I also set a few rules for myself: 1) all the books had to be published prior to 1950 and 2) I can reread, but only if I've read the book once or it has been over 5 years since I read the book). So, alas, I cannot reread Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights over over over and over again. But the good news is that I will hopefully increase my list of classics I adore.
On to the list! Turquoise books are rereads and Greens are Viragos!
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte(completed 04/17/12)- The Leavenworth Case by Anna Katherine Green
- The Dead Secret by Wilkie Collins
- This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Uncle Silas by Sheridan Le Fanu(completed 07/29/12)- The Warden by Anthony Trollope
- Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
- Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope
- Framley Parsonage by Anthony Trollope
- Small House at Allington by Anthony Trollope
- Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope
- Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
- Kristen Lavransdatter (all three books) by Sigrid Undset
- Hunger by Knut Hamsen
- No Name by Wilkie Collins
- Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Last September by Elizabeth Bowen
- Gothic Tales by Elizabeth Gaskell
- Orlando by Virginia Woolf
- Adam's Breed by Radclyffe Hall
- The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham
The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen(completed 07/01/12)- Howard's End by E. M. Forster
- The Golden Apples by Eudora Welty
- The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
- Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
- Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
- Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
- Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens
- Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens
- Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens
- Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens
- David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
- Bleak House by Charles Dickens
- Hard Times by Charles Dickens
- Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
- Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens
- The Monk by Matthew Lewis
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- Richard III by William Shakespeare
- The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
- Middlemarch by George Eliot
- Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
- Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
- Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackery
- The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
- The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton
- The Heat of the Day by Elizabeth Bowen
- Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
- The Forsyte Saga (all 9 books plus the "interludes")
- The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
- Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
- The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
- Diana of the Crossways by George Meredith
- No Signposts in the Sea by Vita Sackville-West
- The Friendly Young Ladies by Mary Renault
- Hunt the Slipper by Violet Trefusis
- Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
- The Italian by Ann Radcliffe
- Lorna Doone by Richard Blackmore
- Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
- Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert
- Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
- The Wings of the Dove by Henry James
- He Knew He Was Right by Anthony Trollope
- East Lynne by Ellen Wood
- The House in Paris by Elizabeth Bowen
- The Professor by Charlotte Bronte
- The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories
- The Rising Tide by Molly Keane
- Without my Cloak by Kate O'Brien
- Harriet Hume by Rebecca West
- Persuasion by Jane Austen
- Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin
- Trilby by George Du Maurier
- Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
- The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Passage to India by E M Forster
- For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
- The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Tales by H P Lovecraft
- The Call of Cthlulu and Other Weird Tales by H P Lovecraft
- The Thinking Reed by Rebecca West
- Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
- The Three Sisters by May Sinclair
- Shirley by Charlotte Bronte
- Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstory
- War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
- A House and Its Head by Ivy Compton-Burnett
- The Collected Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolf
- Summer will Show by Sylvia Townsend Warner
- The Judge by Rebecca West
The Return of the Nativeby Thomas Hardy (completed 12/31/12)- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- All Passion Spent by Vita Sackville West
- A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
- Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Okay -- mini-rewards. For every 5 books off of this list I read I will purchase one classic novel NOT ON THIS LIST in a nice copy. By nice copy I mean that it isn't a ratty paperback in a thrift store bin -- it could be a vintage something in good condition, a Penguin clothbound, a newish edition with a lovely introduction. See, I'm already prepping for 2017 onward! At the end of my 100 books read I will have 20 new-to-me classic novels that are lovely, pristine, and will beautify my shelves, my mind, and my imagination.
I hope you'll join us in the Classics Club! I think this will be an amazing experience.
9 comments:
Yay for joining, Amanda! I'm so excited by all your rereads! And I respect your self-rules -- though I don't know if I could steer clear of re-reading my favorites for five years. :)
I'm also reading Richard III. I've never read Trollope either!! And I completely forgot him when I was making out my list. I might have to squeeze him in at some point. I'll be watching for your thoughts on his books. :)
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Oooooooo Great list Amanda!!! I have a few rereads on my list too, so many I can't wait to revisit. And I LOVE your rewards. I may have to do something similar. Any excuse to buy a nice book, you know…. lol
Great list! I salute you on tackling Dickens - he's never been my favorite, although I know a lot of people just love his work.
It is fun to think about all the classics I couldn't fit on my list. I'm certainly not in danger of running out of things to read anytime soon!
Sounds like a doable goal...I'm amazed at how many on that list I haven't read, although I have read some.
I like goals that are achievable...and, of course, I'd have to want to achieve them.
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Such a great list! I am also joining the Classics Club: http://jaynesbooks.blogspot.com/2012/03/classics-club.html
I am thinking I am going to treat myself to a spa treatment or a dinner at a really nice place with a good glass of wine.
What a fabulous list!
I love your reward. I think that's a great idea...I may do something similar, but only after 10 or so books... :)
Ooh, great list! There's tons of overlap with my favorites and the books on my Classics Club list (which I'm still working on, should finish it and post this week too). I look forward to reading your reviews.
So far my favorites off your to-read list are the Trollopes (Barchester series -- I'm halfway through! -- and The Way We Live Now); Elizabeth Gaskell; and Somerset Maugham. The Painted Veil is one of my favorites.
Loving your reward idea too -- I may steal it for myself! ;-)
I just randomly selected your blog from the members list and was thrilled to see that you have Viragos on your list! Your title selections are all different from mine, so I really look forward to hearing what you think so I can discover new Viragos. Good luck with the challenge!
Amanda, our lists are really similar, & I'm incorporating a Dickens project as well. I'll be reading all 12 of his novels in order, and am 130 pages into The Pickwick Papers. I'm also reading the complete Chronicles of Barsetshire.
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