Author Challenge

Agatha Christie

Alexandre Dumas

1. The Count of Monte Cristo (Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) (1844–1846)
2. The Three Musketeers (Les Trois Mousquetaires) (1844)
3. Twenty Years After (Vingt ans après) -(1845)
4. The Man In The Iron Mask (1847)

Anne Brontë

1. Agnes Grey (1846)
2. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)

Charles Dickens
Saya tidak memilih semua buku karya Dickens, saya memilih beberapa yang ingin saya baca:

1. The Pickwick Papers (1836)
2. Oliver Twist (1837)
3. Nicholas Nickleby (1838)
4. The Old Curiosity Shop (1840)
5. A Christmas Carol and Other Writings – Published in 1843
6. Dombey and Son (1846)
7. David Copperfield (1849)
8. Bleak House (1852)

Agatha Christie Challenge

Agatha Christie, salah satu penulis cerita misteri yang karya nya tak lekang oleh waktu, bahkan penerbit Gramedia pun sering mencetak ulang buku-buku karyanya. Agatha Christie terkenal dengan tokoh detektif ciptaanya yaitu Hercule Poirot dan Jane Marple, namun banyak sekali novel stand-alone/ one shot (bukan cerita Poirot dan Marple) tentang konspirasi, misteri dan kisah cinta romantis bahkan novel misteri yang sama sekali tidak ada Detektif nya seperti And Then There Were None.

Pengalamanya menjadi perawat pada saat perang, Ia menjadi lebih tahu mengenai toksin, farmasi dan bahan-bahan kimia lainya, yang sering kali muncul dalam ceritanya sebagai alat pembunuhan.

Christie memiliki minat seumur hidup terhadap arkeologi. Dia bertemu dengan suami keduanya, Sir Max Mallowan, seorang arkeolog terkemuka, dalam perjalanan ke situs penggalian di Ur pada tahun 1930. Namun ketenarannya sebagai penulis jauh melampaui ketenarannya dalam bidang arkeologi. 

Reading List by Publication Order :

note : Red = Have Read, Blue/Link = Have Read and Review, Black = Haven't Read

1920 The Mysterious Affair at Styles 

1922 The Secret Adversary 

1923 Murder on the Links 

1924 The Man in the Brown Suit 

1924 Poirot Investigates 

1925 The Secret of Chimneys 

1926 The Murder of Roger Ackroyd 

1927 The Big Four 

1928 The Mystery of the Blue Train 

1929 The Seven Dials Mystery 

1929 Partners in Crime 

1930 The Mysterious Mr Quin 

1930 The Murder at the Vicarage 

1931 The Sittaford Mystery US also as – Murder at Hazelmoor 

1932 Peril at End House 

1932 The Thirteen Problems 

1933 Lord Edgware Dies 

1933 The Hound of Death

1934 Murder on the Orient Express

1934 The Listerdale Mystery 

My Challenge

Booktober Horror Month Challenge

Haaaii ... Halloween is coming... This books is my challenge for Booktober Horror month.. hmm I think Agatha's Halloween Party is not Horror, I put this book because I think it's suitable for October haha.

Read if you dare, review is coming soon...

• Carrie - Stephen King ( Represent for bullying victim )
• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Horror Stories (Collection of Classics-Ghotic horror short stories)
  The Other Horror Stories contain :
  a. The Cask of Amontillado - Edgar Allan Poe;
  b. Rappaccini's Daughter -Nathaniel Hawthorne;
  c. The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
• Goosebumps series no. 9, Welcome to camp nightmare -  R.L Stine
• Hallowe'en Party - Agatha Christie ( Well this is not Horror story but mystery-crime, why I pick this one? well I think it's suitable for october and halloween)

Well I am a big fan of horror -gothic novel, con the plot story which might interest. read if you dare, Review is coming soon ..

Classics Reading List

Here my Classics Reading List all time, hehe I don't have target .. 

Reading List 18th and Pre-18th Century

I Smell Something Medieval, Palace, King and Queen, Seizure of Throne, Knight with Shining Armor ... aahhh I dream I live in this era......

