This is my list of fifty classic books I will be reading to take on the challenge sponsored by The Classics Club.
Currently Reading: “Their Eyes Were Watching God” by Zora Neale Hurston
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.
- One’s list can be fluid – books can be added or removed.
My List Completion Date: December 1, 2023
(Completed books are in blue. The book title is a link to the review.)
- Achebe, Chinua: Things Fall Apart
- Baldwin, James: Go Tell it on the Mountain
- Bolano, Roberto: The Savage Detectives
- Bradbury, Ray: Fahrenheit 451
- Camus, Albert: The Plague
- Chekov, Anton: Stories
- De Balzac, Honore: Pere Goriot
- DeLillo, Don: Underworld
- Dostoevsky, Fyodor: Crime and Punishment
- Eco, Umberto: The Name of the Rose
- Ellison, Ralph: The Invisible Man
- George Elliot, Middlemarch
- Flaubert, Gustav: Madame Bovary
- Ford, Ford Madox: The Good Soldier
- Fowles, John: The Collector, The French Lieutenant’s Woman
- Gaskell, Elizabeth: North and South
- Gogol, Nikolai: Dead Souls
- Greene, Graham: The Quiet American
- Hansberry, Lorraine: A Raisin in the Sun
- Hardy, Thomas: The Mayor of Casterbridge
- Heller, Joseph: Catch-22
- Hemingway, Ernest: For Whom the Bell Tolls
- Hurston, Zora Neale: Their Eyes Were Watching God
- Ishiguro, Kazuo: The Remains of the Day
- Knowles, John: A Separate Peace
- Lamb, Wally: I Know This Much Is True
- Laxness, Halldór: Independent People
- Lermontov, Mikhail: A Hero of Our Time
- McCullers, Carson: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
- Moberg, Vilhelm: The Emigrants
- Morrison, Toni: The Song Of Solomon
- Murakami, Haruki: Norwegian Wood
- Nabokov, Vladimir: Pale Fire
- Naipaul, VS: A Bend in the River
- O’Connor, Flannery: A Good Man is Hard to Find
- Pamuk, Orhan: My Name is Red
- Pasternak, Boris: Doctor Zhivago
- Pushkin, Alexander: Eugene Onegin
- Rhys, Jean: Wide Sargasso Sea
- Roth, Philip, American Pastoral
- José Saramago, Blindness
- Solzhenitsyn, Alexander: Cancer Ward
- Steinbeck, John: East of Eden
- Stendhal: The Charterhouse of Parma
- Tan, Amy: The Joy Luck Club
- Thackeray, William Makepeace, Vanity Fair
- Tolstoy, Leo: Anna Karenina
- Trollope, Anthony: The Way We Live Now
- Turgenev, Ivan: Fathers and Sons
- Wright, Richard: Native Son
- Morante, Elsa: History
