I joined the Classics Club! Basically, this means that I pledge to read 50 classics in the next 5 years (by November 15, 2017), which is a good way to help diversify my reading! I also am going to read many of the classics from 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, so I can kill two birds with one stone!
Here is my list, in no particular order, and I’ll link my reviews as I read!
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck – January 2014
- The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway – Jan 2013
- A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway – January 2014
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov – Book Club Part 1 & Part 2 – April 2014
- Robinson Crusoe – Defoe
- Joseph Andrews – Fielding
- Fanny Hill – Cleland
- The Vicar of Wakefield – Goldsmith
- Humphry Clinker – Smollett
- The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway – Jan 2014
- Aesop’s Fables
- Metamorphoses – Ovid
- Chaireas and Kallirhoe – Chariton
- Aithiopika – Heliodorus
- The Golden Ass – Lucius Apuleius
- A Christmas Carol – read December 2013
- The Pilgrim’s Progress – Bunyan
- The Princess of Cleves
- A Tale of a Tub – Swift
- Love in Excess – Haywood
- Moll Flanders – Defoe
- Roxana – Defoe
- Gulliver’s Travels – Swift
- A Modest Proposal – Swift
- Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus
- Pamela – Richardson
- Clarissa – Richardson
- Roderick Random – Smollett
- Tom Jones – Fielding
- Peregrine Pickle – Smollett
- Sense and Sensibility – Austen
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen – Jan 2013
- Gone with the Wind
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (my first ever video book review!)
- King Lear of the Steppes
- Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote – Dec 2013
- The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath – Dec 2013
- Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier – Jan 2014
- Alias Grace – Atwood
- Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott
- Xingu by Edith Wharton – 2012
- Melmouth the Wanderer
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and My. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson – 2012
- Last of the Mohicans
- The Fall of the House of Usher – Poe – read summer 2013
- Oliver Twist
- The Pit and the Pendulum – Poe – read summer 2013
- The Purloined Letter – Poe – read summer 2013
- Moby Dick
- The House of the Seven Gables
February 2013 Update: Here is my Classics Club Spin list! They chose #14 and my Spin List says I have to read Frankenstein by April!
Great list! Rebecca is one of my absolute favorites. Enjoy! – Melissa
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Thanks! I haven’t read Rebecca and I feel like I must since that’s my name! 🙂
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I’m saying this because I consider you a friend: Don Quixote is ver-very boring. And the language in which it is written is very old and incomprehensible.
I can’t read a line withouth checking the dicionary at least one time…
I would change that book for another…
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Ugh. . . it’s in 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. . . so at some point, before I die, I “must” read it.
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That’s a problem, indeed…. 😛
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Rebecca is a fantastic book! And so is Frankenstein. I may have to join this challenge!
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I must read Rebecca soon (since it’s my namesake) and I’m glad you ended up joining The Classics Club! (Post your link here, too!!!)
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If you say so!
My link is: http://www.thebookwheelblog.com/classics-club/
AND YES, read Rebecca! It’s a re-read for me because I loved it.
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Yay! A list of classics! I just posted my first reading challenge. 🙂
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Awesome!!! Good job!!! I love the Classics Club, it’s such a good idea!
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