Read 100 classic novels

I think I’ll take out Oliver Twist and the rest of the Chronicles of Narnia books. 3 weeks ago

* The Guardian’s 100 greatest novels of all time
* The Norwegian Book Clubs’ 100 Best Books of All Time
* 20 Classic Novels You Can Read in One Sitting

Not sure how much time this will take, but I’m willing to start the journey asap! 1 month ago

I’m going to take another Charles Dickens out. Probably not til the end of next month but i might be able to start another classic that i own this month. 1 month ago

15- Animal Farm by Orwell 1 month ago

I have read these:
1.The Hobbit-Tolkien, J.R.R.
2.The Catcher in the Rye-Salinger, J.D.
3.Atlas Shrugged-Rand, Ayn
4.The Fountainhead-Rand, Ayn
5.The Diary of a Young Girl-Frank, Anne
6.The Count of Monte Cristo-Dumas, Alexandre
7.To Kill a Mockingbird-Lee, Harper
8.The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)-Tolkien, J.R.R. 1 month ago

13. The Inferno- Dante
14. Tom Sawyer- Twain 2 months ago

1. Wuthering Heights- Emily Bronte
2. Lolita- Nabokov
3. Grapes of Wrath- Steinbeck
4. East of Eden- Steinbeck
5. Crime and Punishment- Dostoevsky
6. Great Expectations- Dickens
7. One Hundred Years of Solitude- Marquez
8. The Great Gatsby- Fitzgerald
9. Mrs. Dalloway- Woolf
10. The Catcher in the Rye- Salinger
11. The Wasp Factory- Banks
12. Little Women- Alcott 2 months ago

1.Thus Spake Zarathustra
2. Greatest Expectations
3.Oddessey
4. Illiad
5. Poetic Edda
6.The dubliners
7. Portrait of a young man as an Artist
8. Anything by Virgil
9. Metamorphosis
10. 1984
Cant remember all ofcourse 2 months ago

I have just finished Jane Eyre. I have to admit I wasn’t a fan of the first half of the book, but it grew on me over time :o) Have now embarked on “The Count of Monte Cristo” which has me totally engrossed… off to read some more! 3 months ago

I think that’s 1. I’m going to try to start Alice in Wonderland by Thanksgiving and hopefully Moby Dick by Xmas. 3 months ago

Here’s my tentative list. There are a lot of books that I was responsible for reading in school, but my teenage mind did the work at that time but I didn’t enjoy it or retain it. So even if I read it then, I’m reading it again now…cleaning the slate.
This is a combination of Time’s 100 Best English Language Novels (1923-2005), Modern Library’s 100 Best Novels, some classic African-American Literature, and a few additions of my own. I will append a date next to each book when I finish it. One freebie I will give myself is The Color Purple by Alice Walker…I’ve read it a few times, seen the movie, and the play…so its date will be rough estimate of when I read it last.
Comments welcome. :)

