The Classics Club

I plan to read at least 70 classics in the next 5 years and here is where I'll keep track of them.  Where I plan to read a book in the original language, I've indicated the title in the original first, with the English translation in parenthesis. Once a book in this list is read, the underlined title will lead to the relevant post.

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  1. Angelou, Maya - I know why the cage bird sings
  2. Aristophanes -  Βάτραχοι (the Frogs)
  3. Austen, Jane - Lady Susan
  4. Austen, Jane - Emma
  5. Austen, Jane - Persuasion
  6. Bly, Nellie - Ten days in a Mad-house
  7. Braddon, Mary Elizabeth - Lady Audley's Secret
  8. Brontë, Anne -  The Tenant of Wildfeld Hall
  9. Brontë, Emily -  Wurthering Heights
  10. Buchan, John - The Thirty-nine Steps
  11. Camus, Albert -  La chute (The Fall)
  12. Canfield Fisher, Dorothy - The Home-maker
  13. Capote, Truman -  Breakfast at Tiffany’s
  14. Choderlos de Lactos, Pierre - Les Liaisons dangereuses (Dangerous Liaisons)
  15. Christie, Agatha -  Murder at the Vicarage
  16. Collins, Wilkie -  The Moonstone
  17. Conan Doyle, Arthur -  The Hound of the Baskervilles
  18. Dickens, Charles -  Bleak House
  19. Dostoyefsky, F -  Crime and Punishment
  20. Du Maurier, Daphne -  Rebecca
  21. Elliot, George -  The lifted veil
  22. Fitzgerald, F. Scott -  This side of Paradise
  23. Forster, E.M. -  A Room with a view
  24. Forster, E.M. - Maurice
  25. Gaarder, J. - Sophie's World
  26. Garcia Marquez, Gabriel -  Chronicle of a death foretold
  27. Greene, Graham -  The Quiet American
  28. Greene, Graham - Travels with my aunt
  29. Hawthorne, Nathaniel -  The Scarlet Letter
  30. Hemingway, Ernest -  For Whom the bell tolls
  31. Joyce, James -  Dubliners
  32. Kafka, Franz -  Der Prozess (The Trial)
  33. Kundera, Milan - The unbearable lightness of Being
  34. Lawrence, D.H. -  Lady Chatterley’s lover
  35. Lee, Harper -  To kill a mockingbird
  36. Mann, Thomas -  Der Tod in Venedig (Death in Venice)
  37. Melville, H. -  Moby Dick
  38. Montgomery, L.M. - Anne of Green Gables
  39. Nietsche, F. -  Also sprach Zarathustra (Thus Spoke Zarathustra)
  40. Orwell, George -  Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
  41. Orwell, George -  Animal Farm
  42. Plato -  Συμπόσιον (Symposium)
  43. Radcliffe, Anne - The Mysteries of Udolpho
  44. Rushdie, Salman -  The Satanic Verses
  45. Shakespeare, William - Antony and Cleopatra
  46. Shakespeare, William - Cymbeline
  47. Shakespeare, William -  Much ado about nothing
  48. Shakespeare, William -  The Comedy of errors
  49. Shakespeare, William - The Merchant of Venice
  50. Shelley, Mary -  Frankenstein
  51. Sophocles -  Ἀντιγόνη (Antigone)
  52. Sophocles -  Οἰδίπους Τύραννος (Oedipus Rex)
  53. Sueskind, Patrick -  Das Parfum (The Parfum)
  54. Sun Tzu -  The art of war
  55. Swift, J. -  Gulliver’s Travels
  56. Tanizaki, J. - In praise of shadows
  57. Tolstoy, L. -  War and Peace
  58. Trollope, Anthony -  Barchester Towers
  59. Verne, Jules -  Le tour du monde en 80 jours (Around the world in 80 days)
  60. Voltaire -  Candide
  61. Von Goethe, J.W. -  Faust
  62. Wells, H.G. - The invisible Man
  63. West, Nathaniel - Miss Lonelyhearts
  64. Wharton, E. -  Ethan Frome
  65. Wharton, E. - Xingu
  66. Wilde, Oscar -  The importance of being Earnest
  67. Woolf, Virginia -  Mrs. Dalloway
  68. Woolf, Virginia - Monday or Tuesday
  69. Zola, Emile - Nana
  70. Zola, Emile - The Kill (La Curée)

6 comments:

  1. I'm impressed that you can read Greek, German and French. I always fee I lose something in the translation. Happy reading!

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  2. Hello! I just wanted to drop by to welcome you to the club and offer my very best wishes for this project! :) Cheers, and enjoy. I'll be following!

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  3. Great list. There's so much diversity on here! Tenant of Wildfell Hall is one I first read a couple of years ago, and it became an instant favourite. Anne is often overlooked, in the shadow of her more famous sisters. I hope you enjoy her!

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    1. She is actually my favourite classic writer (at least of those I've read so far)!

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