Classic Books

This is my list of fifty classic books I will be reading to take on the challenge sponsored by The Classics Club.

Currently Reading:  “One Of Ours” by Willa Cather. 

Here are the club’s ground rules:

  • Choose fifty classic books.  I’ve chosen fifty novels.
  • Post the list on your blog.  My list is below.
  • Choose a reading-completion goal date up to five years in the future.  My date is November 1, 2023.
  • Write a review of each book when finished reading it and post it on your blog.
  • Submit each book review to The Classics Club website.
  • I’ve not followed through on writing reviews.  I’ve found that I disliked it so much that I can’t bring myself to work on a review.  I will continue with the reading.
  • One’s list can be fluid – books can be added or removed.
  1.  Achebe, Chinua: Things Fall Apart                               June 22, 2020
  2.  Baldwin, James: If Beale Street Could Talk                 October 8, 2020
  3.  Bolano, Roberto:  The Savage Detectives
  4.  Bradbury, Ray:  Fahrenheit 451
  5.  Camus, Albert: The Plague
  6.  Cather, Willa:  One Of Ours                                             Sept. 30,2020
  7.  Chekov, Anton:  Stories
  8.  Conrad Joseph:  Lord Jim
  9.  De Balzac, Honore:  Pere Goriot
  10.  DeLillo, Don:  White Noise                                               February 25, 2019
  11.  Dickens, Charles:  Our Mutual Friend                           August 18, 2020
  12.  Dostoevsky, Fyodor: Crime and Punishment
  13.  Eco, Umberto: The Name of the Rose
  14.  Ellison, Ralph: The Invisible Man
  15.  George Elliot, Middlemarch
  16.  Flaubert, Gustav: Madame Bovary
  17.  Ford, Ford Madox: The Good Soldier
  18.  Fowles, John: The Collector, The French Lieutenant’s Woman
  19.  Gaskell, Elizabeth: North and South
  20.  Gogol, Nikolai: Dead Souls
  21.  Greene, Graham: The Power and the Glory
  22.  Hansberry, Lorraine: A Raisin in the Sun
  23.  Hardy, Thomas: The Mayor of Casterbridge
  24.  Heller, Joseph: Catch-22
  25.  Hemingway, Ernest: A Farewell To Arms.                                    July 14, 2020
  26.  Hurston, Zora Neale: Their Eyes Were Watching God       October 30, 2018
  27.  Ishiguro, Kazuo: The Remains of the Day                                   May 10, 2019
  28.  Knowles, John: A Separate Peace                                                    December 18, 2018   
  29.  Lamb, Wally:  I Know This Much Is True
  30. Laxness, Halldór:  Independent People
  31.  Lermontov, Mikhail: A Hero of Our Time
  32.  McCullers, Carson: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
  33.  Moberg, Vilhelm: The Emigrants
  34.  Morrison, Toni: The Song Of Solomon
  35.  Murakami, Haruki: Norwegian Wood
  36.  Nabokov, Vladimir: Pale Fire
  37.  Naipaul, VS:  A Bend in the River                                                        July 28, 2020
  38.  O’Connor, Flannery: A Good Man is Hard to Find
  39.  Pamuk, Orhan: My Name is Red
  40.  Pasternak, Boris: Doctor Zhivago
  41.  Pushkin, Alexander: Eugene Onegin
  42. Remarque, Erich Maria:  All Quiet On the Western Front              September, 06, 2020
  43.  Rhys, Jean: Wide Sargasso Sea
  44.  Roth, Joseph:  The Radetsky March                                      February 05, 2019
  45.  Roth, Philip, American Pastoral
  46.  José Saramago, Blindness
  47.  Solzhenitsyn, Alexander: One Day In the Life Of Ivan Denisovich.            July 03, 2020
  48.  Steinbeck, John: East of Eden
  49.  Stendhal: The Charterhouse of Parma
  50.  Tan, Amy:  The Joy Luck Club
  51.  Thackeray, William Makepeace, Vanity Fair
  52.  Tolstoy, Leo: Anna Karenina
  53.  Trollope, Anthony: The Way We Live Now
  54.  Turgenev, Ivan: Fathers and Sons
  55.  Wright, Richard: Native Son
  56. Morante, Elsa:  History

My List                          Completion Date:  December 1, 2023

(Completed books are in blue.)

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