Classics Club

The Classics Club is a group of bloggers/readers who challenge themselves to read 50+ classics within 5 years. I've always loved classics and the list of ones that I want to read just keeps growing so I've made a small(ish) list of the ones I want to read the most.

I tried to pick a few titles alphabetically by author to get a good mix and ended up with 60 titles. (Including a few rereads) I hope to get through all 60 in 2 years. I'll be reviewing and crossing off the books as I go. Hopefully once I finish the list I'll have come up with at least another 50.
Start date: August 12, 2012
Finish date: August 12, 2014
Completed: 7/60
The books:
Watership Down - Richard Adams
The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - Frank L. Baum (Read 10/2/12) Review
Villete - Charlotte Bronte
The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodges Burnett
The Fall - Albert Camus
The Awakening - Kate Chopin
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
Moonstone - Wilkie Collins
Little Dorritt - Charles Dickens (Read 8/26/12) Review 
The Complete Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
Silas Marner - George Eliot
The Waste Land - T.S. Eliot (Read 11/15/12) Review to come
Tales of the Jazz Age - F. Scott Fitzgerald (Read 8/16/12) Review
A Passage to India - E.M. Forster
The Cranford Chronicles - Elizabeth Gaskell
Howl and other poems - Allen Ginsberg
The House of the Seven Gables - Nathaniel Hawthorne
A Dolls House - Henrik Ibsen
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Washington Irving (Read 10/23/12) Review to come
The Wings of the Dove - Henry James
On The Road - Jack Kerouac
The Phantom of the Opera - Gaston LeRoux (Read 9/3/2012) Review
The Magician's Nephew - C.S. Lewis
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
The Horse and His Boy - C.S. Lewis
Prince Caspian - C.S. Lewis
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader - C.S. Lewis
The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis
The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis
The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli
Bel Ami - Guy de Maupassant (Read 8/29/12) Review
Mozart's Letters, Mozart's Life - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The Enchanted Castle - E. Nesbit
Wise Blood - Flannery O'Connor
Burmese Days - George Orwell
Common Sense and other writings - Thomas Paine
Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak
The Rape of the Lock - Alexander Pope
The Story of King Arthur and his Knights - Howard Pyle
The Mysteries of Udolpho - Ann Radcliffe
All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
The Red and the Black - Stendahl
Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift (Read 8/18/12) Review
The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkein
The Fellowship of the Ring - JRR Tolkien
The Two Towers - JRR Tolkien
The Return of the King - JRR Tolkien
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
The Aeneid - Virgil
Candide - Voltaire (Read 11/15/12) Review to come
The Once and Future King - T.H. White
Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolfe
Irish Fairy and Folk Tales - W.B. Yeats
The Masterpiece - Emile Zola

4 comments:

  1. So many great choices! I love you have everything from fantast to children's lit. Enjoy the club!

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  2. Wonderful list! I am also taking part in the classics club but our lists are quite different. Love how you have included The Chronicles Narnia have been seriously considering re-reading them myself soon.

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  3. Woo Narnia! Tolkien! All Quiet on the Western Front! Brilliant list :-) We have a fair few of the same titles, so I'll be interested in seeing what you think.

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  4. Love your list and we have some in common. Chronicles of Narnia series has been on my TBR list since I was a kid so the first book is on my classics club list too. Here's the rest of my Classics Club book list if you'd like to stop by.

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