Sunday, October 11, 2015

The List

Here is my list of classic books that I plan to read and blog about over the next five years as part of "The Classics Club".


  1. Alcott, Louisa May: Little Women
  2. Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice
  3. Burnett, Frances Hodgson: The Secret Garden
  4. Conrad, Joseph: Heart of Darkness
  5. Cooper, James Fenimore: The Last of the Mohicans
  6. Danielwski, Mark Z.: House of Leaves
  7. de Cervantes, Miguel: Don Quixote
  8. Edgeworth, Maria: Castle Rackrent
  9. Eliot, George: Adam Bede
  10. Forster, E.M.: Passage to India
  11. Fowles, John: The French Lieutenant’s Woman
  12. Gaskell, Elizabeth: Wives and Daughters
  13. Golding, William: Lord of the Flies
  14. Hardy, Thomas: Far From the Madding Crowd
  15. Hawthorne, Nathaniel: The Scarlet Letter
  16. Ibsen, Henrick: Enemy of the People
  17. Irving, Washington: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
  18. James, Henry: Turn of the Screw
  19. Joyce, James: Ulysses
  20. Kerouac, Jack: On the Road
  21. Kesey, Ken: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
  22. Lee, Harper: To Kill a Mockingbird
  23. Leroux, Gaston: The Phantom of Opera
  24. Mailer, Norman: An American Dream
  25. Morrison, Toni: Song of Solomon
  26. Nesbit, E: The Enchanted Castle
  27. Nietzsche, Friedrich: Beyond Good and Evil
  28. O’Connor, Flannery: A Good Man is Hard to Find
  29. Orczy, Baroness: The Scarlet Pimpernel
  30. Paton, Alan: Cry, the Beloved Country
  31. Plath, Sylvia: Ariel
  32. Rand, Ayn: Atlas Shrugged
  33. Rhys, Jean: Wide Sargasso Sea
  34. Scott, Sir Walter: Ivanhoe
  35. Shaw, George Bernard: Mrs. Warren’s Profession
  36. Sinclair, Upton: The Jungle
  37. Smith, Betty: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
  38. Steinbeck, John: East of Eden
  39. Thackeray, William Makepeace: Vanity Fair
  40. Trollope, Anthony: The Way We Live Now
  41. Voltaire: Candide
  42. Vonnegut, Kurt: Slaughterhouse Five
  43. Walker, Alice: The Color Purple
  44. Waugh, Evelyn: Brideshead Revisited
  45. Wells, H.G.: The War of the Worlds
  46. Wharton, Edith: The Glimpses of the Moon
  47. Wouk, Herman: The Winds of War
  48. Wright, Richard: Native Son
  49. Zola, Emile: The Earth