The Classics Club Challenge

 We are halfway through 2021 and I have not started my goal of reading a classic a month. I didn't exactly make a list to hold my self accountable. I am so glad that I found this reading group called The Classics Club. While reading the rules and checking out some of the other bloggers taking part in this challenge, I thought I would go ahead an make my list. To be honest, it was really hard to go past 20 and I had to use my Goodreads TBR shelf. I have 3 books reserved at my library so far and I am excited to start this challenge. Knowing that I have 5 years to complete this lengthy goal is great because I am a person who starts hard and fast and then experiences burn out and resentment. I did decide to put two titles on this list that I was required to read in my senior year of high school and I didn't like them, but I am hoping that will change.

RULES

1. – choose 50+ classics
2. – list them at your blog
3. – choose a reading completion goal date up to five years in the future and note that date on your classics list of 50+ titles
4. – e-mail the moderators of the Classics Club blog (theclassicsclubblog@gmail.com) with your list link and information and it will be posted on the Members Page!
5. – write about each title on your list as you finish reading it, and link it to your main list
6. – when you’ve written about every single title, let them and everyone else know!

GOAL: JULY 2021 TO JULY 2026

My List of 50 Classics that I am hoping to read in the next 5 years.

1. The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

2. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

3. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

4. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

5. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

6. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

7. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

8. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas

9. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell ( I know this is problematic but it is my grandmother's favorite and she has always wanted me to read this and talk about it with her before she passes.)

10. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

11. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

12. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

13. Catch-22 by Joesph Heller

14. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

15. The Giver by Lois Lowry

16. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

17. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

18. Animal Farm by George Orwell

19. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

20. Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

21. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

22. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

23. Life of Pi by Yann Martel

24. Persuasion by Jane Austen

25. Macbeth by William Shakespeare

26. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

27. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkein

28. The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkein

29. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

30. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

31. The Odyssey by Homer (Will be a Re-read since High School)

32. The Lord of the Flies by William Golding

33. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

34. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

35. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

36. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

37. The Call of the Wild by Jack London

38. 1984 by George Orwell ( Will be a Re-read since High School)

39. The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo

40. The Princess Bride by William Goldman

41. War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells

42. The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

43. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

44. Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne

45. Rebecca by Daphne de Maurier

46. Around the World in 80 Days by Marian Leighton

47. Watership Down by Richard Adams

48. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne

49. The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agathe Christie

50. In Dubious Battle by John Steinbeck