I'm taking part in The Classics Club, hosted by Jillian at 'A Room of One's Own', where one writes a big long list of classics one would like to read, and then sets a date by which to do this. (Find the new website here.)
My list is below; I aim read all of these within the next four years (by March 2016). As I read and review them, I'll replace the plain text name with a hyperlink. Wish me luck!
- Akutagawa, Ryunosuke, Rashomon, and Seventeen Other Stories
- Alcott, Louisa May, Little Women
- Atwood, Margaret, Alias Grace
- Atwood, Margaret, The Blind Assassin
- Atwood, Margaret, Cat's Eye
- Atwood, Margaret, The Edible Woman
- Atwood, Margaret, Lady Oracle
- Atwood, Margaret, Oryx and Crake
- Atwood, Margaret, The Robber Bride
- Atwood, Margaret, Surfacing
- Balzac, Honore de, Eugenie Grandet
- Balzac, Honore de, Selected Short Stories
- Bronte, Charlotte, Jane Eyre
- Bulgakov, Mikhail, The Master & Margarita
- Bukowski, Charles, Ham on Rye
- Capote, Truman, Breakfast at Tiffany's: A Short Novel and Three Stories
- Carter, Angela, The Passion of New Eve
- Carver, Raymond, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
- Chekhov, Anton, The Essential Tales
- Dickens, Charles, A Christmas Carol
- Dickens, Charles, A Tale of Two Cities
- Dickens, Charles, Barnaby Rudge
- Dickens, Charles, Bleak House
- Dickens, Charles, David Copperfield
- Dickens, Charles, Dombey and Son
- Dickens, Charles, Great Expectations (re-read)
- Dickens, Charles, Hard Times
- Dickens, Charles, Little Dorrit
- Dickens, Charles, Martin Chuzzlewit
- Dickens, Charles, Nicholas Nickleby
- Dickens, Charles, Old Curiosity Shop
- Dickens, Charles, Our Mutual Friend
- Dickens, Charles, The Mystery of Edwin Drood
- Dostoevsky, Fyodor, The Idiot
- Du Maurier, Daphne, Frenchman's Creek
- Du Maurier, Daphne, Jamaica Inn
- Du Maurier, Daphne, Rebecca (re-read)
- Du Maurier, Daphne, The Birds and Other Stories
- Eliot, George, Middlemarch
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott, Flappers and Philosophers
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott, The Beautiful and the Damned
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott, The Great Gatsby (re-read)
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott, This Side of Paradise
- Flaubert, Gustave Madame Bovary
- Forster, E.M., A Passage to India
- Forster, E.M., The Longest Journey
- Forster, E.M., Where Angels Fear to Tread
- Gogol, Nicolai, Dead Souls
- Hardy, Thomas, Jude the Obscure
- Hemingway, Ernest, A Farewell to Arms
- Hemingway, Ernest, A Moveable Feast
- Hemingway, Ernest, For Whom the Bell Tolls
- Hemingway, Ernest, The Old Man and the Sea
- J.R.R. Tolkein, The Hobbit
- Kafka, Franz, The Metamorphosis
- Kawabata, Yasunari, Yukiguni (Snow Country) (re-read)
- Lessing, Doris, The Golden Notebook
- Mansfield, Katherine, Selected Stories
- Mori, Ogai, Gan (Wild Geese)
- Munro, Hector Hugh, Short Stories of Saki
- Murakami, Haruki, After Dark
- Murakami, Haruki, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (re-read)
- Murakami, Haruki, Dance Dance Dance
- Murakami, Haruki, Kafka on the Shore (re-read)
- Murakami, Haruki, Norwegian Wood (re-read)
- Murakami, Haruki, South of the Border, West of the Sun
- Murakami, Haruki, Sputnik Sweetheart
- Murakami, Haruki, The Elephant Vanishes
- Murakami, Haruki, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
- Nabokov, Vladimir, Ada or Ardor
- Nabokov, Vladimir, Pale Fire
- Nabokov, Vladimir, Short Stories (re-read)
- Naoya, Shiga, An’ya Koro (A Dark Night’s Passing)
- Orwell, George, 1984
- Orwell, George, Animal Farm
- Pasternak, Boris, Dr. Zhivago (re-read)
- Rhys, Jean, Wide Sargasso Sea
- Rushdie, Salman, The Satanic Verses
- Safran Foer, Jonathan, Everything is Illuminated
- Safran Foer, Jonathan, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
- Salinger, J. D., Franny and Zooey
- Salinger, J. D., The Catcher in the Rye (re-read)
- Seth, Vikram, A Suitable Boy
- Smith, Dodie, I Capture the Castle
- Somerset Maugham, W., Ashenden
- Soseki, Natsume, I am a Cat
- Soseki, Natsume, Kokoro (Heart)
- Szerb, Antal, The Pendragon Legend
- Tanizaki, Junichiro, Sasameyuki (The Makioka Sisters)
- The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon (re-read)
- Tolstoy, Leo, Anna Karenina (re-read)
- Tolstoy, Leo, War and Peace (half-read)
- Tremain, Rose, Music and Silence
- Trevor, William, Death in Summer
- Vonnegut, Kurt, Slaughterhouse Five
- Woolf, Virginia, A Room of One’s Own
- Woolf, Virginia, Between the Acts
- Woolf, Virginia, Jacob’s Room
- Woolf, Virginia, Mrs Dalloway (re-read)
- Woolf, Virginia, Orlando
- Woolf, Virginia, The Waves
- Woolf, Virginia, Three Guineas
- Woolf, Virginia, To The Lighthouse
- Yoshimoto, Banana, Kitchen
- Yoshimoto, Banana, Lizard
I adore Woolf's A Room of One's Own!! I think I need to re-read that one. I love that you have War and Peace marked "half-read." Me too :P
ReplyDeleteDo think anyone has read the whole thing? Really? :)
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