classics club

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 personal goals (Willa Cather and Classic Novellas) feature heavily here.

This list will be update and shifted as it goes along...which means that it'll probably grow etc.  As long as I've read 50 by May 2017, I'll have been successful!

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. Persuasion, Jane Austen [re-read] (1/13)
6. Mary Barton, Elizabeth Gaskell (5/15)
7. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley (6/12)
8. The Warden, Anthony Trollope (5/12)
9. Barchester Towers, Anthony Trollope
10. The Mayor of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy
11. Daniel Deronda, George Eliot
12. A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
13. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Bronte
14. Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
15. The Devil's Pool, George Sand
16. Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky (4/13)
17. Oblomov, Ivan Goncharov
18. Fathers and Sons, Ivan Turgenev
19. My Antonia, Willa Cather (4/12)
20. One of Ours, Willa Cather (8/12)
21. A Lost Lady, Willa Cather (11/12)
22. The Professor’s House, Willa Cather (4/13)
23. My Mortal Enemy, Willa Cather (5/13)
24. Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather (4/14)
25. Shadows on the Rock, Willa Cather
26. Lucy Gayheart, Willa Cather
27. Sapphira and the Slave Girl, Willa Cather
28. The Painted Veil, W.Somerset Maugham (5/12)
29. Cakes and Ale, W.Somerset Maugham (2/15)
30. The Great Divorce, C.S. Lewis (5/13)
31. Watership Down, Richard Adams (4/12)
32. All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque (11/14)
33. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck (7/13)
34. Native Son, Richard Wright
35. Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
36. A Room With a View, E.M Forster (10/13)
37. Free Air, Sinclair Lewis (1/14)
38. Main Street, Sinclair Lewis (1/15)
39. Oil!, Upton Sinclair (1/14)
40. The Beautiful and the Damned, F. Scott Fitzgerald (3/13)
41. Heat Lightning, Helen Hull (9/13)
42. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
43. On the Road, Jack Kerouac (7/12)
44. How Green Was My Valley, Richard Llewellyn (7/12)
45. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
46. The Bell, Iris Murdoch
47. River of Earth, James Still (2/13)
48. The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien (12/12)
49. The End of the Affair, Graham Greene (8/12)
50. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark (5/12)

Stories, Novellas, Plays, Etc.

1. Youth and the Bright Medusa (stories) Willa Cather (6/12)
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 (6/13)
8. The Collected Stories, Alexander Pushkin
9. Lady Windmere's Fan, Oscar Wilde (8/12)
10. The Secret Sharer and Other Stories, Joseph Conrad
11. Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw (1/13)
12. Freya of the Seven Isles, Joseph Conrad
13. Stempenyu: A Jewish Romace, Sholem Aleichem
14. The Hound of the Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle (5/13)
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