Inspirired by Jillian at A Room of Ones Own I have decided to participate in The Classics Club. This is an online club of readers/bloggers who strive to read fifty “classic” novels in the next five years- (that’s ten classics a year for those of you who are mathematically dense like I am.) Some of the books on my list I will be reading for the first time and some I will be revisiting as I either read them a while ago, didn’t finish them, or didn’t understand them at the time. If you visit my GoodReads page, you will notice that some of these re-reads will have already been marked as read and given a star rating, this could change, this could stay the same, however, I will be posting a review for each of the ones listed below, both on my blog and on GoodReads. The ones that I have read starting July 22, 2012 and have reviewed will have an active link to the review of that particular book.
Here are my fifty classics I plan to have read by July 22, 2017 (if the world doesn’t end this year, that is):
1. Sense and Sensibility -Jane Austen (August 12, 2012)
2. Bleak House- Charles Dickens
3. Madame Bovary-Gustave Flaubert
4. Mrs. Dalloway- Virginia Woolf
5. Anne of Green Gables- Lucy Maude Montgomery
6. Beloved- Toni Morrison
7. O. Henry’s Best Short Stories- O. Henry
8. Les Miserables -Victor Hugo
9. Native Son- Richard Wright
10. Tess of the D’Urbervilles- Thomas Hardy
11. Wuthering Heights- Emily Bronte
12. The Picture of Dorian Gray- Oscar Wilde
13. Farenheit 451- Ray Bradbury
14. Northanger Abbey- Jane Austen
15. Lolita- Vladimir Nabakov
16. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn- Betty Smith
17. Watership Down- Richard Adams
18. Peter Pan- J.M. Barrie
19. The Phantom of the Opera- Gaston Leroux
20. The Age of Innocence-Edit Wharton
21. Lady Chatterley’s Lover- D.H. Lawrence
22. The Awakening- Kate Chopin
23. The Handmaid’s Tale-Margaret Atwood
24. Villette- Charlotte Bronte (July 26, 2012)
25. Agnes Grey-Anne Bronte
26. And Then There Were None- Agatha Christie
27. The Screwtape Letters- C.S. Lewis
28. Love in the Time of Cholera- Gabriel Garcia-Marquez
29. Brideshead Revisited- Evelyn Waugh
30. Cranford- Elizabeth Gaskell
31. Mary Poppins- P.L. Travers
32. The Thorn Birds- Colleen McCullough
33. A Light in August- William Faulkner
34. The Godfather- Mario Puzo
35. We Have Always Lived in the Castle- Shirley Jackson
36. Tropic of Cancer- Henry Miller
37. Thus Spoke Zarathustra- Friedrich Nietzsche
38. Jamaica Inn- Daphne DuMarier
39. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?- Edward Albee
40. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde- Robert Louis Stevenson
41. Gulliver’s Travels- Jonathan Smith
42. The House of Mirth- Edith Wharton
43. Persuasion- Jane Austen
44. Gone With the Wind -Margaret Mitchell
45. Mansfield Park- Jane Austen
46. Scaramouche- Rafael Sabatini
47. Les Liasons Dangereuses- Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
48. The Life of Charlotte Bronte- Elizabeth Gaskell
49. Nicholas Nickleby- Charles Dickens
50. Vanity Fair- William Makepeace Thackery
#1, 24 and 50 are some of my favorites! Welcome to the club, Victorian! And ENJOY this. 😀
Thanks Jillian! I am very excited to embark on this journey!!
Great list. I am reading some of the same titles.