This challenge is to read at least 50 classic books in 5 years. My challenge will end on 31st December 2021 (gee that is a scary date!). I will no doubt add more as I remember others or come across them on the book shelves....
My Classics Challenge list:
| Aesops Fabels - Aesop A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway A Little Princess - Frances Hodgson Burnett A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway - Read January 2018 |
| A Narrative of the Life of
Frederick Douglass - Frederick Douglass A Natural History of Selbourne - Gilbert White |
| A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith A Room with a View - EM Forster |
| A Vindication of the Rights of Woman -Mary Wollstonecraft |
| Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood - Read December 2018 |
| Anne of Green Gables Series - L.M. Montgomery |
| Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature - Linda Lear |
| Beloved - Toni Morrison - |
| Blackberry Winter - Margaret Meade |
| Emma - Jane Austen |
| Evelina - Frances Burney Excellent Women - Barbara Pym |
| Good Wives - Louisa May Alcott |
| Hons and Rebels - Jessica Mitford |
| Hospital Sketches - Louise May
Alcott Housekeeping - Marilynne Robinson |
| I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith |
| I know why the Caged Birds sing - Maya Angelou |
| Jane Austen: A Life - Claire Tomalin |
| Kim - Rudyard Kipling Kindred - Octavia Butler For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway |
| Kristin Lavransdatter - Sigrid Undset |
| Little Women - Louise May Alcott |
| Mariana - Monica Dickens Marriage - Susan Ferrier |
| Mrs. Beeton’s Book of
Household Management - Isabella Beeton Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf |
| My Antonia - Willa Cather |
| My Family and Other Animals - Gerald Durrell |
| Out of Africa - Isak Dinesen |
| Persuasion - Jane Austen Pilgrim at Tinker Creek - Annie Dillard |
| Pollyanna - Eleanor H Porter Possession - AS Byatt Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books - Asar Nafisi |
| Regeneration - Pat Barker |
| Sapphira and the Slave Girl - Willa Cather |
| Self-Reliance and Other Essays - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Silent Spring - Rachel Carson |
| Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome |
| Testament of Youth - Vera Brittain |
| The Awakening - Kate Chopin The Book of the City of Ladies - Christine de Pizan |
| The Book of Margery Kempe - Margery Kempe |
| The Boy in the Striped Pajamas – John Boyne |
| The Complete Claudine - Colette |
| The Country of Pointed Firs - by Sarah Orne Jewett |
| The Earthsea Quartet - Ursula le Guin |
| The Golden Notebook – Dorothy Lessing |
| The Good Earth - Pearl S Buck The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood - Read June 2017 |
| The House of the Seven Gables
- Nathaniel Hawthorne The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling |
| The Little Prince - Antoine De
Saint-Exupéry The Nature Notes of an Edwardian Lady - Edith Holden |
| The Periodic Table - Primo Levi |
| The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver |
| The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| The Second Sex - Simone de Beauvoir |
| The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett |
| The Song of the Lark - Willa Cather |
| The Story of an African Farm
- Olive Schreiner The Summer Book - Tove Jansson The Transit of Venus - Shirley Hazzard |
| Three Men in a Boat - Jerome, Jerome K |
| To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf |
| Travels With a Donkey - R L Stevenson |
| Uncle Tom’s Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| Walden - Henry David Thoreau Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys |
| Writings on Nature - John Muir |
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