Classics Club

A Classics Club hosted by one of my favorite bloggers? How could I resist! Want to join? Check out the info at Jillian's blog.

Here is my list of 50 classics I plan to read by April 1, 2014. A lot of people are doing 5-year lists, but I decided to just go with 50 in two years and then do another 50 or whatever amount at that time. I included a few recent works that may be disputable as classics, but I've noticed them on a few other lists and I'm lacking in my reading of contemporary classics compared to older classics, and I wanted this to help fill in some gaps, so I included them. I've created a new page to keep track of these, but also copied the list below.

1. Ulysses by James Joyce
2. Pendennis by Thackeray
3. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
4. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
5. Shirley by Charlotte Bronte
6. Don Quixote by Cervantes
7. War and Peace by Tolstoy
8. Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky
9. Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
10. Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte
11. Kim by Rudyard Kipling
12. His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
13. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
14. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
15. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
16. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
17. Animal Farm by George Orwell
18. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
19. Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
20. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
21. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
22. American Pastoral by Philip Roth
23. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
24. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
25. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
26. An American Tragedy by Theodore Drieser
27. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
28. The Golden Bowl by Henry James
29. Howard's End by EM Forster
30. Lady Chatterley's Lover by DH Lawrence
31. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
32. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
33. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
34. The Stranger by Albert Camus
35. The Decameron by Boccaccio
36. North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
37. Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
38. Adam Bede by George Eliot
39. The War of the Worlds by HG Wells
40. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
41. Tristram Shandy by Lawrence Sterne
42. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
43. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
44. Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
45. The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
46. The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather
47. Walden by Thoreau
48. The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler
49. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
50. The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton