  Here's something I found interesting.  Try as I might I couldn't find the origins,  but apparently there's a list circulating of an arbitrary reading list,  inviting each reader to highlight the ones they've read.  Here's what mine looks like:  Beowulf Achebe,
 Chinua -  Things Fall Apart Agee,  James -  A Death in the Family Austen,  Jane -  Pride and Prejudice Baldwin,
 James -  Go Tell It on the Mountain Beckett,  Samuel -  Waiting for Godot Bellow,  Saul -  The Adventures of Augie March Brontë
 Charlotte -  Jane Eyre Brontë  Emily -  Wuthering Heights Camus,  Albert -  The Stranger Cather,
 Willa -  Death Comes for the Archbishop Chaucer,  Geoffrey -  The Canterbury Tales Chekhov,  Anton -  The Cherry Orchard Chopin,
 Kate -  The Awakening Conrad,  Joseph -  Heart of Darkness Cooper,  James Fenimore -  The Last of the Mohicans Crane,
 Stephen -  The Red Badge of Courage Dante -  Inferno de Cervantes,  Miguel -  Don Quixote Defoe,  Daniel -
 Robinson Crusoe Dickens,  Charles -  A Tale of Two Cities Dostoyevsky,  Fyodor -  Crime and Punishment Douglass,  Frederick -
 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Dreiser,  Theodore -  An American Tragedy Dumas,  Alexandre -  The Three Musketeers Eliot,  George -
 The Mill on the Floss Ellison,  Ralph -  Invisible Man Emerson,  Ralph Waldo -  Selected Essays Faulkner,  William -
 As I Lay Dying Faulkner,  William -  The Sound and the Fury Fielding,  Henry -  Tom Jones Fitzgerald,  F.
 Scott -  The Great Gatsby Flaubert,  Gustave -  Madame Bovary Ford,  Ford Madox -  The Good Soldier Goethe,
 Johann Wolfgang von -  Faust Golding,  William -  Lord of the Flies Hardy,  Thomas -  Tess of the d'Urbervilles Hawthorne,
 Nathaniel -  The Scarlet Letter Heller,  Joseph -  Catch 22 Hemingway,  Ernest -  A Farewell to Arms Homer -
 The Iliad Homer -  The Odyssey Hugo,  Victor -  The Hunchback of Notre Dame Hurston,  Zora Neale -  Their Eyes Were Watching God Huxley,
 Aldous -  Brave New World Ibsen,  Henrik -  A Doll's House James,  Henry -  The Portrait of a Lady James,
 Henry -  The Turn of the Screw Joyce,  James -  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Kafka,  Franz -  The Metamorphosis Kingston,
 Maxine Hong -  The Woman Warrior Lee,  Harper -  To Kill a Mockingbird Lewis,  Sinclair -  Babbitt London,
 Jack -  The Call of the Wild Mann,  Thomas -  The Magic Mountain Marquez,  Gabriel Garcí a -
 One Hundred Years of Solitude Melville,  Herman -  Bartleby the Scrivener Melville,  Herman -  Moby Dick Miller,  Arthur -
 The Crucible Morrison,  Toni -  Beloved O'Connor,  Flannery -  A Good Man is Hard to Find O'Neill,  Eugene -
 Long Day's Journey into Night Orwell,  George -  Animal Farm Pasternak,  Boris -  Doctor Zhivago Plath,  Sylvia -
 The Bell Jar Poe,  Edgar Allan -  Selected Tales Proust,  Marcel -  Swann's Way Pynchon,  Thomas -
 The Crying of Lot 49 Remarque,  Erich Maria -  All Quiet on the Western Front Rostand,  Edmond -  Cyrano de Bergerac Roth,  Henry -
 Call It Sleep Salinger,  J. D.  -  The Catcher in the Rye Shakespeare,  William -
 Hamlet Shakespeare,  William -  Macbeth Shakespeare,  William -  A Midsummer Night's Dream Shakespeare,  William -
 Romeo and Juliet Shaw,  George Bernard -  Pygmalion Shelley,  Mary -  Frankenstein Silko,  Leslie Marmon -
 Ceremony Solzhenitsyn,  Alexander -  One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Sophocles -  Antigone Sophocles -  Oedipus Rex Steinbeck,  John -
 The Grapes of Wrath Stevenson,  Robert Louis -  Treasure Island Stowe,  Harriet Beecher -  Uncle Tom's Cabin Swift,  Jonathan -
 Gulliver's Travels Thackeray,  William -  Vanity Fair Thoreau,  Henry David -  Walden Tolstoy,  Leo -
 War and Peace Turgenev,  Ivan -  Fathers and Sons Twain,  Mark -  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Voltaire -  Candide Vonnegut,
 Kurt Jr.  -  Slaughterhouse- Five Walker,  Alice -  The Color Purple Wharton,
 Edith -  The House of Mirth Welty,  Eudora -  Collected Stories Whitman,  Walt -  Leaves of Grass Wilde,
 Oscar -  The Picture of Dorian Gray Williams,  Tennessee -  The Glass Menagerie Woolf,  Virginia -  To the Lighthouse Wright,
 Richard -  Native Son All things considered,  I think I've got some decent coverage.  I'd be really interested to know who put this list together,  though,  and what the criteria were.
 There were some interesting selections made.  For instance,  James Joyce has a book on the list,  but it isn't Ulysses .  Similarly,  for Steinbeck-
with just one book,  who picked that one?  And Dickens?  I just don't get it.  Still,  it's an interesting list for discussion,
 if nothing else.  Just to make myself feel better,  here are the writers on this list that I've read something other than the material named here:  James Baldwin,  Anton Chekhov,  Stephen Crane,
 Charles Dickens,  Fyodor Dostoyevsky,  Ernest Hemingway,  James Joyce,  Gabriel Garcí a Marquez,
 Toni Morrison,  John Steinbeck,  Jonathan Swift,  Leo Tolstoy,  Mark Twain,  and Richard Wright.
