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The Classics Club Update

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I joined The Classics Club back in early 2013.  The goal was to read 50 classics in 5 years.  I’m a bit behind schedule (although most of the classics that I did read were quite hefty) which means I need to pick up a few more classics this year.

My Goal:  50 Classics
Books Read:

The Book List
currently in no particular order

  1. A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire #1) by George RR Martin
  2. A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire #2)  by George RR Martin
  3. A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire #3)  by George RR Martin
  4. A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire #4) by George RR Martin
  5.   Candide by Voltaire  
  6. The Hobbit by JRR Tolkein 
  7.   Hunger by Knut Hamsun
  8.  The Count of Monte Cristo  by Alexander Dumas 1844 
  9. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas  1844 
  10. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
  11. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
  12. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
  13. The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
  14. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John le Carre
  15. Watership Down by Richard Adams
  16. A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire #5) by George RR Martin
  17. North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell  1855
  18. Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
  19. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 1854
  20. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodges Burnett (rr) 1911
  21. Dubliners by James Joyce
  22. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
  23. Beloved by Toni Morrison
  24.  Fellowship of the Ring
  25.  The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
  26.   Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (rr) 1932
  27.  Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (rr)
  28.   Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
  29.   A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
  30.   Howards End by EM Forster
  31.   The Awakening by Kate Chopin
  32.   And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
  33.   The Time Machine by HG Wells  1894
  34. Tess of the D’Urbervilles Thomas Hardy 1891
  35. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 1890
  36.   The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy
  37.   Middlemarch b y George Eliot
  38.   The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins 1868
  39.   The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins (rr)
  40.   Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (rr) 1862
  41. The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo 1831
  42.   Villette by Charlotte Bronte
  43. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
  44.   Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
  45.   The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  46.   Persuasion by Jane Austen(rr) 1817
  47.   Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
  48.   The Iliad by Homer
  49.   The Odyssey by Homer
  50. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer  1372
  51.   The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy 1905
  52.   Les Liaisons Dengereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
  53. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
  54.   Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
  55.   Rob Roy by Sir Walter Scott
  56.   Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
  57.   Dracula by Bram Stoker 1897
  58.   The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger 1951
  59.   Franny & Zooey by JD Salinger (rr)
  60.   Lord of the Flies by William Golding 1954
  61.   Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
  62.   Don Quixote by Cervantes 1605
  63. 1984 by George Orwell (rr) 1949
  64.   Animal Farm by George Orwell (rr) 1945
  65.   One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
  66.   A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
  67.   Poetry by John Keats
  68.   The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

I’ve selected a few more than fifty so that I have some wiggle room when selecting what I will read next…I like to leave my options open.


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