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.
- Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
- Little Woman – Louisa May Alcott
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
- Emma – Jane Austen
- Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
- Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
- Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
- A Little Princess – Frances Hodgson Burnett (Completed April 25, 2015)
- The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett (Completed August 1, 2014)
- A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
- The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway (Completed May 11, 2015)
- Les Miserable – Victor Hugo
- Doll’s House – Henrick Ibsen
- Enemy of the People – Henrick Ibsen
- The Master Builder – Henrick Ibsen
- Ghosts – Henrick Ibsen
- To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee (Completed September 23, 2014)
- The Phantom of the Opera – Gaston Lerouch
- Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison
- Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World – Haruki Murakami
- The Scarlet Pimpernel – Baroness Orczy
- The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
- Charlotte Temple – Susanna Rowson
- Ceremony – Leslie Marmon Silko
- The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
- 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.
- Watership Down – Richard Adams
- Little Men – Louisa May Alcott
- Jo’s Boys – Louisa May Alcott
- A Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
- Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
- Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen
- Persuasion – Jane Austen
- Peter Pan – J.M. Barrie
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz – L. Frank Baum
- Dandelion Wine – Ray Bradbury
- Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
- The Making of a Marchioness – Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
- O Pioneers! – Willa Cather
- The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
- Don Quixotie – Miguel de Cervantes
- The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
- Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
- NIcholas Nickleby – Charles Dickens
- Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
- The Three Musketeers – Alexander Dumas
- The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexander Dumas
- Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
- The House of the Seven Gables – Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo
- Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
- A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
- The World According to Garp – John Irving (Completed September 30, 2014)
- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow – Washington Irving
- The Wings of the Dove – Henry James
- The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
- Le Morte d’Arthur – Sir Thomas Malory
- One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- The Sailor who fell from Grace with the Sea – Yukio Mishima
- Anne of Green Gables – L.M. Montgomery (Completed July 15, 2014)
- Tar Baby – Toni Morrison
- The Enchanted Castle – E. Nesbit
- In The Lake of the Woods – Tim O’Brien
- Ariel – Sylvia Plath
- The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood – Howard Pyle
- Cyrano de Bergerac – Edmond Rostand
- Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
- The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
- The Lady of the Lake – Sir Walter Scott
- 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)
- Heidi – Johanna Spyri
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith
- The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
- Snow Crash – Neal Stephenson
- Dracula – Bram Stoker
- The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkein
- Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court – Mark Twain
- The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton
- The Once and Future King – T.H. White
- A Room of One’s Own – Virginia Woolf
Austen, Alcott and Atwood, you can’t go wrong! Welcome to the club!
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Looking forward to it! Think I might have to grant myself some classics-reading weekends 🙂
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What a great list! I see a lot of favorites & want-to-reads in your plans. Have fun, & welcome! 🙂
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Thanks!
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