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A Lifetime's Reading: Years 6-10

This is the 2nd of 10 instalments. Follow the link to go to the 1st instalment which gives a full description of the challenge. The list is sourced from "A Lifetime's Reading: Five Hundred Great Books to be Enjoyed over 50 Years" by Philip Ward. The layout is as follows:
Year 6: 1-13 (give yourself a point if you have already read 3 or more volumes of La Comedie Humaine.)
Year 7: 14-23
Year 8: 24-35
Year 9: 36-44
Year 10: 45-63 (The Histories can be spread over Year 10)
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The Poem Itself (Ed. Stanley Burnshaw)
The Poem Itself (Ed. Stanley Burnshaw)
2
Andorra (Max Frisch)
Andorra (Max Frisch)
3
I'm Not Stiller (Max Frisch)
I'm Not Stiller (Max Frisch)
4
The Song of Roland (Anonymous)
The Song of Roland (Anonymous)
5
The Visit (Friedrich Dürrenmatt)
The Visit (Friedrich Dürrenmatt)
6
The Physicists (Friedrich Durrenmatt)
The Physicists (Friedrich Durrenmatt)
7
Thérèse Raquin (Émile Zola)
Thérèse Raquin (Émile Zola)
8
L'assommoir (Emile Zola)
L'assommoir (Emile Zola)
9
Germinal (Émile Zola)
Germinal (Émile Zola)
10
The Complete Stories and Poems (Edgar Allan Poe)
The Complete Stories and Poems (Edgar Allan Poe)
11
La Comedie Humaine. (Honoré De Balzac)
La Comedie Humaine. (Honoré De Balzac)
12
The Thunderstorm (Alexander Ostrovsky)
The Thunderstorm (Alexander Ostrovsky)
13
The Complete Father Brown Stories (G.K. Chesterton)
The Complete Father Brown Stories (G.K. Chesterton)
14
The Penguin Book of Latin Verse (Ed. Frederick Brittain)
The Penguin Book of Latin Verse (Ed. Frederick Brittain)
15
Kafu the Scribbler (Edward G. Seidensticker)
Kafu the Scribbler (Edward G. Seidensticker)
16
Comedies (Plautus)
Comedies (Plautus)
17
The Book of Good Love (Juan Ruiz)
The Book of Good Love (Juan Ruiz)
18
Selected Works (Cicero)
Selected Works (Cicero)
19
A Short History of Scientific Ideas to 1900 (Charles Singer)
A Short History of Scientific Ideas to 1900 (Charles Singer)
20
Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)
Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)
21
Aeneid (Virgil)
Aeneid (Virgil)
22
Five German Tragedies (Goethe/Grillparzer/Kleist/Lessing//Schiller)
Five German Tragedies (Goethe/Grillparzer/Kleist/Lessing//Schiller)
23
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (6 Books) (Edward Gibbon)
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (6 Books) (Edward Gibbon)
24
Philosophy, Poetry, History: An Anthology of Essays (Benedetto Croce)
Philosophy, Poetry, History: An Anthology of Essays (Benedetto Croce)
25
Three Comedies: Mine Hostess, the Boors, the Fan (Carlo Goldoni)
Three Comedies: Mine Hostess, the Boors, the Fan (Carlo Goldoni)
26
Modem Arab Poets (Tr. Issa Boullata)
Modem Arab Poets (Tr. Issa Boullata)
27
The Tartar Steppe (Dino Buzzati, Trans. Stuart Hood)
The Tartar Steppe (Dino Buzzati, Trans. Stuart Hood)
28
The Lives of the Artists (Giorgio Vasari)
The Lives of the Artists (Giorgio Vasari)
29
The Poems of Catullus (Catullus)
The Poems of Catullus (Catullus)
30
The Late Mattia Pascal (Luigi Pirandello)
The Late Mattia Pascal (Luigi Pirandello)
31
Six Characters in Search of an Author (Luigi Pirandello)
Six Characters in Search of an Author (Luigi Pirandello)
32
On the Origin of Species (Charles Darwin)
On the Origin of Species (Charles Darwin)
33
Dante--The New Life
Dante--The New Life
34
The Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri)
The Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri)
35
The Red and the Black (Stendhal)
The Red and the Black (Stendhal)
36
Monkey (Wu Cheng'en)
Monkey (Wu Cheng'en)
37
The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
38
The Sonnets, Songs and Poems of Shakespeare (William Shakespeare)
The Sonnets, Songs and Poems of Shakespeare (William Shakespeare)
39
The Non-Existent Knight (Italo Calvino)
The Non-Existent Knight (Italo Calvino)
40
The Cloven Viscount (Italo Calvino)
The Cloven Viscount (Italo Calvino)
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