Classics TBR

Just a list of classics I would love to read. Ordered (roughly) by author’s surname. All these books should be pre-1990. This list will be added to as I find more I want to read and books will be crossed off as I read them.

  1. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
  2. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott (OWN)
  3. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood (Oct 2019)
  4. Mansfield Park – Jane Austen (OWN)
  5. Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen (2022)
  6. Persuasion – Jane Austen (Feb 2018)
  7. Peter Pan – J M Barrie
  8. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Anne Brontë
  9. Shirley – Charlotte Brontë
  10. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë (OWN)
  11. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess (April 2018)
  12. The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett (2022)
  13. Don Juan – George Byron
  14. Ender’s Game – Orson Scott Card
  15. Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote
  16. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll (OWN)
  17. Les Liaisons Dangereux – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (E-BOOK)
  18. And Then There Were None – Agatha Christie
  19. The ABC Murders – Agatha Christie (2022)
  20. The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
  21. Zofloya, or the Moor – Charlotte Dacre (OWN)
  22. The Divine Comedy – Dante
  23. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens (OWN)
  24. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens (2022)
  25. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
  26. A Study in Scarlet – Arthur Conan Doyle (August 2018)
  27. The Hound of the Baskervilles – Arthur Conan Doyle
  28. The Man in the Iron Mask – Alexandre Dumas
  29. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas (E-BOOK)
  30. Silas Marner – George Eliot
  31. The Neverending Story – Michael Ende (OWN)
  32. Tender is the Night – F Scott Fitzgerald
  33. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
  34. A Room With a View – E M Forster
  35. North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell
  36. Dead Souls – Nikolai Gogol (OWN)
  37. The Princess Bride – William Goldman
  38. The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne (E-BOOK)
  39. The Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy (April 2020)
  40. The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway (OWN)
  41. The Iliad – Homer (October 2019)
  42. The Odyssey – Homer
  43. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley (OWN)
  44. We Have Always Lived in a Castle – Shirley Jackson
  45. The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James
  46. A Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka (E-BOOK)
  47. The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
  48. Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D H Lawrence (OWN)
  49. White Fang – Jack London
  50. Till We Have Faces – C S Lewis (OWN)
  51. Nobody’s Boy – Hector Malot
  52. Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez (OWN)
  53. My Cousin Rachel – Daphne Du Maurier
  54. Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier (OWN)
  55. Paradise Lost – John Milton
  56. The Scarlet Pimpernel – Emmuska Orczy
  57. Animal Farm – George Orwell (OWN)
  58. Gormenghast – Mervin Peake
  59. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath (June 2019)
  60. Cyrano de Bergerac – Edmond Rostand
  61. Frankenstein – Mary Shelley (October 2018)
  62. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith
  63. Antigone – Sophocles
  64. East of Eden – John Steinbeck
  65. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
  66. The Silmarillion – J R R Tolkien (OWN)
  67. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy (2022)
  68. Joan of Arc – Mark Twain
  69. The Prince and the Pauper – Mark Twain
  70. Around the World in 80 Days – Jules Verne (OWN)
  71. The Aeneid – Virgil (OWN)
  72. The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton (OWN)
  73. Mrs Dalloway – Virginia Woolf (2022)
  74. To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf (OWN)
  75. Therese Requin – Emile Zola (audio book – March 2018)
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