Todays topic is books I've read that were written before I was born.
The Bible
The Iliad and the Odyssey by Homer.
Trojan Women by Euripides.
Caesar's Gallic Wars by Gaius Julius Caesar.
Beowulf by Anonymous.
The Decameron by Boccaccio.
Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer.
Numerous plays and sonnets of William Shakespeare.
Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
Don Quixote by Cervantes (in Spanish)
Inferno by Dante Alighieri. Didn't bother with the other two books.
The Three Musketeers, Man in the Iron Mask by Alexander Dumas.
The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe.
The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings and the Silmarillion by JRR Tolkien.
The Narnia Chronicles, Screwtape Letters, Surprised by Joy, Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra by C.S. Lewis.
Foundation Trilogy and too many books to list by Isaac Asimov.
Cost of Discipleship, No Rusty Swords, Letters From Prison by Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
6 comments:
Heh, good list! Do you like Beowulf? I wish we knew more about the culture it came from.
I've read all of these except the Bonhoeffer book. I've only read books about him.
I've only read one of the Narnia books, The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. I tried both Prince Caspian and The Voyage of The Dawn Treader, but couldn't get into them.
My TTT: https://jjbookblog.wordpress.com/2021/02/02/top-ten-tuesday-301/
Recently, Lydia, there's a lot of information on Norse culture coming to the forefront lately.
Deb, he's not an easy read and what he says is daunting.
X, not your cup of tea, that's okay.
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