literature 2011-12

For history in the 2011-12 school year, we're starting with Queen Victoria and ending (I hope) at the Arab Spring. As usual in the WTM method, I'm attempting to cover the same period in literature.

Here's our hopeful list of thirty-six titles to read together.

1851 Moby Dick by Herman Melville (abridged)
1855 poetry by Walt Whitman
1868 Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
1885 Huckleberry Finn by Twain
1886 Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
1894 The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
1896 The Island of Dr Moreau by HG Wells
1897 Dracula by Bram Stoker
1901 Kim by Rudyard Kipling
1903 The Call of the Wild by Jack London
1911 The Secret Garden by Frances Hodson Burnett
1912 Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
1912 Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
1914 Father Brown Stories by GK Chesterton
1916 poetry by Robert Frost
1921 poetry by ee cummings
1922 poetry by Carl Sandburg
1926 poetry by Langston Hughes
1931 The Good Earth by Pearl Buck
1932 Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
1933 The Red Pony by Steinbeck
1934 Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
1938 Anthem by Ayn Rand
1944 Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
1945 Animal Farm by George Orwell
1951 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
1951 Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
1954 Lord of the Flies by William Golding
1958 Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
1958 Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
1960 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
1961 Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
1965 The Outsiders by SE Hinton
1966 Stories for Children by Isaac Bashevis Singer
1972 Watership Down by Richard Adams
1990 Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie

I left out modern scifi and fantasy I would have otherwise considered essential either because it relates to a different period (Lord of the Rings, Mists of Avalon) or because the Scientist has already read it (Isaac Asimov, Jules Verne, Douglas Adams).

If something jumps out of your memory, wanting to be included or substituted, please leave a comment.