I think about joining The Classics Club every time I see a spin post. My TBR list has classics that I’ve put off for one reason or other, and reading fifty within five years feels possible. I plan to start on January 1, 2021 and finish by December 31, 2025.
I read a few of these for class back in the day but don’t remember them terribly well. Plus, books tend to be less enjoyable when there’s a term paper afterwards. I’ll update this list with links as I go; there is also a list of classics that I’ve already reviewed at the bottom of this page.
- All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- Anne of Green Gables by L. Montgomery
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Burmese Days by George Orwell
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
- Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
- The Color Purple by Alice Walker
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
- Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
- Dracula by Bram Stoker
- Dubliners by James Joyce
- East of Eden by John Steinbeck
- The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
- Evelina by Frances Burney
- Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
- The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
- Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
- King Solomon’s Mines by H. Rider Haggard
- The Lodger by Marie Belloc Lowndes
- The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
- The Once and Future King by T.H. White
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Paradise by Toni Morrison
- A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
- The Pearl by John Steinbeck
- The Plague by Albert Camus
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
- Seize the Day by Saul Bellow
- Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
- Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
- The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
- The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
- Tess of the d’Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy
- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
- Vanity Fair by William Thackeray
- Watership Down by Richard Adams
- Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster
In the interest of keeping things together, here are links to classics already reviewed on this blog:
- The Ballad of the Sad Cafe by Carson McCullers
- A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
- The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
- Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
- A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
- The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
- The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
- My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier
- The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
- A Separate Peace by John Knowles
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte