Classics Club Master List

I've decided to join a long-term classics challenge. I love reading contemporary titles, but getting books for review means that I've tended to neglect older ones. Anyway, I've made a starter list. They are almost all titles I haven't read before, with the exception of Le Petit Prince and Dorian Gray, and I also included fifty different authors for my own personal take on the challenge. The list is allowed be modified throughout the challenge– the real goal is simply to read fifty classics or more.

Start Date: August 5th 2012
Finish Date: August 5th 2015

Books Read (1/50):

1.  Aesop's Fables by Aesop
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Original List:

1. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
2. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
3. The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
4. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
5. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
6. My Ántonia by Willa Cather 
7. The Duel by Anton Chekov 
8. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
9. Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 
10. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevesky
11. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas 
12. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier  
13. The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
14. Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald  
15. Madame Bovary by Gustav Flaubert
16. Room With a View by E. M. Forster
17. North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
18. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
19. Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy 
20. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
21. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
22. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving 
23. Daisy Miller by Henry James
24. The Dubliners by James Joyce
25. The Trial by Franz Kafka
26. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
27. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
28. Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence
29. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
30. Beloved by Toni Morrison
31. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
32. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
33. The Wine of Solitude by Irène Némirovsky
34. Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
35. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
36. Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger
37. As You Like It by William Shakespeare
38. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith 
39. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
40. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson 
41. Rosencratz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard
42. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 
43. Candide by Voltaire 
44. The House of Mirth by Edith Warton 
45. The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells  
46. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
47. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
48. The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
49. The Waves by Virgina Woolf
50. Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates

Three years may seem like a lot, and I'll be happy if I can finish earlier, but I still have plenty of other books I want to keep reading. I want to make a conscious effort to include more classics, but I'm not going to be suddenly only reading them; at least at this point.

If you're interested in joining this Classics Club, you can learn more about it here. In the meantime, I hope that you enjoy seeing a few more older titles on In The Next Room. Hopefully it'll expose both you, and me, to classic literature in a fun and interactive way.

Time for me to get reading!