1. Anthony and Cleopatra - William Shakespeare 
2. As You Like It - William Shakespeare 
3. Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 
4. Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift 
5. Hamlet - William Shakespeare 
6. Henry IV - William Shakespeare 
7. Henry V - William Shakespeare 
8. Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare 
9. King Lear - William Shakespeare 
10. Macbeth - William Shakespeare 
11. Merchant of Venice, The - William Shakespeare 
12. Much Ado About Nothing - William Shakespeare 
13. Mysteries Of Udolpho, The - Ann Radcliffe (1794)
14. Monk, The - M G Lewis (1796)
15. Othelo - William Shakespeare 
16. Perrault's Fairy Tales - Charles Perrault 
17. Richard III - William Shakespeare 
18. Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare 
19. Tales of Shakespeare, The - Charles and Mary Lamb 
20. Taming of The Screw, The - William Shakespeare 
21. Thousand And One Nights, The - Anonymous (c.850)
22. Twelfth Night - William Shakespeare 
23. Winter's Tale, The - William Shakespeare

Reading List 19th Century

Whoaaa .. I Love this era so much ... So many good books which become pioneer of modern literature... 

1. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens 
2. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain 
3. A Hero of Our Times – Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov
4. A Little Princess - Frances Hodgson Burnett
5. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens 
6. Adam Bede – George Eliot
7. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 
8. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The– Mark Twain 
9. Agnes Grey – Anne Brontë 
10. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll 
11. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy 
12. Anne of Green Gables - Lucy M. Montgomery 
13. Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne
14. Aurora Leigh - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
15. The Awakening – Kate Chopin
16. Barchester Towers (Chronicles of Barsetshire #2) - Anthony Trollope
17. Battle Royale - Koushun Takami
18. Bel-Ami – Guy de Maupassant
19. Belly of Paris, The - Emile Zola 
20. Ben-Hur – Lew Wallace
21. The Black Arrow - R.L Stevenson
22. The Black Tulip - Alexandre Dumas
23. Black Beauty - Anna Sewell 
24. Bleak House – Charles Dickens 
25. Brothers Karamazov, The – Fyodor Dostoevsky 
26. Count of Monte-Cristo, The – Alexandre Dumas
27. Cranford – Elizabeth Gaskell
28. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky 
29. Daisy Miller - Henry James 
30. Daniel Deronda – George Eliot
31. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens 
32. Dead Souls – Nikolay Gogol
33. Death of Ivan Ilyich, The – Leo Tolstoy 
34. The Devils – Fyodor Dostoevsky
35. Doctor Thorne -Anthony Trollope
36. Dracula – Bram Stoker 
37. Emma – Jane Austen 
38. Eugene Onegin – Alexander Pushkin
39. Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy 
40. The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe
41. Fathers and Sons – Ivan Turgenev
42. Faust -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 
43. Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 
44. Germinal – Émile Zola 
45. Golden Road, The - Lucy M. Montgomery 
46. Good Wives - Louisa May Alcott 
47. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens 
48. Happy Prince, The - Oscar Wilde 
49. Hand of Ethelberta, The  – Thomas Hardy
50. Hard Times - Charles Dickens 
51. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad 
52. Heidi - Johanna Spyri 
53. Hunchback of Notre Dame, The – Victor Hugo 
54. Hunger – Knut Hamsun
55. Idiot, The – Fyodor Dostoevsky 
56. Invisible Man, The – H.G. Wells 
57. Island of Dr. Moreau, The – H.G. Wells 
58. Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott 
59. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë 
60. Jo's Boy - Louisa May Alcott 
61. Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne 
62. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
63. Jungle Book, The - Rudyard Kipling 
64. Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson
65. King Solomon's Mines - H. Rider Haggard 
66. The Kreutzer Sonata – Leo Tolstoy
67. La Bête Humaine – Émile Zola 
