Here’s the plan: read 50 classic books in 5 years (August 1, 2018 – August 1, 2023) for the Classics Club.  Here’s my list! I’ll link to my reviews here once I’ve read them.

Acehbe, Chinua: Things Fall Apart
Alcott, Louisa May: Little Women
Alighieri, Dante: Inferno (started but put it down and here we are…)
Alighieri, Dante: Purgatorio
Alighieri, Dante: Paradiso
✓Austen, Jane: Mansfield Park
✓ Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice
✓ Austen, Jane: Persuasion (read in 2022 but I didn’t write a review)
✓ Austen, Jane: Sense and Sensibility
✓ Austen, Jane: The Watsons, Sanditon (read in 2019 but apparently forgot to write a review)
Bronte, Charlotte: Villette
Burns, Olive: Cold Sassy Tree
Camus, Alber: The Stranger
Cather, Willa: My Antonia
✓ Christie, Agatha: A Murder is Announced
✓ Christie, Agatha: Peril at End House
✓ Christie, Agatha: The Labours of Hercules (read in 2023)
✓ Collins, Wilkie: The Woman in White
✓ Dickens, Charles: David Copperfield (read in 2022)
✓ Dickens, Charles: Nicholas Nickleby
Dostoevesky, Fyodor: The Brothers Karamazov (started but did not finish)
✓ Du Maurier, Daphne: The House on the Strand
✓ Du Maurier, Daphne: My Cousin Rachel
Eliot, George: The Mill on the Floss
✓ Forster, E.M.: Room With a View
✓ Frank, Pat: Alas, Babylon
✓ Gaskell, Elizabeth: Cranford
✓ Gaskell, Elizabeth: North & South
✓ Gaskell, Elizabeth: Mary Barton
✓ Gibbons, Stella: Cold Comfort Farm (I remember writing a review but it was lost somewhere)
Hemingway, Ernest: A Moveable Feast
Irving, John: A Prayer for Owen Meany
✓ le Carre, John: The Spy Who Came In From the Cold (read in 2021 but didn’t review it here)
✓ L’Engle, Madeleine: Many Waters
✓ L’Engle, Madeleine: An Acceptable Time
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia: Love in the Time of Cholera
Orwell, George: Animal Farm
Sayers, Dorothy: Gaudy Night
Sayers, Dorothy: Have His Carcase
✓ Shakespeare, William: Othello
Shakespeare, William: Richard II
Shakespeare, William: Richard III
Shakespeare, William: Two Gentlemen of Verona
Sophocles: Antigone
Tolstoy, Leo: Anna Karenina
✓ Tolstoy, Leo: War and Peace
✓ Trollope, Anthony: Barchester Towers
Wharton, Edith: The Age of Innocence
✓ Wilde, Oscar: The Picture of Dorian Gray
✓ Woolf, Virginia: To the Lighthouse

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