Since my work involves a lot of mindless tasks I've taken to listening to Librivox recordings of books instead of music. I'm actually really impressed with how good these recordings are considering that they're FREE (and some are old...)

Here's a list of what I've read so far:

1. Anne of Green Gables
2. Anne of Avonlea
3. Anne of the Island
4. Anne's House of Dreams
5. Rilla of Ingleside

Those are all in the "Anne" Series by L.M. Montgomery. I LOVE these books. I read the first one as a child, and I think maybe a couple more, but it was very uplifting to hear them again.

Intermixed in this series I read:

6. Rookwood

by William Harrison Ainsworth. Conclusion? I like it! Very romantic and a lot happened. I loved the character of Dick Thurpin, although I think you're supposed to. Doesn't hurt that his horse "Black Bess" was pretty badass.

Right now I'm on the Tarzan series:

7. Tarzan of the Apes
8. The Return of Tarzan
9. The Beasts of Tarzan

by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Even though this guy has "rice" in his name, he's not bland! I can't believe that SO MUCH happens in each book and when you think it's impossible to have another event appear woven into the story he does it. And does it WELL. I have a few more on my list:

10. The Son of Tarzan
11. Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar
12. The Jungle Tales of Tarzan

After that I proceed on my alphabet series. I've picked an adventurey book from different authors - last names in alphabetical order. These books include:

13. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
14. Through the Looking Glass
(both by Lewis Carroll)

15. Robinson Crusoe
16. Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
(both by Daniel Defoe)

17. The Adventures of a Dog, and a Good Dog Too
(Alfred Elwes)

18. Rebels of the Red Planet
(Charles L. Fontenay)

19. Riders of the Purple Sage
(Zane Grey)

20. The Prisoner of Zenda
(Anthony Hope)

21. The Milky Way
(F. Tennyson Jesse)

22. Kim
(Rudyard Kipling)

23. The Sea-Wolf
(Jack London)

24. Volsungasaga
(Eirikr Magnusson)

25. The Enchanted Castle
(E. Nesbit)

26. El Dorado
(Baronness Emmuska Orczy)

27. Uller Uprising
28. Four-Day Planet
29. The Cosmic Computer
30. Space Viking
(all four by H. Beam Piper)

31. The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu
32. The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu
33. The Hand of Fu-Manchu
(all three by Sax Rohmer)

34. Treasure Island
(Robert Louis Stevenson)

35. Yvain, or the Knight with the Lion
(Chretien de Troyes)

36. Five Weeks in a Balloon
37. A Journey to the Center of the Earth
38. From the Earth to the Moon
39. In Search of the Castaways
40. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
41. Around the World in 80 Days
42. An Antarctic Mystery
(all seven by Jules Verne)

43. The Time Machine
44. The First Men in the Moon
(both by H.G. Wells)

Of course, not all of these are complete series or start with the first book. Some, like The Scarlet Pimpernel, I've read and feel confident about, but may listen to before hearing the second book as a refresher. One cannot get too much Scarlet Pimpernel!

Other than that I'm excited to continue! More books are downloading and I should not have to teach as many people starting next week so I'll have more alone time to listen.


Additionally, I do have a Kindle and prefer to read when I'm at home. The books I've completed are:

1. Beauty and the Beast - Marie Le Prince de Beaumont
2. The Book of Lost Things - John Connolly
3. Deathless - Catherynne M. Valente
4. Cinderella - Henry W. Hewet
5. The Phantom of the Opera AND
6. The Mystery of the Yellow Room - Gaston Leroux
7. The Velveteen Rabbit - Margery Williams Bianco

I am currently reading:

8. The Ladies of Grace Adieu - Susanna Clarke

After those I have:

9. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
10. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Washington Irving
11. The Man in the Iron Mask - Alexandre Dumas
12. Middlemarch - George Elliot
13. The Works of Elbert Hubbard
14. pride and Prejudice - Jane Austin
15. The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood - Howard Pyle
16. Aesop's Fables - translated by George Fyler Townsend


I have a ton of reading ahead of me. :)