#ClassicsClubList 2019-2020-2021

2021: Classics     Planning

Here is my reading list:

1.  19th C Classic: Iola Leroy – Frances E.W. Harper (1892)
2.  20th C Classic: The Ways of White Folks: Stories – Langston Hughes (1934)
3.  Classic by a woman: Their Eyes Were Watching God: – Zora Neale Hurston (1937)
4. Classic in translation: The River Between – Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (1965)
5. Classic BIPOC Author: The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison (1970)
6. Classic new  Author: Palace Walk: The Cairo Trilogy, – Naguib Mahfouz (1956)
7. Classic favorite Author: Notes of  Native Son – J.Baldwin (1955)
8. Classic with animal in title: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou (1969)
9. Children’s Classic: The House of Dies Drear – Virginia Hamilton (1968)
10. Humorous Classic: Not Without Laughter – Langston Hughes (1930)
11. Travel Classic: The Lonely Londoners – Sam Selvon (1956)
12. Classic Play: Funnyhouse of a Negro – Adrienne Kennedy (1964)

 

2020:  Classics

1. Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand 
   
2. Runaway – Alice Munro (8 short stories)  winner Nobel Prize 2013
   
3. The Quiet American – G. Greene
4. The Crucible – A. Miller   play
5. Animal Farm – George Orwell
   
6. The Lottery – S. Jackson   short story
   
7. A Doll’s  House – H. Ibsen   play
8. The Martian Chronicles – R. Bradbury

 

2019:   Classics

1. Pascal, B. – Pensées
   
2. Shelley, M.  – Frankenstein
   
3. Stendhal – La Chartreuse de Parme (french edition)
   
4. Miller A.  – Death of a Salesman – (play)
   
5. Vaz da Camões, L.  – The Lusiads (epic poem)
   
6. Alighieri, Dante  – The Divine Comedy
   
7. Doyle, Arthur Conan – The Hound of the Baskervilles
   
8. Hermans, W.F. – Nooit Meer Slapen (Beyond Sleep)
   
9. De Lorris, G. et De Meun, J. – Le Roman de la Rose
   
10. Woolf, V. – Mrs. Dalloway
    
11. Wollstonecraft, M.  – A Vindication of the Rights of Women
    
12. Virgil –The Aeneid 
13. Cooper, J.F. – Deerslayer
14. Hemingway, E. – The Sun Also Rises
15. James, H. – The Golden Bowl
16. Shirer, W. – The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
17. Seneca – Letters From a Stoic
    
18. Dickens, C. – Our Mutual Friend
    
19. Dickens, C. – David Copperfield
    
20. Dickens, C. – Great Expectations
21. Sei Shonagon –The Pillow Book
22. Chaucer – The Knights Tale
    
23. Maupassant, G. de  –  Une vie
    
24. Caro, R. – Means of Ascent (LBJ) modern classic non-fiction
    
25. Sophocles – Electra  (play)
    
26. Ibsen, I. – Rosmersholm  (play)
27. Bronte, A. – The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
28. Boswell, J. – The Life of Samuel Johnson
    
29. Austen, J  – Pride and Prejudice 
30. Anonymous, – Myths from Mesopotamia – trans. S. Dalley
    
31. Horace, – Satires
    
32. Eusebius,   – The History of the Church
    
33. Eliot, G. – Selected Essays, Poems and other Writings
    
34. Dickens, C.  – The Christmas Carol
35. Shakespeare, W.  – Midsummer Night’s Dream
    
36. Shakespeare, W.  – Othello
    
37. Shakespeare, W. – Hamlet
    
38. Shakespeare, W. – Richard II 
39. Melville, H.  – Moby Dick
    
40. Du Maurier, D.  – Rebecca
41. Anonymous  – Beowulf
42. Chopin, K. – The Awakening
    
43. Plato – The Symposium
    
44. O’ Connor, Flannery – The Selected Stories
45. Suetonius – The Twelve Caesars
46. Conrad, J. – The Heart of Darkness
47. Fitzgerald, F.S. – The Great Gatsby
    
48. Dickens, C.  – A Tale of Two Cities
    
49. Eliot, G. – The Mill on the Floss
    
50. Poe, E.A.  – The Portable Edgar Allan Poe, 28 tales
    

 

Short stories:

1. The Angel of the Odd – E.A. Poe (The Complete Short Stories)
2. The Birthday of the Infanta – O. Wilde ( The Works of Oscar  Wilde)