So a little before the end of 2014 I took a poll from a group
of ladies on what they considered must-read classics. Namely because I hadn’t
read many classics at all. I created this very long list and have since been
plugging away slowly at them. I updated my blog with the list last year and it
was fun to see what others had read, or wanted to read, or were planning to
read; and a few people offered to read specific books with me, so I thought I
would share again. This year I have a goal to read at least one book from this list every month.
Be warned, this is a long list and if I’ve read it, the
completed date is in parenthesis.
1984 (1/1/15)
12 Angry Men
12 Angry Men
A Christmas Carol (12/18/14)
A Clockwork Orange
A Conspiracy of Dunces
A Streetcar Named Desire
A Tale of Two Cities
A Wrinkle in Time
Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Alice in Wonderland
Animal Farm
Anna Karenina
Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
As I Lay Dying
Awakening
Antonia
A Clockwork Orange
A Conspiracy of Dunces
A Streetcar Named Desire
A Tale of Two Cities
A Wrinkle in Time
Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Alice in Wonderland
Animal Farm
Anna Karenina
Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
As I Lay Dying
Awakening
Antonia
Beloved
Brave New World
Bridge Called My Back
Brave New World
Bridge Called My Back
Cather in the Rye
Cedameron
Color Purple
Count of Monte Cristo
Crime and Punishment
Crucible
Cedameron
Color Purple
Count of Monte Cristo
Crime and Punishment
Crucible
Dante’s Inferno
Devil and Tom Walker
Dovekeepers
Dr Zhivargo
Dracula
Devil and Tom Walker
Dovekeepers
Dr Zhivargo
Dracula
East of Eden
Emma
Ethan Frome
Emma
Ethan Frome
Fahrenheit 451
Fountainhead
Frankenstein
Fountainhead
Frankenstein
Gone with the Wind
Grapes of Wrath
Great Gatsby (7/14/15)
Gulliver’s Travels
Grapes of Wrath
Great Gatsby (7/14/15)
Gulliver’s Travels
Handmaid’s Tale
Hours
Hours
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Importance of Being Earnest
Importance of Being Earnest
Jane Eyre
Jungle
Jungle
Little Prince (7/14/15)
Little Women
Lord of the Flies
Hobbit (1/5/15)
Lord of the Rings
Love in the Time of Cholera
Little Women
Lord of the Flies
Hobbit (1/5/15)
Lord of the Rings
Love in the Time of Cholera
Metamorphosis
Mrs. Dalloway
Mrs. Dalloway
Nectar in a Sieve
Of Mice and Men
On the Road
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Outsiders
On the Road
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Outsiders
Pearl
Persuasion
Picture of Dorian Grey (12/18/15)
Pride and Prejudice (12/22/14)
Persuasion
Picture of Dorian Grey (12/18/15)
Pride and Prejudice (12/22/14)
Scarlet Letter (8/18/15)
Secret Garden
Sense and Sensibility
Sherlock Holmes
Siddhartha
Slaughterhouse Five
Sound and Fury
Storm
Story of an Hour
Sun Also Rises
Secret Garden
Sense and Sensibility
Sherlock Holmes
Siddhartha
Slaughterhouse Five
Sound and Fury
Storm
Story of an Hour
Sun Also Rises
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Their Eyes Were Watching God
To Kill a Mocking Bird (12/21/14)
To the Lighthouse
Their Eyes Were Watching God
To Kill a Mocking Bird (12/21/14)
To the Lighthouse
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Watership Down
Where the Red Fern Grows
Wuthering Heights (1/25/15)
Where the Red Fern Grows
Wuthering Heights (1/25/15)
Anything by Ayn Rand, Flannery O’Connor, Jules Verne,
Virginia Woolf
