Goal: Read 50 classic novels in the next five years
Start Date: January 1, 2019
End Date: January 1, 2024
In my continuing efforts to become a well read person, I’m committing to reading 50 classic novels over the next five years. This list consists of works that I’ve never read as well as some favorites that I’ve never reviewed on my blog. As I update my progress, you can click on the title for my review.
Books Completed: 50/50
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- Little Men by Louisa May Alcott
- The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
- Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
- Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
- The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
- A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
- The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino
- The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
- Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
- Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
- Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
- The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
- The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
- No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai
- The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
- Frenchman’s Creek by Daphne du Maurier
- Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier
- My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier
- Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
- The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
- The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
- The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
- The Shining by Stephen King
- The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- Jazz by Toni Morrison
- Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
- Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov
- No-No Boy by John Osaka
- Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- On the Beach by Nevil Shute
- Dracula by Bram Stoker
- Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
- Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut
- Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- Orlando by Virginia Woolf
- The Chrysalids by John Wyndham
- We by Yevgeny Zamyatin