Here is a list of classic books I plan to read and hopefully within five years which is by 2022. I found this challenge on The Classics Club Blog. The minimum number of books is 50 but I ended up picking around 84 books.
Here’s the list:
- Alcott, Louisa May: Jo’s Boys
- Alcott, Louisa May: Little Men
- Angelou, Maya: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- Arnow, Harriette: The Dollmaker
- Austen, Jane: Northabbenger Abby
- Atwood, Margaret: A Handmaid’s Tale
- Bradbury, Ray: Fahrenheit 451
- Bronte, Anne: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
- Burgess, Anthony: A Clockwork Orange
- Burnett, Frances Hodgson: The Secret Garden
- Camus, Albert: Stranger
- Carroll, Lewis: Alice in Wonderland
- Danielwski, Mark Z.: House of Leaves
- Dante: The Divine Comedy
- de Saint-Exupery, Antoine: The Little Prince
- Dickens, Charles: Tale of Two Cities
- Dostoevesky, Fyodor: The Brothers Karamazov
- Dostoevsky, Fyodor: Crime and Punishment
- Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan: The Complete Sherlock Holmes
- Du Maurier, Daphne: Rebecca
- Dumas, Alexandre: The Man in the Iron Mask
- Dumas, Alexandre: The Three Musketeers
- Euripedes: Medea
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott: Tender is the Night
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott: The Beautiful and Damned
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott: The Great Gatsby
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott: This Side of Paradise
- Flaubert, Gustav: Madame Bovary
- Foer, Jonathan Safran: Everything is Illuminated
- Golding, William: Lord of the Flies
- Hamilton, Edith: Mythology
- Hardy, Thomas: Tess of the D’Urbervilles
- Hemingway, Ernest: The Garden of Eden
- Hemingway, Ernest: The Old Man and the Sea
- Homer: The Iliad
- Homer: The Odyssey
- Hugo, Victor: Les Miserables
- Huxley, Aldous: Brave New World
- Ibsen, Henrick: Doll’s House
- James, Henry: The Portrait of a Lady
- James, Henry: Turn of the Screw
- Joyce, James: Ulysses
- Kafka, Franz: Metamorphosis
- Kesey, Ken: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
- Kipling, Rudyard: The Man Who Would Be King
- Lady Muraski: The Tale of the Genji
- Lawrence, D.H.: Lady Chatterley’s Lover
- Lawrence, D.H.: Women in Love
- Melville, Herman: Moby Dick
- Miller, Arthur: Death of a Salesman
- Miller, Arthur: The Crucible
- Milton, John: Paradise Lost
- Montgomery, L.M.: Anne of Green Gables
- Murakami, Haruki: Norwegian Wood
- Orczy, Baroness: The Scarlet Pimpernel
- Orwell, George: Animal Farm
- Ovid: Metamorphoses
- Plath, Sylvia: Ariel
- Plath, Sylvia: The Bell Jar
- Rushdie, Salman: The Satanic Verses
- Salinger, J.D.: The Catcher in the Rye
- Salinger, J.D: Franny and Zooey
- Shakespeare, William: Hamlet
- Shakespeare, William: King Lear
- Shakespeare, William: Macbeth
- Shelley, Mary: Frankenstein
- Sophocles: Antigone
- Steinbeck, John: East of Eden
- Steinbeck, John: Of Mice and Men
- Steinbeck, John: The Grapes of Wrath
- Thackeray, William Makepeace: Vanity Fair
- Tolkein, J.R.R.: The Hobbit
- Tolkein, J.R.R.: The Lord of the Rings
- Tolstoy, Leo: Anna Karenina
- Tolstoy, Leo: War and Peace
- Verne, Jules: The Mysterious Island
- Vonnegut, Kurt: Slaughterhouse Five
- Walker, Alice: The Color Purple
- Waugh, Evelyn: Brideshead Revisited
- Whitman, Walt: Leaves of Grass
- Wilde, Oscar: The Importance of Being Earnest
- Williams, Tennessee: A Streetcar Named Desire
- Woolf, Virginia: A Room of One’s Own
- Woolf, Virginia: Mrs. Dalloway
- Woolf, Virginia: The Waves
What you should know:
- The books won’t be read in order. When I start a book, I’ll put up an announcement on Twitter for those interested reading along with me. Maybe we can do a sort of shared post on my blog.
- Every book I read will have a review written for them.
- Bolded = Read. Itacilized = Favorite.
- To join me on Twitter, follow @CamilleaReads