1. The Great Gatsby – F.Scott Fitzgerald (08.15.10)✓
2. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
3. The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
4. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
5. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
6. Under the Volcano- Malcolm Lowry
7. 1984 – George Orwell (08.10.10)✓
8. I, Claudius – Robert Graves
9. To the Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
10. An American Tragedy – Theodore Dreiser
11. The Heart is A Lonely Hunter – Graham Greene
12. Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut
13. Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
14. Native Son – Richard Wright
15. Appointment in Samarra – John O’Hara
16. A Passage to India – E.M. Forster
17. Animal Farm – George Orwell
18. A Handful of Dust – Evelyn Waugh
19. As I Lay Dying – William Faulkner
20. All The King’s Men – Robert Penn Warren
21. The Bridge of San Luis Rey – Thorton Wilder
22. Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin
23. The Heart of the Matter – Graham Greene
24. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
25. Deliverance – James Dickey
26. A Dance to The Music of Time (series) – Anthony Powell
27. The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
28. Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller
29. Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth
30. Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov
31. Light in August – William Faulkner
32. On the Road – Jack Kerouac
33. The Moviegoer – Walker Percy
34. Death Comes for the Archbishop – Willa Cather
35. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
36. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
37. A House for Mr. Biswas – V.S. Naipaul
38. The Day of the Locust – Nathanael West
39. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark
40. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
41. The Adventures of Augie March – Saul Bellow
42. The Death of the Heart – Elizabeth Bowen
43. Ragtime – E.L. Doctorow
44. Loving – Henry Green
45. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
46. Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
47. Under the Net – Iris Murdoch
48. The Sheltering Sky – Paul Bowles
49. The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
50. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
51. Zuleika Dobson – Max Beerbom
52. Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
53. The Tale of Genji – Lady Murasaki
54. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
55. Dr. Zhivago – Boris Pasternak
56. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
57. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
58. Waiting for Mahatma – RK Narayan
59. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
60. One Thousand and One Nights – Anonymous
61. Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
62. Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin
63. The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
64. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
65. Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
66. Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
67. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
68. The War of the Worlds – HG Wells
69. Tess of the D’Ubervilles – Thomas Hardy
70. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
71. Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
72. Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes
73. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
74. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte (09.18.11)✓
75. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
76. Middlemarch – George Eliot
77. Silas Marner – George Eliot
78. The Picture of Dorian Grey – Oscar Wilde (03.11.11)✓
79. The Color Purple – Alice Walker (04.01.07)✓
80. Call It Sleep – Henry Roth
81. Middle Passage – Charles Johnson
82. Passing – Nella Larson (03.07.11)✓
83. Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neal Hurston
84. Cane – Jean Toomer
85. Jubilee – Margaret Walker
86. To Kill A Mockingbird – Harper Lee (03.03.11)✓
87. Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
88. Ulysses – James Joyce
89. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
90. Sons and Lovers – D.H. Lawerence
91. Women in Love – D.H. Lawerence
92. The Naked and the Dead – Norman Mailer
93. The Wapshot Chronicles – John Cheever
94. From Here to Eternity – James Jones
95. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
96. The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton
97. Of Human Bondage – W. Somerset Maugham
98. Finnegan’s Wake – James Joyce
99. A Room With A View – E.M. Forster
100. The Magnificent Ambersons – Booth Tarkington (3.26.11)✓18 months ago

9. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

Which I found completely horrible and had to force myself through, thankfully it was very short!

I’m finding I don’t much enjoy the classics, maybe I am picking up books by the “wrong” authors? 4 months ago

1)Castle of Otranto
2)Wide sargasso sea
3)Of mice and men
4)The colour purple
5)King Lear
6)1984 (best novel I’ve ever read besides Frankenstein)
7)Frankenstein
8)Dracula
9)Wuthering heights
10)Crime and punishment
11)The time machine
12)Great expectations
13)Nausea
14)A little princess
15)Brave new world (I need to re-read this cus I don’t remember a thing)
16)Little women
17)Rebecca
18)Moll Flanders
19)Jane Eyre
20)Alice in wonderland
21)Villette
22)Sense and sensibility
23)Pride and prejudice
24)The double
25)Through the looking glass
26)Northanger abbey
27)Siddhartha
28)Emma
29)The beach (is this even a classic?)
30)The hobbit
31)Persuasion
32)Lady Susan
33)The tenent of wildfell hall
34)Sophie’s world
35)Oedipus tyrannus
36)Death of a salesman
37)The lion the witch and the wardrobe (and sequel)
38)Call of Cthulu (and some other HP Lovecraft)(does this count??)
39)The french lieutenants woman
40)Tess of the D’Uburvilles
41)Othello
42)Hamlet
43)Macbeth
44)A midsummer nights dream
45)Twelfth night
46)Romeo and Juliet
47)The tempest
48)So long and thanks for all the fish
49)The hitch hikers guide to the galaxy
50)The restaurant at the end of the universe
51)Animal farm
52)As you like it

Plan to read: Utopia, far from the madding crowd, beowulf, catch 22, lotr, the vampyre, romance of the forest, lord of the flies, madame bovary, war and peace, the odessey, the illiad, vanity fair, entire works of shakespeare, the last man and many more

