The Classics Club

The Classics Club is a blog which encourages people to read and blog about classics. I've decided to join in the fun since I already read and love classical literature.

My goal will be to read a total of 150 classical books in 5 years (by Jan. 2021).

1. Achebe, Chinua: Things Fall Apart
2. Angelou, Maya: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
3. Austen, Jane: Complete Juvenilia
4. Austen, Jane: Mansfield Park
5. Austen, Jane: Northanger Abbey
6. Austen, Jane: Sanditon
7. Austen, Jane: Selected Letters
8. Austen, Jane: Sense and Sensibility
9. Austen, Jane: The Watsons
10. Bronte, Anne: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
11. Bronte, Charlotte: Villette
12. Bronte, Emily: Wuthering Heights
13. Buchan, John: The Thirty-Nine Steps
14. Bulgakov, Mikhail: The White Guard
15. Bulgakov, Mikhail: Diaboliad
16. Bulgakov, Mikhail: Life of Mr. de Molière
17. Burney, Frances: Evelina
18. Cather, Willa: My Antonia
19. Collins, Wilkie: The Woman in White
20. Cooper, James Fenimore: The Last of the Mohicans
21. Crane, Stephen: Red Badge of Courage
22. Danielwski, Mark Z.: House of Leaves
23. de Cervantes, Miguel: Don Quixote
24. Defoe, Daniel: Moll Flanders
25. Dickens, Charles: David Copperfield
26. Dickens, Charles: Tale of Two Cities
27. Dickens, Charles: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
28. Dostoevesky, Fyodor: The Brothers Karamazov
29. Dostoevesky, Fyodor: The Idiot
30. Dostoevsky, Fyodor: Crime and Punishment
31. Dreiser, Theodore: American Tragedy
32. Dreiser, Theodore: Sister Carrie
33. Dreiser, Theodore: The Financier
34. Dreiser, Theodore: The Titan
35. Dreiser, Theodore: The Stoic
36. Du Maurier, Daphne: Rebecca
37. Dumas, Alexandre: The Count of Monte Cristo
38. Eco, Umberto: The Name of the Rose
39. Edgeworth, Maria: Castle Rackrent
40. Eliot, George: Middlemarch
41. Faulkner, William: As I Lay Dying
42. Faulks, Sebastian: Birdsong
43. Fitzgerald, F. Scott: Tender is the Night
44. Fitzgerald, F. Scott: This Side of Paradise
45. Foer, Jonathan Safran: Everything is Illuminated
46. Ford, Ford Madox: The Good Soldier
47. Forster, E.M.: Passage to India
48. Gaskell, Elizabeth: North and South
49. Goethe, Johann: Faust
50. Gogol, Nikolay: Dead Souls
51. Gogol, Nikolay: The Inspector General
52. Haggard, Henry Rider: King Solomon’s Mines
53. Hansberry, Lorraine: A Raisin in the Sun
54. Hardy, Thomas: Far From the Madding Crowd
55. Hardy, Thomas: Jude the Obscure 
56. Hardy, Thomas: The Mayor of Casterbridge 
57. Hawthorne, Nathaniel: The Scarlet Letter (review)
58. Heller, Joseph: Catch-22
59. Hemingway, Ernest: For Whom the Bell Tolls
60. Hemingway, Ernest: The Garden of Eden
61. Hemingway, Ernest: A Moveable Feast 
62. Hemingway, Ernest: To Have and Have Not 
63. Hemingway, Ernest: Across the River and into the Trees 
64. Hugo, Victor: Les Miserables
65. Hugo, Victor: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
66. Hurston, Zora Neale: Their Eyes Were Watching God
67. Irving, John: A Prayer for Owen Meany
68. Irving, John The World According to Garp
69. Ishiguro, Kazuo: Remains of the Day
70. James, Henry: The Portrait of a Lady
71. Joyce, James: Ulysses
72. Joyce, James: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 
73. Joyce, James: Finnegans Wake 
