Genre Breakdown

One of my goals is to read classics from differing time periods, cultures & genres.  The breakdowns I created are largely arbitrary.  Some of the books can fit into more than one category.

African American

• The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson (non-fiction)
• The Marrow of Tradition by Charles W. Chesnutt
• The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois (non-fiction)
• Black No More by George Schulyer

African

• Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

American (20th century)

• Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
• The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
• The Pearl by John Steinbeck

British (19^th century)

• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, John Tenniel (Illustrator) 

British (20^th century)

• Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie (mystery)
• Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
• The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter

Children’s

• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, John Tenniel (Illustrator)
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, # 1) by J.K. Rowling,
• The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Christian

• Hinds' Feet on High Places by Hannah Hurnard
• The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis

German

• The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
• Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

Greek (Ancient)

• Phaedo by Plato

Russian (19^th century)

• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky