Hey Reader Friends! So, several (six) years ago - I decided to do this little reading thing called The Classics Club. I love classic books! LOVE THEM! I didn't finish that list I made. So, I decided this year is going to be the year I start a list of classics I want to read over the next five years and get it done :)
If you are curious about this Classics Club - stop by there blog!
This post will change as I read each book - meaning I will come back and hyperlink to blog posts and update the list as needed when I finish each book. So, check back often, and feel free to join in the club and read some classics as well.
I am going to aim high - with 100 classic books in Five Years. I might be a little crazy!
But, really, no. I am excited!
My start date: January 18, 2019
My goal end date: January 18, 2023 (!!!!!!!!!!!! Are we really almost to the 2020's?!)
And My List:
1. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
2. The Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens
3. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
4. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
5. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
6. Emma - Jane Austen
7. Persuasion - Jane Austen
8. Sense and Sensibility- Jane Austen
9. Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
10. Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
11. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
12. Twenty Years After - Alexandre Dumas
13. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
14. The Black Tulip - Alexandre Dumas
15. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
16. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
17. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
18. The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
19. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
20. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
21. The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
22. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
23. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
24. Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
25. The Grapes of Wrath -John Steinbeck
26. East of Eden - John Steinbeck
27. Ulysses- James Joyce
28. Tess of the D'ubervilles
29. Lolita - Vladimir Nobokov
30. Leaves of Grass -Walt Whitman
31. Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
32. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
33.Don Quioxte - Miguel de Cervantes
34. The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
35. Animal Farm - George Orwell
36. Babbitt - Sinclair Lewis
37. Main Street - Sinclair Lewis
38. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
39. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
40. Sexus - Henry Miller
41. Plexus - Henry Miller
42. Nexus - Henry Miller
43. The Man in The Iron Mask - Alexandre Dumas
44. Dead Souls - Nikolai Gogol
45. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Washington Irving
46. The Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux
47. 1984 - George Orwell
48. Animal Farm - George Orwell
49. Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
50. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
51. Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger
52. The First Circle - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
53. The Gulag Archipelago - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
54. One Day In the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
55. The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
56. The Picture of Dorian Grey - Oscar Wilde
57. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
58. Little Men - Louisa May Alcott
59. Jo's Boys - Louisa May Alcott
60. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
61. Watership Down - Richard Adams
62. The Souls of Black Folk - W.E.B Du Bois
63. Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
64. The Tale of Genji - Murasaki Shikibu
65. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
66. Utopia - Thomas More
67. Selected Poems - E.E. Cummings
68. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
69. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
70. Howl and Other Poems - Allen Ginsberg
71. Kaddish and Other Poems - Allen Ginsberg
72. The Fall of America: Poems of These States - Allen Ginsberg
73. Whither - Dawn Powell
74. She Walks In Beauty - Dawn Powell
75. The Bride's House - Dawn Powell
76. Dance Night - Dawn Powell
77. The Tenth Moon - Dawn Powell
78. Big Night - Dawn Powell
79. Jig Saw: A Comedy - Dawn Powell
80. The Story of a Country Boy - Dawn Powell
81. Turn, Magic Wheel - Dawn Powell
82. The Happy Island - Dawn Powell
83. Angels on Toast - Dawn Powell
84. A Time to Be Born - Dawn Powell
85. My Home is Far Away - Dawn Powell
86. The Locusts Have No King - Dawn Powell
87. Sunday, Monday And Always - Dawn Powell
88. The Wicked Pavilion - Dawn Powell
89. A Cage for Lovers - Dawn Powell
90. The Golden Spur - Dawn Powell
91. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
92. The Complete Poems - T.S. Eliot
93. The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis
94. The Voyage Out - Virginia Woolf
95. Jacob's Room - Virginia Woolf
96. Night and Day - Virginia Woolf
97. Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
98. To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
99. Orlando - Virginia Woolf
100. The Waves - Virginia Woolf
And in closing: Let us all sing a song of angry men. (Because Les Mis is one of my favorite musicals.)
