My Classics Club List

Official list, subject to change/grow (hey, you never know).
Start Date: 12/21/12 (Yes, intentionally. I'm being ironic.)
End Date: 12/21/17, I guess. We'll see. May introduce some sort of positive/negative reinforcement system on myself.
Okay, so, as I worked, this list went from fifty to fifty-four, which is, I guess, okay. Gives me some wiggle room. This is going to be a useful project, let me clear away some major goals. Hit everything I managed to skip in high school (a lot of Dickens, came into my love for his work a bit late). Work through a few books I've never liked, finish some books I've started (and loved) but never managed to finish. Sample some authors I've never actually sat down and read. Some of it, old favorites and stuff I know I'll love, is on here mostly as an indulgent treat for myself. To those ends, this is a pretty varied list, I'll try to mix it up. There are some books here I'm ashamed to admit I've never read, but one might as well be honest when one can, I guess.

Books (re-reads indicated with an *, partial reads with **):

High School Clearing-up:
1. Oliver Twist**, Charles Dickens
2. Great Expectations**, Charles Dickens
3. A Christmas Carol**, Charles Dickens

4. The Grapes of Wrath**, John Steinbeck

5. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain
6. Walden and Civil Disobedience (mostly slept through those)*, Thoreau

7. Macbeth, Shakespeare

8. Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad

Things I'd Maybe Ought to Have Read Already

9. Animal Farm, George Orwell

10. 1984, George Orwell

11. Farenheit 451**, Ray Bradbury

12The Lord of the Rings**, J. R. R. Tolkein
13. Dracula, Bram Stoker
14. Le Morte d'Arthur**, Thomas Mallory
15. The Call of the Wild**, Jack London

16. Slaughterhouse 5, Kurt Vonnegut

17. Catch-22, Joseph Heller

18. Les Miserables, Victor Hugo

19. Around the World in Eighty Days, Jules Verne

20. Little Women**, Louisa May Alcott

21. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson

22. Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe

23. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett

24. Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes

25. Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane

26: The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank

27. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum

"Indulgent Treats"
28. The Complete Sherlock Holmes**, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
29. A Tale of Two Cities*, Charles Dickens
30. The Picture of Dorian Grey, Oscar Wilde

31. Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters AND Seymour: An Introduction, J. D. Salinger

32. Nine Stories, J. D. Salinger

33. Love's Labours Lost, Shakespeare
34. The Silmarilion, J. R. R. Tolkein
35. Sanditon**, Jane Austen
36. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
37. Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald
38. The Poems of John Keats, John Keats
39. Lust for Life**, Irving Stone
40. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce
41. Three Men on the Bummel, Jerome K. Jerome

Just Because/Possibly a Little Optomistic/Other
42. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy

43. To The Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf

44. A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf

45. Agnes Grey, Anne Bronte

46. Shirley, Charlotte Bronte
47. A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
48. Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux
49. The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas
50. Middlemarch, George Eliot
51. The Time Machine, H. G. Wells
52. Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
53. The Agony and the Ecstasy, Irving Stone
54. Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card