Classics Club Challenge
I’m taking part in a Classics Club challenge, hosted by Jillian at A Room Of One’s Own.
Starting date: 10th March 2012
Ending date: 10th March, 2017
I’ll be using this page to keep track of my progress, crossing books off the list as I read them and linking up to my reviews.
50 Classics, 5 Years!
- Sense & Sensibility, by Jane Austen
- Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen
Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte – My review is here- The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall, by Anne Bronte
- North And South, by Elizabeth Gaskell
- Wives And Daughters, by Elizabeth Gaskell
Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert – My review is here- The Woman In White, by Wilkie Collins
- Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott
- Middlemarch, by George Eliot
- The Portrait Of A Lady, by Henry James
- Tess Of The D’Urbervilles, by Thomas Hardy
- The Awakening, by Kate Chopin
- Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad
- The Wings Of The Dove, by Henry James
- The House Of Mirth, by Edith Wharton
A Room With A View, by E.M. Forster – Not yet reviewed- Howard’s End, by E.M. Forster
- Of Human Bondage, by William Somerset Maugham
The Painted Veil, by William Somerset Maugham – My review is here- Women In Love, by D.H. Lawrence
- The Age Of Innocence, by Edith Wharton
- The Trial, by Franz Kafka
The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald – My review is here- Mrs Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf
- Lady Chatterley’s Lover, by D.H. Lawrence
- A Farewell To Arms, by Ernest Hemingway
- Cold Comfort Farm, by Stella Gibbons
- Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
- Tender Is The Night, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Tropic Of Cancer, by Henry Miller
- Out Of Africa, by Isak Dinesen/Karen Blixen
- The Grapes Of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
The End Of The Affair, by Graham Greene – My review here- The Man Who Loved Children, by Christina Stead
- Animal Farm, by George Orwell
- The Catcher In The Rye, by J.D. Salinger
- The Old Man And The Sea, by Ernest Hemingway
- Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov
- Doctor Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak
- On The Road, by Jack Kerouac
- The Bell, by Iris Murdoch
- Breakfast At Tiffany’s, by Truman Capote
- Rabbit, Run, by John Updike
To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee – My review is here- Catch-22, by Joseph Heller
- Faces In The Water, by Janet Frame
- Picnic At Hanging Rock, by Joan Lindsay
- The Graduate, by Charles Webb
- Beloved, by Toni Morrison
Les Misérables, by Victor Hugo (Bonus read). Pt 1 of my review/discussion with Marg here and Pt 2 is here.
That looks daunting ; )
You will be a certifiable genius once you have read all those!
Well I thought about it and have decided to get on board… Wish me luck! http://missmichellemck.blogspot.com.au/2012/04/5-years-to-read-classics.html
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Sense and Sensibility is a great book but my favourite Austen is Emma! 🙂
[…] And then there’s the Classics Club Challenge. To be honest, I always knew this one was going to be a bit of a long shot when I signed up almost two years ago. My aim was to read 50 classics in 5 years at a rate of roughly 12 a year so 1 per month. I am woefully behind on this challenge. Overall I think I have read only 10 classics, three of which I read this year and I didn’t even write reviews for 2 of them I don’t think. However I have to look on the bright side: it’s probably 10 more than I would’ve read if I hadn’t of joined this challenge and even though my progress is rather slow, it is still progress! So once again, this rolls over to next year and I hope I can tick a few more titles off my list (which you can see here). […]