Classics Club

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!

1. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck – January 2014
2. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway – Jan 2013
3. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway – January 2014
4. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov – Book Club Part 1 & Part 2 – April 2014
5. Robinson Crusoe – Defoe
6. Joseph Andrews – Fielding
7. Fanny Hill – Cleland
8. The Vicar of Wakefield – Goldsmith
9. Humphry Clinker – Smollett
10. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway – Jan 2014
11. Aesop’s Fables
12. Metamorphoses – Ovid
13. Chaireas and Kallirhoe – Chariton
14. Aithiopika – Heliodorus
15. The Golden Ass – Lucius Apuleius
16. A Christmas Carol – read December 2013
17. The Pilgrim’s Progress – Bunyan
18. The Princess of Cleves
19. A Tale of a Tub – Swift
20. Love in Excess – Haywood
21. Moll Flanders – Defoe
22. Roxana – Defoe
23. Gulliver’s Travels – Swift
24. A Modest Proposal – Swift
25. Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus
26. Pamela – Richardson
27. Clarissa – Richardson
28. Roderick Random – Smollett
29. Tom Jones – Fielding
30. Peregrine Pickle – Smollett
31. Sense and Sensibility – Austen
32. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen – Jan 2013
33. Gone with the Wind
34. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (my first ever video book review!)
35. King Lear of the Steppes
36. Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote – Dec 2013
37. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath – Dec 2013 
38. Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier – Jan 2014
39. Alias Grace – Atwood
40. Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott
41. Xingu by Edith Wharton – 2012
42. Melmouth the Wanderer
43. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and My. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson – 2012
44. Last of the Mohicans
45. The Fall of the House of Usher – Poe – read summer 2013
46. Oliver Twist
47. The Pit and the Pendulum – Poe – read summer 2013
48. The Purloined Letter – Poe – read summer 2013
49. Moby Dick
50. 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!