Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita

I'm embarking on a great literary journey. This is it. My friend MK has been reading a 100 best list since she started college, and after hearing her mention it in class one day, I decided to do the same, minus the starting college bit. I chose the Penguin must-read-before-you-die list after reviewing a few others. Of course, they're all biased. The Penguin list is imperfect, but I like its categories, and any book that includes The Story of the Eye can't be all bad (that's been recommended to me by a friend, and from what I hear it's quite a book... wink wink, nudge nudge, say no more).

Now, some of these books I've read:

1. The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
2. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
3. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
4. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
5. The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
6. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
7. The Time Machine by HG Wells
8. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
9. 1984 by George Orwell
10. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
11. The Iliad by Homer

I won't consider re-reading them until I finish the others, however many years (minutes?) from now that may be. That means I have 89 excellent pieces of literature to read. I'm starting with Dracula.

Ciao.