I would like to finish by 2013 if possible (I’m a slow reader and also I read other things). Then read them all again and then read all my psychology textbooks again. 2 years ago

and Frankenstein. I found the Invisible Man. I’ll read it soon. 6 months ago

1. I Capture the Castle – Dodie Smith (a few years ago)
2. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres
3. Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy (3/6/2010)
4. Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier (5/10/11)
5. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
6. The Catcher in the Rye – J. D. Salinger (18/5/2010)
7. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
8. The Lord of the Rings – J. R. R. Tolkein
9. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
10. Black Beauty – Anna Sewell
11. The Picture of Dorian Grey – Oscar Wilde (20/3/10)
12. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen (20/2/11)
13. The Jungle Book – Rudyard Kipling
14. Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
15. A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
16. Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
17. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
18. City of God – Paulo Lins (27/8/10)
19. Murder on the Orient Express – Agatha Christie
20. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
21. Paradise Lost – John Milton
22. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott (5/2/12)
23. Moby Dick – Herman Melville
24. Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Caroll
25. Frankenstein – Mary Shelley (23/8/10)
26. Dracula – Bram Stoker
27. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte (a few years ago)
28. Animal Farm – George Orwell (a few years ago)
29. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
30. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
31. In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
32. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald (19/6/10)
33. Lord of the Flies – William Golding (17/1/09)
34. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
35. Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
36. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath (a couple of years ago)
37. Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D. H. Lawrence (4/1/11)
38. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller (21/7/11)
39. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
40. 1984 – George Orwell
41. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
42. Ulysses – James Joyce
43. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
44. A Room with a View – E. M. Forster
45. The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
46. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks (4/2/12)
47. Atonement – Ian McEwan
48. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
49. Around the World in 80 Days – Jules Verne
50. The Hound of the Baskervilles – Arthur Conan Doyle
51. Casino Royale – Ian Fleming
52. War of the Worlds – H. G. Wells
53. The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
54. Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
55. One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
56. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
57. A Passage to India – E. M. Forster
58. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
59. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
60. Flowers for Algernon – Daniel Keyes
61. Wild Swans – Jung Chang
62. Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
63. Peter Pan – J. M. Barrie
64. A Little Princess – Frances Hodgson Burnett
65. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
66. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
67. Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez (29/1/12)
68. The Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper
69. The Canterbury Tales – Geoffrey Chaucer
70. Life of Pi – Yann Martel (13/2/10)
71. The Iliad – Homer
72. Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller
73. I, Claudius – Robert Graves
74. Howard’s End – E. M. Forster (3/10/11)
75. Emma – Jane Austen
76. The Mill on the Floss – George Eliot
77. The Crucible – Arthur Miller
78. Romeo and Juliet – William Shakespeare
79. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
80. The Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank
81. Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak
82. For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemmingway
83. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz – L. Frank Baum
84. Sons and Lovers – D. H. Lawrence
85. The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
86. The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton
87. Mrs Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
88. On the Road – Jack Kerouac
89. Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
90. The Railway Children – E. Nesbit
91. The Time Machine – H. G. Wells
92. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark
93. Of Human Bondage – W. Somerset Maugham
94. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
95. Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut
96. The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James (25/9/11)
97. Middlemarch – George Eliot
98. The Divine Comedy – Dante Alighiery
99. Tales of Mystery and Imagination – Edgar Allen Poe
100. The Age of Reason – Jean-Paul Sartre

Green books are finished. Red books are currently being read. 21 months ago

I will edit this when I have new ideas. Many of these books may just be ones I have heard of so much that I would like to read them to see if they are in fact as good as has been suggested. Also some great books may have been left out as I have already read them.

