As of January 2024 I’ll be participating in The Classics Club. Here are the 50 classic novels I hope to read within the next 5 years, in order of publication…
Richard III by William Shakespeare (1592)
Hamlet by William Shakespeare (1599)
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift (1726)
Candide by Voltaire (1759)
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1813) read in April 2024, review can be found here
Emma by Jane Austen (1815)
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (1818)
The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe (1841)
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (1847)
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (1847)
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray (1848)
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins (1860)
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins (1868)
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (1886)
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (1890)
Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)
The Awakening by Kate Chopin (1899)
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle (1902)
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame (1908)
Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie (1911)
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (1920)
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (1922)
A Passage to India by E.M. Forester (1924)
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (1925)
The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain (1934)
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (1938)
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie (1939)
The Stranger by Albert Camus (1942)
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (1954)
Lord of the Flies by William Golding (1954)
American Classics
Walden by Henry David Thoreau (1854)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (1876)
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (1884)
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (1868)
The Call of the Wild by Jack London (1903)
Passing by Nella Larsen (1929) ~ read March 2024, review can be found here.
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (1936)
To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway (1937)
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (1937)
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (1939)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith (1943)
1984 by George Orwell (1949)
On the Road by Jack Kerouac (1957)
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1960) ~ read in February 2024, review can be found here.
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury (1962)
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway (1964)
The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller (1992)
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (2003)
International Classics
The Odyssey by Homer (English publication 1614)
The Art of War by Sun Tzu (English publication 1910)
My first post about the challenge can be found here. Details of the challenge can be found on The Classics Club blog. I’ll be reviewing each book I read and my goal is to read every book on this list by the end of 2029.
Feel free to follow along or comment with a link to your own Classics Club posts so I can check them out!
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