#ClassicsClubList 2019-2020-2021
2021: Classics Planning
Here is my reading list:
- 19th C Classic: Iola Leroy – Frances E.W. Harper (1892)
- 20th C Classic: The Ways of White Folks: Stories – Langston Hughes (1934)
- Classic by a woman: Their Eyes Were Watching God: – Zora Neale Hurston (1937)
- Classic in translation: The River Between – Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (1965)
- Classic BIPOC Author: The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison (1970)
- Classic new Author: Palace Walk: The Cairo Trilogy, – Naguib Mahfouz (1956)
- Classic favorite Author: Notes of Native Son – J.Baldwin (1955)
- Classic with animal in title: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou (1969)
- Children’s Classic: The House of Dies Drear – Virginia Hamilton (1968)
- Humorous Classic: Not Without Laughter – Langston Hughes (1930)
- Travel Classic: The Lonely Londoners – Sam Selvon (1956)
- Classic Play: Funnyhouse of a Negro – Adrienne Kennedy (1964)
2020: Classics
- Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand
- Runaway – Alice Munro (8 short stories) winner Nobel Prize 2013
- The Quiet American – G. Greene
- The Crucible – A. Miller play
- Animal Farm – George Orwell
- The Lottery – S. Jackson short story
- A Doll’s House – H. Ibsen play
- The Martian Chronicles – R. Bradbury
2019: Classics
- Pascal, B. – Pensées
- Shelley, M. – Frankenstein
- Stendhal – La Chartreuse de Parme (french edition)
- Miller A. – Death of a Salesman – (play)
- Vaz da Camões, L. – The Lusiads (epic poem)
- Alighieri, Dante – The Divine Comedy
- Doyle, Arthur Conan – The Hound of the Baskervilles
- Hermans, W.F. – Nooit Meer Slapen (Beyond Sleep)
- De Lorris, G. et De Meun, J. – Le Roman de la Rose
- Woolf, V. – Mrs. Dalloway
- Wollstonecraft, M. – A Vindication of the Rights of Women
- Virgil –The Aeneid
- Cooper, J.F. – Deerslayer
- Hemingway, E. – The Sun Also Rises
- James, H. – The Golden Bowl
- Shirer, W. – The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
- Seneca – Letters From a Stoic
- Dickens, C. – Our Mutual Friend
- Dickens, C. – David Copperfield
- Dickens, C. – Great Expectations
- Sei Shonagon –The Pillow Book
- Chaucer – The Knights Tale
- Maupassant, G. de – Une vie
- Caro, R. – Means of Ascent (LBJ) modern classic non-fiction
- Sophocles – Electra (play)
- Ibsen, I. – Rosmersholm (play)
- Bronte, A. – The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
- Boswell, J. – The Life of Samuel Johnson
- Austen, J – Pride and Prejudice
- Anonymous, – Myths from Mesopotamia – trans. S. Dalley
- Horace, – Satires
- Eusebius, – The History of the Church
- Eliot, G. – Selected Essays, Poems and other Writings
- Dickens, C. – The Christmas Carol
- Shakespeare, W. – Midsummer Night’s Dream
- Shakespeare, W. – Othello
- Shakespeare, W. – Hamlet
- Shakespeare, W. – Richard II
- Melville, H. – Moby Dick
- Du Maurier, D. – Rebecca
- Anonymous – Beowulf
- Chopin, K. – The Awakening
- Plato – The Symposium
- O’ Connor, Flannery – The Selected Stories
- Suetonius – The Twelve Caesars
- Conrad, J. – The Heart of Darkness
- Fitzgerald, F.S. – The Great Gatsby
- Dickens, C. – A Tale of Two Cities
- Eliot, G. – The Mill on the Floss
- Poe, E.A. – The Portable Edgar Allan Poe, 28 tales
Short stories:
- The Angel of the Odd – E.A. Poe (The Complete Short Stories)
- The Birthday of the Infanta – O. Wilde ( The Works of Oscar Wilde)
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East of Eden and Their Eyes Were Watching God are two of my all-time favourite reads. And I loved The Commandant (which I read last AusReadingMonth depsite the distractions and upsets during that time – loosing myself in fabulous historical fiction helped at that time) and Picnic at hanging Rock is another favourite ever since my teen years (the Peter Weir movie is spectacular too, even if a little dated around the edges now).
I’m thrilled you’ve found your Les Mis mojo again.
David Copperfield is my favourite Dickens to date – I’d love to reread Passage to India one day – maybe we can do it together one month? I’ve never read The Palace Walk but it’s a biggie that would be nice to read in tandem too 🙂
I think I have Independent People somewhere on my TBR pile too.
I’ve been recently alerted to Zweig – I’ll be curious to see what you think.
Great to have you on board.
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I’m totally ‘fired up’ about reading classics. I read several duds this year and don’t want to waste my reading time. Les Mis….I just keep on trying. I’d love to read Passage together…but have difficulty finding an ebook version. I’m so spoiled my my Kindle (adjustable font) …that the prospect of reading a paperback does not thrill me. But if push comes to shove….I’ll do the paperback. I was inpired by On Bookes blog to add some Greek and Roman classics. Time to broaden my horizons. 🙂
Australian classics….I used your post including the JEAN GLEESON’S TOP 50 Australian books in last 200 yrs. I have to sift through the selections b/c not all seem to appeal to me. 🙂
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I found ebook Passage to India!
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Thank you for kind words!
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I think 50 classics per year is enough. (July 2018 – February 2019)
A third list (this one was my 2nd list!) will probably be ready
at the end of the summer.
I need to read Irish literature and plays for a few more months.
Thanks so much for you comments!
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