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: 37/50
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- Little Men by Louisa May Alcott
- The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
- The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
- Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
- 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
- Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
- Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
- Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
- The Dead Secret by Wilkie Collins
- The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
- The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
- The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
- The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
- Bleak House by Charles Dickens
- My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier
- Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Wind in the Willows by Thomas Grahame
- The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
- Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
- A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
- The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
- The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
- The Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka
- 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
- Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- Jazz by Toni Morrison
- Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
- Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov
- Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake
- Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
- Around the World in 80 days by Jules Verne
- Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
- Orlando by Virginia Woolf
- We by Yevgeny Zamyatin