68. La Dame aux Camélias - Alexandre Dumas fils 
69. Lady Audley's Secret - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
70. Lady Susan - Jane Austen 
71. The Last Man - Mary Shelley
72. Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper 
73. Les Misérables – Victor Hugo 
74. Little Dorrit - Charles Dickens 
75. Little Lord Fauntleroy - Frances Hodgson Burnett
76. Little Men - Louisa May Alcott 
77. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott 
78. L'assommoir- Emile Zola
79. Lorna Dorne - R.D Blackmore
80. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert 
81. Man In The Iron Mask, The - Alexandre Dumas 
82. Mansfield Park – Jane Austen 
83. Mary Barton – Elizabeth Gaskell 
84. Master of Ballantrae, The – Robert Louis Stevenson
85. Mathilda - Mary Shelley
86. Max Havelaar – Multatuli 
87. Mayor of Casterbridge, The – Thomas Hardy
88. Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, The - Arthur Conan Doyle 
89. Middlemarch – George Eliot 
90. Mill on the Floss, The – George Eliot
91. Moby-Dick – Herman Melville 
92. Moonstone, The – Wilkie Collins 
93. Mysterious Island, The - Jules Verne 
94. Nana – Émile Zola 
95. Nicholas Nickleby - Charles Dickens 
96. The Night is Darkening Round Me - Emily Bronte
97. North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell 
98. Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen 
99. The Nose – Nikolay Gogol
100. Notes from Underground - Fyodor Dostoyevsky 
101. Old Fashioned Girl - Louisa May Alcott 
102. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens 
103. Our Mutual Friend - Charles Dickens 
104. Persuasion – Jane Austen 
105. Pickwick Papers, The - Charles Dickens 
106. Picture of Dorian Gray, The – Oscar Wilde 
107. Pinocchio - Carlo Collodi 
108. Pit and the Pendulum, The– Edgar Allan Poe
109. Pollyanna (Pollyanna, #1) - Eleanor H. Porter
110. Portrait of a Lady, The - Henry James 
111. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen 
112. Prince and the Pauper, The - Mark Twain 
113. Princess and the Goblin, The - George MacDonald 
114. Professor, The - Charlotte Brontë 
115. Quo Vadis – Henryk Sienkiewicz 
116. Red and the Black, The – Stendhal
117. Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy
118. Rob Roy – Sir Walter Scott
119. Scarlet Letter, The – Nathaniel Hawthorne 
120. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen 
121. Shirley – Charlotte Brontë 
122. Story Girl, The - Lucy M. Montgomery 
123. Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The – Robert Louis Stevenson 
124. Swiss Family Robinson, The - Johann David Wyss 
125. Tenant of Wildfell Hall, The – Anne Brontë 
126. Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
127. The War of the Worlds, The – H.G. Wells 
128. Thérèse Raquin – Émile Zola 
129. Three Musketeers, The - Alexandre Dumas
130. Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll 
131. Time Machine, The – H.G. Wells 
132. Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson 
133. Turn of the Screw, The - Henry James 
134. Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely – Harriet Beecher Stowe 
135. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray 
136. Villette – Charlotte Brontë 
137. Walden – Henry David Thoreau
138. Warden, The - Anthony Trollope
139. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy 
140. What Maisie Knew – Henry James
141. White Nights - Fyodor Doestoevsky
142. Wives and Daughter - Elizabeth Gaskell
143. Woman in White, The – Wilkie Collins 
144. Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The - L. Frank Baum 
145. The Woodlanders – Thomas Hardy
146. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë 
147. The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Reading List 20th Century

Saya membuat challenge sendiri untuk buku-buku klasik berdasarkan periode, Karna saya yang buat sendiri jadi challenge ini tidak ada tenggat waktunya. hehehe mungkin butuh puluhan tahun untuk menyelesaikan tantangan ini. oiya list bisa saja berubah, bisa berkurang dan bisa bertambah. 

Hapy Reading !!

Note: yang saya beri warna merah berarti saya sudah membacanya tapi belum semat saya review, sedangkan yang sudah di review berwarna biru beserta link-nya.

