As promised, here's the list of classics that I'll be tackling this year.
- Dante Alighieri- Inferno
- Dante Alighieri- Purgatory
- Dante Alighieri- Paradise
- Octavia Butler- Parable of the Sower
- Octavia Butler- Parable of the Talents
- Simone de Beauvoir- America Day by Day
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky- The Brothers Karamozov
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky- Notes from Underground
- George Eliot- Middlemarch
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Self-Reliance and Other Essays
- F. Scott Fitzgerald- The Beautiful and Damned
- Homer- The Iliad
- Homer- The Odyssey
- James Joyce- Ulysses
- Franz Kafka- Diaries
- Franz Kafka- Letters to Milena
- Michel de Montaigne- The complete Essays
- Ovid- Metamorphoses
- Walker Percy- The Moviegoer
- Marcel Proust- Swann's Way (In Search of Lost Time Vol. 1)
- Seneca- Letters from a Stoic
- William Makepeace Thackeray- Vanity Fair
- Evelyn Waugh- A Handful of Dust
- Nathaniel West- Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of The Locust
- Yevgeny Zamyatin- We
I am starting today with Ovid's Metamorphoses. In particular, I am going to be reading the Penguin Classics edition translated by Stephanie McCarter. It won the Academy of American Poets Translation Award a couple of years ago. When I was in college, we read a few selections from Metamorphoses, but I've never read the entire thing. I imagine it's probably going to take me about a month to get through the 474 pages of verse. Thankfully, there's a glossary and extensive notes and references at the end of the book to help me when I struggle.
Happy New Year, y'all! Let's read, readers!
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