So, I found this blog when I was looking for reviews for Beautiful Creatures (mostly to see if anyone else thought like I did about the book) and I now follow and love this blog even though I don’t live in Atlanta. Also on her site is something entitled The Classics Club which is where you challenge yourself to read a number of classic novels in a certain amount of time (up to five years). After every title completed, you have to write a post about it, your thoughts and experience, etc; which you link to your main list.
I have a huge classic to read list, many books that I already own, but never pick up mostly because there are so many books that are ‘easier’ to read that are more recent. But as an English teacher, I feel guilty. So, I decided to make my list and join. Some of them I am rereading because I really feel like when years have passed and I look at a book again, I understand so much more. Some I know I will be reading because I will be teaching them in the next couple years (so that’s a bit of a cheat, but oh well). Some…I just know I need to read.
I will make a page over there on the right of my blog to have the official list, but I’ll also post it here. I give myself five years minus a few weeks as I want to write about my most recent reread, The Great Gatsby. Titles in Bold mean that it will be a second or third time reading.
To Be Completed 11/20/2017
Classics Club List
1. Little Woman by Louisa May Alcott
2. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
3. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
4. Emma by Jane Austen
5. Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
6. Persuasion by Jane Austen
7. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
8. Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
9. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
10. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
11. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
12. A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
13. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
14. Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
15. Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote
16. Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll
17. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
18. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
19. Inferno by Dante
20. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
21. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
23. Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
24. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
25. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
26. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
27. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
28. Middlemarch by George Eliot
29. Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot
30. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
31. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
32. Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
33. This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
34. Madame Bovary by Gustav Flaubert
35. Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
36. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
37. Howard’s End by E.M. Forster
38. Room With a View by E. M. Forster
39. Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
40. North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
41. The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe
42. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
43. The Princess Bride by William Goldman
44. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
45. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
46. Tess of the D’urbevilles by Thomas Hardy
47. The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne
48. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (unabridged)
49. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
50. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
51. Ghosts by Henrick Ibsen
52. Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
53. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
54. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
55. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
56. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
57. The Phantom of Opera by Gaston Leroux
58. The Prince by Niccola Machiavelli
59. Le Morte d’Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory
60. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
61. The Complete Stories of Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne
62. Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
63. The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy
64. 1984 by George Orwell
65. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
66. The Mysteries of Udolpho by Anne Radcliffe
67. Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
68. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
69. Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
70. Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger
71. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
72. Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott
73. Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
74. Macbeth by Shakespeare
75. Measure for Measure by Shakespeare
76. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
77. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
78. Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
79. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
80. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
81. The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck
82. Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
83. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
84. Dracula by Bram Stoker
85. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard
86. Can You Forgive Her? by Anthony Trollope
87. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson
88. The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
89. The Once and Future King by T.H. White
90. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
91. Our Town by Thorton Wilder
92. A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
93. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams
94. Irish Faerie Tales by William Butler Yeats
Poetry
Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg
Selected Poems of Byron, Keats, and Shelley
Idylls of the King by Tennyson
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