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A Ramble through Smilie Land

A litnet challenge

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Nightshade
, 05-12-2007 at 03:24 AM (3413 Views)
As of today there are 260 authors listed here on the litnet .

And Ive decide as a personal challenge to read one thing by every single one of them here. Even the ones Ive already read. Course I estimate this will probably take at least 3 years but on the whole I think its something I need to do since its been about 3 years since I really read any public domain books, and I used to read 3 a week.
From now on I will be editing this every time I finish an author...
OK so the authors I have read are in different colors the number in brackets beside there name is what order they were read in and this number is hyperlinked to the corresponding post or perhaps it should be called ramble on the work.
* by the author's name means I am rereading a work by the author that I have previously read.

1. Adams, Andy
2. Adams, Henry
3. Adams, Samuel Hopkins
4. Adams, Andy
5. Aesop,
6. Alcott, Louisa May
7. Aldrich, Thomas Bailey
8. Alger, Horatio
9. Alighieri, Dante
10. Allen, Grant
11. Altsheler, Joseph A.
12. Andersen, Hans Christian
13. Anderson, Sherwood
14. Andreyev, Leonid N.
15. Anonymous,
16. Appleton, Victor
17. Aristophanes,
18. Aristotle,
19. Arnim, Elizabeth von
20. Arthur, T.S.
21. Artzybashev, Mikhail Petrovich
22. Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
23. Augustine, Saint
24. Austen,Jane
25. Bacheller, Irving
26. Bailey, Arthur Scott
27. Balzac, Honore de
28. Bangs, John Kendrick
29. Barbour, Maynard
30. Barbour, Ralph Henry
31. Barr, Amelia E.
32. Barr, Robert
33. Barrie, James M.
34. Baum, L. Frank
35. Beach, Rex Ellingwood
36. Bierce, Ambrose
37. Blackmore, R.D.
38. Blake, William
39. Bower, B.M.
40. Bronte, Emily
41. Bronte, Anne
42. Bronte, Charlotte
43. Browning, Robert
44. Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
45. Buchan, John
46. Bulfinch, Thomas
47. Burgess, Thornton W.
48. Burnett, Frances Hodgson
49. Burns, Robert
50. Burroughs, Edgar Rice
51. Butler, Samuel
52. Byron, Lord George Gordon
53. Caesar, Julius
54. Carlyle, Thomas
55. Carroll, Lewis
56. Cather, Willa
57. Cervantes, Miguel de
58. Chaucer, Geoffrey
59. Chekhov, Anton
60. Chesnutt, Charles W.
61. Chesterton, Gilbert Keith
62. Christie, Agatha
63. Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
64. Collins, Wilkie
65. Collodi, Carlo
66. Congreve, William
67. Connor, Ralph
68. Conrad, Joseph
69. Cooper, James Fenimore
70. Crane, Stephen
71. Crawford, F. Marion
72. Darlington, Edgar B. P.
73. Darwin, Charles
74. Davis, Richard Harding
75. Defoe, Daniel
76. Dickens, Charles
77. Dickinson, Emily
78. Donne, John
79. Dostoevsky, Fyodor
80. Douglass, Frederick
81. Doyle, Arthur Conan
82. Dryden, John
83. Dumas, Alexandre
84. Ebers, Georg
85. Edgeworth, Maria
86. Eliot, T. S.
87. Eliot, George
88. Emerson, Ralph Waldo
89. Farnol, Jeffrey
90. Finley, Martha
91. Fitzgerald, F. Scott
92. Flaubert, Gustave
93. Fletcher, J.S.
94. Foote, Mary Hallock
95. Forster, E.M.
96. Fox Jr., John
97. France, Anatole
98. Freeman, R. Austin
99. Frey, Hildegard G.
100. Frost, Robert
101. Fuller, Henry B.
102. Gaboriau, Emile
103. Galsworthy, John
104. Gaskell, Elizabeth
105. Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
106. Gissing, George
107. Glyn, Elinor
108. Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
109. Gogol, Nikolai Vasilievich
110. Goldsmith, Oliver
111. Gorky, Maxim
112. Gracian, Balthasar
113. Grahame, Kenneth
