I have decided to join the Classics Club and commit to reading at least 50 classics within the next five years (most are also on the 1001 Books to Read Before You Die list and a couple are re-reads, so I am double-dipping). That gives me an expiration date of December 31, 2017. Technically, I have until January 7, 2018, but I have a thing about round numbers and so the last day of the year works better for me. Part of the challenge is to blog about each book as I finish it, which will be fairly easy to do because this is a book blog. As I finish them, I will add in hyperlinks to the titles so that you can read the reviews.
**Below is the list in alphabetical order with a few more than 50 options. The number in parenthesis refers to the order in which I read them.
Conquering the Classics:
- Aesopus – Aesop’s Fables
- Alcott, Louisa May – Little Women
- Atwood, Margaret – The Blind Assassin
- Austen, Jane – Emma
- Austen, Jane – Sense and Sensibility
- Bronte, Charlotte – Jane Eyre
- Bronte, Emily – Wuthering Heights
- Capote, Truman – Breakfast at Tiffany’s (not reviewed)
- Coehlo, Paolo – The Alchemist
- Dickens, Charles – Oliver Twist
- Du Maurier, Daphne – Rebecca
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott – The Great Gatsby
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott – Tender is the Night
- Flaubert, Gustave – Madame Bovary
- Forster, E.M. – A Room with a View
- Frank, Anne – The Diary of Anne Frank
- Friedan, Betty – The Feminine Mystique
- Golding, William – Lord of the Flies
- Hardy, Thomas – Tess ovf the D’Urbervilles
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel – The House of Seven Gables
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel – The Scarlet Letter
- Heller, Joseph – Catch-22
- Hemingway, Ernest – The Old Man and the Sea
- Hodgson Burnett, Frances – A Little Princess
- Irving, John – A Prayer for Owen Meany
- Ishiguro, Kazuo – Never Let Me Go
- Jackson, Shirley – We Have Always Lived in the Castle
- James, Henry – The Turn of the Screw
- Keyes, Daniel – Flowers for Algernon
- Lewis, C.S. – The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
- Melville, Herman – Moby Dick
- Miller, Arthur – The Crucible
- Montgomery, L.M. – Anne of Green Gables
- Morrison, Toni – Beloved
- Nabokov, Vladimir – Lolita (not reviewed)
- Orwell, George – Animal Farm
- Plath, Sylvia – The Bell Jar
- Rand, Ayn – Anthem (#6)
- Stoker, Bram – Dracula
- Susann, Jacqueline – Valley of the Dolls
- Tolstoy, Leo – Anna Karenina
- Twain, Mark – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Updike, John – The Witches of Eastwick
- Watson, Winifred – Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
- Wharton, Edith – Ethan Frome
- Wharton, Edith – The House of Mirth
- Wharton, Edith – Xingu 1916
- Wilde, Oscar – The Canterville Ghost
- Wolfe, Tom – The Bonfire of the Vanities
- Woolfe, Virginia – Mrs. Dalloway
- Wyss, Johann David – The Swiss Family Robinson