But The Classics Club has recently started to pop up on several blogs I follow, and I want to give it a shot. Especially because it is a five-year challenge, and five years feels like FOREVERYEARS so I figure I have time to sort this all out.
The rules are simple: Read 50 classics in the next 5 years. I am listing more than 50 below to give myself some CHOICES (I'm all about choices), but my goal is to read 50 of these books by September 2017.
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
- Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
- Emma by Jane Austen
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
- Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
- The Master and the Margarita by Michael Bulgakov
- A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
- Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
- In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
- The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carre
- Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
- A Tale of Two Cites by Charles Dickens
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- Sketches by Boz by Charles Dickens
- A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
- The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
- Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
- Light in August by William Faulkner
- The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Tales of the Jazz Age by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Madame Bovary by Gustav Flaubert
- Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
- Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
- The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
- Across the River and Into the Trees by Ernest Hemingway*
- The Garden of Eden by Ernest Hemingway*
- To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway*
- Islands in the Stream by Ernest Hemingway*
- The Nick Adams Stories by Ernest Hemingway*
- The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway by... Ernest Hemingway*
- The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway*
- The Torrents of Spring by Ernest Hemingway*
- True at First Light by Ernest Hemingway*
- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
- Dubliners by James Joyce
- Lady Chatterly's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
- Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
- Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Bel Ami by Guy de Maupassant
- Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
- Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
- Lolita by Vladimir Nobokov
- At Swim Two Birds by Flann O'Brien
- The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
- 1984 by George Orwell
- The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
- The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allen Poe
- Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allen Poe
- Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
- East of Eden by John Steinbeck
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
- Robinson Crusoe by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Dracula by Bram Stoker
- The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy*
- The Warden by Anthony Trollope
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
- The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
- House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
- Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
- Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
*Also helps me get closer to my 26 by 26 list.