114. Green, Anna Katharine
115. Gregory, Eliot
116. Grey, Zane
117. Haggard, H. Rider
118. Hale, Edward Everett
119. Hardy, Thomas
120. Harte, Bret
121. Hawthorne, Julian
122. Hawthorne, Nathaniel
123. Henry, O
124. Henty, G. A.
125. Hesse, Hermann
126. Holmes, Oliver Wendell
127. Homer (4)---The Odyssey (24/06/2008-ongoing)
128. Hope, Anthony
129. Hope, Laura Lee
130. Hornung, E. W.
131. Hubbard, Elbert
132. Hudson, W. H.
133. Hugo, Victor
134. Hume, Fergus
135. Huxley, Aldous
136. Ibsen, Henrik
137. Irving, Washington
138. Jacobs, W. W.
139. James, Henry* (1) --- The Beast in the Jungle (19/05/08)
140. Jerome, Jerome K.
141. Johnson, Samuel
142. Johnston, Annie Fellows
143. Joyce, James
144. Kafka, Franz (3)---The Metamorphosis(24/06/08)
145. Keats, John
146. King, Basil
147. Kingsley, Charles
148. Kipling, Rudyard
149. Kuprin, Aleksandr Ivanovich
150. Kyne, Peter B.
151. Lamb, Charles
152. Lang, Andrew
153. Lardner, Ring
154. Lawrence, D.H.
155. Leacock, Stephen
156. LeFanu, Joseph Sheridan
157. Leroux, Gaston
158. Lie, Jonas
159. Lofting, Hugh
160. London, Jack
161. Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
162. Luther, Martin
163. MacDonald, George
164. MacGrath, Harold
165. Machiavelli, Niccolo
166. Marlowe, Christopher
167. Marx, Karl
168. Maugham, William Somerset
169. Maupassant, Guy de
170. McElroy, John
171. Melville, Herman
172. Millay, Edna St. Vincent
173. Milton, John
174. Moliere, Jean Baptiste Poquelin
175. Montgomery, Lucy Maud
176. More, Thomas
177. Morley, Christopher
178. Munro, H. H.
179. Nesbit, Edith
180. Norris, Kathleen
181. Norris, Frank
182. Oppenheim, E. Phillips
183. Orczy, Baroness Emmuska(2)---The Nest of the Sparrowhawk (20/5/08--18/06/2008)
184. Orwell, George
185. Packard, Frank L.
186. Parker, Gilbert
187. Patchin, Frank Gee
188. Pedler, Margaret
189. Perkins, Lucy Fitch
190. Phillips, David Graham
191. Plato,
192. Poe, Edgar Allan
193. Porter, Eleanor H.
194. Potter, Beatrix
195. Pushkin, Alexander
196. Pyle, Howard
197. Quiller-Couch, Arthur
198. Radcliffe, Ann
199. Raine, William MacLeod
200. Ralphson, G. Harvey
201. Reade, Charles
202. Reed, Myrtle
203. Reeve, Arthur B.
204. Rice, Alice Hegan
205. Richards, Laura E.
206. Richmond, Grace S.
207. Rinehart, Mary Roberts
208. Roe, Edward Payson
209. Rohmer, Sax
210. Rousseau, Jean Jacques
211. Scott, Sir Walter
212. Sewell, Anna
213. Shakespeare, William (??will be entered when finished??) -reading with shakspeare discussion group. (WT 22/06/08--)
214. Shaw, George Bernard
215. Shelley, Percy Bysshe
216. Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
217. Sidney, Margaret
218. Sinclair, Upton
219. Smith, Adam
220. Sologub, Fyodor
221. Sophocles,
222. Spyri, Johanna
223. Stacpoole, Henry De Vere
224. Stevenson, Robert Louis
225. Stoker, Bram
226. Stowe, Harriet Beecher
227. Stratemeyer, Edward
228. Stratton-Porter, Gene
229. Swift, Jonathan
230. Synge, J. M.
231. Tagore, Rabindranath
232. Tarkington, Booth
233. Taylor, Bayard
234. Tennyson, Lord Alfred
235. Thackeray, William Makepeace
236. Thoreau, Henry David
237. Tolstoy, Leo
238. Trollope, Anthony
239. Turgenev, Ivan S.
240. Twain, Mark
241. Tzu, Sun
242. Vance, Louis Joseph
243. Verne, Jules Virgil,
244. Voltaire, Francois-Marie Arouet
245. Wallace, Edgar
246. Walpole, Horace
247. Washington, Booker T.
248. Wells, H.G.
249. Weyman, Stanley J
250. Wharton, Edith
251. White, Stewart Edward
252. Whitman, Walt
253. Wiggin, Kate Douglas
254. Wilde, Oscar
255. Wodehouse, P. G.
256. Woolf, Virginia
257. Wordsworth, William
258. Yeats, William Butler
259. Yonge, Charlotte
260. M. Zola, Emile

