The Classics Club

I decided to go ahead and join The Classics Club. The Classics Club was started on March 7 , 2012 by Jillian at A Room of One’s Own. I love to read the classics and I haven't been reading many lately because I've been reading mostly new fiction. So, I think this will be a great way to keep myself on track. The idea is to read and review at least fifty classics within five years. The most difficult part is deciding on a list. I managed to pick fifty books including some re-reads. I may read other classics, but these are books that I've read and enjoyed or books I've been meaning to read but just haven't gotten around to actually reading them yet. Here is my list, in alphabetical order. I will review each after I've read them. My completion goal date will be 9/14/2017. *Edited to add:
Let's be real. I am not going to complete this list by my goal date. However, I will try to continue to work through the list at my own, much slower rate.

1. Anaya, Rudolfo: Bless Me, Ultima (re-read)
2. Austen, Jane: Northanger Abbey
3. Beckett, Samuel: Waiting for Godot
4. Bradbury, Ray: Fahrenheit 451 (re-read)
5. Bronte, Emily: Wuthering Heights (re-read)
6. Chopin, Kate: The Awakening
7. Collins, Wilkie: The Moonstone
8. Collins, Wilkie: The Woman in White
9. Danielwski, Mark Z.: House of Leaves
10. Dickens, Charles: Martin Chuzzlewit
11. Dickens, Charles: Nicholas Nickleby (re-read)
12. Dostoevesky, Fyodor: The Brothers Karamazov
13. Dostoevsky, Fyodor: Crime and Punishment
14. Dumas, Alexandre: The Man in the Iron Mask
15. Eliot, George: Middlemarch
16. Faulkner, William: The Sound and the Fury
17. Flaubert, Gustav: Madame Bovary (re-read)
18. Forster, E.M.: Howard’s End
19. Forster, E.M.: Room With a View  - finished reading 7/04/2016
20. Forster, E.M.: Where Angels Fear to Tread
21. Gaskell, Elizabeth: North and South
22. Gibson, William: Neuromancer
23. Goethe, Johann: Faust
24. Hawthorne, Nathaniel: The House of Seven Gables
25. Hemingway, Ernest, For Whom the Bell Tolls
26. Homer: The Odyssey
27. Huxley, Aldous: Brave New World (re-read)
28. James, Henry: The Bostonians
29. Kerouac, Jack: On the Road (re-read)
30. Knowles, John: A Separate Peace
31. Lewis, M.G: The Monk
32. Marlowe, Christopher: Doctor Faustus (re-read)
33. Melville, Herman: Moby Dick 
34. Murakami, Haruki: Norwegian Wood
35. Orczy, Baroness: The Scarlet Pimpernel (re-read)
36. Plath, Sylvia: The Bell Jar (re-read)    re-read March 2017
37. Shelley, Mary: Frankenstein (re-read)
38. Sinclair, Upton: The Jungle (re-read)
39. Steinbeck, John: The Grapes of Wrath
40. Stephenson, Neal: Snow Crash (re-re-read)
41. Stoppard, Tom: Rosencratz and Guildenstern are Dead (re-read)
42. Thackeray, William Makepeace: Vanity Fair
43. Tolkein, J.R.R.: The Lord of the Rings (re-re-re-read )
44. Trollope, Anthony: Barchester Towers
45. Trollope, Anthony: The Way We Live Now (re-read)
46. Vonnegut, Kurt: Slaughterhouse Five (re-read)
47. Wharton, Edith: Ethan Frome
48. Wharton, Edith: The House of Mirth
49. Wilde, Oscar: The Importance of Being Earnest
50. Woolf, Virginia: Mrs. Dalloway