Classics Club

The Classics Club is a group of bloggers getting together to read, and write, about the classics (defined broadly).  I’ve decided to join up!  Which means trying to read (at least) 50 classics in the next 5 years.
My list… is 84 books…  And that was after I cut it down.  I am going to leave the 84 listed, and try to get them all (I can probably run through some of them pretty quickly, and write blog posts about them too.  Others… may take a bit longer….)

I may have to make the Little Engine that Could mantra my own (“I think I can, I think I can”)  but… I think I can!

My Goal Date:  June 26, 2019.

My list!

The Re-reads.

Books I read some time long ago (with a few exceptions, over a decade ago) and have wanted to revisit.

1. Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
2. Little Woman – Louisa May Alcott
3. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
4. Emma – Jane Austen
5. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
6. Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
7. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
8. A Little Princess – Frances Hodgson Burnett (Completed April 25, 2015)
9. The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett (Completed August 1, 2014)
10. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
11. The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway (Completed May 11, 2015)
12. Les Miserable – Victor Hugo
13. Doll’s House – Henrick Ibsen
14. Enemy of the People – Henrick Ibsen
15. The Master Builder – Henrick Ibsen
16. Ghosts – Henrick Ibsen
17. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee (Completed September 23, 2014)
18. The Phantom of the Opera – Gaston Lerouch
19. Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison
20. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World – Haruki Murakami
21. The Scarlet Pimpernel – Baroness Orczy
22. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
23. Charlotte Temple – Susanna Rowson
24. Ceremony – Leslie Marmon Silko
25. The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
26. The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton

 

The First-Arounds

Books I’ve been meaning to read (sometimes for a very long time) and now will make myself get around to.  Some of these I’ve found myself surprised I haven’t read… yet.

1. Watership Down – Richard Adams
2. Little Men – Louisa May Alcott
3. Jo’s Boys – Louisa May Alcott
4. A Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
5. Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
6. Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen
7. Persuasion – Jane Austen
8. Peter Pan – J.M. Barrie
9. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz – L. Frank Baum
10. Dandelion Wine – Ray Bradbury
11. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
12. The Making of a Marchioness – Frances Hodgson Burnett
13. Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
14. O Pioneers! – Willa Cather
15. The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
16. Don Quixotie – Miguel de Cervantes
17. The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
18. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
19. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
20. NIcholas Nickleby – Charles Dickens
21. Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
22. The Three Musketeers – Alexander Dumas
23. The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexander Dumas
24. Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
25. The House of the Seven Gables – Nathaniel Hawthorne
26. The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo
27. Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
28. A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
29. The World According to Garp – John Irving (Completed September 30, 2014)
30. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow – Washington Irving
31. The Wings of the Dove – Henry James
32. The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
33. Le Morte d’Arthur – Sir Thomas Malory
34. One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
35. The Sailor who fell from Grace with the Sea – Yukio Mishima
36. Anne of Green Gables – L.M. Montgomery (Completed July 15, 2014)
37. Tar Baby – Toni Morrison
38. The Enchanted Castle – E. Nesbit
39. In The Lake of the Woods – Tim O’Brien
40. Ariel – Sylvia Plath
41. The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood – Howard Pyle
42. Cyrano de Bergerac – Edmond Rostand
43. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
44. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
45. The Lady of the Lake – Sir Walter Scott
46. The History Plays – William Shakespeare (I’ve read most of the Comedies, and many of the Tragedies, but apparently have missed the History Plays.. .strange)
47. Heidi – Johanna Spyri
48. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
49. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith
50. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
51. Snow Crash – Neal Stephenson
52. Dracula – Bram Stoker
53. The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkein
54. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
55. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court – Mark Twain
56. The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton
57. The Once and Future King – T.H. White
58. A Room of One’s Own – Virginia Woolf

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