The Classics Club

Chances are, if you like to read and blog classics, you've heard of Jillian's Classics Club.  I read a lot of not-exactly-classics books, so I'm trying to keep my list modest--these are all classics that I want to read now.  5 years sound more realistic.  (Actually, I've whittled down the list, knowing my propensity to set lofty goals.)

I'm viewing it more as a way to be organized in my Classics Wish List rather than as a Challenge To Conquer, even though 2 of my challenges (Willa Cather and Classic Novellas) feature heavily here.  The list will be linked on the tab: Book Lists.

1. Don Quixote, Miguel De Cervantes
2. Moll Flanders, Daniel Defoe
3. The Sorrows of Young Werther, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
4. The Mysteries of Udolpho, Ann Radcliffe
5. Ruth, Elizabeth Gaskell
6. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
7. The Warden, Anthony Trollope
8. Barchester Towers, Anthony Trollope
9. Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
10. Daniel Deronda, George Eliot
11. A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
12. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Bronte
13. Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
14. The Devil's Pool, George Sand
15. Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky
16. Oblomov, Ivan Goncharov
17. Fathers and Sons, Ivan Turgenev
18. My Antonia, Willa Cather
19. One of Ours, Willa Cather
20. A Lost Lady, Willa Cather
21. The Professor’s House, Willa Cather
22. My Mortal Enemy, Willa Cather
23. Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather
24. Shadows on the Rock, Willa Cather
25. Lucy Gayheart, Willa Cather
26. Sapphira and the Slave Girl, Willa Cather
27. The Razor's Edge, W.Somerset Maugham
28. Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
29. The Great Divorce, C.S. Lewis
30. Watership Down, Richard Adams
31. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
32. Native Son, Richard Wright
33. Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
34. A Room With a View, E.M Forster
35. The Beautiful and the Damned, F. Scott Fitzgerald
36. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
37. The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton
38. How Green Was My Valley, Richard Llewellyn
39. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
40. The Bell, Iris Murdoch

Stories, Novellas, Plays, Etc (cumulatively worth apprx. 10 classics)

1. Youth and the Bright Medusa (stories) Willa Cather
2. Obscure Destinies (stories), Willa Cather
3. Not Under Forty (essays), Willa Cather
4. The Old Beauty (stories), Willa Cather
5. Willa Cather: On Writing (essays), Willa Cather
6. The Kruetzer Sonata and Other Stories, Leo Tolstoy
7. Eugene Onegin and Other Poems, Alexander Pushkin
8. The Collected Stories, Alexander Pushkin
9. Lady Windmere's Fan, Oscar Wilde
10. Living/Loving/Party Going, Henry Green
11. Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw
12. Freya of the Seven Isles, Joseph Conrad
13. Stempenyu: A Jewish Romace, Sholem Aleichem
14. The Hound of the Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle
15. The Duel, Anton Chekov
16. My Life, Anton Chekov
17. The Nice Old Man and the Pretty Girl, Italo Svevo
18. The Touchstone, Edith Wharton
19. The Man Who Would be King, Rudyard Kipling
20. The Duel, Alexander Kuprin
21. The Lemoine Affair, Marcel Proust
22. Jacob's Room, Virginia Woolf
23. Parnassus on Wheels, Christopher Marley
24. May Day, F.Scott Fitzgerald
25. La Fanfarlo, Charles Baudelaire
26. The Alienist, Machado de Assis
27. The Distracted Preacher, Thomas Hardy
28. The Enchanted Wander, Nikolai Leskov