The Classics Club

For any of you bloggers who are planning to read the classics with me this year (I couldn’t love you more, and I’m so excited for our book club!), I would highly recommend popping over to The Classics Club and having a look around.

I had scheduled this post to be about my blogging goals for the year, but obviously that didn’t happen. And I believe “sticking to my editorial calendar” was going to be one of those goals! Oops… Anyway, one of my goals for 2015 as a newbie blogger is to get more involved in the blogging community, and the folks at The Classics Club seem like my kind of people. Part of joining this little piece of blogger heaven, however, is creating a list of at least 50 books that you will read in the next 5 years. I had thought about including more (there are many, many others that I plan to read in my lifetime), but then I thought new wife, new job, cat to feed, let’s not go crazy, Tyler!

So here we are! My list of 50 books that I plan to read before the end of the 2019. (2019?! Just thinking about that makes me anxious.) I don’t know where I’ll be in 2019 or what I’ll be doing, but I will hopefully have finished all of these books! We’re tackling 12 of them this year in my Book Club Classics series, and then I have another 12 planned for the next year. Can you guess the category? (Hint: I’ve read them all before, and maybe you have, too?)

The rest? Well, we’ll get to those!

The Classics Club

Starting: January 1, 2015
Ending: December 31, 2019

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Adams, Richard
Watership Down

Brontë, Emily
Wuthering Heights

Chopin, Kate
The Awakening

Conrad, Joseph
Heart of Darkness

Cooper, James Fenimore
The Last of the Mohicans

Dickens, Charles
Great Expectations
The Chimes

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
A Study in Scarlet

Alexandre Dumas
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Three Musketeers

Eliot, George
Middlemarch

Faulkner, William
As I Lay Dying

Fitzgerald, F. Scott
The Great Gatsby

Flaubert, Gustav
Madame Bovary

Forster, E.M.
Room With a View

Golding, William
Lord of the Flies

Heaney, Seamus
Beowulf

Hemingway, Ernest
A Farewell to Arms

Hurston, Zora Neale
Their Eyes Were Watching God

Ibsen, Henrick
Doll’s House

James, Henry
The Portrait of a Lady

Lawrence, D.H.
Lady Chatterley’s Lover

Lee, Harper
To Kill a Mockingbird

Malory, Sir Thomas
Le Morte d’Arthur

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia
One Hundred Years of Solitude

Melville, Herman
Moby Dick

Miller, Arthur
The Crucible

Mitchell, Margaret
Gone with the Wind

Nabokov, Vladimir
Lolita

O’Brien, Tim
The Things They Carried

Orwell, George
Animal Farm
1984

Plath, Sylvia
The Bell Jar

Pasternak, Boris
Doctor Zhivago

Rand, Ayn
Anthem
Atlas Shrugged

Shakespeare, William
Much Ado About Nothing
Romeo and Juliet

Shelley, Mary
Frankenstein

Steinbeck, John
Of Mice and Men
The Grapes of Wrath

Stevenson, Robert Louis
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Stoker, Bram
Dracula

Stoppard, Tom
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

Tolstoy, Leo
Anna Karenina

Twain, Mark
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

Voltaire
Candide

Vonnegut, Kurt
Slaughterhouse Five

Wharton, Edith
The Age of Innocence

Whitman, Walt
Leaves of Grass

Woolf, Virginia
Mrs. Dalloway

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Are any of these books on your personal list? Do I have any fellow Classics Club bloggers out there who’ve read any of these?