[Updated] The Classics Club is an event/challenge initially hosted by Jill of the book blog A Room of One's Own [now defunct] and now has it's own website. I loved reading the classics as a teen and in college but as an adult I haven't devoted as much time to catching up with my personal library of unread classics as well as exploring some new-to-me classics and re-discovering some old favorites. Jill's challenge is to read 50+ classics within the next 5 years. I thought that was a doable goal so I decided to jump on board.
Below are my 50 classics. Most of them I haven't read but I threw in a few of my very favorite classics that I want to re-read. I'll be updating this list with links to my reviews.
Start Date - March 2012
End Date - March 2017
Check out my Classics Club Project bookshelves on Powell's!
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (READ)
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (READ)
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum (READ)
- The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins (READ)
- The End of the Affair by Graham Greene (READ)
- Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie (READ)
- North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell (READ)
- The Good Earth by Pearl Buck (READ)
- The Time Machine by H.G. Wells (CURRENTLY READING)
- Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen (re-read)
- The Book of Sand by Jorge Luis Borges
- A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
- The Monk by Matthew Lewis
- Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy (re-read)
- I, Claudius by Robert Graves
- The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy
- Les Miserables by Hugo Victor
- The Romance of the Forest by Ann Radcliffe
- A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
- The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Don Quixote by Cervantes
- David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
- Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
- The Long Ships by Frans G. Bengtsson
- The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas
- Portrait of a Lady by Henry James (re-read)
- The Wings of the Dove by Henry James
- The Golden Bowl by Henry James
- Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
- The Decameron by Giovanni Boccacio
- Summer by Edith Wharton
- The Mabinogion by Anonymous
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
- The American by Henry James
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- The Republic by Plato
- Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
- Moby Dick by Herman Melville
- Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo (re-read)
- The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire
- The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
- The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende
- Like Water For Chocolate/Como Agua Para Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
- House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
- The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Expurey
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Extras
Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
Scenes of Clerical Life by George Eliot
Adam Bede by George Eliot
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (re-read)
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (re-read)
Flatland by Edwin Abbott
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
The Warden by Anthony Trollope