Lots of 3s in this post. So I guess you'll be seeing a lot more of me in the Authors list forum


T-T-F-N
( yes I'm feeling silly this morning, comes from being up at 7 after a week of waking at 11)

Updated 08-20-2008 at 05:40 PM by Nightshade

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  1. 's Avatar
    That's a cool idea Night actually it's gotten me thinking about how many of these authors I have actually read...I'm not sure but I'm going to figure that out!
  2. kathycf's Avatar
    Wow! I know there are many authors on that list I haven't read. Three years, huh? Hmm. I think I will try to do the same...course I say that now, might change my mind and decide to read nothing from now on but old Barbara Cartland romances.

    Um, T.T.F.N. ? Is that ta ta for now?
  3. mtpspur's Avatar
    If Logos succeeds in getting Rafael Sabatini on board--please read Captain Blood. She said he was on the list to be added but warned me not to annoy her by whining when.
  4. Nightshade's Avatar
    OH heavens to betsy mtpspur, Im not adding anything on that list lthough I might substitue anonymus with this Sabatini, maybe.

    Now the question of the hour is Where do I start, with my favourites? with the ones Ive already read, at A, at Z with the ones that were already on this summers reading list , with ones Im pretty sure I wont like??

    *sigh* descions decisons.
  5. Virgil's Avatar
    You mean you're going to read an entire work by each one or just part of a work? I guess you can shorten that three years by just reading a page by each.
  6. Nightshade's Avatar
    An entire work although for quiet a few it will be the shortest work eg Ill probably not reread work by alcott ( as it long and depressing) Ill probably reread Behind a womans mask again ( because I never quite undrestood that one) or Ill see if the book I havent read by her is around and with the Barrie Ill opt for my favourite what every woman knows rather than Peter pan. Stuff like that, but definatly a whole work per person.
  7. NickAdams's Avatar
    Interesting ...
  8. motherhubbard's Avatar
    I Think I'll take a look at how many I've read as well. I'm glad this is linked to your signature. you rock.
  9. motherhubbard's Avatar
    Well, I just got around to looking through the list and finding the names of authors I've read and my number is 96. Maybe we could start with Andy Adams and read one thing (something short) by each author every couple of weeks as a sort of group project- what do you think?
  10. HollyLS's Avatar
    Can we all participate in this. Problem is, the author of the wizzard of oz is in that list, and i despise those stories with a passion! Hmm, it'll probably do me good to read some more books...i'll probably just end up reading all my louisa may alcott books instead. Wow, this is a hard decision to make!
  11. Nightshade's Avatar
    Yes anoyne can participate, its been years since i started, you neednt read OZ at all he also wrote one about imps pr something that kidnapped santa Claus, sort of like the original Grinch story.