Classics Club Reading List
Wow, I am soo excited that I found this club. I came across it as I was searching for classic reading list suggestions. Their site blew me away with the idea of a classics reading challenge/community. I had to sign up!!
For my list, I plan to read 50 book in the next 5 years, so the end date is set to 06/01/2023. Wow that is sooo long but it does average to about 10 books per year! Sweee! I’m so excited.
My original search was trying to get list ideas, so the actual making of the list was sort of hard. I wanted to be sure to have a mix of dates and languages. My main problem was that I was gravitating towards English books from 1700-1920…and I really wanted to diversify. Here’s my list and reading plans for the next few months, hope you enjoy. Also, I added some list stats at the bottom!
| TOTAL BOOKS: 50 | TOTAL READ: 7 | PRECENT COMPLETE: 14% | PAGES READ: 2050 |
Last Updated: January 5CLASSICS I’M READING THIS WINTER
THE READING LIST
| Read | Author Name | Title | Year | Pages | Translated |
| 6/7/18 | Plato | The Republic | 380 BC | 416 | Greek |
| 7/27/18 | Plato | Apology | 380 BC | 127 | Greek |
| 6/20/18 | Sir Thomas Moore | Utopia | 1516 | 135 | Latin |
| Charles Darwin | The Origin of Species | 1859 | 703 | No | |
| Hendrik Willem Van Loon | The Story of Mankind | 1921 | 280 | No | |
| Lois Lowry | The Giver | 1993 | 208 | No | |
| Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | 1813 | 279 | No | |
| Jane Austen | Emma | 1815 | 474 | No | |
| Jane Austen | Persuasion | 1817 | 249 | No | |
| Jules Verne | Around the World In 80 Days | 1872 | 252 | French | |
| Margaret Mitchell | Gone With The Wind | 1936 | 1037 | No | |
| Antoine de Saint-Exupery | The Little Prince | 1943 | 93 | French | |
| Murasaki Shikibu | The Tale on Genji | 1008 | 1182 | Japanese | |
| Louisa May Alcott | Little Women | 1868 | 449 | No | |
| L. M. Montgomery | Anne of Green Gables | 1908 | 320 | No | |
| Ovid | Metamorphoses | 8 AD | 723 | Greek | |
| Voltaire | Candide | 1759 | 129 | French | |
| Gustave Flaubert | Madame Bovary | 1856 | 329 | French | |
| Gabriel Garcia Marquez | One Hundred Years of Solitude | 1967 | 417 | Spanish | |
| 6/24/18 | Herman Melville | Moby Dick | 1851 | 890 | No |
| Hermann Hesse | Siddhartha | 1922 | 152 | German | |
| Ayn Rand | Atlas Shrugged | 1957 | 1168 | No | |
| Virgil | Aeneid | 19 BC | 442 | Roman | |
| Dante Alighieri | The Divine Comedy | 1304 | 798 | Italian | |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Faust | 1832 | 503 | German | |
| Fyodor Dostoyvesky | Crime and Punishment | 1866 | 671 | Russian | |
| Leo Tolstoy | Anna Karenina | 1878 | 964 | Russian | |
| Lucretius | On the Nature of Things | 55 BC | 664 | Roman | |
| 7/18/18 | Jack London | The Call of the Wild | 1903 | 172 | No |
| Madeleine L’Engle | A Wrinkle in Time | 1962 | 218 | No | |
| Anne Bronte | Tenant of Wildfell Hall | 1848 | 542 | No | |
| Emily Bronte | Wuthering Heights | 1847 | 464 | No | |
| Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre | 1847 | 507 | No | |
| Mark Haddon | The Curious Incident Of the Dog In the Nighttime | 2003 | 226 | No | |
| Daphane Du Maurier | Rebecca | 1938 | 449 | No | |
| Frank Herbert | Dune | 1965 | 604 | No | |
| Carlos Ruiz Zafon | The Shadow of the Wind | 2001 | 487 | Spanish | |
| H. G. Wells | The Invisible Man | 1897 | 192 | No | |
| 7/14/18 | H. G. Wells | The War of the Worlds | 1898 | 192 | No |
| 7/27/18 | H. G. Wells | The Time Machine | 1895 | 118 | No |
| Jonathan Swift | Gulliver’s Travels | 1726 | 306 | No | |
| Homer | Odyssey | 720 BC | 541 | Greek | |
| Isaac Asimov | Foundation | 1951 | 244 | No | |
| Arthur Conan Doyle | A Study in Scarlet | 1887 | 123 | No | |
| William Faulkner | The Sound and the Fury | 1929 | 326 | No | |
| Edwin A. Abbott | Flatland | 1884 | 96 | No | |
| Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa | Bhagavad Gita | 400 BC | 160 | Sanskrit | |
| Confucius | Analects | 429 BC | 249 | Chinese | |
| Sun Tzu | The Art of War | 500 BC | 273 | Chinese | |
| Alexis de Tocqueville | Democracy In America | 1840 | 992 | French |
# of Authors: 45
# of Languages: 12
Total Pages: 21,535
Most Pages: 1182 - The Tale of Genji
Least Pages: 93 - The Little Prince
Average Pages: 430.7
Oldest Date: 720 BC - The Odyssey
Newest Date: 2003 - The Curious Incident Of the Dog in the Night-time
Have you joined the club? What are you most excited to read & what book scares you the most?
Books In Bloom
I'm an avid reader and love most all books, but my favorite genres tend to be mystery, adventure, science fiction and classics. Genres I tend to shy away from include romance, contemporary fiction and chick lit. If I’m not actually reading books, I’m probably at work shelving them at my local library.
4 Comments
Jillian
WELCOME to the club!! 💕
Books In Bloom
Thank you! 😀
Jillian
Hi Margaret! I can’t figure out how to comment over at the club site, but I know you run the Twitter feed for the club. I just came across this really cool “club” on Twitter, which lets people share their blog posts if they comment on two others. I thought you might find it inspiring as you plan how to stir up excitement for the club on Twitter? It could be fun to have an hour of spontaneous sharing off & on, on Twitter, to encourage clubbers to check out one another’s posts, and meet each other.
Only sharing, if it’s of use: https://twitter.com/TeacupClub_
Cheers I hope you’re well. 🙂
– jillian
Books In Bloom
WOW! This is an Ingenious Idea!! I am so going to do it!! Woot. Going to work on setting it up this week and next week! 😀 Thanks so much for the idea!!