read "classic" books

I’ve been working on this goal for a few months now. I’ve got a list of books ‘to-read’ on the booksite I’m a member of.

• 1984
• Brave New World
• Fahrenheit 451
• Catch-22
• Pride and Prejudice
• Phantom of the Opera
• The Picture of Dorian Gray
• The Catcher in the Rye
• War of the Worlds
• The Invisible Man
• The Princess Bride
• The Count of Monte Cristo (the copy was abridged, so must read the full version)
• Lord of the Flies (still to finish)

Still loads to go!

I think I have a list on my livejournal from a quiz thing I took. I need to find it and post it here.

Got what I think is a good starter list. Some of these I have read previously but if it was in high school or earlier I am going to read them again. The list I found, in no particular order, is:

Currently Reading:
Great Expectations – Charles Dickens

The Fountainhead – Ayn Rand
Wathership Down – Richard Adams
Les Meiserables – Victor Hugo
A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
1984 – George Orwell
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
The Phantom of the Opera – Gaston Leroux
The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
Dracula – Bram Stoker
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
The Invisible Man – HG Wells
Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
The Red Badge of Courage – Stephen Crane
Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne
Jouney to the Center of the Earth – Jules Verne
Dune – Franke Herbert
The Call of the Wild – Jack London
Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
BeowulfThe Old Man and The Sea – Ernest Hemingway

My additions are:
The Scarlet Letter
The Catcher in the Rye
Animal Farm
The Time Machine
Pride and Prejudice
Atonement
David Copperfield
The Inferno
The Iliad
Ulysses
Diary of Anne Frank
Slaughterhouse Five

COMPLETE:
The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien

Find a list of classic books

To Kill A Mockingbird.. I love it.

I was very skeptical when I first started doing this but now I really enjoy it. My favourite so far is probably To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, it was excellent, but I couldn’t really get into In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. I really want to read Anna Karenina too but it’s so long! I’ll try this summer, though.

It has gotten to the point where I can’t read anything other than classic books. I really am enjoying reading Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, even though I haven’t finished it. I loved Pride and Prejudiced by Jane Austen and The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. I also loved the other ones I read, except for Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. I couldn’t relate to the main character at all.