50 Classics in 5 years

The Classics Club

I found out about this at Worthwhile Books (link on the side) and thought having a goal like this would be a good challenge. Ten books a year is doable as long as they're all not as dense as The Brothers Karamazov.

Some of these are books I've been wanting to read for a while, some are (R) re-reads, (Chr) Christian classics, (C) children's classics, (A) Australian classics and a couple are books that might not yet be considered classics because they are more recent but from what I've heard might possibly be included (feel free to correct me!) Some are books I don't particularly want to tackle but think I probably should.

I probably won't be doing these in the order written but will be starting with the first one. 

My starting date is December 30th 2013 and I plan to finish by the 31st December 2018.

1) Island of the World - Michael O'Brien (Chr) a more recent book.

2) Persuasion - Jane Austen (R)

3) Adam Bede - George Eliot

4) Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

5) Emily - Trilogy: Lucy Maud Montgomery (C)

6) Nicholas Nickleby - Charles Dickens

7) A Good Man is Hard to Find - Flannery O'Connor

8) Macbeth - Shakespeare

9) The Winter's Tale - Shakespeare

10) Richard III - Shakespeare

11) Twelfth Night - Shakespeare

12) Hamlet - Shakespeare

13) The Napoleon of Notting Hill - G.K. Chesterton

14) Bambi: a Life in the Woods - Felix Salten

15) The Four Loves - C.S. Lewis (Chr)

16) Orthodoxy - G.K. Chesterton (Chr)

17) The Everlasting Man - G.K.Chesterton (Chr)

18) A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens

19) T.S. Eliot anthology

20) A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (R) but a very long time ago

21) The Man in the Brown Suit - Agatha Christie

22) The Vicar of Wakefield - Oliver Goldsmith (R)

23) Mind of the Maker - Dorothy Sayers (Chr)

24) The Prisoner of Zenda - Anthony Hope

25) Plutarch, Parallel Lives

26) The Old Curiosity Shop - Charles Dickens

27) Robbery Under Arms - Rolf Boldrewood (A)

28) Agnes Grey - Anne Bronte

29) I Can Jump Puddles - Alan Marshall (A)

30) The Divine Comedy/Inferno - Dante (Chr)

31) Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

32) For the Term of His Natural Life - Marcus Clarke

33) Republic - Plato

34) Songs of Innocence and Experience - William Blake

35) Whose Body? - Dorothy Sayers

36) Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott

37) Mr. Standfast - John Buchan (R)

38) The Invisible Man - H.G.Wells

39)The War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells

40) Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe (R)

41) Madame Bovary - Gustav Flaubert

42) Girl of the Limberlost - Gene Stratton Porter (R)

43) Men of Iron - Howard Pyle (C)

44) Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain

45) All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque (R)

46) All's Well That Ends Well - Shakespeare

47) An Old Captivity - Nevil Shute

48) A Fortunate Life - A.B. Fahey (A) I've read an abridged children's edition which  

       was excellent; this is the unabridged version.

49) The Chestry Oak by Kate Seredy (C)

50) Madame Curie by Eve Curie

Other possibilities:

Lilith - George MacDonald

The Lives of the Artists - Vasari

The Thirty-nine Steps - John Buchan (R)

Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis

Cancer Ward or The Gulag Archipelago - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Virginian  - Owen Wister
How to Read a Book -  Mortimer J. Adler
The Hobbit - J.R. Tolkein
Lord of the Rings trilogy - J.R. Tolkein
The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
Confessions - Augustine of Hippo
In This House of Brede - Rumer Godden
Fer-de-Lance - Rex Stout
The Abolition of Man by C.S. lewis

Alas, Babylon - Pat Frank (a classic post-apocalyptic novel)