Classics Club

Goal: Read 50 classic novels in five years
Start Date: January 16, 2017
End Date: January 16, 2022

As a children's librarian, I often get stuck in the rut of reading only children's literature. While the books are usually decent enough, but I crave adult literature, and I especially crave classics. The Classics Club seemed like the perfect choice.

Of course, there are still some children's classics on this list. I honestly didn't make any rules for myself while picking this list. Most of the books are brand new to me. There are a few rereads. I pretty much just started listing various as they came into my head until I had 50. Onto the challenge.

39/50

Book List: by Author's last name

1. Atwood, Margaret - The Handmaid's Tale
2. Austen, Jane - Sanditon and Other Tales
3. Barrie, J.M. - Peter Pan
4. Bradbury, Ray - Fahrenheit 451
5. Bronte, Anne - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
6. Bronte, Charlotte - Jane Eyre
7. Bronte, Emily - Wuthering Heights
8. Burnett, Frances Hodgson - The Secret Garden
9. Burnett, Frances Hodgson - The Little Princess
10. Byatt, A.S. - Possession
11. Capote, Truman - Breakfast at Tiffany's
12. Cather, Willa - The Song of the Lark
13. Cervantes, Miguel de - Don Quixote
14. Christie, Agatha - Murder on the Orient Express
15. Collins, Wilkie - Woman in White
16. Collins, Wilkie - The Moonstone
17. Collodi, Carlo - Pinocchio
18. Dickens, Charles - The Old Curiosity Shop
19. Dickens, Charles - Barnaby Rudge
20. Dickens, Charles - Martin Chuzzlewit
21. Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan - A Study in Scarlet
22. Dumas, Alexandre - The Count of Monte Cristo
23. Du Maurier, Daphne - Rebecca
24. Eliot, George - Daniel Deronda
25. Forster, E.M. - A Room with a View
26. Gaskell, Elizabeth - Wives and Daughters
27. Heller, Josepth - Catch-22
28. Homer - The Odyssey
29. Hardy, Thomas - Far from the Madding Crowd
30. Kipling, Rudyard - The Jungle Book
31. London, Jack - The Call of the Wild
32. Mitchell, David - Cloud Atlas
33. Mitchell, Margaret - Gone With the Wind
34. Marquez, Gabriel Garcia - One Hundred Years of Solitude
35. Orwell, George - 1984
36. Plath, Sylvia - The Bell Jar
37. Shakespeare, William - Twelfth Night
38. Shakespeare, William - A Winter's Tale
39. Steinbeck, John - East of Eden
40. Thackeray, William Makepeace - Vanity Fair
41. Tolkien, J. R. R. - The Hobbit
42. Tolkien, J. R. R. - The Fellowship of the Ring
43. Tolkien, J. R. R. - The Two Towers
44. Tolkien, J. R. R. - The Return of the King
45. Tolstoy, Leo - Anna Karenina
46. Turgenev, Ivan - Fathers and Sons
47. Twain, Mark - The Prince and the Pauper
48. Verne, Jules - Journey to the Center of the Earth
49. Wells, H.G. - The Time Machine
50. White T.H. - The Once and Future King
51. Wilde, Oscar - The Picture of Dorian Grey

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