5 years to read the classics
A blog I love (and only discovered a few months ago) called A Room of One’s Own has decided to start a Classics Club and I am LOVING this idea!
The rules are pretty flexible but basically you have to list 50 or 75 or 100 classic books that you want to read in the next 5 years (these can be changed at any time – which is great for me ‘cos I am fickle 
) and you have 5 years to read them. There are so many classics that I really want to read and I am loving the timeframe as it means I don’t have to panic-read them all this year (or fall off the wagon as I don’t think it will be do-able).
Jillian (A Room of One’s Own) has also set up a private group on Goodreads for all those who are joining in the Classics Club to share links and posts and reviews etc.
So after much thought and deliberation, here is my (initial) list of books I want to read. I have gone for sixty as that equals one per month for the next 5 years which I think should be more than do-able.
1700′s (4)
The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Choderlos de Laclos
The Monk by Matthew Lewis
The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe
1800′s (31)
Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
Jude The Obscure by Thomas Hardy
The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
Sylvia’s Lovers by Elizabeth Gaskell
Shirley by Charlotte Bronte
The Beth Book by Sarah Grand
Aurora Floyd by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Cousin Bette by Honore de Balzac
Germinal by Emile Zola
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
The Odd Women by George Gissing
Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott
Rose in Bloom by Louisa May Alcott
Heidi by Johanna Spyri
The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas
Rachel Ray by Anthony Trollope
Can you Forgive Her? by Anthony Trollope
Armadale by Wilkie Collins
Hunger by Knut Hamsun
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Persuasion by Jane Austen
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Esther Waters by George Moore
The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald
Complete Short Fiction by Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde
1900′s (25)
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Where Angels Fear to Tread by E M Forster
Peyton Place by Grace Metalious
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck
The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing
The Mad Ache by Francoise Sagan
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Vet’s Daughter by Barbara Comyns
The Distance Between Us by Dorothy Whipple
Mariana by Monica Dickens
Justine by Lawrence Durrell
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis de Bernières
84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles
Daniel Martin by John Fowles
The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
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