The Classics Book Club

A fantastic idea was sent into the blogging world by the incredible Jillian [and by incredible, I mean that for sure and for realz: she's down-to-earth with her journey of reading Literature and ABSOLUTELY NEVER comes across pretentious or arrogant] to unite all readers and bloggers who adore or want to adore The Classics.   Da-da-dum. 

Essentially, the idea is to come up with 50 + books that you'd like to read in 5 years and be surrounded by those who are interested in doing something similar.  To get more deets go to this post.  She does a phenomenal job explaining the in's and out's.  [Ahem, as I mentioned.  *le awesomeness*]

• I've come up with 100 to choose from because I couldn't narrow it down to 50.  HOWEVER, I am in no way expecting myself to finish all 100 in a year because I plan on caring on as I usually do with my adoration of YA, Contemporary, And Whatever Else Meets My Fancy.
• Bolded are re-reads.
• I'm also going to keep a link to this page on my side bar so I can have some sort of accountability when I visit myself.  Like an "oh you there Mr. Classics Book Club button, yes I shall not ignore you".

Without further distractions....The List.


 Pre 1700's - 1700's

• Don Quixote - Cervantes (1605)
• The Monk - Matthew Lewis (1796)

The 1800's

• Mansfield Park - Jane Austen (1814)
• Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen (1817)
• Persuasion - Jane Austen (1817)
• Hunchback of Notre Dame -  Victor Hugo (1831)
• Count of Monte Cristo - Alexander Dumas (1844)
• Agnes Grey - Anne Bronte (1847)
• Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (1847)
• La Dame aux Camelias -Alexandre Dumas (1848)
• The Scarlett Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850)
• Cranford - Elizabeth Gaskell (1851)
• Moby Dick - Herman Melville (1851)
• Vilette - Charlotte Bronte (1853)
• North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell  (1855)
• Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert (1857)
• The Mill on the Floss - George Elliot (1860)
• Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (1862)
• No Name - Wilkie Collins (1862)
• A Long Fatal Love Chase - Louisa May Alcott  (1866 (pub 1995))
• Crime & Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1866)
• The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins (1868)
• Middlemarch - George Elliot (1871)
• The Princess and the Goblin - George MacDonald (1872)
• The Way We Live Now - Anthony Trollope (1875)
• Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy (1877)
• Thus Spake Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzche (1883)
• Flatland - Edwin Abbott (1884)
• Germinal - Emile Zola (1885)
• Looking Backward - Edward Bellamy (1887)
• The Golden Bough - James Frazer (1890)
• Tess of the D'Urbervilles  - Thomas Hardy (1891)
• The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde (1895)
• The Time Machine - HG Wells (1895)
• Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad (1899)

1900's

• Anne of the Green Gables - LM Montogmery (1908)
• Pygmalion - George Bernard Shaw (1912)
• Rememberance of Things Past - Marcel Proust (1913)
• Song of the Lark - Willa Cather (1915)
• The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton (1920)
• Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse (1922)
• A Passage to India  - EM Forster  (1924)
• Mrs. Dalloway  - Virginia Woolf  (1925)
• The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
• The Painted Veil - W. Somerset Maugham (1925)
• Coming of Age in Samoa - Margaret Mead (1928)
• Lady Chatterley's Lover -DH Lawrence (1928)
• The Well of Loneliness -Radclyffe    (1928)
• All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Remarque (1929)
• Look Homeward Angel - Thomas Wolfe (1929)
• The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner (1929)
• Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller (1934)
• Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell (1936)
• Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston (1937)
• Tropic of Capricorn - Henry Miller (1938)
• Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (1939)
• Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers (1940)
• You Can't Go Home Again - Thomas Wolfe ( 1940)
• The Stranger - Albert Camus (1942)
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith (1943)
• Glass Bead Game - Hermann Hesse (1943)
• The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand (1943)
• No Exit - Jean Paul Sarte (1944)
• Man's Search for Meaning  -Victor Frankl (1946)
• Focus - Arthur Miller (1949)
• Love in a Cold Climate - Nancy Mitford (1949)
• The Second Sex - Simone de Beauvoir (1949)
• East of Eden - John Steinbeck (1952)
• Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (1955)
• Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett (1956)
• On the Road - Jack Kerouac (1957)
• Alas, Babylon - Pat Frank (1958)
• Naked Lunch - William S. Burroughs (1959)
• The Tin Drum - Gunter Grass (1959)
• Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein (1961)
• A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle (1962)
• Labyrinths - Luis Borges (1962)
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey (1962)
• The Collector - John Fowles (1963)
• Dune - Frank Herbert (1965)
• Essays in Idleness - Kenko Yoshida (1966)
• One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1967)
• The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov (1967)
• The Dice Man - Luke Rhinehart    (1971)
• The Other Waman - Colette ( 1971)
• Problems of Knowledge and Freedom - Noam Chomsky (1972)
• Crash - JG Ballard (1973)
• The Princess Bride - William Goldman (1973)
• Delta of Venus - Anais Nin (1977)
• Requiem for a Dream-  Hubert Selby Jr. (1978)
• Midnight's Children -  Salman Rushdie (1980)
• Perfume -  Patrick Suskine (1985)
• And the Band Played On  - Randy Shilts (1987)
• The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan (1989)
• The Remains of the Day -  Kazuo Ishiguro (1989)
• Possession - AS Byatt (1990)
• His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman (1995)
• The Hours - Michael Cunningham (1998)

2000's

• The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini (2003)

Total Read:6
Total Remaining:94


Deadline: March 30, 2017