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50 Classics I Plan to Read in the Next 5 Years (by May, 2022*)

Hosted by The Classics Club Blog

Pre-1700 (5)

  • Metamorphoses by Ovid
  • Oroonoko by Aphra Behn
  • Paradise Lost by John Milton
  • The Blazing World by Margaret Cavendish
  • To My Husband and Other Poems by Anne Bradstreet

1700s (7)

  • The History of Emily Montague by Frances Brooke
  • Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
  • The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole (Completed 9/11/15)
  • The 120 Days of Sodom by Marquis de Sade
  • The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe
  • A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft (re-read)
  • Camilla by Fanny Burney

1800s (15)

  • The Adventures of a Schoolboy by Edward Sellon (Completed 10/05/15)
  • Middlemarch by George Eliot (Completed 07/15/21)
  • Eugénie Grandet – Honoré de Balzac
  • Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (Completed 02/02/2017)
  • Corinne by Madame de Stael
  • Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (re-read)
  • North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
  • Dead Souls by Nikolay Gogol
  • Villette by Charlotte Bronte
  • The Seraphim and Other Poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
  • Our Village by Mary Russell Mitford
  • Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
  • Helen by Maria Edgeworth
  • The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (Completed 05/05/2018) 

1900s (21)

  • Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Completed 03/24/16)
  • The Bitterweed Path by Thomas Hal Phillips (Completed 01/11/16)
  • The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (Completed 06/26/2020)
  • Kim by Rudyard Kipling
  • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (Completed 02/19/16)
  • The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton (Completed 05/10/17)
  • The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois
  • The Hanging on Union Square (1935) by H.T. Tsiang
  • Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown
  • A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin (Completed 01/07/16)
  • Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (Completed 07/15/17)
  • The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers (Completed 01/06/16)
  • Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion (Completed 09/05/15)
  • Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
  • The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (Completed 01/18/20)
  • Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
  • Doveglion: Collected Poems (c. 1942-1958) by José García Villa
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald (Completed 04/23/16)
  • Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Completed 11/20/20)
  • The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan (Completed 3/30/18)

2000s (2)

Progress: 19 of 50 Completed (38% done)

Prize to be Won: Another list of classics to compile for another 5 years of awesome reading!

*This is my second list. I began my first list in 2012.

18 Comments on “Classics Club”

  1. Little House on the Prairie is not the best book in the series… I’d suggest The Long Winter. Just a thought. 🙂

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