Here’s the plan: read 50 classic books in the next 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
Aurelius, Marcus: Meditations
Austen, Jane: Mansfield Park
Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice
Austen, Jane: Persuasion
Austen, Jane: Sense and Sensibility
Austen, Jane: The Watsons, Sanditon
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
Collins, Wilkie: The Woman in White
Dickens, Charles: Great Expectations
Dickens, Charles: Nicholas Nickleby
Dickens, Charles: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
Dostoevesky, Fyodor: The Brothers Karamazov
Dostoevsky, Fyodor: Crime and Punishment
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
Hemingway, Ernest: A Moveable Feast
Irving, John: A Prayer for Owen Meany
le Carre, John: The Spy Who Came In From the Cold
L’Engle, Madeleine: Many Waters
L’Engle, Madeleine: An Acceptable Time
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia: Love in the Time of Cholera
Orwell, George: Animal Farm
Proust, Marcel: Swann’s Way
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
Undset, Sigrid: Kristin Lavransdatter
Waugh, Evelyn: Brideshead Revisited
Wharton, Edith: The Age of Innocence
Wilde, Oscar: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Woolf, Virginia: To the Lighthouse
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