(In no particular order…)
1. Anna Karenina * * * * *
2. To Kill a Mockingbird * * * *
3. Candide
4. War and Peace
5. The Catcher in the Rye * * *
6. Crime and Punishment * * * * *
7. Bram Stoker’s Dracula
8. Lady Chatterly’s Lover
9. Lolita * * *
10. Madame Bovary
11. The picture of Dorian Gray * * * *
12. The Satanic Verses
13. Steppenwolf
14. Ulysses
15. One flew over the cuckoo’s nest
16. Cat on a hot tin roof
17. Middlemarch
18. Of Mice and Men
19. Notre Dame de Paris
20. Vanity Fair
21. All works by Shakespeare (why not? lol)
22. The Great Gatsby
23. The Count of Monte Cristo
24. The Iliad of Homer
25. Cold Comfort Farm
26. Gulliver’s Travels
27. Great Expectations
28. Catch 22
29. Dream of the Red Chamber
30. Little Women
31. A Passage to India
32. The Boarding School Girl * * *
33. David Copperfield
34. Emma
35. The Bell Jar * * *
36. The Grapes of Wrath
37. Wuthering Heights
38. Brave New World * * *
39. Howards End
40. Kim
41. The Postman Always Rings Twice
42. Eugene Onegin
43. The Queen of Spades
44. Adventures of Huckleberry Fin (or The Adventures of Tom Sawyer)
45. The Last of the Mohicans
46. The Prince (maybe)
47. Paradise Lost (Only ever read book I – loved it)
48. Cat’s Cradle
49. Commedia (The Divine Comedy)
50. Ivanhoe
51. Jane Eyre
52. Robinson Crusoe
53. A Handful of Dust
54. Nostromo
55. Midnight’s Children
56. Mrs Dalloway
57. The Metamorphosis * * *
58. Complete The Chronicles of Narnia (last 3 books)
59. Far From The Madding Crowd
60. A Tale of Two Cities
61. Gone With The Wind
62. The Diary of a Nobody
63. The War of the Worlds
64. Animal Farm
65. Beowulf (I’m not entirely convinced that this is great rather than just impressively old.)
66. The Karamazov Brothers
67. The Canterbury Tales (read the Prologue)
68. Plays: The Seagull; Uncle Vanya; Three Sisters;The Cherry Orchard
69. Don Quixote
70. The Jungle Book
71. Les Miserables
72. Lord Jim
73. Moby Dick
74. The Odyssey
75. The Origin of Species
76. The Republic
77. The Sound and the Fury
78. Tales of Mystery and Imagination
79. Tess of the D’Ubervilles
80. The Kreutzer Sonata * * *
81. The Death of Ivan Ilyich * * *
82. Pride and Prejudice * * *
83. Women In Love
84. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
85. Sons and Lovers
86. I, Claudius
87. One Hundred Years of Solitude
88. Siddhartha
89. For Whom the Bell Tolls
90. The Master and Margarita
91. The Prince
92. The Tipping Point
93. Walden
94. Around the World in 80 Days
95. The Trial
96. Slaughterhouse 5
97. Tropic of Cancer
98. The Maltese Falcon
99. Finnegans Wake
100. Under the Volcano
101. A Hero of Our Time * * * *
102. On The Eve * * *
103. Fathers and Children

Red = started reading and incompleted
Blue = About to start
Green = Finished 4 years ago

Why is my 43T broken? I can’t reply to the messages others have sent me, I can’t comment on posts, its all messed up!!!!! Can somebody report it to the bots for me, because I can’t?! 7 months ago

Rosemary’s baby , the exorcist, psycho & tom sawyer and um a christmas carol yeah thats a dozen go mark woohoo yeah:-0 7 months ago

but i think it;s over a dozen … let’s see 4 books of Narnia , Dr. Jekyl & Mr. Hyde , Turn of the Screw , Treasure Island and i think at least 5 others. i’m sure they’ll come to me. 7 months ago

I decided that if I can’t remember the plot line, it doesn’t count as having read the book.

1. Wuthering Heights- Emily Bronte
2. Lolita- Nabokov
3. Grapes of Wrath- Steinbeck
4. East of Eden- Steinbeck
5. Crime and Punishment- Dostoevsky
6. Great Expectations- Dickens
7. One Hundred Years of Solitude- Marquez
8. The Great Gatsby- Fitzgerald 7 months ago