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: 17/50
Currently reading:

The Books:

1. 1984 by George Orwell
2. A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
3. Animal Farm by George Orwell        Read 3/10/20
4. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
5. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
6. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh      Read 29/10/20
7. Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx     Read 2/11/17
8. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens     Read 25/1/19
9. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
10. Days Without End by Sebastian Barry     Read 14/5/19
11. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
12. Dracula by Bram Stoker
13. Emma by Jane Austen
14. The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
15. Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
16. Fingersmith by Sarah Waters     Read 7/1/18 – Review
17. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley        Read 14/10/20 – Review
18. The Game of Kings by Dorothy Dunnett
19. The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
20. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell      Read 24/3/19
21. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood     Read 30/10/19
22. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
23. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
24. It by Stephen King      Read 27/10/18
25. Le Morte d’Arthur by Thomas Malory
26. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo        Read 20/11/20 – Review
27. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis        Read 5/10/20
28. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery     Read 11/7/20
29. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott      Read 28/2/20
30. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
31. Maurice by E.M. Forster      Read 21/2/20
32. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
33. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
34. The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
35. North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
36. Persuasion by Jane Austen (reread)
37. The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
38. The Princess Bride by William Goldman
39. Richard III by William Shakespeare
40. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
41. The Secret History by Donna Tartt     Read 31/3/18
42. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
43. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
44. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
45. Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin        Read 20/7/20
46. The Talented Mr. Ripely by Patricia Highsmith
47. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
48. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
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.