read more classics

About a month ago I started Jane Eyre. I don’t get a lot of time to read each day, but I made good progress today.

I’m going to read a new classic every 3 weeks until I run out of good ones. I’m starting off with Jane Eyre and then going on to some works by Shakespeare and C. S. Lewis.

I finally read Of Mice and Men. It made me cry. I cry at everything these days. And now I’m over halfway through Love in the Time of Cholera (a newer classic?). I’m sort of getting sucked into the world of the book. Not sure if I like that. I do like the story though, and it’s a very well-written book.

This year:

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith*
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson*
Macbeth by Shakespeare
The Magician’s Nephew by C S Lewis
The Fourth Hand by John Irving*
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Persuasion by Jane Austen
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hathorne

*I’m not sure if these are technically classified as Classics, but in my eyes they are.

I’m really considering giving up on Moby Dick. The stories are true: Moby Dick is long and hard ; ) But seriously, I haven’t even made it half-way through. I think I’m going to give up on that and read a different one before it entirely halts my progress.

Les Miserables (complete!)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Phantom of the Opera (complete!)
The Bible (in-progress!)
Sherlock Holmes (in-progress!)
The Lord of the Rings (complete!)
Don Quixote
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Picture of Dorian Gray
Vanity Fair
The Communist Manifesto
Writings of Abraham Lincoln
Alice in Wonderland (complete!)
Faust
The Importance of Being Earnest
Dante’s Divine Comedy
Catch-22
1984
The Catcher in the Rye
The Great Gatsby
Jane Eyre
Pride and Prejudice
The Scarlet Letter
War and Peace
Lolita
A Clockwork Orange
The Color Purple

Any suggestions?? :) I’m definitely looking for some more… if anyone would like to recommend some that they enjoyed I’d be HIGHLY appreciative. :D

i’m currently reading the great gatsby which is apparently the “supreme american novel”.

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad last week. It was part of my goal to read 50 books this year. I need to inclue more classics next year.

I’ve read some good ones in the past, Don Quixote tops the list, and Watership Down is one of my favorites. Right now I’m busy reading something for Academic Decathlon, but I’ll get back to some classics afterwards.

reading lonesome traveller.