Classics


This is an indicative list of 250 Classics (and counting) that I want to read, starting 2014.

1. Adams, Richard: Watership Down
2. Aeschylus: Oresteia
3. Albee, Edward: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
4. Anderson, Sherwood: Winesburg, Ohio
5. Anonymous: One Thousand and One Nights
6. Atwood, Margaret: Alias Grace
7. Atwood, Margaret: The Blind Assassin
8. Atwood, Margaret - Oryx and Krake (April 2014)
9. Beckett, Samuel: Waiting for Godot
10. Bellow, Saul: The Adventures of Augie March
11. Bradbury, Ray: Fahrenheit 451
12. Bradbury, Ray: The Martian Chronicles
13. Bronte, Anne: Agnes Grey
14. Bronte, Anne: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
15. Bronte, Charlotte: Shirley
16. Bronte, Charlotte: The Professor
17. Bronte, Charlotte: Villette
18. Bunyan, John: Pilgrim’s Progress
19. Butler, Samuel: The Way of All Flesh (March 2015)
20. Camus, Albert: The Fall
21. Cather, Willa: Death Comes for the Archbishop
22. Chaucer, Geoffrey: The Canterbury Tales (June 2014)
23. Collins, Wilkie: The Moonstone
24. Conrad, Joseph: Almayer's Folly 
25. Conrad, Joseph: An Outcast of the Islands
26. Conrad, Joseph: Chance
27. Conrad, Joseph: The Nigger of the Narcissus
28. Conrad, Joseph: The Rescue
29. Conrad, Joseph: The Shadow-Line 
30. Conrad, Joseph: Typhoon
31. Conrad, Joseph: Under Western Eyes 
32. Conrad, Joseph: Victory
33. Cooper, James Fenimore: The Last of the Mohicans
34. Crane, Stephen: Red Badge of Courage
35. Dante: The Divine Comedy
36. de Cervantes, Miguel: Don Quixote
37. de Laclos, Choderlos: Dangerous Liaisons (February 2015)
38. de Sade, Marquis: The 120 Days of Sodom
39. Defoe, Daniel: Moll Flanders
40. Dickens, Charles: A Child’s History of England
41. Dickens, Charles: American Notes
42. Dickens, Charles: Barnaby Rudge
43. Dickens, Charles: Bleak House (March 2014)
44. Dickens, Charles: David Copperfield
45. Dickens, Charles: Dombey and Son
46. Dickens, Charles: Great Expectations
47. Dickens, Charles: Little Dorrit
48. Dickens, Charles: Martin Chuzzlewit
49. Dickens, Charles: Nicholas Nickleby
50. Dickens, Charles: Our Mutual Friend
51. Dickens, Charles: The Battle of Life
52. Dickens, Charles: The Chimes
53. Dickens, Charles: The Cricket on the Hearth
54. Dickens, Charles: The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain
55. Dickens, Charles: The Mystery of Edwin Drood
56. Dickens, Charles: The Old Curiousity Shop
57. Dickens, Charles: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
58. Dostoevesky, Fyodor: The Brothers Karamazov
59. Dostoevesky, Fyodor: The Idiot
60. Dostoevsky, Fyodor: Demons
61. Dostoevsky, Fyodor: Notes from the Underground
62. Dostoevsky, Fyodor: The Adolescent
63. Dostoevsky, Fyodor: The Double
64. Dostoevsky, Fyodor: The Eternal Husband
65. Dostoevsky, Fyodor: The Gambler
66. Dreiser, Theodore: Sister Carrie
67. Du Maurier, Daphne: Echoes from the Macabre
68. Eco, Umberto: The Name of the Rose
69. Eliot, George: Middlemarch
70. Eliot, George: Silas Marner
71. Ellison, Ralph: The Invisible Man
72. Fitzgerald, F. Scott: The Beautiful and Damned (March 2014)
73. Flaubert, Gustav: Madame Bovary
74. Forster, E.M.: Passage to India
75. Forster, E.M.: Room With a View
76. Fowles, John: The French Lieutenant’s Woman
77. Frank, Anne: The Diary of Anne Frank
78. Goethe, Johann: Faust
79. Greene, Graham: Brighton Rock
80. Greene, Graham: The Heart of the Matter (October 2014)
