I have decided to take up the Classics Club challenge. I have to read 50 books before April 1st, 2019 (omg I’ll already be in college by then!) Here is the list of books I have compiled, although some might change depending on a lot of variables. If you want to join, click here.
I don’t know whether I’ll finish in time or not because of school and non-classic books I want to read but I am really excited and I will be so proud of myself if I do. To accomplish that, I’ll need to read approximately 10 of these books every year. Every time I finish a book I’ll write a review and link it here. Good luck to anyone else who’s doing this! ❤
Here’s my list:
ii. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
iii. Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
iv. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
v. The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
vi. The Sorrows of Young Werther and Selected Writings by Goethe
vii. The Gold Coffin by Ferenc Móra
viii. Persuasion by Jane Austen
ix. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
x. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
xi. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
xii. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
xiii. Book of Poems by John Keats
xiv. The Crucible by Arthur Millers
xv. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
xvi. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
xvii. Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare
xviii. The Divine Comedy by Dante
xix. Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
xx. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
xxi. Dracula by Bram Stoker
xxii. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
xxiii. Journey To The Center of The Earth by Jules Verne
xxiv. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
xxv. Adonaïs by Percy Bysshe Shelley
xxvi. Don Juan by Lord Byron
xxvii. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
xxviii. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
xxix. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
xxx. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
xxxi. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
xxxii. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
xxxiii. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
xxxiv. The Complete Works of Hans Christian Andersen
xxxv. Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
xxxvi. Harry Potter and The Philosopher’s Stone by J. K. Rowling
xxxvii. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
xxxviii. The Lady of the Camellias by Alexandre Dumas, Fils
xxxix. Faust by Goethe
xl. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
xli. Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
xlii. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
xliii. The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway
xliv. 100 Years of Solitude by Garcia Marquez
xlv. The Complete Novels of Franz Kafka (and all other form of works)
xlvi. The Hobbit and The Lord of The Rings by J.R.R Tolkien
xlvii. A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
xlviii. Book of Poems by Attila József
xlix. The Complete Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
l. The Stolen Courier by Jenő Rejtő
If I’ll ever feel like this is way too overwhelming and I am questioning the reason why we even read, I’ll just watch this to remind myself:
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Persuasion is my favorite Austen novel and you have a Crash Course link. Yay!
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I hope you will successfully complete reading 50 books by 2019!
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Thanks! And if you have time, you should try it too, even if you only begin your five years a month or later than me, we can still do it together!
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I will probably start it but seeing as to how much I still have to write for my school play, let’s just say I’m going to be around two months behind you.
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