Read 100 classic novels

Sometimes I’m not sure if a novel is a classic or not but…

I’m currently finishing Moll Flanders and Jane Eyre has just been ordered to start on next week.

I’ve read:
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 (but I need to re-read this)
10)Crime and punishment
11)The time machine
12)Great expectations
13)Nausea
14)A little princess
15)Brave new world (another one I need to re-read)

001. animal farm – george orwell
002. one flew over the cuckoo’s nest – ken kesey
003. the great gatsby – f. scott fitzgerald
004. lolita – vladimir nabokov
005. of mice and men – john steinbeck
006. in cold blood – truman capote
007. on the road – jack kerouac
008. alice in wonderland – lewis caroll
009. 1984 – george orwell
010. brave new world – aldous huxley
011. the old man and the sea – ernest hemmingway
012. the stranger – albert camus
013. the adventures of huckleberry finn – mark twain
014. catcher in the rye – j.d. salinger
015. deliverance – james dickey
016. the heart is a lonely hunter – carson mccullers
017. lord of the flies – william golding
018. the lord of the rings – j.r.r. tolkien
019. to kill a mockingbird – harper lee
020. the bell jar – sylvia plath

Last night I finished 1984 – wasnt that great tbh, I guess the ideas are sort of so accepted now days it wasn’t all that revolutionary to my thinking and it was all to obvious they would convert him in the end!

Today I am starting “the age of reason” by Jean Paul Satire – am I ready for exestenialism!

36. Watership down
37. Anne of Green Gables
38. Mody Dick
39. Grapes of Wrath
40. Diary of Anne Frank
41. The Bell Jar
42. Swiss Family Robinson
43. Picture of Dorian Gray
44. Romeo and Juliet
45. Brave New World
46. Call of the Wild
47. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
48. The Good Earth
49. Gone with the Wind
50. Robinson Crusoe
51. Red Badge of Courage
52. The Scarlet Letter
53. A Separate Peace
54. The Stranger
55. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
56. Don Quixote

1984 is really interesting, lots to think about

Today I started reading book 3, 1984 :)

Tonight I finished the Alchemist- TBH not as amazing as I thought it would be, definitely got me thinking about somethings in my life tho!

Am reading the Alchemist, very whimsical and symbolic, quite cool though, and a good size to carry around in my handbag :)

We probably own a few others so this might not take me forever to finish.

New thought, one of my goals is also to run a marathon so am going to start training in October, i normally listen to my ipod to keep me going thinking i will look for some good books on audio and load them to my ipod so i can listen to them while i run – helps make running interesting = more training and gets me not “reading” but knowing some more of the greats!