The Classics Club’s Reading Challenge
Since I’ve always told myself to read the classics but always somehow read something else, I’ve decided to join The Classics Club’s reading challenge to read 50 classics in 5 years. But, naturally, I went overboard. At first I listed over a hundred books but I’ve shortened it to 60. I hope to get through them in 5 years or less. As time goes by, I might (will) add more since my decision on things is always changing.
Start: December 22, 2012
End: December 22, 2017
Anonymous
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Thousand and One Nights
Apollonius of Rhodes
Jane Austen
James Baldwin
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Ray Bradbury
Fahrenheit 451
Charlotte Brontë
Anthony Burgess
A Clockwork Orange
Angela Carter
Nights at the Circus
Charles W. Chestnutt
Agatha Christie
Wilkie Collins
The Woman in White
Joseph Conrad
Miguel de Cervantes
Don Quixote
Charles Dickens
Tale of Two Cities
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Idiot
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Sport of the Gods
Ralph Ellison
Invisible Man
Henry Fielding
Tom Jones
E.M. Forster
A Passage to India
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
William Golding
Lord of the Flies
H. Rider Haggard
Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea
Homer
Odyssey
The Iliad
Zora Neale Hurston
Henry James
Washington Square
Daisy Miller
James Joyce
Ulysses
Dubliners
Norton Juster
Franz Kafka
Metamorphosis
Ken Kesey
One Who Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Rudyard Kipling
The Man Who Would Be King
George Lamming
In the Castle of My Skin
D.H. Lawrence
Lady Chatterley’s Lover
Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird
Jack London
Earl Lovelace
The Dragon Can’t Dance
The Schoolmaster
The Wine of Astonishment
Anne McCaffrey
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Herman Melville
Moby Dick
John Milton
Paradise Lost
Thomas More
Utopia
George Orwell
Animal Farm
Sylvia Plath
The Bell Jar
J.D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye
Mary Shelley
Frankenstein
Murasaki Shikibu
The Tale of Genji
Edmund Spenser
The Faerie Queen
John Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Jonathan Swift
Gulliver’s Travels
Henry David Thoreau
Walden
Jules Verne
Journey to the Center of the Earth
H.G. Wells
Edith Wharton
House of Mirth
Age of Innocence
Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Grey
Richard Wright
Zezee with Books 
I’ve read ‘Fahrenheit 451’, ‘Of Mice and Men,’ ‘A Clockwork Orange,’ ‘Lord of the Flies,’ ‘Animal Farm,”One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,’ and ‘The Old Man on the Sea’ (I liked all of them except ‘The Old Man and the Sea.’) As you can probably tell I gravitate towards the short ones! 😛
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Lol! I need to do better and read a few next year.
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You’ve chosen some wonderful books!
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Thank you! It took almost all of last year to make the list. i kept changing my mind on what classics I want to read.
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