The Classics Club is a sort of blogger challenge where you make a list of 50 or more classics and pledge to try to read them in 5 years or less. Rereads allowed! Check it out here.
And here is my list of 50 books! Books 1-9 are rereads. When I write a review to one of these books, I'll post the link up here as well as on the review page.
Wish me luck! I'm setting my end date at October 21st, 2018.
Persuasion by Jane Austen(Here is a post I wrote on Wentworth.)Gone With The Wind by Margaret MitchellJane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte.
- Joan of Arc by Mark Twain
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
- The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy
- The Black Arrow by Robert Lewis Stevenson
- The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- The White Company by A. Conan Doyle
The Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde- 1984 by George Orwell
- Villette by Charlotte Bronte
- The Color Purple by Alice Walker
- Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte
The Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells- Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
- Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
- The Trial by Franz Kafka
- The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
- Ivanhoe by Walter Scott
- Ben Hur by Lew Wallace
- An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde
- The Making of a Marchioness by Francis Hodgson Burnett
- The Shuttle by Francis Hodgson Burnett
- No Name by Wilkie Collins
- Armadale by Wilkie Collins
- O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
- The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather
- My Antonia by Willa Cather
- Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
- Middlemarch by George Eliot
- Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
Madam Bovary by Gustave Flaubert- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
- The Bible (an ambitious undertaking, to be sure!)
- Othello by William Shakespeare
- Henry V by William Shakespeare
- An Old Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- The Thirty Nine Steps by John Buchan
Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens- The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo- The Man Who would be King by Rudyard Kipling
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- The Sea Wolf by Jack London
- Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- Dracula by Bram Stoker
Wonderful list! Gone with the Wind and Persuasion and Fahrenheit 451 are some of my favorites!
ReplyDeleteI'm excited to read them (or reread them, in the case of the first two)!
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~Sophia
Oh, Gone With the Wind is my most treasured favorite. I'm excited that you'll be rereading it! :-) I'm also curious to read your #5. I read a Twain biography recently, and he was apparently very fond of that title. #15 is another favorite of mine. I'm currently rereading your #36. Very best wishes to you on this! Welcome to the club, Sophia.
ReplyDeleteTwain's Joan of Arc is truly SPECTACULAR. :-) I highly recommend it. It took him twelve years to write it, I think. He researched it for ten years before actually putting pen to paper. He did consider it his finest work - and no one really knows about it! It's too bad.
DeleteI'm glad you like Agnes Grey! I've read Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre and loved them, so I thought that the third Bronte deserved a read as well... :-)
And I suppose #36 could be considered a reread for me as well - it's just I've never sat down and read it cover to cover.
Great list! I'm currently having a bit of a thorough peruse of your blog! haha
ReplyDeleteI really loved The 39 Steps when I read it, and Cyrano de Bergerac is also great fun. I'm currently reading Villette as well and it is beautiful! I hope you really enjoy chomping your way through these :) It should be a great experience for you!
Rachel
Dashing Good Books
Peruse away!
DeleteI am so excited to read all these books - especially Cyrano. I've seen the movie and I love the story, so actually reading it should be awesome.