The Classics Club Challenge

Well… It was only a matter of time before I got on to this, wasn’t it?

Choosing these 50 classics was actually a lot harder than I’d thought it be – there are so many books I want to read! I’ve based my choices on which classics a) terrify me, b) I am embarrassed to admit I haven’t read and c) I really want to read. So here goes!

1. Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain
2. Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
3. Angela’s Ashes – Frank McCourt
4. Animal Farm – George Orwell
5. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
6. Inferno: The Divine Comedy I – Dante Alighieri
7. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
8. Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence
9. Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
10. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
11. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
12. The Odessy – Homer
13. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
14. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
15. Pride & Prejudice – Jane Austin
16. Siddhartha – Hermann Hesse
17. Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
18. To the Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
19. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
20. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
21. Bleak House – Charles Dickens
22. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
23. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
24. The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
25. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
26. Emma – Jane Austen
27. Empire of the Sun – J. G. Ballard
28. Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
29. Gone with the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
30. Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
31. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
32. The Hound of Baskervilles – Arthur Conan Doyle
33. The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo
34. Iliad – Homer
35. Journey to the Center of the Earth – Jules Verne
36. Keep the Aspidistra Flying – George Orwell
37. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
38. The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
39. The Picture of Dorian Grey – Oscar Wilde
40. The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
41. Schindler’s List – Thomas Keneally
42. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
43. The Shining – Stephen King
44. Slaughterhouse 5 – Kurt Vonnegut
45. Tess of the D’Ubervilles – Thomas Hardy
46. Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
47. Twelve Years a Slave – Solomon Northup
48. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
49. The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
50. Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China – Jung Chang