The Classics Club

Jill at A Room of One's Own has created The Classics Club. This fits in perfectly with my intention to read more Classics, especially ones already on my shelves.

I might read more than what is listed below, but I don't want to over commit (I tend to do that). With that in mind, I plan to read 50 Classics in the next 5 years. That means I should have this reading list completed in March 2017. I have put a few rereads on the list, but didn't want to include too many. All of the rereads are books that I read a long time ago. My reading of David Copperfield goes back the furthest -- I read it when I was 8 years old; and, no, I won't tell you how old I am now!

I honestly can't tell you which title I most look forward to reading. It would probably be a tie between: Don Quixote, the Trollope titles, and Ethan Frome. These are books I've wanted to read for the longest time. But, then there is the The Arabian Nights ... and Beowulf ... the Forster books .... See what I mean?

I will probably gift myself a lovely edition of a wonderful book when I'm finished reading this list, but I have 5 years to decide and change my mind multiple times.

Without further ado ... THE LIST:

1. Alcott, Louisa May - Little Women (reread)
2. Arabian Nights, The (trans. Muhsin Mahdi)
3. Ariosto, Ludovico - Orlando Furioso
4. Austen, Jane - Sense and Sensibility
5. Barnes, Julian - Flaubert's Parrott
6. Beowulf (trans. Seamus Heaney)
7. Bradley, Marion Zimmer - The Mists of Avalon (reread)
8. Bronte, Anne - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
9. Bulgakov, Mikhail - The Master and Margarita (reread)
10. Burnett, Frances Hodgson - The Secret Garden
11. Campbell, Joseph - The Hero with a Thousand Faces (reread)
12. de Cervantes, Miguel - Don Quixote
13. Cheever, John - Oh What a Paradise It Seems
14. Colette - Cheri
15. Collins, Wilkie - The Haunted Hotel
16. Collins, Wilkie - Miss or Mrs?
17. Dickens, Charles - Great Expectations
18. Dickens, Charles - David Copperfield (reread)
19. Dickens, Charles - A Tale of Two Cities
20. Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - The Brothers Karamazov (trans. Pevear & Volokhonsky)
21. Durrell, Lawrence - Justine (Alexandria Quartet)
22. Durrell, Lawrence - Balthazar (Alexandria Quartet)
23. Durrell, Lawrence - Mountolive (Alexandria Quartet)
24. Durrell, Lawrence - Clea (Alexandria Quartet)
25. Forster, E.M. - Howard's End
26. Forster, E.M. - The Longest Journey
27. Forster, E.M. - A Passage to India (reread)
28. Forster, E.M. - Where Angels Fear to Tread (reread)
29. Gaskell, Elizabeth - Cranford
30. Gaskell, Elizabeth - North and South
31. Hardy, Thomas - The Mayor of Casterbridge
32. Homer - The Odyssey (reread)
33. Hugo, Victor - Notre-Dame of Paris (The Hunchback of Notre Dame)
34. Mitchell, Margaret - Gone With the Wind
35. Polidori, John - The Vampyre
36. Radcliffe, Anne - The Mysteries of Udolpho
37. Spenser, Edmund - The Faeire Queene
38. Stendhal - The Red and the Black
39. Stevenson, Robert Louis - Treasure Island
40. Thackeray, William Makepeace - Vanity Fair
41. Tolstoy, Leo - Anna Karenina (trans. Pevear & Volokhonsky) (reread)
42. Trollope, Anthony - Barchester Towers
43. Trollope, Anthony - The Warden
44. Twain, Mark - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
45. Verne, Jules - Journey to the Centre of the Earth
46. Virgil - The Aeneid (reread)
47. Wharton, Edith - The Age of Innocence
48. Wharton, Edith - Ethan Frome
49. Woolff, Virginia - Mrs. Dalloway
50. Woolff, Virginia - A Room of One's Own (reread)

I'm currently reading Clarissa by Samuel Richardson as part of a year long group read with JoAnn and others.