The Classics Club

As part of my ongoing goal to read more classics, I've signed up to participate in The Classics Club. I'm aiming to read 50 of the following classics in the next 5 years (those with stars are also part of my 26 by 26 list).

Titles completed/in progress:
  1. Emma by Jane Austen
  2. A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  3. The Sign of Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  4. Middlemarch by George Eliot
  5. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
  6. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
  7. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy*
  8. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
  9. The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Titles to choose from:
(Original list of 75, of which I would choose 50. List will adjust as I go, but these are the current front-runners for the remainder of my reading.)
  1. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
  2. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
  3. The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
  4. Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
  5. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
  6. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
  7. The Master and the Margarita by Michael Bulgakov
  8. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
  9. Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
  10. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carre
  11. Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
  12. A Tale of Two Cites by Charles Dickens
  13. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
  14. Sketches by Boz by Charles Dickens
  15. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
  16. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
  17. Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
  18. Light in August by William Faulkner
  19. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
  20. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  21. Tales of the Jazz Age by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  22. Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  23. Madame Bovary by Gustav Flaubert
  24. Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
  25. The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  26. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
  27. Across the River and Into the Trees by Ernest Hemingway*
  28. The Garden of Eden by Ernest Hemingway*
  29. To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway*
  30. Islands in the Stream by Ernest Hemingway*
  31. The Nick Adams Stories by Ernest Hemingway*
  32. The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway by... Ernest Hemingway*
  33. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway*
  34. The Torrents of Spring by Ernest Hemingway*
  35. True at First Light by Ernest Hemingway*
  36. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
  37. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
  38. Dubliners by James Joyce
  39. Lady Chatterly's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
  40. Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
  41. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  42. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  43. Bel Ami by Guy de Maupassant
  44. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
  45. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
  46. Lolita by Vladimir Nobokov
  47. At Swim Two Birds by Flann O'Brien
  48. The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
  49. 1984 by George Orwell
  50. The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
  51. The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allen Poe
  52. Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allen Poe
  53. Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
  54. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
  55. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
  56. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
  57. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
  58. Robinson Crusoe by Robert Louis Stevenson
  59. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
  60. Dracula by Bram Stoker
  61. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
  62. The Warden by Anthony Trollope
  63. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
  64. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
  65. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
  66. House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
  67. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

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