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