The Classics Club 2016-2020

Posted on January 1, 2016 by WordsAndPeace

The Classics Club
2016-2020

Seeing so many co-bookbloggers doing this, and considering the number of classics in my TBR, I succumbed!

I’m giving myself 5 years. Here is what I plan to read – click on the titles in blue and bold to access my reviews.
In green: titles read, not yet reviewed

Le temps retrouvé, by Marcel Proust
Inferno, by Dante Alighieri
Purgatorio, by Dante Alighieri
Paradiso, by Dante Alighieri
L’étranger, by Albert Camus (re-read) in connection with this book
The Wizard of Earthsea, by Ursula K. Le Guin
Death Comes for the Archbishop, by Willa Cather
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Betty Smith
The Secret of the Old Clock, by Carolyn Keene
Gaspard, Melchior & Balthazar, by Michel Tournier
The Pilgrim’s Progress, by John Bunyan
The Phantom of the Opera, by Gaston Leroux
Three Men in a Boat, by Jerome K. Jerome
La vie mode d’emploi, by Georges Perec
Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers
The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Moonstone, by Wilkie Collins
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
My Cousin Rachel, by Daphne du Maurier
Paradise Lost, by John Milton
Paradise Regained, by John Milton
Arsène Lupin, by Maurice Leblanc
The Sound and the Fury, by William Faulkner
Tender is the Night, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Travels With Charley, by John Steinbeck
The Face of Another, by Kobo Abe
Moderato Cantabile, by Marguerite Duras
The Baron in the Trees, by Italo Calvino
Solaris, by Stanislas Lem
A Moveable Feast, by Ernest Hemingway
Childhood’s End, by Arthur C. Clarke
Fantômas, by Marcel Allain
Walden, by Henry David Thoreau
To the Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf
A Streetcar Named Desire, by Tennessee Williams
Charlotte’s Web, by E. B. White
Satantango, by Laszlo Krasznahorkai
We, by Yevgeny Zamyatin
The Martian Chronicles, by Ray Bradbury
Love in the Time of Cholera, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman
Le dictionnaires des idées reçues, by Gustave Flaubert
The Castle of Otranto, by Horace Walpole
~~North and South, by Elizabeth Gaskell~~
~~Oblomov, by Ivan Goncharov~~
~~Xingu, by Edith Wharton~~
Confusion, by Stefan Zweig
The Dream of the Red Chamber, by Cao Xueqin
Kusamakura, by Natsume Soseki
Portrait of a Murderer, by Anne Meredith

= 33/50 so far

Between 2016-2020, I also read these classics:

51. The Screwtape Letters, by C. S. Lewis
52. The Lottery, by Shirley Jackson
53. A Study in Scarlet, by Arthur Conan Doyle
54. The Sign of Four, by Arthur Conan Doyle
55. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle
56. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle
57. The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle
58. The Valley of Fear, by Arthur Conan Doyle
59. His Last Bow, by Arthur Conan Doyle
60. Till We Have Faces, by C.S. Lewis
61. The Golden Key, by George MacDonald
62. The Master Key, by Togawa
63. The Lady Killer, by Togawa
64. The Bridge on the Drina, by Ivo Andric
65. The Trumpet of the Swan, by E. B. White
66. Le Mystère de la chambre jaune, by Gaston Leroux
67. Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes

= 17 titles.
Total: 33 + 17 = 50, reached on September 6, 2019, so a year before schedule!

On Feb 2/9/2019. I heard from Deb, one of the monitors, that I could count towards my 50 goal, the titles that were not on my original list.
I guess it makes sense, as the ultimate goal is to read 50 classics.

Club hashtags on Twitter:

- #ccintroductions (Introduce yourself to the group!)
- #ccbookreviews (Share your latest club review on Twitter.)
- #cceventsched (Community events.)
- #ccreadingupdate (Group check-ins/reading updates.)
- #ccmeme (The monthly meme.)
- #ccspin (The Classics Spin.)
- #ccwomenclassics (Women’s Classic Literature Event)
- #cc12months (Twelve Months of Classics)
- #ccsyncread (Sync Reads.)
- #ccreadathon (Classics Club Readathon.)
- #ccdiscussions (Occasional group discussions.)
- #theclassicsclub (Miscellaneous club tweets.)