The Classics Club (In Which I Make Another Commitment)

Guys, I am commitment overloading. I am participating in this year's Back to the Classics Challenge (and doing fairly well, if I do say so myself!), and I am reading Anna Karenina along with a long-distance friend (she's reading it in the month leading up to her wedding so I really can't complain about being "too busy" to get through it), and I am joining a few other readalongs this fall (A Casual Vacancy, I'm looking at you).

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.

1. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
2. Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
3. Emma by Jane Austen
4. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
5. The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
6. Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
7. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
8. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
9. The Master and the Margarita by Michael Bulgakov
10. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
11. Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
12. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
13. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carre
14. Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
15. A Tale of Two Cites by Charles Dickens
16. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
17. Sketches by Boz by Charles Dickens
18. A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
19. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
20. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
21. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
22. Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
23. Light in August by William Faulkner
24. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
25. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
26. Tales of the Jazz Age by F. Scott Fitzgerald
27. Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
28. Madame Bovary by Gustav Flaubert
29. Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
30. Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
31. The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
32. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
33. Across the River and Into the Trees by Ernest Hemingway*
34. The Garden of Eden by Ernest Hemingway*
35. To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway*
36. Islands in the Stream by Ernest Hemingway*
37. The Nick Adams Stories by Ernest Hemingway*
38. The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway by... Ernest Hemingway*
39. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway*
40. The Torrents of Spring by Ernest Hemingway*
41. True at First Light by Ernest Hemingway*
42. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
43. Dubliners by James Joyce
44. Lady Chatterly's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
45. Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
46. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
47. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
48. Bel Ami by Guy de Maupassant
49. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
50. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
51. Lolita by Vladimir Nobokov
52. At Swim Two Birds by Flann O'Brien
53. The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
54. 1984 by George Orwell
55. The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
56. The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allen Poe
57. Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allen Poe
58. Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
59. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
60. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
61. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
62. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
63. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
64. Robinson Crusoe by Robert Louis Stevenson
65. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
66. Dracula by Bram Stoker
67. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
68. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy*
69. The Warden by Anthony Trollope
70. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
71. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
72. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
73. House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
74. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
75. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

*Also helps me get closer to my 26 by 26 list.