The Classics Club

These are the fifty classics that I pledge to read over the next five years for the Classics Club, and I’m sure that this list will continue to grow!

1. Othello, William Shakespeare
2. The Tempest, William Shakespeare
3. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
4. One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
5. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
6. The Tale of Genji, Murasaki Shikibu
7. Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
8. Gigi, Colette
9. Dubliners, James Joyce
10. The Magus, John Fowles
11. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
12. The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing
13. Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie
14. The Code of the Woosters, P.G. Wodehouse
15. Rabbit Redux, John Updike
16. Aesop’s Fables
17. A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf
18. To The Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
19. Women in Love, D.H.Lawrence
20. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
21. Vanity Fair, William Thackeray
22. The Good Soldier, Ford Madox Ford
23. The Way We Live Now, Anthony Trollope
24. Moby Dick, Herman Melville
25. Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Samuel Coleridge
26. The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
27. Pilgrim’s Progress, John Bunyan
28. Don Quixote, Miguel De Cervantes
29. Daniel Deronda, George Eliot
30. The Bottle Factory Outing, Beryl Bainbridge
31. Evalina, Fanny Burney
32. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Bronte
33. The Birds and Other Stories, Daphne Du Maurier
34. The Awakening, Kate Chopin
35. The Count of Monte Christo, Alexandre Dumas
36. The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens
37. Hard Times, Charles Dickens
38. My Brilliant Career, Miles Franklin
39. Villette, Charlotte Bronte
40. The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner
41. Madame Bovary, Gustav Flaubert
42. A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemmingway
43. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Victor Hugo
44. Selected Stories, Guy De Maupassant
45. Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral
46. The Story of an African Farm, Olive Shreiner
47. Excellent Women, Barbara Pym
48. The Mysteries of Udolpho, Ann Radcliffe
49. All Quiet on the Western Front, E.M. Remarque
50. Ivanhoe, Sir Walter Scott