The Classics Club Challenge

About 5 years ago (4/2015) I joined The Classics Club with the intent of reading 50 classic titles in 5 years (4/2015-4/2020). Unfortunately, I did not read all the 50 classic titles I had set out to do by that deadline.

Regardless, I still stand strong in my determination to read these titles even if it takes me another 5 years.

My list was composed of books I had heard of and never read. Books you know you should have read and never got around reading it, as well as inspiration from Goodreads lists and the Big Book List.

I’m not planning on reading these books in the same sequence as I have listed. Some books will have a review available, and some will not, and there is no set number of books I plan to read in a year. I will be crossing them out as I’m reading them.

So here is my list:

1. Twain, Mark ~ The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
2. Dumas, Alexandre ~ The Three Musketeers
3. Steinbeck, John ~ The Pearl
4. Dostoyevsky, Fyodor ~ The Brothers Karamazov
5. Whitman, Walt ~ Leaves of Grass
6. Atwood, Margarete ~ Alias Grace Reviewed
7. Blake, William ~ Songs of Innocence and of Experience
8. William Faulkner ~ As I Lay Dying Reviewed
9. Victor Hugo ~ The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
10. Goldsmith, Oliver ~ The Vicar of Wakefield
11. Hawthorne, Nathaniel ~ The House of the Seven Gables
12. Haywood, Eliza ~ Love in Excess
13. Fielding, Henry ~ Joseph Andrews
14. Shelley, Mary ~ The Last Man
15. Eliot, George ~ The Mill on the Floss
16. Eliot, George ~ Middlemarch
17. James, Henry ~ The Wings of the Dove
18. Verne, Jules ~ Around the World in Eighty Days
19. Rhys, Jean ~ Wide Sargasso Sea Reviewed
20. Bronte, Charlotte ~ Villette
21. Bronte, Anne ~ The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Reviewed
22. Wharton, Edith ~ The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton
23. Wharton, Edith ~ The Age of Innocence
24. Stegner, Wallace ~ Angle of Repose
25. Woolf, Virginia ~ A Room of One’s Own
26. Woolf, Virginia ~ The Waves
27. Angelou, Maya ~ I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
28. Ishiguro, Kasuo ~ The Remains of the Day Reviewed
29. Cather, Willa ~ Death Comes for the Archbishop
30. Doyle, Arthur Conan ~ The Hound of the Baskervilles Reviewed
31. Christie, Agatha ~ Murder on the Orient Express
32. Wilde, Oscar ~ The Canterville Ghost
33. Washington, Irving ~ The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
34. Goethe, Johann Wolfgang ~ Faust
35. Alighieri, Dante ~ Inferno
36. Alighieri, Dante ~ Purgatorio
37. Salinger, J. D. ~ The Catcher in the Rye
38. Heller, Joseph ~ Catch-22
39. Chandler, Raymond ~ The Big Sleep
40. James, Henry ~ The Portrait of a Lady
41. Smith, Betty ~ A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
42. O’Connor, Flannery ~ Wise Blood
43. Collins, Wilkie ~ The Woman in White
44. Collins, Wilkie ~ The Moonstone––Reviewed
45. Dickens, Charles ~ Oliver Twist
46. Austen, Jane ~ Mansfield Park
47. Tolstoy, Leo ~ Anna Karenina
48. Tolstoy, Leo ~ War and Peace
49. Lowry, Lois ~ The Giver
50. Greene, Graham ~ The End of The Affair – Reviewed