Yet another update on my reading list. Which isn't getting any shorter.
I've updated my book list again and for the same reason as before, so I can make a bit of sense of and know what I've read and need to read. I've also added to the list.
Religious stuff:
The Bible
The Koran
Bhagavad-Gita
Tao Te Ching
Sunflower Sutra
Zen Flesh, Zen Bones
Gilgamesh
The Aeneid by Virgil
Beowulf
The Iliad by Homer
Odyssey by Homer
The Song of Roland
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Parliament of Fowls by Geoffrey Chaucer
Grettir's Saga
Candide by Voltaire
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Kalevala
The History of the Franks
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
The Travels and Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen
She by H Rider Haggard
Peter Pan by James M Barrie
The Razor’s Edge by W Somerset Maugham
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
The Lay of The Last Minstrel by Sir Walter Scott
The Lost Horizon by James Hilton
Three Hearts and Three Lions by Poul Anderson
Grendel by John Gardner
A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Arthurian Legends:
Le Morte d’Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory
A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain
Idylls of The King by Alfred Lord Tennyson
Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Once And Future King by T H White
The Book of Merlin by T H White
Two Lives of Charlemagne
Reference:
Bulfinch’s Mythology
Mythology by Edith Hamilton
The Dictionary of World Myth by Peter Bentley
Man, Myth and Magic, Richard Cavendish, editor
Tolkien’s translation of Sir Gawain and The Green Knight
Histories by Herodotus
Myths and Legends of Japan by F Hadland Davis
The Trickster: a Study in American Indian Mythology by Paul Radin
Tacitus: Germanica
Eleanor of Aquitaine and The Four Kings by Amy Kelly
The Travels of Marco Polo
The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell
The Writer's Journey by Christopher Vogler
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
Code of Hammurabi
Books that don't fit the other parts of the list:
Neil Gaiman - Sandman graphic novels
John Contstantine: Hellblazer graphic novels
Phiilip K. Dick - Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sleep
Authors I need to read:
William Shakespeare
Boccaccio
H G Wells
Jules Verne
J R R Tolkien
Fritz Leiber
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Lord Dunsany
Andre Norton
C S Lewis
H P Lovecraft
Piers Anthony
Robert E Howard
L Sprague DeCamp
Catherine L Moore
Terry Brooks
J V Jones
George R R Martin
Jacqueline Carey
Raymond Feist
David Eddings
Tad Williams
Anne McCaffrey
Robin Hobb
Books/authors from the list I have read:
Han Christian Andersen - have read, but need to re-read
Grimm’s Fairy Tales - have read, but need to re-read
The Chronicles of Narnia by C S Lewis
The War Of The Worlds by H G Wells, but I do need to re-read
The Lord of the Rings by J R R Tolkien
The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
Edgar Allan Poe
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
I'm keeping William Shakespeare in the needs to read list as I've read one play.
Books/authors I have read that aren't on my list:
1984 by George Orwell
The Planet Of The Apes by Pierre Boulle
Northern Lights by Philip Pullman
The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
The Amber Spylgass by Philip Pullman
The Day Of The Triffids by Wyndham
The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham
The Kraken Wakes by John Wyndham
Religious stuff:
The Bible
The Koran
Bhagavad-Gita
Tao Te Ching
Sunflower Sutra
Zen Flesh, Zen Bones
Gilgamesh
The Aeneid by Virgil
Beowulf
The Iliad by Homer
Odyssey by Homer
The Song of Roland
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Parliament of Fowls by Geoffrey Chaucer
Grettir's Saga
Candide by Voltaire
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Kalevala
The History of the Franks
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
The Travels and Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen
She by H Rider Haggard
Peter Pan by James M Barrie
The Razor’s Edge by W Somerset Maugham
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
The Lay of The Last Minstrel by Sir Walter Scott
The Lost Horizon by James Hilton
Three Hearts and Three Lions by Poul Anderson
Grendel by John Gardner
A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Arthurian Legends:
Le Morte d’Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory
A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain
Idylls of The King by Alfred Lord Tennyson
Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Once And Future King by T H White
The Book of Merlin by T H White
Two Lives of Charlemagne
Reference:
Bulfinch’s Mythology
Mythology by Edith Hamilton
The Dictionary of World Myth by Peter Bentley
Man, Myth and Magic, Richard Cavendish, editor
Tolkien’s translation of Sir Gawain and The Green Knight
Histories by Herodotus
Myths and Legends of Japan by F Hadland Davis
The Trickster: a Study in American Indian Mythology by Paul Radin
Tacitus: Germanica
Eleanor of Aquitaine and The Four Kings by Amy Kelly
The Travels of Marco Polo
The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell
The Writer's Journey by Christopher Vogler
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
Code of Hammurabi
Books that don't fit the other parts of the list:
Neil Gaiman - Sandman graphic novels
John Contstantine: Hellblazer graphic novels
Phiilip K. Dick - Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sleep
Authors I need to read:
William Shakespeare
Boccaccio
H G Wells
Jules Verne
J R R Tolkien
Fritz Leiber
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Lord Dunsany
Andre Norton
C S Lewis
H P Lovecraft
Piers Anthony
Robert E Howard
L Sprague DeCamp
Catherine L Moore
Terry Brooks
J V Jones
George R R Martin
Jacqueline Carey
Raymond Feist
David Eddings
Tad Williams
Anne McCaffrey
Robin Hobb
Books/authors from the list I have read:
Han Christian Andersen - have read, but need to re-read
Grimm’s Fairy Tales - have read, but need to re-read
The Chronicles of Narnia by C S Lewis
The War Of The Worlds by H G Wells, but I do need to re-read
The Lord of the Rings by J R R Tolkien
The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
Edgar Allan Poe
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
I'm keeping William Shakespeare in the needs to read list as I've read one play.
Books/authors I have read that aren't on my list:
1984 by George Orwell
The Planet Of The Apes by Pierre Boulle
Northern Lights by Philip Pullman
The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
The Amber Spylgass by Philip Pullman
The Day Of The Triffids by Wyndham
The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham
The Kraken Wakes by John Wyndham