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. Emma (Jane Austen)
  5. Mansfield Park – Jane Austen (Nov 2023)
  6. Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen (2022)
  7. Persuasion – Jane Austen (Feb 2018)
  8. Peter Pan – J M Barrie
  9. Agnes Grey – Anne Brontë
  10. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Anne Brontë (OWN)
  11. Shirley – Charlotte Brontë
  12. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë (OWN)
  13. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess (April 2018)
  14. The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett (2022)
  15. Don Juan – George Byron
  16. Ender’s Game – Orson Scott Card
  17. Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote
  18. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll (OWN)
  19. Les Liaisons Dangereux – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (E-BOOK)
  20. And Then There Were None – Agatha Christie
  21. The ABC Murders – Agatha Christie (2022)
  22. The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins (Oct 2023)
  23. Zofloya, or the Moor – Charlotte Dacre (Mar 2023)
  24. The Divine Comedy – Dante
  25. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens (OWN)
  26. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens (2022)
  27. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
  28. A Study in Scarlet – Arthur Conan Doyle (August 2018)
  29. The Hound of the Baskervilles – Arthur Conan Doyle
  30. The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas (OWN)
  31. The Man in the Iron Mask – Alexandre Dumas
  32. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas (E-BOOK)
  33. Middlemarch – George Eliot
  34. Silas Marner – George Eliot
  35. The Neverending Story – Michael Ende (OWN)
  36. Tender is the Night – F Scott Fitzgerald
  37. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
  38. A Room With a View – E M Forster
  39. North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell
  40. Dead Souls – Nikolai Gogol (OWN)
  41. The Princess Bride – William Goldman
  42. The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne (E-BOOK)
  43. The Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy (April 2020)
  44. The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway (OWN)
  45. The Iliad – Homer (October 2019)
  46. The Odyssey – Homer
  47. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley (OWN)
  48. We Have Always Lived in a Castle – Shirley Jackson
  49. The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James
  50. A Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka (E-BOOK)
  51. The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
  52. Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D H Lawrence (OWN)
  53. White Fang – Jack London
  54. Till We Have Faces – C S Lewis (OWN)
  55. Nobody’s Boy – Hector Malot
  56. Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez (OWN)
  57. My Cousin Rachel – Daphne Du Maurier
  58. Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier (OWN)
  59. Paradise Lost – John Milton
  60. The Scarlet Pimpernel – Emmuska Orczy
  61. Animal Farm – George Orwell (OWN)
  62. Gormenghast – Mervin Peake
  63. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath (June 2019)
  64. The Italian – Ann Radcliffe (OWN)
  65. Letters to a Young Poet – Rainer Maria Rilke (OWN)
  66. Cyrano de Bergerac – Edmond Rostand
  67. Frankenstein – Mary Shelley (October 2018)
  68. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith
  69. Antigone – Sophocles
  70. East of Eden – John Steinbeck
  71. Quicksand – Junichiro Tanizaki (OWN)
  72. Henry Esmond – William Makepeace Thackeray (OWN)
  73. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
  74. The Silmarillion – J R R Tolkien (OWN)
  75. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy (2022)
  76. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
  77. Joan of Arc – Mark Twain
  78. The Prince and the Pauper – Mark Twain
  79. Around the World in 80 Days – Jules Verne (OWN)
  80. The Aeneid – Virgil (OWN)
  81. The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton (May 2023)
  82. Mrs Dalloway – Virginia Woolf (2022)
  83. To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf (OWN)
  84. Therese Requin – Emile Zola (audio book – March 2018)