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