I recently posted about reading classic literature, and how I feel like I need to read more of it, so I have decided to join The Classics Club! The goal is to read 50 classics in 5 years. I will post my thoughts, progress, and reviews here as I tackle my giant list. I am a little intimidated by this challenge, but I’m excited too. Thanks to Arya at fangirlarya for telling me about this club! If you want to join me let me know in the comments and we can cheer each other on! Here we go!
Start Date: July 19th, 2017
End Goal Date: July 19th 2022
Current Total: 10/50
THE LIST:
Sense and Sensibility by Jane AustenAnna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy- Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Wuthering Heights by Emily BronteEmma by Jane Austen- Villette by Charlotte Bronte
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood- Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
- Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
- Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
- The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
- Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
- The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier- The Three Muskateers by Alexandre Dumas
- As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Persuasion by Jane Austen- Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
- Little Foxes by Lillian Hellman
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
- The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
- Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
- Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Mongomery
- 1984 by George Orwell
- The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
- Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
- Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen- A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
- Cat On A Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams
- The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote
- A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie- The Magician’s Nephew by C.S. Lewis
- A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen
- Long Day’s Journey Into Night by Eugene O’Neill
- The Children’s Hour by Lillian Hellman
Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann- The Godfather by Maurio Puzo
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- On the Road by Jack Kerouak
We have so many similar books on our Classics Club List!! I just typed mine up tonight and am posting it on Thursday! Excited to follow your progress! 🙂
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Yay! Definitely keep me posted! It’ll be fun to go through it with someone 🙂
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Yes it will😊
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Awesome list, & welcome to the club! If my welcome isn’t a tad late. 🙂 ❤
I wish for you 21, 29, and 49.
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Hey girl!! I was just looking through pages/sites I had bookmarked on my laptop and I came across this blog post lol how’s this challenge been going for you??
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Hi! Oh girl, I’ve been struggling haha I always enjoy the classics when I actually get to them, but for some reason I just am never in the mood to start one so I’m super behind. I’m reading Persuasion by Jane Austen right now though and I’m absolutely loving it.
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Haha I do understand that feeling sometimes! I think that’s the last Jane Austen I need to read!! It’s pretty good though?
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I loved it! Just finished it today!
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Oh that’s awesome!!
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