My Classics Book List

I have had my literary bucket list up here for quite some time, and I am steadily making my way through the books – albeit slowly. One lovely blogger commented on a post of mine and introduced me to a group of likeminded people, called The Classics Club. This is a group where book lovers come together and set themselves a goal of reading and blogging about at least 50 classics books within five years.

Considering I already had a goal to read as many classics books as possible, I decided to join this group, hoping that their passion for classics books will rub off on me and inspire me to read more. Start date: 31 October, 2017.

My Goal:

To read 50 classic books by 31 October, 2022.

Completed: 4/50
Currently reading: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

The Books:

1. 1984 by George Orwell
2. 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
3. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
4. Animal Farm by George Orwell
5. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
6. At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O’Neill
7. The Bell by Iris Murdoch
8. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
9. Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx     Read 2/11/17
10. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
11. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
12. The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield by Katherine Mansfield
13. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
14. Dracula by Bram Stoker
15. Emma by Jane Austen
16. The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
17. Fingersmith by Sarah Waters     Read 7/1/18 Review.
18. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
19. The Game of Kings by Dorothy Dunnett
20. The Godfather by Mario Puzio
21. The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
22. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
23. A Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
24. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
25. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
26. It by Stephen King      Read 27/10/18
27. Le Morte d’Arthur by Thomas Malory
28. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
29. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
30. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
31. Madame Bovary by Gustav Flaubert
32. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
33. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
34. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
35. Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
36. The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
37. North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
38. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
39. Persuasion by Jane Austen (reread)
40. The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
41. The Princess Bride by William Goldman
42. Richard III by William Shakespeare
43. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
44. The Secret History by Donna Tartt     Read 31/3/18
45. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
46. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
47. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
48. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
49. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
50. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

I think this list is pretty doable. I’ve followed the five-year guideline, so that equates to 10 novels a year. Easy. I hope.

Each time I finish a novel, I will be reviewing it on my blog and will post a link next to the book’s name on this page.

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