3.09.2012

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

6 comments:

  1. YAY! And Jillian is awesome, isn't she? :)

    I love your list! I thought I had a lot of mine, but then i see titles on yours that aren't on mine...makes me want to add more. :)

    I say you read all of them.

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  2. Oh Allie, I definitely plan on reading all of these EVENTUALLY, just don't know if I can commit to 100 in 5 years. ;-)

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  3. Reading other people's lists is proving to be a dangerous pastime. Mine is growing by the minute.
    Good luck with your reading!

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  4. Aw, thank you for that very kind introduction. :D

    Horray for Gone With the Wind!! I can't wait to hear what you think of it.

    Also, Anne of Green Gables.

    Yay for joining, Christina!! ;)

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  5. Your list is fantastic. I lead a classical literature club for kids and parents. There are two groups: high school/adult and younger than high school. We read 10 books a year in each group. I'm glad I found you here. Check out my list for this year.
    http://www.alident.org/planning-your-own-literature-club/

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  6. You have Monte Cristo, La Dame aux Camellias, and Pygmalion on your list. Those are great things to read.

    Happy reading.

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