Reading List for 2010

This year, I decided to try to read through the entire list of works of Lucy Maud Montgomery, Louisa May Alcott and Frances Hodgson Burnett. I then added selected works of Dorothy E. Stevenson, Myrtle Reed, and Jules Verne. I’m also going to read a few famous Russian pieces. If I read a book NOT on this list, I will add that title to the bottom of the list. Books in bold are still to be read. Some of these are very difficult to find, if anyone is wondering.

MONTGOMERY

Novels

1. Anne of Green Gables (1908)
2. Anne of Avonlea (1909) (sequel to Anne of Green Gables)
3. Kilmeny of the Orchard (1910)
4. The Story Girl (1911)
5. The Golden Road (1913) (sequel to The Story Girl)
6. Anne of the Island (1915) (sequel to Anne of Avonlea)
7. Anne’s House of Dreams (1917) (sequel to Anne of Windy Poplars)
8. Rainbow Valley (1919) (sequel to Anne of Ingleside)
9. Rilla of Ingleside (1921) (sequel to Rainbow Valley)
10. Emily of New Moon (1923)
11. Emily Climbs (1925) (sequel to Emily of New Moon)
12. The Blue Castle (1926)
13. Emily’s Quest (1927) (sequel to Emily Climbs)
14. Magic for Marigold (1929)
15. A Tangled Web (1931)
16. Pat of Silver Bush (1933)
17. Mistress Pat (1935) (sequel to Pat of Silver Bush)
18. Anne of Windy Poplars (1936) (sequel to Anne of the Island)
19. Jane of Lantern Hill (1937)
20. Anne of Ingleside (1939) (sequel to Anne’s House of Dreams)
21. The Blythes Are Quoted, (2009) (sequel to Rilla of Ingleside)

Short story collections

1. Chronicles of Avonlea (1912)
2. Further Chronicles of Avonlea (1920)
3. The Road to Yesterday (1974)
4. The Doctor’s Sweetheart, selected by Catherine McLay (1979)
5. Akin to Anne: Tales of Other Orphans, ed. Wilmshurst (1988)
6. Along the Shore: Tales by the Sea, ed. Wilmshurst (1989)
7. Among the Shadows: Tales from the Darker Side, ed. Wilmshurst (1990)
8. After Many Days: Tales of Time Passed, edited by Rea Wilmshurst (1991)
9. Against the Odds: Tales of Achievement, ed. Wilmshurst (1993)
10. At the Altar: Matrimonial Tales, edited by Rea Wilmshurst (1994)
11. Across the Miles: Tales of Correspondence, ed. Wilmshurst (1995)
12. Christmas with Anne and Other Holiday Stories, ed. Wilmshurst (1995)

Poetry

1. The Watchman & Other Poems (1916)
2. The Poetry of Lucy Maud Montgomery, selected by John Ferns and Kevin McCabe (1987)

Non-fiction

1. Courageous Women (1934) (with Marian Keith and Mabel Burns McKinley)

Autobiography

1. The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career (1975; originally published in 1917)
2. The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery (5 vols.), ed. Rubio & Waterston (1985-2004)

ALCOTT

Short Stories

1. Flower Fables (1855)
2. Garland for the Girls, a (1888)
3. Round Dozen, a (1963)
4. Behind a Mask (1975)
5. Alternative Alcott (1988)
6. Freaks of Genius (1991)
7. Louisa May Alcott Unmasked: Collected Thrillers (1995)
8. Feminist Alcott, the (1996)
9. Quiet Little Woman: Three Enchanting Christmas Stories, the (1999)
10. Louisa May Alcott’s Christmas Treasury (2002)
11. The Brownie and the Princess
12. Aunt Jo’s Scrapbag

Anthologies

1. Popular Fiction: An Anthology (1997)
2. American Fantasy Tradition, the (2002)

Novels

1. Moods (1864)
2. Little Women (1868)
3. Old-Fashioned Girl, an (1870)
4. Little Men (1871)
5. Work: A Story of Experience (1873)
6. Eight Cousins (1875)
7. Rose in Bloom (1876)
8. Modern Mephistopheles, a (1877)
9. Under the Lilacs (1879)
10. Jack and Jill (1880)
11. Jo’s Boys (1886)
12. Trudel’s Siege (1976)
13. Inheritance, the (1988)
14. Chase, the (1995)
15. Short Stories
16. Tilly’s Christmas (1868)
17. Quiet Little Woman, the (1872)
18. Rosa’s Tale (1879)
19. Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving, an (1974)
20. Portraits of Little Women

BURNETT:

Novels

1. A Fair Barbarian
2. A Lady of Quality
3. A Little Princess
4. Emily Fox-Seton (The Making of a Marchioness)
5. His Grace of Osmonde
6. In Connection With The De Willoughby Claim
7. Little Lord Fauntleroy
8. Robin
9. T. Tembarom
10. That Lass O’ Lowrie’s
11. The Dawn of a To-Morrow
12. The Head of the House of Coombe
13. The Lost Prince
14. The Secret Garden
15. The Shuttle
16. The White People
17. Vagabondia

Short Stories

1. In the Closed Room
2. The Land of the Blue Flower
3. The Little Hunchback Zia
4. Little Saint Elizabeth
5. The Story of Prince Fairyfoot
6. The Proud Little Grain of Wheat
7. Behind the White Brick
8. My Robin
9. Esmeralda
10. Le Monsieur De La Petite Dame
11. Lodusky
12. Mère Girauds Little Daughter
13. One Day At Arle
14. The Pretty Sister Of José
15. Racketty-Packetty House
16. Seth
17. Surly Tim
18. The One I Knew Best of All

