From my previous post: In researching a Classical Reading Challenge - I found THE CLASSICS CLUB! And now I am completing my initiation to join the super-exclusive, private and coveted Classics Club (just kidding, anyone can join as long as you make a list of at least 50 Classics you are committing to read over the next 5 years or less, want to join? Click here). But I'm still excited to be in a club!
Just kidding - also not a requirement. And thank goodness for that! 😂
So, without further ado, here is my list of 50 Classics I plan to read in the next 5 years! I began this list in 2020. If all goes well, I will finish the list by June of 2025. Of course I am way behind, which is why I am digging this out - and updating some of the titles according to what I've read and changing some books on the list to ones I will more realistically read. So, in alphabetical (not reading) order...
Classics I've Read Before I Began the Challenge: (so you know why they're not on the list)
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen
Emma by Jane Austen
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Sense & Sensibility by Jane Austen
Lady Susan by Jane Austen
Interior Castles by St. Teresa of Avila
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
The Boy Scout's Handbook (1911)
The American Boys Handybook by Daniel Carter Beard (founder of Boy Scouts)
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
Elephants Can Remember by Agatha Christie
By the Pricking of my Thumbs by Agatha Christie
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
The Innocence of Father Brown by GK Chesterton
Matilda by Roald Dahl (and others by him but are these classics? They’re not very old, but I've seen them included on lists...)
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Dark Night of the Soul by San Juan de la Cruz
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Emily Dickinson's Poems
The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Odyssey by Homer
The Sickness Unto Death by Soren Kirkegaard
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Four Loves by C.S. Lewis
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
The Problem with Pain by C.S. Lewis
Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
The Adventures of Winnie the Pooh by AA Milne
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe
The Harry Potter series by JK Rowling (modern classic?)
Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by JRR Tolkien
The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Black Beauty by Anne Sewell
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Ain't I A Woman? by Sojourner Truth
Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne
Charlotte's Web by EB White
Stuart Little by EB White
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
- 1984 by George Orwell
- The A.B.C Murders by Agatha Christie
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
And Then There Were Non by Agatha Christie - Read August 2020- As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
- A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
- The Color Purple by Alice Walker
- The Complete Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen
- The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales by The Brothers Grimm
- Crooked House by Agatha Christie
A Death in the Family by James Agee - Read Feb. 2023The Divine Comedy I & II: Inferno & Purgatory by Dante Alighieri - Read 2023- Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Endless Night by Agatha Christie
Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories by Flannery O'Connor - Read Jan. 2023Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder - Read 2022- Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor - Read Jan. 2021- In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
- Introduction to the Devout Life by St. Francis de Sales - Currently Reading
Kindred by Octavia Butler - Read June 2020- The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
- Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G.K. Chesterton
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway - Read Dec. 2022- Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Murder in the Cathedral by T.S. Elliot - Read Feb. 2023The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie - Read Dec. 2022- The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe
- My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier
- The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot #1) by Agatha Christie
- Night by Elie Wiesel
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
- The Princess Bride by William Goldman
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier - Read July 2020- The Red House Mystery by A.A. Milne
- The Roman Hat Mystery by Ellery Queen
- The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy
- The Silver Chalice by Thomas B. Costain
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury - Read July 2020- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Hurston Neale
- The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
- The Turn of the Screw by James Henry
- The Violent Bear it Away by Flannery O'Connor
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson- Whose Body? By Dorothy L. Sayers
- The Wisdom of Father Brown by G.K. Chesteron
Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor - Read Jan. 2023Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte - Read July 2020
MAY SUB IN:
- The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
- The Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis
- Till We Both Have Faces by C.S. Lewis
- Utopia by Thomas More
- Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
- Miss Pinkerton by Mary Roberts Rineheart
- The Group by Mary McCarthy
Classics I've Read Before I Began the Challenge: (so you know why they're not on the list)
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen
Emma by Jane Austen
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Sense & Sensibility by Jane Austen
Lady Susan by Jane Austen
Interior Castles by St. Teresa of Avila
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
The Boy Scout's Handbook (1911)
The American Boys Handybook by Daniel Carter Beard (founder of Boy Scouts)
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
Elephants Can Remember by Agatha Christie
By the Pricking of my Thumbs by Agatha Christie
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
The Innocence of Father Brown by GK Chesterton
Matilda by Roald Dahl (and others by him but are these classics? They’re not very old, but I've seen them included on lists...)
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Dark Night of the Soul by San Juan de la Cruz
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Emily Dickinson's Poems
The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Odyssey by Homer
The Sickness Unto Death by Soren Kirkegaard
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Four Loves by C.S. Lewis
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
The Problem with Pain by C.S. Lewis
Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
The Adventures of Winnie the Pooh by AA Milne
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe
The Harry Potter series by JK Rowling (modern classic?)
Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by JRR Tolkien
The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Black Beauty by Anne Sewell
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Ain't I A Woman? by Sojourner Truth
Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne
Charlotte's Web by EB White
Stuart Little by EB White
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Complete Mother Goose
All the original Dr. Seuss books
And probably more I'm forgetting...
All the original Dr. Seuss books
And probably more I'm forgetting...
If you made it all the way to end of this massive post, I salute you! 😂. And now... TELL ME WHAT I'VE MISSED!!?? What CLASSICS do you love???
I want to read the classics that are IMPORTANT, but also the ones that are BEAUTIFUL. I loved The Great Gatsby because it whisks you away into a new world, heavy on description, heavy on heartbreak (you know how I love my books to ruin me). So please give me suggestions! Even though my list(s) are already entirely too long :)
I want to read the classics that are IMPORTANT, but also the ones that are BEAUTIFUL. I loved The Great Gatsby because it whisks you away into a new world, heavy on description, heavy on heartbreak (you know how I love my books to ruin me). So please give me suggestions! Even though my list(s) are already entirely too long :)
What good is a TBR list if you finish it, right?? Clearly I'm already working on my list of 50 for the next 5 years 😂
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