When I heard about the Classics Club I couldn’t wait to join. However, then I had the actual task of developing a list of classic books I wanted to read. This proved more difficult than you can imagine. It took over a month, and I produced three different lists. Ultimately, I settled on this list, which consists of important classics I haven’t read yet (with the exception of Huckleberry Finn, which will be a re-read).

Start Date: September 02 2012
End Date: September 02 2017

1. One Thousand and One Nights by Anonymous (link)
2. The Decameron by Boccaccio
3. Gargantua and Pantagruel by Rabelais
4. The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
5. Dangerous Liaisons by Choderlos de Laclos
6. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
7. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas
8. The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas
9. Emma by Jane Austen
10. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
11. Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas De Quincy
12. Tristam Shandy by Laurence Sterne
13. Silas Marner by George Eliot
14. The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
15. Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
16. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
17. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackery
18. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
19. Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
20. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
21. The Idiot by Dostoevsky
22. Notes from the Underground by Dostoevsky
23. A Hero of our Time by Mikhail Lermentov
24. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
25. Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
26. Ivanhoe by Walter Scott
27. Waverly by Walter Scott
28. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
29. Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
30. Bel Ami by Guy De Maupassant
31. Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
32. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
33. Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
34. Native Sun by Richard Wright
35. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
36. Blindness by Jose Saramago
37. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (link)
38. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (link)
39. In Remembrance of Lost Time by Proust
40. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol(link)
41. Père Goriot by Honore de Balzac
42. The Black Sheep by Honere de Balzac
43. Women in Love by D. H Lawrence
44. Lady Chatterly’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence
45. The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
46. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
47. Ulysses by James Joyce
48. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland; Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carol
49. Absolom, Absolom by William Faulkner
50. Light in August by William Faulkner

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