MYRTLE REED

1. Love Letters of a Musician (1899)
2. Later Love Letters of a Musician (1900).
3. The Spinster Book (1901).
4. Lavender and Old Lace (1902)
5. White Shield (1902).
6. Pickaback Songs (1903).
7. The Shadow of Victory (1903).
8. The Book of Clever Beasts (1904).
9. The Master’s Violin (1904).
10. At the Sign of the Jack o’ Lantern (1905).
11. A Spinner in the Sun (1906)
12. Love Affairs of Literary Men (1907).
13. Flower of the Dusk (1908).
14. Old Rose and Silver (1909).
15. Master of the Vineyard (1910).
16. Sonnets to a Lover (1910).
17. A Weaver of Dreams (1911)
18. The Myrtle Reed Year Book (1911).
19. Happy Women (1913).
20. Threads of Grey and Gold (1913).
21. A Woman’s Career (1914).

D.E. STEVENSON

1. Peter West 1923
2. Mrs Tim of the Regiment 1932
3. Golden Days 1934
4. Miss Buncle’s Book 1934
5. Divorced From Reality 1935 (Miss Dean’s Dilemma; also The Young Clementina)
6. Smouldering Fire 1935
7. Miss Buncle Married 1936
8. The Empty World 1936 (A World in Spell)
9. The Story of Rosabelle Shaw 1937
10. Miss Bun the Bakers Daughter 1938 (The Baker’s Daughter)
11. Green Money 1939
12. Rochester’s Wife 1940
13. The English Air 1940
14. Mrs Tim Carries On 1941
15. Spring Magic 1942
16. Crooked Adam 1942 (in USA; 1969 in UK)
17. Celia’s House 1943
18. The Two Mrs. Abbotts 1943
19. Listening Valley 1944
20. The Four Graces 1946
21. Mrs. Tim Gets a Job 1947
22. Kate Hardy 1947
23. Young Mrs. Savage 1948
24. Vittoria Cottage 1949
25. Music in The Hills 1950
26. Winter and Rough Weather 1951 (Shoulder the Sky)
27. Mrs. Tim Flies Home 1952
28. Five Windows 1953
29. Charlotte Fairlie 1954 (Blow the Wind Southerly; The Enchanted Isle)
30. Amberwell 1955
31. Summerhills 1956
32. The Tall Stranger 1957
33. Anna and her Daughters 1958
34. Still Glides the Stream 1959
35. The Musgraves 1960
36. Bel Lamington 1961
37. Fletcher’s End 1962
38. The Blue Sapphire 1963
39. Katherine Wentworth 1964
40. Katherine’s Marriage 1965 (The Marriage of Katherine)
41. The House on the Cliff 1966
42. Sarah Morris Remembers 1967
43. Sarah’s Cottage 1968
44. Gerald and Elizabeth 1969
45. House of the Deer 1970

JULES VERNE

1. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
2. Around the World in Eighty Days
3. Adventures of the Rat Family
4. A Captain at Fifteen 1878
5. A Journey to the Interior of the Earth 1864
6. An Antarctic Mystery 1897
7. Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon
8. Facing the Flag
9. Five Weeks in a Balloon 1863
10. From the Earth to the Moon 1865
11. Round the Moon 1870
12. In Search of the Castaways 1867-1868
13. Michel Strogoff
14. Off on a Comet 1877
15. Robur the Conqueror 1886
16. The Adventures of a Special Correspondent
17. The Blockade Runners
18. The Field of Ice
19. The Fur Country 1873
20. The Master of the World 1904
21. The Mysterious Island 1874
22. The Survivors of the Chancellor 1875
23. The Underground City 1877
24. Topsy Turvy

RUSSIAN WORKS

1. Anna Karenina
2. War and Peace
3. Crime and Punishment
4. The Brothers Karamazov

Books on The List: 201

Read (from the list): 149

Other Books Read in 2010:

1. Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
2. Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
3. Life of Charlotte Brontë by Elizabeth Gaskell
4. The Secret Diaries of Charlotte Brontë by Syrie James
5. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
6. Holy Cows and Hog Heaven–The Food Buyer’s Guide to Farm Friendly Food by Joel Salatin
7. Everything I Want to Do is Illegal by Joel Salatin
8. Books 1-7 of the Pemberley Chronicles by Rebecca Ann Collins; a very detailed, enjoyable series following the characters of Pride and Prejudice and their children/grandchildren. Sometimes it’s too detailed and you get confused.
9. Legends of the Guardian King (four books) by Karen Hancock. Interesting allegory, sort of a mix of Narnia/LOTR/Inheritance Cycle (Paolini). Depending on your view of eschatology, you’ll either agree, or chalk it up to fiction, with some of her conclusions, but overall it was a fun read.
10. A seven book anthology of Mark Twain that I bought a few years ago (including titles like The Gilded Age, The American Claimant, Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, Puddn’head Wilson, Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc etc.).
11. Heartsease or The Brother’s Wife by Charlotte Mary Yonge
12. The Scarlett Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
13. Daughter of Joy by Kathleen Morgan, Journals of Corrie Bell Hollister Series (11 books) by Michael Phillips,
14. Temeraire Series books 1-6 by Naomi Novik; a fun series of fantasy fiction that brings in dragons as an aerial corps during the Napoleonic Wars. Six books in the series.
15. Anne Boleyn by Norah Lofts
16. Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, That Hideous Strength, the three books in The Space Trilogy, Cosmic Trilogy or Ransom Trilogy (whatever you want to call it) by C.S. Lewis
17. Gentlemen from England by Delos and Maud Lovelace

Total books read: 188