I've decided to join The Classics Club. I like classics, and have plenty I should read. Part of the requirements for joining include listing 50 classics you'd like to read (or reread, as that's allowed). Fifty is a bunch, but you have up to five years to read them all. Ten a year isn't much, especially since I'm reading 70-ish books every year anyway.
So here goes, 50 classics I'd like to read over the next five years. (No links this time as that'll take me forever; I'll link them as I read them. And they're in no particular order. If in a foreign language, English follows in parens, and yes, it means I want to read it in the original.) Let's just round up: I'd like this list to be read by 31 Dec 2026:
1. Out of Africa
2. Of Human Bondage
3. The Turn of the Screw
4. Pride and Prejudice
5. The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories (reviewed here)
6. Wuthering Heights (reviewed here)
7. Orlando (reviewed here)
8. The Monk
9. Семнадцать Мгновений Весны (Seventeen Moments of Spring, in Russian)
10. Dark Star Safari
11. The Fellowship of the Ring (reviewed here)
12. Kidnapped
13. The Guide
14. Dead Souls
15. Parade's End
16. The Emperor: Downfall of an Autocrat
17. Tender is the Night (reviewed here)
18. The Groves of Academe
19. Homage to Catalonia
20. Maskerado ĉirkaŭ la morto (Dancing around death, in Esperanto)
21. Rebecca
22. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
23. Beowulf (in Old English)
24. For Whom the Bell Tolls (reviewed here)
25. American Pastoral
26. A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and The Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides
27. The Mosquito Coast (reviewed here)
28. From Here to Eternity (reviewed here)
29. Solaris
30. In Patagonia
31. The Name of the Rose
32. The Good Soldier Schweik
33. Cakes and Ale
34. A Grain of Wheat
35. King Lear
36. Hadji Murad
37. Na Drini ćuprija (Bridge on the Drina, in Serbo-Croatian)
38. King Soloman's Mines
39. Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
40. The Death of the Heart
41. The War of the End of the World
42. The Talented Mr. Ripley
43. The Stories of J.F. Powers
44. Мастер и Маргарита (The Master and Margarita, in Russian)
45. Empire of the Sun (reviewed here)
46. Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
47. Catcher in the Rye (reviewed here)
48. One Hundred Years of Solitude
49. The Professor
50. Love's Labour's Lost
Cool list! I have only read 14 of these.
ReplyDeleteSolaris is great!
In other genres, I loved a lot The Master and Margarita, and Rebecca