiction - 2/10
1. Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel - read Jan 09, 2015
2. South Riding - Winifred Holtby
3. Green Grass, Running Water - Thomas King
4. The Pursuit of Love - Nancy Mitford
5. Black Swan Green - David Mitchell
6. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark - read Jan 10, 2015
7. Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
8. Mariana - Susanna Kearsley
9. The Sea, The Sea - Iris Murdoch
10.Gilead - Marilynne Robinson

Alternates:
1.Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing - May Sarton
2. Gigi - Colette
3. My Antonia - Willa Cather
4. The Taste of Sorrow - Jude Morgan

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Horror
1.Uncle Silas - Sheridan Le Fanu
2. I am Legend - Richard Matheson
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