8808+Classic+Texts+-+Some+Suggestions

Below are listed some texts that, through the test of time, have come to be considered as classics. You are expected to read at least one of these texts and review it as part of your 8808 Reading Log. However, it is suggested that you include one or two more in your list of 8808 reads for the year.
 * 8808 Level One Unit Standard - Suggestions for Classic Text Requirement**

The list is not exhaustive. If you decide to read a classic text that is not listed below remember to check with Mr Larsen first.

Robinson Crusoe (1719)
 * Daniel Defoe (1659 - 1731) **

Gulliver's Travels (1726)
 * Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745) **

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798)
 * Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834) **

The Last of the Mohicans (1826) Frankenstein (1818)
 * James Fenimore Cooper (1789 - 1851) **
 * Mary Shelley (1797 - 1851) ** Female Writer!

Collected Stories The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1837) Oliver Twist (1839) A Christmas Carol (1843) Collected Stories Typee (1846) Omoo (1847)
 * Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849) **
 * Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870) **
 * Herman Melville (1819 – 1891) **

Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1864) Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1869) Around the World in Eighty Days (1873) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) Through the Looking Glass (1871) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) Dracula (1897) Treasure Island (1883) Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) Kidnapped (1886) The Master of Ballantrae (1889) South Sea Tales (1893) The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) King Solomon's Mines (1885) She (1887) Allan Quartermain (1887) The People of the Mist (1894) Heart of Darkness (1899) [|A Study in Scarlet] (1887) [|The Sign of Four] (1890) [|The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes] (1892) [|The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes] (1894) [|The Jungle Book] (1894) (short stories) [|The Second Jungle Book] (1895) (short stories) [|Captains Courageous] (1897) [|The Time Machine] (1895) [|The Island of Doctor Moreau] (1896) [|The Invisible Man] (1897) [|The War of the Worlds] (1898) Tarzan Series The Big Sleep (1939) Farewell, My Lovely (1940) The Lady in the Lake (1943) The Long Goodbye (1953) Short Story Collections The Old Man and the Sea (1952) Animal Farm (1945) Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) Lord of the Flies (1954) The Inheritors (1955) Man Alone (1939) Titus Groan (1946) Gormenghast (1950) The Catcher in the Rye (1951) The Cloven Viscount (1952) The Baron in the Trees (1957) The Nonexistent Knight (1959) Invisible Cities (1972)
 * Jules Verne (1828 - 1905) **
 * Lewis Carroll (1832 - 1898) **
 * Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) **
 * Bram Stoker (1847 - 1912) **
 * Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894) **
 * Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) **
 * Henry Rider Haggard (1856 - 1925) **
 * Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924) **
 * Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) **
 * Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936) **
 * H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946) **
 * Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875 – 1950) **
 * Raymond Chandler (1888 – 1959) **
 * F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940) **
 * Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961) **
 * George Orwell (1903 – 1950) **
 * William Golding (1911 - 1993) **
 * John Mulgan (1911 - 45) **
 * Mervyn Peake (1911 - 1968) **
 * J. D. Salinger (1919 - ) **
 * Italo Calvino (1923 - 1985) **

The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) The Shadow of the Torturer (1980) The Claw of the Conciliator (1981) The Sword of Lictor (1982) The Citadel of the Autarch (1983) The Lovelock Version (1981) The New Zealand Wars Trilogy: Season of the Jew (1987) – Te Kooti's War Monday's Warriors (1990) – Titokowaru's War House of Strife (1993) – Hone Heke's War
 * Ursula Le Guin (1929 - )** Female science fiction writer!
 * Gene Wolfe (1931 - ) **
 * Maurice Shadbolt (1932 – 2004) **