Classics Club – book list
As of January 2016 – I’ve updated my list – (1) because I’m not doing as well as I’d hoped! and (2) I’m taking part in a Vintage sci fi event so I’m hoping to help achieve both goals.
I’ve decided to take part in the Classics Club reading challenge. I’ve chosen my 50 books and have decided to set myself the challenge to read these in a five year period. My books are as follows (in no particular order and subject to change – because I might see something I like better!)(BTW do you have any idea how difficult it was coming up with 50 books for this – much more difficult than I anticipated?): (I’m currently reviewing this list and have removed some of the books on here with a view to replacing them with others.
- Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome (currently reading)
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark (currently reading)
- The BFG by Roald Dahl
- David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
- Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
White Fang by Jack London – read and reviewed- Waverley by Sir Walter Scott
- The Importance of Being Ernest by Oscar Wilde – read and reviewed
- Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein
- War of the Worlds by H G Wells – read and reviewed
Something Wicked this Way Comes by Ray Bradburyreview here- The Never Ending Story by Michael Ende
- The Once and Future King by T H White
- Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
- The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
- The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyesreview here- Whiskey Galore by Compton MacKenzie
- The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike
- The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
- A Room with a View by E M Forster
- Legend by David Gemmell
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jacksonreview here- Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
- Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
- Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- The Quiet American by Graham Greene
- Perfume by Patrick Suskind
The Ghosts of Sleath by James Herbertreview here- Let the Right one in by John Ajvide Lindqvist
- Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespearereview hereBeauty by Robin McKinleyHowl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jonesreview here- The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
Details of the challenge can be found here.
Total 1/50