Reading Lists - Tumblr Posts
On the topic of Superfam Week, pspspsp, look what I have. You wanna read about these guys sooo badly. (Spreadsheets under the cut.)
Jon:
Otho and Osul:
Jay:
a masterpost of my reading lists and recs:
medieval women mystics
catherine of siena
joan of arc
frankenstein, mary shelley
early christianity and early christian writing
lesbian nuns, monastic life
theology, the bible and horror theory
early modern european witch hunts + my goodreads list
The BBC didn't make this list. It's based off of a list from a poll BBC did of people's 100 most beloved novels which people voted on. But the claim that BBC believes most people have only read six of these is untrue. This version of the list was made by someone online and started circulating.
Also, regardless of the quality of the list, there is no top 100 books you need to read. If you read 100 books, no matter the books, that's great. If you read 50 books that's great. Or 40, or 30, or 20. That's still an accomplishment. Be proud of yourself.
How many have you read?
The BBC estimates that most people will only read 6 books out of the 100 listed below. Reblog this and bold the titles you’ve read.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkein 3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible 7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte 8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens 11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy 13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare 15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier 16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien 17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks 18 Catcher in the Rye 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffeneger 20 Middlemarch – George Eliot 21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell 22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald 23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens 24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams 26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh 27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky 28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck 29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll 30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame 31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy 32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens 33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis 34 Emma – Jane Austen 35 Persuasion – Jane Austen 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres 39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden 40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne 41 Animal Farm – George Orwell 42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving 45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins 46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery 47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy 48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood 49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding 50 Atonement – Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel 52 Dune – Frank Herbert 53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons 54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen 55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth 56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon 57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens 58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez 61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck 62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov 63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas 66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac 67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding 69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie 70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville 71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens 72 Dracula – Bram Stoker 73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett 74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson 75 Ulysses – James Joyce 76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome 78 Germinal – Emile Zola 79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray 80 Possession – AS Byatt 81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens 82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchel 83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker 84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro 85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert 86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry 87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton 91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad 92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery 93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks 94 Watership Down – Richard Adams 95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole 96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute 97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas 98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl 100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
Who is Connor Hawke? - A Reading Guide
Connor Hawke is the son of Oliver Queen and Sandra "Moonday" Hawke. He is best known for his role as the Green Arrow, taking on the mantle upon his father's death and continuing as the Green Arrow after his resurrection. Connor was raised by his mother, and struggled in school due to being bullied for being mixed race (his mother is Black and Korean and his father is white). At around age thirteen Connor was able to talk his mother into letting him move to a Buddhist Ashram that his father had once stayed at, and there Connor entered the care of Master Jansen, learned martial arts and archery, and became a Buddhist monk. It was at the Ashram that Connor decided to continue the Green Arrow legacy. While serving as the Green Arrow, Connor teamed up with the Green Lantern Kyle Rayner and the Flash Wally West, Robin Tim Drake, Cassandra Cain, and the Justice League.
While Connor is most known for his connection to the Arrow family, as this was what was focused on most heavily in Green Arrow Vol. 3- it is important to remember Connor has strong connections outside of the family as highlighted in Green Arrow Vol. 2! These characters include: Sandra "Moonday" Hawke, Nathan Hawke (Connor's "Gran"), Mastern Jansen, Eddie Fyers, Kyle Rayner, Wally West (and his wife Linda), Tim Drake, and Cassandra Cain!
As of June 2022, Connor has been confirmed as asexual, which solidifies his ace coding from both Green Arrow Vol. 2 and 3!
Reading list with RCO links under the cut!
Only three comics will be listed after the N52 because they are the only three that give us anything resembling an in character Connor Hawke- I will not now nor ever include Robin (2021) on this list.
The following is a chronological list of Connor's appearances:
Green Arrow Vol. 2 #0
Green Arrow Vol. 2 #91-105
Robin Vol. 2 #25
Green Arrow Vol. 2 #106-109
Showcase '96 #5
Green Lantern Vol. 3 #76
Green Arrow Vol. 2 #110
Green Lantern Vol. 3 #77
Green Arrow Vol. 2 #111-124
JLA #5, 8-12
Green Arrow Vol. 2 #125-129
Green Lantern Vol. 3 #96
Green Arrow Vol. 2 #130
Flash Vol. 2 #135
Green Arrow Vol. 2 #131-134
Detective Comics #723
Robin Vol. 2 #55
Nightwing Vol. 2 #23
Green Arrow Vol. 2 #135-136
Green Lantern Vol. 3 #104
Green Arrow Vol. 2 #137
Green Arrow Vol. 2 #1,000,000
Robin Vol. 2 #78-79
Green Arrow Vol. 3 #1, 8-11, 13-15, 21
Green Lantern Vol. 3 #162
Green Arrow Vol. 3 #24-25
Green Lantern Vol. 3 #164
Green Arrow Vol. 3 #27-32, 34-50, 52, 56-59, 66-68
Connor Hawke: Dragon's Blood #1-6
Green Arrow Vol. 3 #73-75
Green Arrow/Black Canary #1-7, 13-15
DC Festival of Heroes: The Asian Superhero Celebration
Green Arrow 80th Anniversary 100-Page Super Spectacular
DC: Pride (2022)
The following issues have an unclear place in Connor's chronology and are presented here in chronological order by publication date:
JLA: Paradise Lost #2-3
Adventure Comics 80-Page Giant #1/2
JLA/Titans #2-3
Green Lantern Vol. 3 #110, 117
JLA #38, 40
Batgirl #30-32
Birds of Prey #43-46
Titans/Young Justice: Graduation Day #3
Identity Crisis #1, 6
Flash Vol. 2 #216
Richard Dragon #8-12