Let's talk about 20th century! what you get? World War? Could War? Nazism or First Flight ?
This is Early modern era. Yeaaah I am so interest with that kind of stuff. 

A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemmingway A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1) - George RR Martin A General and His Labyrinth - Gabriel Garcia Marquez A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce A Room Of One's Own - Virginia Woolf A Room With a View – E.M. Forster A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith Age of Innocence, The – Edith Wharton Alchemist, The - Paulo Coelho Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood The Ambassadors – Henry James And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1) - Dan Brown Animal Farm – George Orwell An Artist of the Floating World – Kazuo Ishiguro Anne Of Avonlea - L.M Montgomery A Passage to India – E.M. Forster Bell Jar, The – Sylvia Plath Beloved – Toni Morrison Brave New World – Aldous Huxley Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote Bridge to Terabithia - Katherine Paterson Burmese Days – George Orwell The Call of the Wild – Jack London Cannery Row – John Steinbeck Castle,The – Franz Kafka Catcher in the Rye, The – J.D. Salinger Charlotte's Web - E.B White Chronicles of Narnia, The - C.S Lewis Coming Up for Air – George Orwell Color Purple, The  – Alice Walker Death Comes to Archbishop - Willa Cather Diary of a Young Girl, The - Anne Frank Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak Dubliners - James Joyce Dune - Frank Herbert East of Eden - John Steinback Empire of the Sun – J.G. Ballard Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton The End of the Affair – Graham Greene The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury Ficciones – Jorge Luis Borges Frenchman's Creek - Daphne du Maurier For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway The Fox – D.H. Lawrence Giving Tree, The - Shel Silverstein Godfather, The – Mario Puzo Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell Good Earth, The  (House of Earth, #1) - Pearl S. Buck Grapes of Wrath, The  - John Steinbeck  Great Gatsby, The – F. Scott Fitzgerald

Review dan Ulasan Novel Klasik Agnes Grey - Anne Brontë

Novel Agnes Grey merupakan buku ber-genre Bildungsroman dan sebenarnya aku baru mengetahui apa itu genre bildungsroman, apa termasuk genre ya? menurut Wikipedia, Bildungsroman adalah genre sastra yang menitikberatkan tema pendidikan manusia serta proses perjalanan pribadi tokoh-tokohnya dari awal pertumbuhannya menuju kedewasaan. Yaap, Novel ini merupakan coming of age-nya tokoh protagonis Agnes Grey. Cerita dan perjalanan Agnes sendiri menuju kedewasaan, pencarian jati diri dan kemandirianlah yang bisa dijadikan pembelajaran oleh pembaca. Selain Agnes Grey, aku juga telah membaca novel serupa seperti Jane Eyre karya Charlote Brontë (saudara kandung Anne Brontë), Great Expectations karya Dickens, Little Woman karya Louisa May Alcott, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn karya Betty Smith dan masih banyak lagi novel serupa yang telah saya baca dan belum sempat di-review, hupppss. Novel bildungsroman mempunyai peranan penting dalam kehidupan sehari-hariku, salah satunya memberikan wawasan mendalam tentang karakter seseorang, tidak membuatku menjadi judgemental, dan juga membantu memahami konflik dalam kehidupan nyata.

Review Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

Great Expectations

Great Expectations menyusuri sebuah Autobiografi seorang anak yatim piatu, tidak terkenal benama Philip Pirrip, namun mereka memanggilnya Pip. Seumur hidup Pip belum pernah melihat orang tua nya, di atas  makam dan batu nisan orangtuanya lah tempat nya ia bisa sendirian membanyangkan seperti apa sosok kedua orang tua nya. 

Tiba-tiba, seorang pria yang mengerikan, menggeram, berpakaian compang-camping, dan dengan kaki diikat, muncul dari balik batu nisan dan menangkap Pip. Narapidana yang melarikan diri ini mempertanyakan Pip dengan kasar dan menuntut agar Pip membawakannya makanan, pisau belati dan kikir.