Classic Books TBR List

I recently decided to join the Classics Club . As per the rules, I need to commit to a minimum of 50 classic books in 5 years!!!

So, here we go…here is my very ambitious list of 50 classic books that I plan to read from now till 2017.

What do you think of the list? Do you have any suggestions on books that I can add to the list? Have you read the books on this list? Any thoughts/comments on these?

1. Alcott, Louisa May: Little Women

2. Angelou, Maya: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

3. Austen, Jane: Emma

4. Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice

5. Bronte, Charlotte: Jane Eyre

6. Chaucer, Geoffrey: The Canterbury Tales

7. Chekhov, Anton: The Duel

8. Chekov, Anton: Cherry Orchard

9. Dante: The Divine Comedy

10. Darwin, Charles: The Origin of Species

11. Dickens, Charles: Great Expectations

12. Dickens, Charles: David Copperfield

13. Dostoevesky, Fyodor: The Brothers Karamazov

14. Dostoevsky, Fyodor: Crime and Punishment

15. Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan: The Complete Sherlock Holmes

16. Du Maurier, Daphne: Echoes from the Macabre

17. Dumas, Alexandre: The Three Musketeers

18. Faulkner, William: Light in August

19. Faulkner, William: The Sound and the Fury

20. Fitzgerald, F. Scott: The Great Gatsby

21. Flaubert, Gustav: Madame Bovary

22. Foer, Jonathan Safran: Exteremely Loud and Incredibly Close

23. Forster, E.M.: Howard’s End

24. Gaskell, Elizabeth: The Life of Charlotte Bronte

25. Gaskell, Elizabeth: Wives and Daughters

26. Gogol, Nikolay: Dead Souls

27. Haggard, Henry Rider: King Solomon’s Mines

28. Hardy, Thomas: Far From the Madding Crowd

29. Hemingway, Ernest: A Moveable Feast

30. Hemingway, Ernest: The Sun Also Rises

31. Hemingway, Ernest: The Garden of Eden

32. Hugo, Victor: The Hunchback of Notre Dame

33. Kafka, Franz: Metamorphosis

34. Joyce, James: Ulysses

35. Kingsolver, Barbara: The Poisonwood Bible

36. Lee, Harper: To Kill a Mockingbird

37. Maugham, W. Somerset: The Razor’s Edge

38. Maupassant, Guy de: Bel-Ami

39. Nabokov, Vladimir: Lolita

40. Plato: The Trial and Death of Socrates

41. Salinger, J.D.: The Catcher in the Rye

42. Tolstoy, Leo: Anna Karenina

43. Tolstoy, Leo: War and Peace

44. Twain, Mark: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

45. Voltaire: Candide

46. Woolf, Virginia: To the Lighthouse

47. Wharton, Edith: The House of Mirth

48. Ibsen, Henrick: Doll’s House

49. Hemingway, Ernest: To Have and to Have Not

50. deCervantes, Miguel: Don Quixote

1 thought on “Classic Books TBR List”

  1. You have picked so many of my favorites! I hope you enjoy them. Welcome to the club! – Melissa

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