Here is a list of the 50 classics I plan to read in the next five years. This challenge comes from The Classics Club blog. Here is the list:
- The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
- A Little Princess – Frances Hodgson Burnett
- The Canterbury Tales – Geoffrey Chaucer
- Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
- A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
- Hard Times – Charles Dickens
- Don Quixote – Miguel De Cervantes
- The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Watership Down – Richard Adams
- Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
- Peter Pan – J.M. Barrie
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz – L. Frank Baum
- Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Black Arrow – Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
- Kim – Rudyard Kipling
- Animal Farm – George Orwell
- 1984 – George Orwell
- Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott
- Le Père Goriot (Father Goriot) – Honoré de Balzac
- Cyrano de Bergerac – Edmond Rostand
- Le Grand Meaulnes (The Lost Estate) – Alain-Fournier
- Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince) – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- Vingt Mile Lieues Sous Les Mers (20000 Leagues Under the Sea) – Jules Verne
- Notre Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre Dame) – Victor Hugo
- Eugénie Grandet – Honoré de Balzac
- Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black) – Stendhal
- Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (A Middle-Class Gentleman) – Molière
- Bonjour Tristesse – Françoise Sagan
- Don Juan – Molière
- La Princesse de Clèves (The Princesse de Clèves) – Madame de Lafayette
- Le Roman de Tristan (The Romance of Tristan and Iseult)- Thomas
- Les Misérables – Victor Hugo
- Germinal – Emile Zola
- De la Terre à la Lune (From the Earth to the Moon) – Jules Verne
- Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
- Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
- Le Comte de Monte-Cristo (The Count of Monte Cristo) – Alexandre Dumas
- The Power and the Glory – Graham Greene
- Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
- Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
- Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
- The Prince and the Pauper – Mark Twain
- Moby-Dick – Herman Melville
- The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
- Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
- To the Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
- Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
- Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
- Dracula – Bram Stoker
Good list! I’ve read nearly half of them, and would like to read quite a few of the others. Enjoy!
I really like how you are reading classics in both English and French. I’m sure that will make your challenge much more interesting. What book(s) are you planning to read to start 2014?
I recently finished reading and reviewing Anne of Green Gables. Before that, I read Wind in the Willows. This week, I plan to also reread three Roald Dahl books (The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me, the Minpins, and Esio Trot) as well as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. I am also rereading Le Grand Meaulnes (The Lost Estate). Trying to get a lot out of the way before I go back to college for the spring semester.
What books do you have planned?
Welcome to the club! Watership Down is one of my favorites.
Thank you. I plan on reading Watership Down soon.
Great list! And thank you for stopping my site too. It’s great to hear from other readers of Children’s Classics.
Nice list, I have read 25 of your 50, and many of them feature among my favourites.
Happy reading,
Piyush
Thank you.
I like your list. I have A Tale of Two Cities on my classics challenge for 2014 list – I’m looking forward to reading that one.