read more of the classics

I’m reading Anna Karenina right now. Loooong book but it is not nearly as intimidating as I thought it was going to be.

I just finished The Brothers Karamazov. It was an excellent book and I recommend it but it does take a LONG time to read and since Dostoevsky was paid by word, some parts are tedious.
It reminded me of Les Miserable which I read a few years ago. One of my all time favorite books, also time consuming, and you may have to skip the “stunning description of the Battle of Waterloo,” but it is so worth it.

But I feel I’ve accomplished what I wanted to with this goal, and that was to determine what I meant by the “classics”, to start reading them and get a few under my belt. I will continue to read them!!!!

I just read it and I think it has become my new favorite book!!!! I really enjoyed it and I’m a little Alice obsessed at the moment!!! The book was a lot shorter than I always imagined it to be, I finished it in like two days and I wasn’t even reading that much. I’m now going straight on to Through the Looking Glass!!!

[x] 1. Wuthering Heights
Pride and Prejudice
[]3. Gone with the wind
[]4. Moby Dick
[]5. The Great Gatsby
[] 6. THE CATCHER IN THE RYE
[x] 7. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
[]8. THE GRAPES OF WRATH
[] 9. The Once and Future King
[x] 10. Of Mice and Men
[]11. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
[] 12. Frankenstein
[]13. Great Expectations
[]14. Vanity Fair
[] 15. Emma
[x] 16. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
[]17. The Picture of Dorian Gray
[]18. Les Miserables
[]19. A Tale of Two Cities
[]20. The Scarlet Letter
[]21. Treasure Island
[]22. The Iliad of Homer
[x] 23. Jane Eyre
[]24. The Count of Monte Cristo
[]25. War and Peace
[]26. Little Women
[]27. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
[x] 28. The Outsiders
[]29. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
[]30. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
[]31. The Three Musketeers
[]32. A Christmas Carol
[]33. Oliver Twist
[]34. Peter Pan
[]35. The Secret Garden
[]36. Anne of Green Gables
[]37. Sense and Sensibility
[]38. Persuasion
[]39. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
[]40. The House of the Seven Gables
[]41. The Age of Innocence
[]42. The Phantom of Opera
[]43. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
[]44. Brothers Grimm Fairy tales
[]45. 1001 Arabian Nights
[]46. The Diary of Anne Frank
[]47. The Color Purple
[x] 48. The Hobbit
[x] 49. The Lord of the Rings
[x] 50. The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
[]51. Greek Mythology
[]52. The Princess Bride
[x] 53. Romeo & Juliet
[x] 54. Hamlet
[]55. Mere Christianity
[]56. The Screwtape Letters
[]57. The Haunted Doll’s House and Other Ghost Stories (this sounds familiar, I think I read this. I want to look into it)
The Magicians Nephew
[]59. The Crucible
the Looking Glass

Anyone love any of these books and want to give advice on what I should read? Also if you can think of anything I missed that should be on this list let me know!!!

Reading Jane Eyre right now then I will probably move on to Sense and Sensibility (Because those are what I have access to at the moment also Persuasion).

Any recommendations?

After I put in my first “to do” and noticed there were others wanting to do the same, I got to wondering…”What are the classics?”. Did a google and came up with a few lists.

Modern Classics
http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/100bestnovels.html

Classic Classics
http://www.interleaves.org/_{rteeter/grtrex.html
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http://www.interleaves.org/}rteeter/grtrexmo.html