I love reading, and Classics have always been my favorite genre, yet there are plenty of classics I haven’t read (and even some I don’t want to read…like anything by Hemingway), and when I stumbled upon this reading challenge known as The Classics Club I decided to give it a try! Here’s my own personal list of classics I wish to read in 5 years; I’ve listed them in chronological order, not because I intend to read them that way, but because I thought it would be an interesting viewpoint. I’ve included English, American, Russian, and French authors, spanning from the 16th-20th centuries. I may also add or take away from this list, as long as I have at least 50 novels to choose from. Also, a lot of these titles made the list just because I want to watch the movie adaptation(s) afterwards!

Start/End Date: August 2, 2013 – August 2,2018

Progress: 36/50 books read

Most Excited About Reading: Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie

Most Nervous About Reading: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Most Enjoyed Novel Thus Far: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Least Enjoyed Novel Thus Far: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

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(Titles marked with a * are re-reads; titles marked with a ° are also on my 2014 Back to the Classics list)

Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare (finished 4/19/14)

All’s Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare

*Macbeth by William Shakespeare (finished 10/28/13)

*Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (finished 9/2/15)

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen (finished 8/24/13)

Emma by Jane Austen (finished 9/8/13)

°Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (finished 2/25/14)

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving (finished 10/7/13)

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (finished 12/7/17)

The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

*°Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (finished 1/22/14)

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (finished 9/13/13)

Villette by Charlotte Brontë (finished 5/24/16)

*°North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell (finished 12/14/14)

Silas Marner by George Eliot

*Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

°Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

°Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne (finished 12/28/14)

Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell (finished 7/28/15)

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll (finished 10/5/13)

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

°Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (finished 5/24/14)

Middlemarch by George Eliot

Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy (finished 7/23/16)

The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

Daniel Deronda by George Eliot

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (finished 2/28/17)

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (finished 11/4/17)

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

The Time Machine by H.G. Wells (finished 8/17/17)

The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells (finished 8/29/17)

Kilmeny of the Orchard by L.M. Montgomery (finished 1/30/18)

°Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie (finished 10/20/14)

The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery (finished 1/5/18)

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (finished 5/20/16)

Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne (finished 1/26/17)

The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie (finished 3/21/16)

Demelza by Winston Graham (finished 4/3/16)

Jeremy Poldark by Winston Graham (finished 10/3/17)

Animal Farm by George Orwell

We Have Always Lived In the Castle by Shirley Jackson (finished 11/12/17)

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (finished 1/14/17)

*°A Separate Peace by John Knowles (finished 12/19/14)

°To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (finished 4/9/14)

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle (finished 12/29/17)

Slaugherhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

The Hitchhiker’s Guchael Crichton (not really a classic, but I wanna read it all the same!) (finished 6/20/15)