CLASSICS CLUB

Classics Club Challenge

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

  1. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
  2. Little Men by Louisa May Alcott
  3. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
  4. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
  5. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
  6. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
  7. Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
  8. The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
  9. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
  10. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
  11. The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino
  12. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
  13. Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
  14. Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
  15. Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
  16. The Moonstone  by Wilkie Collins
  17. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
  18. No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai
  19. The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
  20. Frenchman’s Creek by Daphne du Maurier
  21. Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier
  22. My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier
  23.  Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  24. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
  25. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
  26.  The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  27. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
  28. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
  29. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
  30.  The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
  31.  The Shining by Stephen King
  32. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
  33. Love in the Time of Cholera  by Gabriel García Márquez
  34. Beloved by Toni Morrison
  35. Jazz by Toni Morrison
  36. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
  37. Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov
  38. No-No Boy by John Osaka
  39. Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake
  40. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
  41. On the Beach by Nevil Shute
  42. Dracula by Bram Stoker
  43. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
  44. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
  45. Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut
  46. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
  47. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
  48. Orlando by Virginia Woolf
  49. The Chrysalids by John Wyndham
  50. We by Yevgeny Zamyatin