read the classics

I love the graphic that I found for this goal! For me, it represents that what you read becomes a part of who you are…I love it! I’m an avid reader and have read some of the classics. Each time I do, I am left changed, affected if you will, by the words of the author, written so long ago. An amazing experience…

I started “A Farewell to Arms” this morning. I’m way more optimistic for this novel and I decided that I would give Hemmingway another chance.

1. To Kill A Mockingbird
2. The Great Gatsby
3. Fahrenheit 451
4. The Hobbit
5. The Screwtape Letters
6. Jane Eyre
7. The Old Man and The Sea
8. The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
9. Pilgrim’s Progress
10. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
11. Hamlet
12. A Christmas Carol
13. A Day No Pigs Would Die
14. The Yearling

To Read:
The Scarlet Letter
The Island of Dr. Moreau
The Catcher In The Rye
As I Lay Dying
1984
All Quiet On The Western Front
The Bell Jar
A Clockwork Orange
The Color Purple
The Diary Of Anne Frank
Death Of A Salesman
Ender’s Game
Grapes Of Wrath
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
Lord Of The Flies
Love in the Time of Cholera
Little Women
The Princess Bride
A Raisin In The Sun
The Red Badge Of Courage
Taming Of The Shrew
Virgin Suicides

Thank God for Spark Notes.

Are there others that anybody else can add? The Woman in White sounds great, as someone else said.

Here’s the link…http://www.cincinnatilibrary.org/booklists/?id=classics

Last year I read a couple of ‘classics’ such as “Their Eyes Were Watcing God”, “Diary of a Young Girl”, and “Night”. I’d like to read at least one classic and one other book (biography, fiction, nonfiction) every month.

Classic books that I have not read, but I own and want to read:

The Hound of the Baskervilles
A Tale of Two Cities
Around the World in Eighty Days
Anna Karenina
Ivanhoe
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Call of hte Wild
Kidnapped
For Whom the Bell Tolls
To Kill a Mockingbird
Animal Farm
Dracula
A Journey to the Center of the Earth
Anne of the Green Gables

Some I’ve already read on my own (not school)/reread from childhood:

Pride and Prejudice
Persuasion
Farenheit 451
The Secret Garden
A Little Princess
Peter Pan
A Farewell to Arms
Gone With the Wind
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Alice in Wonderland
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Catcher in the Rye
Treasure Island

Anyone want to join an e-book club in traversing this text?

Reading is my favorite way to relax, get inspired, be motivated, and learn! I devour books, often two or more at a time. However, a lot of what I have read is current or genre-type fiction. I would love to read the novels referred to as the classics: Great Expectations, some Jane Austen perhaps, Plato, Dostoevsky, Mark Twain…and I love recommendations!

“House of Seven Gables”
“Dracula”
Several Shakespeare plays
“Pudd’nhead Wilson”
“The Coquette”
“The Street”
“The New York Trilogy”
Several excerpts from various

I found a couple book titles that I would like to read,but they aren’t “Jane Eyre” and I’m not sure if I am avoiding that book and I should read it, or if I should just do a book from a long time ago that is considered a classic. I’ve picked up JE before and it was so hard for me to get into. Maybe I should try again. Regardless, here are some that I’m interested in: “Their Eyes Were Watching God” and “One Hundred Years of Solitude.”