I’ve been quietly following The Classics Club blog for some time now wishing I could join but scared of making the commitment. As per the rules, I need to commit to a minimum of 50 classic books in 5 years!!! I am unable to plan for the next 5 days properly, how on earth can I make a commitment for 5 years?
Then I went over my list of books I have read this past year, and then I read the list of books on The Classics Club page and realized…hey, I am already reading these. How hard is it to actually publish the list of books you anyway plan to read.
So, here we go…here is my very ambitious list of 50 classic books that I plan to read from now till 2017.
What do you think of the list? Do you have any suggestions on books that I can add to the list? Have you read the books on this list? Any thoughts/comments on these?
And if I am inspiring you to join up the Classics Club, please do let me know…it would be great to embark on this reading journey together 
- Adams, Richard: Watership Down
- Alcott, Louisa May: Jo’s Boys
- Alcott, Louisa May: Little Men
- Anderson, Sherwood: Winesburg, Ohio
- Angelou, Maya: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- Atwood, Margaret: A Handmaid’s Tale
- Austen, Jane: Sandition
- Austen, Jane: The Watsons
- Barrie, J.M.: Peter Pan
- Beckett, Samuel: Waiting for Godot
- Bennett, Alan: The Uncommon Reader
- Bradbury, Ray: The Martian Chronicles
- Braddon, Mary Elizabeth: Lady Audley’s Secret
- Bronte, Anne: Agnes Grey
- Bronte, Anne: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
- Bulgakov, Mikhail: The Master and Margarita
- Burnett, Frances Hodgson: A Little Princess
- Camus, Albert: Stranger
- Cather, Willa: Death Comes for the Archbishop
- Cather, Willa: My Antonia
- Dante: The Divine Comedy
- De Saint-Exupery, Antonie: The Little Prince
- deCervantes, Miguel: Don Quixote
- Dickens, Charles: The Pickwick Papers
- Douglass, Frederick: A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
- Dumas, Alexandre: The Vicomte de Bragelonne
- Ellison, Ralph: The Invisible Man
- Faulkner, William: Absalom, Absalom!
- Faulkner, William: As I Lay Dying
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott: The Beautiful and Damned
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott: This Side of Paradise
- Flaubert, Gustav: Madame Bovary
- Hemingway, Ernest: Death in the Afternoon
- Hemingway, Ernest: Islands in the Stream
- Hemingway, Ernest: To Have and to Have Not
- Hesse, Hermann: Siddhartha
- Huxley, Aldous: Brave New World Revisited
- Ibsen, Henrick: Doll’s House
- Irving, Washington: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
- James, Henry: The Portrait of a Lady
- James, Henry: Washington Square
- Kerouac, Jack: On the Road
- Marquez, Gabriel Garcia: One Hundred Years of Solitude
- Morrison, Toni: Beloved
- Rand, Ayn: Atlas Shrugged
- Rhys, Jean: Wide Sargasso Sea
- Stoppard, Tom: Rosencratz and Guildenstern are Dead
- Wharton, Edith: The Age of Innocence
- Wharton, Edith: The House of Mirth
- Woolf, Virginia: To the Lighthouse
I hope that by 2017, all the books in the above list have turned to links to my reviews 
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your list is awesome man…! really simply great,i am waiting to read your next review
Really interesting list
We have a few titles the same. This year I’ve read Wide Sargasso Sea and Little Women, and I really liked both. Happy reading!
@jessicabookworm: Really? I need to come over and look at your list. I’ve read Little Women and Good Wives, but want to finish the rest of the books in the series. I am dying to read Wide Sargasso Sea, just holding off until I finish reading my current crop of books, which somehow are not so interesting, seeing the state of mind I am in right now
I like your list! We’ve got many titles in common. I’d love to read your reviews
This is a great list! I’m excited to see Anne Bronte and a couple Alcotts up there! Welcome to the club.
I am very much tempted to follow you…Let me think about it
@Elizabeth: Oh, do join me. I am really looking for company
Good Luck with your project
I just read Watership Down last month and it was such a ride!
The Handmaid’s Tale is the freak-est ever! In a very good reading way
Rosencratz and Guildenstern are Dead is such a great book! It’s so hilarious, especially if you’re a fan of Hamlet.
i think u have to include works of authors like milan kundera
and gabriel garcia marquez
@muneer: I have included One Hundred Years of Solitude by GGM and plan to read it in the near future. I have read couple of other books by him – Love in the time of Cholera (which I didn’t much care for), and Chronicle of a Death Foretold (which I loved).
You are right about Milan Kundera, I didn’t really think of him. What books by him do you suggest?