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We've decided to join the fun. Here are our lists of classic books along with our goal deadline. Once we finish a book on our list, we will cross it out and link to our review. We will also place a link to this post at the top of our home page for easy reference. Connie:
Goal date to finish: March 30, 2016
Date started: March 7, 2012
Prizes: some really excellent reading and hopefully some rousing discussion
I have chosen fewer books over a longer period of time. As I started creating my list, I started getting sad -- if I blow through all of my to-read classics in the next couple of years, then I will hardly have any classics to look forward to tackling for the rest of my life. And that really does make me sad. So I reserve the right to shorten my list and/or not finish within my goal date.
Finished: 0/40
British
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (re-read)
Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Possession by AS Byatt Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (re-read)
Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf
The Waves by Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf (re-read)
Night and Day by Virginia Woolf
Monday or Tuesday by Virginia Woolf
The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf
American
O Pioneers by Willa Cather
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (re-read)
The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton (re-read)
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Russian
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
French
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Other
The Illiad by Homer
The Inferno by Dante
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Ulysses by James Joyce
Ingrid
Goal date to finish: March 30, 2014
Date started: March 7, 2012
Prizes: Having read a bunch of books I want to read.
Finished (0/50)
Works originally written in English:
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Ulysses by James Joyce
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
Shadows on the Rock by Willa Cather
Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
The Ambassadors by Henry James
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Tales of the Jazz Age by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
Far From the Maddening Crowd by Thomas Hardy
A Room With a View by E.M. Forster
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
Light in August by William Faulkner
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen [Karen Blixen]
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Orlando by Virginia Woolf
The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton
French Ways and Their Meaning by Edith Wharton
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
Works in translation:
Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset - trans. Tiina Nunnally
Chéri by Colette
The Pure and the Impure by Colette
The Brothers Karamozov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - trans. Pevear and Volokhonsky
Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - trans. Pevear and Volokhonsky
The Trial by Franz Kafka
No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre
The Mandarins by Simone de Beauvoir
In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
Book Two - In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
Book Three - The Guermantes Way
Book Four - Sodom and Gomorrah
Book Five - The Prisoner
Book Six - The Fugitive
Book Seven - Finding Time Again
Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov - trans. Dmitri Nabokov
Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin - trans. Vladimir Nabokov
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni
What is Art? by Leo Tolstoy
If Not, Winter by Sappho
Letters by Mme de Sévigné
Elective Affinities by Goethe
Tales from Ovid - trans. Ted Hughes
Les Liasons Dangereuses by Choderlos de Laclos
Christine-Chioma (C-C)
Goal date to finish: March 30, 2016
Date started: March 7, 2012
Prizes: I will probably celebrate my success via bragging every 10 books. After I finish all 50 I might just have a party for myself which would definitely include a bowl of ice cream
Finished: 0/50
Written in English:
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
1984 by George Orwell
A Death in the Family by James Agee
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers
Zeely by Virgina Hamilton
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
Howard's End by E.M. Forster
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Things Fall Apart by Chiua Achebe
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford
Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
The Once and Future King by T.H. White
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Paradise Lost by John Milton
The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis (started reading, but never finished)
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray (read half of this before)
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery (re-read)
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (re-read)
Middlemarch by George Eliot (re-read)
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers (re-read)
Written in other languages:
The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (tried to read this in French several years ago)
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (re-read)
