Classics Club


Here is the list of books I plan to read for The Classics Club.
It contains 72 books that I hope to read by August 2017.  Titles in bold are rereads, reviews will be added when the books are individually completed.

1. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott (Part 1final December 2012)
2. A Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
3. Emma - Jane Austen (Read August 2013)
4. Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
5. Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen (Read August 2013)
6. Persuasion - Jane Austen
7. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (Read January 2015)
8. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen (Read September 2012)
9. Peter Pan - J.M. Barrie
10. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Bronte (Read July 2014)
11. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (Read May 2013)
12. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
13. Villette - Charlotte Bronte
14. The Good Earth - Pearl Buck (Read January 2015)
15. A Little Princess - Frances Hodgson Burnett
16. O Pioneers! - Willa Cather
17. The Awakening - Kate Chopin
18. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
19. A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens (Read Feb 2013)
20. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (Read August 2012)
21. Hard Times - Charles Dickens
22. Little Dorrit - Charles Dickens
23. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
24. Out of Africa - Isak Dinesen (Read September 2013)
25. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
26. The Lost World - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
27. Rebecca - Daphe Du Maurier (read June 2013)
28. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
29. Cranford - Elizabeth Gaskell (read May 2014)
30. Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald (read January 2013)
31. The Beautiful and the Damned - F. Scott Fitzgerald (read June 2014)
32. Madame Bovary - Gustav Flaubert
33. Lord of the Flies - William Golding (read June 2014)
34. King Solomon's Mines - H. Rider Haggard
35. Tess of D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
36. The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne (read July 2013)
37. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (read December 2013)
38. Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston (read March 2014)
39. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley (read January 2014)
40. Goodbye to Berlin - Christopher Isherwood
41. Turn of the Screw - Henry James (read October 2013)
42. The Portrait of A Lady - Henry James (read April 2014)
43. Daisy Miller - Henry James (read June 2013)
44. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
45. Kim - Rudyard Kipling
46. The Painted Veil - W. Somerset Maugham (read April 2014)
47. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
48. The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
49. The Bell - Iris Murdoch
50. 1984 - George Orwell
51. Burmese Days - George Orwell
52. Titus Groan - Mervyn Peake
53. Gormenghast - Mervyn Peake
54. Titus Alone - Mervyn Peake
55. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
56. Bonjour Tristesse - Francoise Sagan
57. Anthony and Cleopatra - William Shakespeare
58. Othello - William Shakespeare
59. The Tempest - William Shakespeare (Read February 2013)
60. East of Eden - John Steinbeck (Read October 2013)
61. Cannery Row - John Steinbeck (Read February 2015)
62. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
63. Dracula - Bram Stoker
64. The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkein (Read December 2014)
65. The Fellowship of the Ring - J.R.R. Tolkein (Read August 2012)
66. The Two Towers - J.R.R. Tolkein (Read July 2013)
67. The Return of the King - J.R.R. Tolkein (Read February 2014)
68. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain (read November 2013)
69. Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne (Read December 2012)
70. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
71. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
72. Orlando - Virgina Woolf

Progress Reports:

Yearly Updates:
Year 1 (August 2013)
Year 2 (August 2014)

2012
Dec 2012: 5/72 completed

2013
January 2013: 6/72 completed
February 2013: 8/72 completed
May 2013: 9/72 completed
June 2013: 11/72 completed
July 2013: 13/72 completed
August 2013: 15/72 completed
Sept 2013: 16/72 completed
October 2013: 18/72 completed
November 2013: 19/72 completed
December 2013: 20/72 completed

2014
January 2014: 21/72 completed
February 2014: 22/72 completed
March 2014: 23/72 completed
April 2014: 25/72 completed
May 2014: 26/72 completed
June 2014: 28/72 completed
July 2014: 29/72 completed
December 2014: 30/72 completed

2015:
January 2015: 32/72 completed
February 2015: 33/72 completed

6 comments:

  1. What an incredible list -- and so many rereads! I LOVE LOVE LOVE rereads! Welcome, Sam! :-)

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    1. Thanks Jillian :)
      I need to reread more, I always enjoy it but can get distracted by shiny new books!

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  2. Wow, you have quite a lot of books to re-read. I'm not too eager to re-read, except for books I really love, like To Kill A Mockingbird, The Great Gatsby, or The Three Musketeers. Oh and The Picture of Dorian Gray of course, I enjoyed it very much, and will get back to it in the future.

    Good luck with your classics list!

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    1. I don't reread much either but I always get something out of classics when I read them for the second time. I'm hoping I will see something new each time I read them.

      Thanks for the good luck, and good luck with your list also :)

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  3. Sam--You've inspired me to take the plunge and commit to a classics to read list of my own. I always want to read more classics but, like you, get distracted by the shiny new books. Time to change that!

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  4. What a great list! You started around the same time as me, I think, but you are way ahead of me in finishing books. Must stop getting distracted by shiny new releases...

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