The Classics Club TBR

So I’m finally doing it. I’m actually joining the Classics Club. I’ve actually made lists for this quite a few times in the past but then never posted them until today. For those of you who don’t know what the Classics Club is I’m going to link their Rules/FAQ page here for you to check out.

I’ve picked out 100 classic books to read, I started with the ones I owned and then added a few more that I just haven’t picked up yet. I’m setting my completion date to October 9^th, 2016. I picked this date because it’s my birthday, more specifically it’ll be my 21^st birthday and I think that it’s a good age to have read more classics. Without further ado, let’s start.

1. Adams, Richard – Watership Down
2. Alcott, Louisa May – Little Women
3. Atwood, Margaret – A Handmaid’s Tale
4. Atwood, Margaret – Blind Assassin
5. Austen, Jane – Pride and Prejudice
6. Braddon, Mary Elizabeth – Lady Audley’s Secret
7. Bronte, Anne – Agnes Gray
8. Bronte, Charlotte – Jane Eyre (reread)
9. Bronte, Charlotte – Villette (reread)
10. Bronte, Charlotte - Shirley
11. Bronte, Emily – Wuthering Heights
12. Burnett, Frances Hodgson – The Secret Garden
13. Capote, Truman – In Cold Blood
14. Chandler, Raymond – The Lady in the Lake
15. Collins, Wilkie – The Woman in White
16. Dickens, Charles – David Copperfield
17. Dickens, Charles – The Pickwick Papers
18. Dostoevsky, Fyodor - Notes from the Underground
19. Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan – The Complete Sherlock Holmes
20. Du Maurier, Daphne – Mary Anne
21. Du Maurier, Daphne – Don’t Look Now and Other Stories
22. Du Maurier, Daphne – I’ll Never Be Young Again
23. Du Maurier, Daphne – Rebecca (reread)
24. Eliot, George – Middlemarch
25. Fitzgerald, F. Scott – Tender is the Night
26. Fitzgerald, F. Scott – The Beautiful and Damned
27. Fitzgerald, F. Scott – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
28. Foer, Jonathon Safran – Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
29. Ford, Madox Ford – Parade’s End
30. Frank, Anne – The Diary of a Young Girl (reread)
31. Gaskell, Elizabeth – Cranford
32. Gaskell, Elizabeth – The Life of Charlotte Bronte
33. Gaskell, Elizabeth – Wives and Daughters
34. Gibbons, Stella – My American
35. Hardy, Thomas – Far From the Madding Crowd
36. Hardy, Thomas – Tess of the D’Urbervilles
37. Hartley, L.P. – The Go-Between
38. Heller, Joseph – Catch-22
39. Hemingway, Ernest – The Essential Hemingway
40. Hugo, Victor – The Hunchback of Notre Dame
41. Huxley, Aldous – Antic Hay
42. Huxley, Aldous – Crome Yellow
43. Huxley, Aldous – Brave New World (reread)
44. James, Henry – The Golden Bowl
45. Joyce, James – The Dubliners
46. Keats, John – The Complete Poems
47. Kerouac, Jack – On the Road
48. Lawrence, D.H. – Sons and Lovers
49. Lee, Harper – To Kill a Mockingbird (reread)
50. Llewellyn, Richard – How Green Was My Valley
51. Malory, Sir Thomas – Le Morte d’Arthur
52. Marshall, Alan – I Can Jump Puddles
53. Mitchell, Margaret – Gone with the Wind
54. Mitford, Nancy – The Pursuit of Love
55. Mitford, Nancy – Love in a Cold Climate
56. Mitford, Nancy – Madam de Pompadour
57. Mitford, Jessica – Hons and Rebels
58. Montgomery, L.M. – Anne of Green Gables
59. Nabokov, Vladimir – Pale Fire
60. Nesbit, E – The Railway Children (reread)
61. Nesbit, E – Five Children and It
62. Orczy, Baroness Emmuska – The Scarlet Pimpernell
63. Orwell, George – 1984
64. Orwell, George – The Road to Wigan Pier
65. Orwell, George – Down and Out in Paris and London
66. Plath, Sylvia – The Bell Jar (reread)
67. Plath, Sylvia – The Journals of Sylvia Plath
68. Rand, Ayn – Atlas Shrugged
69. Salinger, J.D. – Franny and Zooey
70. Shakespeare, William – Hamlet
71. Shakespeare, William – The Tempest
72. Shakespeare, William – A Midsummer’s Night Dream
73. Shelley, Mary – Frankenstein (reread)
74. Shelley, Mary – The Last Man
75. Shelley, Mary – Mathilda
76. Shelley, Mary – Transformation
77. Shelley, Mary - Valperga: Or, the Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca
78. Shelley, Mary – The Journals of Mary Shelley
79. Shelley, Percy – Collected Poems
80. Smith, Betty – A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
81. Smith, Dodie – I Capture the Castle
82. Stienbeck, John – East of Eden
83. Stoker, Bram – Dracula
84. Strachey, Julia – Cheerful Weather for the Wedding
85. Thomas, Dylan – Collected Works
86. Tolkien, J.R.R. – The Lord of the Rings
87. Tolstoy, Leo – Anna Karenina
88. Tolstoy, Leo – War and Peace
89. Turner, Ethel Sybil – Seven Little Australians
90. White, T.H. – The Once and Future King
91. Wollstonecraft, Mary – Maria, or the Wrongs of a Woman
92. Woolf, Virginia – Orlando
93. Woolf, Virginia – Mrs Dalloway
94. Wyndham, John – The Day of the Triffids
95. Yeats, W.B. – Collected Poems
96. Yeats, W.B. – Irish Fairy Tales
97. Zola, Emile – Germinal
98. Zola, Emile – Nana
99. Zola, Emile – The Dream
100. Zola, Emile – Therese Raquin

So those are my 100 classics to read before my 21^st birthday. This list isn’t set in stone, I’m sure I’ll add more to this list and there will be ones I take off in that time but these are the ones I’m currently thinking of. I’ll updating this list as I read the above books and I’ll be posting my thoughts on each book as I finish them.

Are any of you participating in Classics club?