Classics Club

50 Classics I Plan to Read in the Next 5 Years (by May, 2022*)

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Pre-1700 (5)

• Metamorphoses by Ovid
• Oroonoko by Aphra Behn
• Paradise Lost by John Milton
• The Blazing World by Margaret Cavendish
• To My Husband and Other Poems by Anne Bradstreet

1700s (7)

• The History of Emily Montague by Frances Brooke
• Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
• The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole (Completed 9/11/15)
• The 120 Days of Sodom by Marquis de Sade
• The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe
• A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft (re-read)
• Camilla by Fanny Burney

1800s (15)

• The Adventures of a Schoolboy by Edward Sellon (Completed 10/05/15)
• Middlemarch by George Eliot (Completed 07/15/21)
• Eugénie Grandet – Honoré de Balzac
• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (Completed 02/02/2017)
• Corinne by Madame de Stael
• Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (re-read)
• North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell (Completed 06/19/2023)
• Dead Souls by Nikolay Gogol
• Villette by Charlotte Bronte
• The Seraphim and Other Poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
• Our Village by Mary Russell Mitford
• Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
• Helen by Maria Edgeworth
• The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (Completed 05/05/2018) 

1900s (21)

• Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Completed 03/24/16)
• The Bitterweed Path by Thomas Hal Phillips (Completed 01/11/16)
• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (Completed 06/26/2020)
• Kim by Rudyard Kipling
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (Completed 02/19/16)
• The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton (Completed 05/10/17)
• The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois
• The Hanging on Union Square (1935) by H.T. Tsiang
• Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown
• A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin (Completed 01/07/16)
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (Completed 07/15/17)
• The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers (Completed 01/06/16)
• Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion (Completed 09/05/15)
• Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
• The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (Completed 01/18/20)
• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
• Doveglion: Collected Poems (c. 1942-1958) by José García Villa
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald (Completed 04/23/16)
• Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Completed 11/20/20)
• The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan (Completed 3/30/18)

2000s (2)

• The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
• At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O’Neill (Completed 4/15/21)

Progress: 20 of 50 Completed (40% done)

Prize to be Won: Another list of classics to compile for another 5 years of awesome reading!

*This is my second list. I began my first list in 2012.