74. Kafka, Franz: The Castle
75. Kafka, Franz: The Trial
76. Kawabata, Yasunari: Thousand Cranes
77. Kerouac, Jack: On the Road (review)
78. Kingsolver, Barbara: The Poisonwood Bible
79. Knowles, John: A Separate Peace
80. Lawrence, D.H.: Lady Chatterley’s Lover
81. Marquez, Gabriel Garcia: Love in the Time of Cholera
82. Marquez, Gabriel Garcia: Memories of My Melancholy Whores
83. Marquez, Gabriel Garcia: The General in His Labyrinth
84. Maupassant, Guy de: Bel-Ami
85. McCullers, Carson: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
86. Melville, Herman: Moby Dick
87. Miller, Arthur: Death of a Salesman
88. Milton, John: Paradise Lost
89. Morrison, Toni: Song of Solomon
90. Morrison, Toni: The Bluest Eye
91. Nesbit, E: The Enchanted Castle
92. O, Brien: Tim: The Things They Carried
93. Pamuk, Orhan: My Name is Red
94. Pasternak, Boris: Doctor Zhivago
95. Pepys, Samuel: Diary of Samuel Pepys
96. Plath, Sylvia: Ariel
97. Plath, Sylvia: The Bell Jar
98. Rand, Ayn: Atlas Shrugged
99. Rand, Ayn: The Fountainhead
100. Rhys, Jean: Wide Sargasso Sea
101. Richardson, Samuel: Clarissa
102. Rushdie, Salman: Midnight’s Children
103. Rushdie, Salman: The Satanic Verses
104. Salinger, J.D.: Nine Stories
105. Salinger, J.D: Franny and Zooey
106. Sand, George: Consuelo
107. Shelley, Mary: Frankenstein
108. Solzhenitsyn, Alexander: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
109. Solzhenitsyn, Alexander: The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
110. Solzhenitsyn, Alexander: Cancer Ward
111. Steinbeck, John: America and Americans
112. Steinbeck, John: Cannery Row
113. Steinbeck, John: East of Eden
114. Steinbeck, John: Sweet Thursday
115. Steinbeck, John: The Grapes of Wrath
116. Steinbeck, John: The Pastures of Heaven
117. Steinbeck, John: The Pearl
118. Steinbeck, John: The Red Pony
119. Steinbeck, John: The Winter of Our Discontent
120. Steinbeck, John: Tortilla Flat
121. Steinbeck, John: Travels with Charley in Search of America
122. Stendhal: The Red and the Black
123. Stendhal: The Charterhouse of Parma
124. Stendhal: Armance
125. Sterne, Laurence: Tristam Shandy
126. Stoker, Bram: Dracula
127. Tan, Amy: The Joy Luck Club
128. Thackeray, William Makepeace: Vanity Fair
129. Tolstoy, Leo: Anna Karenina
130. Tolstoy, Leo: The Death of Ivan Ilyich
131. Tolstoy, Leo: War and Peace
132. Twain, Mark: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
133. Verne, Jules: Around the World in Eighty Days
134. Verne, Jules: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
135. Verne, Jules: Journey to the Center of the Earth
136. Verne, Jules: From the Earth to the Moon
137. Verne, Jules: Five Weeks in a Balloon
138. Walker, Alice: The Color Purple
139. Watson, Winifred: Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
140. Waugh, Evelyn: Brideshead Revisited
141. Wells, H.G.: The War of the Worlds
142. Wells, H.G.: The Invisible Man
143. Wells, H.G.: The Island of Dr. Moreau
144. Wells, H.G.: The Food of the Gods 
145. Wharton, Edith: Ethan Frome
146. Wilde, Oscar: The Picture of Dorian Gray
147. Woolf, Virginia: Mrs. Dalloway
148. Wright, Richard: Native Son
149. Zamyatin, Yevgeny: We
150. Zola, Emile: Germinal

That's quite a list there! I'm already looking forward to reading and reviewing these books.