30 Books to Read Before You Die (Pt. 15)
Numbers 421-450
Now we're getting on to part 15, you may start to see books you don't recognise, and that is a very good thing. It means that you are looking at some books you may not have looked at if they were on a categorised list by a certain topic/genre. Now that we've been through 14 parts, we're not really just going to stop there and have it end at part 15. Are you kidding me? The party is just getting started! I love making these lists and sharing my experiences with you, and I also love hearing about your experiences as well.
Reading is one of the most important activities you can participate in. It doesn't matter if you read one book a week, or one book a day, or whenever you have time. As an adult, making time for getting lost in a book is very important. And, if you're under 18, then reading for around 20 minutes a day is important for your own reading and vocabulary growth. Whether you're reading something you love or challenging yourself with new, exciting, and difficult books, reading is a thing that I believe everyone has the capacity to enjoy.
Now, I don't discriminate, I read anything from true crime to classic literature, from Ancient Greek Historical Writers like Apollodorus to Comic Books on Batman, Superman, X-Men and many more. I will read everything from Truman Capote to Graphic Novels and Japanese Manga. A book is a book; as long as it has a story I can get into, it's fine by me!
So, for those of you that are new to our regime—this is the code. If I mark a book with (*) then it is a personal favourite of mine. If I speak intermittently about a book, then it has a funny, strange, or peculiar experience story that I want you to know about. It only makes the reading of that book a little bit more interesting. So, let's get on with it, here comes numbers 421 through to 450!
421-430
421. The Book of Martyrs by John Fox*
422. Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
423. The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
424. Caleb Williams by William Godwin
425. The Sorrows of Young Werther by JW Goethe
426. The Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith
427. The Selected Works of Thomas Hardy
428. The Selected Works of William Hazlitt
429. The Histories by Herodotus
430. Theogony and Works and Days by Hesiod*
431-440
431. The Golden Pot and Other Stories by ETA Hoffman
432. The Major Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins
433. Odes by Horace
434. The Collected Ghost Stories of MR James
435. The Major Works of Dr. Samuel Johnson
436. 'The Lives of the Poets' by Dr. Samuel Johnson
This is yet another one of those books I would read on the trains. I found it on discount in a bookstore and decided that it sounded terribly like the book The Lives of Artists by Vasari. I don't know if Dr. Johnson wanted it to sound the same as that book, but it definitely did and it read like it, too. The Lives of Poets is one of those books that you will really only be interested in if you're interested in the intricacies of a poet and their poetry. I'm saying this because some of the "lives" aren't exactly that celebrity or outrageous. It's not like Byron, but more like Pope. I enjoyed it because well, it's written by Dr. Johnson—everything is written to be quoted like philosophies. It's brilliant.
437. Five Plays by Ben Jonson
438. The Jewish War by Josephus
439. 'Revelations of Divine Love' by Julian of Norwich
The best thing about this book is the experience I had whilst reading it. I picked it up from a bookstore in my hometown and would sit in university, by myself on occasion, reading that book and trying to understand Julian of Norwich's perspective on God and love. To be honest, I do see myself as religious and I did really enjoy the way in which the book was written—it didn't read like it was written so long ago. It was far easier to understand than I had anticipated; and well, I enjoyed the entire book more than I thought I would have. The very best thing about this book was that it was by Julian of Norwich and I would sit in university during my undergraduate, on occasion, reading the book in a building named Julian of Norwich.
440. Stories and Poems by Rudyard Kipling
441-450
441. The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
442. The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
443. The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
444. The Monk by Matthew Lewis
445. Hannibal's War by Livy
446. Classic Horror Stories by HP Lovecraft
447. On Nature and the Universe by Lucretius
448. The Great God Pan and Other Stories by Arthur Machen
449. Selected Stories by Katherine Mansfield
450. Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin*
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Annie Kapur
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