Classics Club 2018 – 2023

This is my list for the Classics Club, which is a fantastic group of people that read and write about the classics. They choose a list of 50+ books that they want to read in the next five years. Then they share their reviews with each other.

1. Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes
2. Roots, by Alex Haley
3.  The Pilgrim’s Progress, by John Bunyan
4. The Island of Doctor Moreau, by H. G. Wells
5. Gulliver’s Travels, by Jonathan Swift
6. The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde
7. Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
8. Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood
9. Foundation, by Isaac Asimov
10. Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens
11. The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
12. The Merchant of Venice, by William Shakespeare
13. Much Ado About Nothing, by William Shakespeare
14. Twelfth Night, by Wiliam Shakespeare
15. Moby Dick, by Herman Melville
16. Uncle Tom’s Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe
17. Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert
18. Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
19. The Return of the Native, by Thomas Hardy
20. The Portrait of a Lady, by Henry James
21. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
22. The Red Badge of Courage, by Stephen Crane
23. Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad
24. The House of Mirth, by Edith Wharton
25. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
26. The Trial, by Franz Kafka
27. Native Son, by Richard Wright
28. The Stranger, by Albert Camus
29. 1984, by George Orwell
30. Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison
31. Seize the Day, by Saul Bellow
32. The Bible
33. Mahabharata
34. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, by Edward Gibbon
35. Room of One’s Own, by Virginia Woolf
36. Swann’s Way, by Marcel Proust
37. The Souls of Black Folk, W. E. B. Du Bois
38. A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens
39. Master and Commander, by Patrick O’Brien
40. The Divine Comedy, by Dante
41. The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, by Howard Pyle
42. The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair
43. Far From the Madding Crowd, by Thomas Hardy
44. Catch-22, by Joseph Heller
45. The Witches of Eastwick, by John Updike
46. The Complete Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle
47. Paradise Lost, by John Milton
48. The First Men in the Moon, by H. G. Wells
49. The Island of Doctor Moreau, by H. G. Wells