Hi and welcome back to my blog! I’m really excited about today’s post because I’m announcing my list for The Classics Club!
A brief summary of what it is: “The Classics Club is a club created to inspire people to read and blog about classic books. There’s no time limit to join and you’re most welcome, as long as you’re willing to sign up to read and write on your blog about 50+ classic books in at most five years.”
Check out the blog linked above to find out more details, and have a look at the Members’ Page where you can find a list of all the other bloggers participating as well!
Number of Classics: 60
Dates: 1 January 2018 – 31 December 2022 (5 years)
I’ve actually got more than a hundred classics I want to read over the course of my lifetime, but I’ve narrowed them down to the top 60 I want to read in the next five years! And yes, I’ve included the entire Shakespeare’s First Folio consisting of 36 plays, because he’s my number one author and playwright that I want to get completely immersed in.
My list consists of 3 rereads, and it also includes the 6 books that will be read for The Brontë Book Club by Lucythereader on YouTube!
The list will probably shuffle around and change a little over time, but for now this is it!
- Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice
- Jane Austen – Sense and Sensibility
- Jane Austen – Northanger Abbey
- Charlotte Brontë – Jane Eyre
- Emily Brontë – Wuthering Heights
- Anne Brontë – Agnes Grey
- Emily Brontë – The Complete Poems of Emily Brontë
- Charlotte Brontë – Shirley
- Anne Brontë – The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
- Charles Dickens – Great Expectations
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky – Crime and Punishment
- Alexandre Dumas – The Count of Monte Cristo
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – Faust
- Ernest Hemingway – The Sun Also Rises
- Victor Hugo – Les Misérables
- Gaston Leroux – The Phantom of the Opera (reread)
- Niccolò Machiavelli – The Prince
- George Orwell – Animal Farm
- Edgar Allan Poe – Tales of Edgar Allan Poe
- J.D. Salinger – The Catcher in the Rye
- William Shakespeare – The Tempest
- William Shakespeare – The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- William Shakespeare – The Merry Wives of Windsor
- William Shakespeare – Measure for Measure
- William Shakespeare – The Comedy of Errors
- William Shakespeare – Much Ado About Nothing
- William Shakespeare – Love’s Labour’s Lost
- William Shakespeare – A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- William Shakespeare – The Merchant of Venice
- William Shakespeare – As You Like It
- William Shakespeare – The Taming of the Shrew
- William Shakespeare – All’s Well That Ends Well
- William Shakespeare – Twelfth Night
- William Shakespeare – The Winter’s Tale
- William Shakespeare – King John
- William Shakespeare – Richard II
- William Shakespeare – Henry IV, Part 1
- William Shakespeare – Henry IV, Part 2
- William Shakespeare – Henry V
- William Shakespeare – Henry VI, Part 1
- William Shakespeare – Henry VI, Part 2
- William Shakespeare – Henry VI, Part 3
- William Shakespeare – Richard III
- William Shakespeare – Henry VIII
- William Shakespeare – Troilus and Cressida
- William Shakespeare – Coriolanus
- William Shakespeare – Titus Andronicus
- William Shakespeare – Romeo and Juliet
- William Shakespeare – Timon of Athens
- William Shakespeare – Julius Caesar
- William Shakespeare – Macbeth
- William Shakespeare – Hamlet (reread)
- William Shakespeare – King Lear
- William Shakespeare – Othello
- William Shakespeare – Antony and Cleopatra
- William Shakespeare – Cymbeline
- Mary Shelley – Frankenstein
- Bram Stoker – Dracula (reread)
- Leo Tolstoy – Anna Karenina
- Oscar Wilde – The Picture of Dorian Gray
Anyone else doing The Classics Club, or having any classics reading goals for 2018? If you’ve read any of these on my list and liked it, do let me know too! (:
