Well now that I've discovered The Classics Club, I've just had to have a go. Basically you challenge yourself to read your way through a list of 50 classics over 5 years and review them. I'm hoping to read a classic every alternate book, so what better than to join in! I'm aiming to do this by the end of December 2020. The hardest part was pruning the list and I am sure that I will tweak it as I go along.
Here it is:
- Atwood, Margaret: A Handmaid's Tale
- Austen, Jane: Emma
- Austen Jane: Lady Susan Review 17th June 2016
- Austen, Jane: Persuasion
- Austen, Jane: Sanditon
- Austen, Jane: Sense and Sensibility
- Austen, Jane: The Watsons
- Bennett,
Alan: The Uncommon Reader
- Burnett,
Frances Hodgson: The Secret Garden
- Bronte,
Anne: Agnes Grey
- Bronte, Charlotte:Jane Eyre Review 21st April 2016
- Bronte Selected Poetry (all) Review 11th January 2016
- Dostoevesky,
Fyodor: The Brothers Karamazov
- Dickens,
Charles: Our Mutual Friend
- Eliot
George: Adam Bede
- Eliot,
George: Felix Holt, the Radical
- Eliot,
George: Romola
- Fitzgerald,
F. Scott: Tender is the Night
- Forster,
E.M.: Room With a View
- Forster,
E.M.: Where Angels Fear to Tread
- Gaskell,
Elizabeth: Mary Barton
- Gaskell,
Elizabeth: North and South
- Gaskell,
Elizabeth: Ruth
- Gaskell,
Elizabeth: Sylvia’s Lovers
- Gaskell,
Elizabeth: The Life of Charlotte Bronte
- Gaskell,
Elizabeth: Wives and Daughters
- Golding,
William: Lord of the Flies
- Hardy,
Thomas: A Pair of Blue Eyes
- Hardy,
Thomas: Desperate Remedies
- Hardy,
Thomas: Return of the Native
- Hardy,
Thomas:Selected Poems Review 4th March 2016
- Mansfield,
Katherine: The Garden Party & Other Stories
- Ishiguro,
Kazuo: Remains of the Day
- James,
Henry: Daisy Miller
- James, Henry: Roderick Hudson
- James, Henry: The Ambassadors
- James, Henry: The Aspern Papers
- James, Henry: The Bostonians
- James, Henry: The Portrait of a Lady
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James, Henry: Washington Square
- James, Henry: What Maisie Knew
- Plath,
Sylvia: The Bell Jar
- Rhys,
Jean: Wide Sargasso Sea
- Trollope,
Anthony: Barchester Towers
- Wilder,
Thornton: Our Town
- Wollstonecraft,
Mary: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
- Woolf,
Virginia: The Year
- Woolf,
Virginia: A Room of One’s Own
- Woolf,
Virginia: Mrs. Dalloway
- 50. Woolf,
Virginia: To the Lighthouse
Why did I choose these books? Well, some I wanted to re read like the Henry James ones.
Others I've always fancied reading- such as Mary Wollstonecraft and Jean Rhys.
I'm hoping to link some to an event the Classics Club are running next year:The Women's Classic Literature Event. (more of that later)
Where shall I start? Any comments anybody?
Marianne
So many Gaskells, Austens, Brontes and Woolfs!! I? Think you should start with Sense and Sensibility, for some holiday cheer (and because your name is Marianne, so it's a must), then A Room of One's Own, for some excellent literary foundation, then North and South for some wintry joy which is a little dark in places, then start your 2016 with A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, because that is the best way to start any 2016. :)
ReplyDeleteLovely blog and lovely list. Best wishes, Marianne!!
Thank you so much! I love all your ideas plus I am eyeing up a readalong for Emma as it is its 200 year anniversary in December. (Emma in the Snow at sarahemsley.com). Thanks for your lovely comments, I am still new to blogging but so far, I love it. You are right that I have put quite a few Gaskells and I am hoping to visit her house in Manchester which has been reopened and looks great.
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