The Classics Club Project – signed-up!

Finally I’ve decided to join this exciting project, The Classics Club, initiated by Jillian at A Room of One’s Own. I’m actually an omnivorous reader, but classics have often been in my readings. I see that without being consciously planned, up to this month of this year I’ve read 11 classics works. So I thought I’d like to make it a real project, and by this I hope I will read more classics in a more persistent way, and get connected with the community out there to discuss and find good recommendation on what to read next. So, thanks to Jillian, and to all the moderators, for hosting this Classics Club!

I’m aiming at reading 75 classics for the period of five years (till August 22, 2017). It’s a high number for me as a slow reader, who likes to stroll in reading and savors the sentences, and some of the books in my list are so long (those of Dumas, Hugo, Proust, Tolstoy, or Beauvoir). But I’d also want to stretch myself a bit. However, my enjoyment in reading the books is still my ultimate goal, not just only about finishing the list.

And below is my list. Rather than putting a complete list, I’d like to make it a living list though – I’ll add more titles along the way, or may change or swap a few. The books listed here are mainly in my reading plan indeed, or already my TBRs, so I’ve intended to read them anyway, and I’ll add some more later when I find recommendation on what to read next from fellow bloggers or when I feel like to read other works of the same author whose works I have read and found good. Here I include non-occidental classics as well, such as those from Japan and Philippines, and later possibly also from Indonesia. I also include a considerable number from French literature, which I adore! A few are rereads.

1. Villette – Charlotte Bronte
2. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
3. Persuasion – Jane Austen
4. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
5. Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen
6. Agnes Grey – Anne Bronte
7. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Anne Bronte
8. Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes – Robert Louis Stevenson
9. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
10. A Tramp Abroad – Mark Twain
11. The Call of The Wild – Jack London
12. Animal Farm – George Orwell
13. Homage to Catalonia – George Orwell
14. 1984 – George Orwell
15. Burmese Days – George Orwell
16. A Collection of Essays – George Orwell
17. The Collected Essay, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell Volume 4: In Front of Your Nose 1945-1950 – George Orwell
18. Decline of the English Murder and Other Essays – George Orwell
19. For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
20. Tender is the Night – Scott F. Fitzgerald
21. Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka
22. The Trial – Franz Kafka
23. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
24. The Importance of Being Earnest – Oscar Wilde
25. Three Men in a Boat – Jerome K. Jerome
26. Three Men on a Bummel – Jerome K. Jerome
27. I am A Cat  – Natsume Soseki
28. Tower of London – Natsume Soseki
29. The Journey – Jiro Osaragi
30. The Snow Country – Yasunari Kawabata
31. Noli Me Tangere – Jose Rizal
32. Around the World in 80 Days – Jules Verne
33. 20,000 Leagues under The Sea – Jules Verne
34. The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
35. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
36. The Phantom of the Opera – Gaston Leroux
37. Sentimental Education – Gustave Flaubert
38. The Belly of Paris – Emile Zola
39. The Masterpiece – Emile Zola
40. Germinal – Emile Zola
41. The Debacle – Emile Zola
42. La Bete Humaine – Emile Zola
43. The Plaque – Albert Camus
44. Tartufe – Moliere
45. Bonjour Tristesse – Francoise Sagan
46. La Gloire de Mon Pere – Marcel Pagnol
47. Le Petit Prince – Antoine de Saint Exupery (to reread, this time the french version)
48. L’Amant – Marguerite Duras (to reread, this time the french version)
49. Swann’s Way – Marcel Proust
50. Les Miserables – Victor Hugo (to reread, this time the unabridged version)
51. The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo
52. The Last Day of a Condemned Man – Victor Hugo
53. Old Goriot – Honore de Balzac
54. Candide – Voltaire (to reread)
55. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
56. Maria – Vladimir Nabokov
57. Anne Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
58. The Cossacks – Leo Tolstoy
59. Notes from the Underground – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
60. The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61. Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak
62. The Railway Children – Edith Nesbit
63. The Dubliner – James Joyce (to reread)
64. Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
65. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
66. Walden – Henry David Thoreau
67. Anne of the Island – L. M. Montgomery
68. Anne of Windy Poplars – L. M. Montgomery
69. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter – Simone de Beauvoir
70. The Prime of Life – Simone de Beauvoir
71. All Said and Done – Simone de Beauvoir
72. …

This is My Classics Club Project page.

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