The Classics Club 10/50 June 3, 2012

 

[post updated on 5 August 2012]

I officially signed up to be a part of The Classics Club (originally hosted by Jillian at A Room of One’s Own) a month ago. My main reason for joining the club is really to discover other lovers of literature and discuss books we’ve read in common. I’m really looking forward to exploring the blogs of other members of the club.

Now, to the list. The club demands that we have, at the least, a working list of 50 classics to be read in the period of 5 years. While we’re encouraged to have a way longer list I’ve decided to stick to a list of 50, averaging at 10 classics a year. This leaves me with plenty of room to read other kinds of books, and to not feel constricted.

So, my 5 years would begin from 4 June 2012 to 4 June 2017. My list follows. But a heads up…it’s a flexible list, quite susceptible to drastic changes. However, I will be sticking to 50 classics.

As I complete each book I will add the link to my thoughts on it and note the date I finished it on.
[List updated on August 18, 2012 with 14 titles changed.]

1. Alcott, Louisa May – Little Women (r) [October 3, 2012]
2. Alcott, Louisa May – Jack and Jill (r)
3. Arnim, Elizabeth von - The Enchanted April
4. Austen, Jane – Lady Susan
5. Austen, Jane – Mansfield Park
6. Bronte, Anne - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
7. Bronte, Charlotte - Jane Eyre (r)
8. Bronte, Charlotte – Shirley
9. Bronte, Charlotte – The Professor
10. Bronte, Charlotte – Villette
11. Bunyan, John – The Pilgrim’s Progress (r)
12. Burnett, Frances Hodgson – A Little Princess
13. Burnett, Frances Hodgson – The Secret Garden
14. Cather, Willa – My Antonia
15. Cather, Willa – O Pioneers!
16. Chopin, Kate – The Awakening and Selected Short Stories
17. Collins, Wilkie – The Moonstone
18. Du Maurier, Daphne – Rebecca [August 27,2012]
19. Eliot, George - Silas Marner (r)
20. Fitzgerald, F Scott – The Beautiful and the Damned
21. Forster, E M – A Room with a View
22. Gaskell, Elizabeth – Cranford
23. Gaskell, Elizabeth – Mary Barton
24. Gaskell, Elizabeth – North and South [August 10, 2012]
25. Gaskell, Elizabeth – Wives and Daughters
26. Hardy, Thomas – Far from the Madding Crowd [October 9, 2012]
27. Hugo, Victor – Les Miserables
28. Jerome, Jerome K – Three Men in a Boat [August 31, 2012]
29. Kipling, Rudyard – Kim
30. Leroux, Gaston – The Phantom of the Opera
31. Mansfield, Katherine – Selected Stories
32. Maugham, W Somerset – The Moon and Sixpence
33. Marquez, Gabriel Garcia – A Hundred Years of Solitude [September 8, 2012]
34. Melville, Herman – Moby Dick
35. Montgomery, Lucy Maud – Anne of Avonlea [August 3, 2012]
36. Montgomery, Lucy Maud – Anne of the Island [August 6, 2012]
37. Montgomery, Lucy Maud - Anne’s House of Dreams [August 20, 2012]
38. Montgomery, Lucy Maud – Rainbow Valley (r)
39. Montgomery, Lucy Maud – Rilla of Ingleside (r)
40. Orwell, George – Animal Farm
41. Poe, Edgar Allen – Selected Short Stories
42. Sabatini, Rafael – Scaramouche
43. Spyri, Johanna – Heidi (r) [August 1, 2012]
44. Steinbeck, John – Grapes of Wrath
45. Tagore, Rabindranath – Gitanjali
46. Tolstoy, Leo – War and Peace
47. Twain, Mark – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
48. Voltaire – Candide
49. Webber, Jean – Daddy-Long-Legs (r)
50. Wharton, Edith – House of Mirth

I’ll be ticking off books from this list as and when I read them. Any changes I make will also be done in this post.