81. Haggard H. Rider: Ayesha: Return of She (March 2015)
82. Hardy, Thomas: Far From the Madding Crowd
83. Hardy, Thomas: Tess of the D’Urbervilles
84. Hawthorne, Nathaniel: The House of the Seven Gables
85. Hesse, Hermann: Steppenwolf
86. Homer: The Iliad
87. Homer: The Odyssey
88. Hugo, Victor: Les Miserables
89. Hugo, Victor: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
90. Hume, David: A Treatise of Human Nature
91. Ibsen, Henrick: Enemy of the People
92. Ibsen, Henrick: Ghosts
93. Ishiguro, Kazuo: Never Let Me Go
94. Ishiguro, Kazuo: Remains of the Day
95. James, Henry: The Portrait of a Lady
96. James, Henry: Turn of the Screw (October 2014)
97. James, Henry: What Maisie Knew
98. Joyce, James: Finnegans Wake
99. Joyce, James: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
100. Joyce, James: The Dubliners
100. Joyce, James: Ulysses
101. Kafka, Franz: Amerika
102. Kafka, Franz: Castle
103. Kerouac, Jack: On the Road
104. Kipling, Rudyard: Kim
105. Lady Muraski: The Tale of the Genji
106. Lawrence, D.H.: Lady Chatterley’s Lover
107. Lawrence, D.H.: Sons and Lovers
108. Lawrence, D.H.: Women in Love
109. le Carre, John: The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
110. le Carre, John: The Taylor of Panama (July 2014)
111. le Carre, John: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
112. Lewis, Sinclair: Babbitt
113. Lewis, Sinclair: Main Street
114. Marquez, Gabriel Garcia: Chronicles of a Death Foretold
115. Marquez, Gabriel Garcia: Memoirs of My Melancholy Whores
116. Marquez, Gabriel Garcia: One Hundred Years of Solitude
117. Maugham, W. Somerset: The Razor’s Edge
118. Melville, Herman: Moby Dick
119. Miller, Arthur: All My Sons
120. Miller, Arthur: Death of a Salesman (July 2014)
121. Milton, John: Paradise Lost
122. Mishima, Yukio: The Sailor who fell from Grace with the Sea
123. Mitchell, David: Cloud Atlas
124. Mitchell, Margaret: Gone with the Wind
125. Moliere: Misanthrope
126. Montgomery, L.M.: Anne of Green Gables (February 2014)
127. Murakami, Haruki:  Hear the Wind Sing
128. Murakami, Haruki: After the Quake
129. Murakami, Haruki: Birthday Stories: Selected and Introduced by Haruki Murakami
130. Murakami, Haruki: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World 
131. Murakami, Haruki: Kafka on the Shore
132. Murakami, Haruki: On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl 133. One Beautiful April Morning
134. Murakami, Haruki: South of the Border, West of the Sun
135. Murakami, Haruki: Underground
136. Murakami, Haruki: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running: A Memoir 
137. Murakami, Haruki:1Q84
138. Nabokov, Vladimir: Pale Fire
139. Ovid: Metamorphoses
140. Paton, Alan: Cry, the Beloved Country
141. Rhys, Jean: Wide Sargasso Sea
142. Richardson, Samuel: Clarissa
143. Rushdie, Salman: Midnight’s Children
144. Rushdie, Salman: Shalimar the Crown
145. Rushdie, Salman:Fury
146. Salinger, J.D: Franny and Zooey
147. Scott, Sir Walter: Lady of the Lake
148. Scott, Sir Walter: Rob Roy (October 2014)
149. Scott, Sir Walter: The Bride of Lammermoor
150. Shakespeare, William: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
151. Shakespeare, William: A Winter’s Tale
152. Shakespeare, William: All’s Well That Ends Well
153. Shakespeare, William: Antony and Cleopatra
154. Shakespeare, William: As You Like It
155. Shakespeare, William: Coriolanus
156. Shakespeare, William: Cymbeline
157. Shakespeare, William: Hamlet
158. Shakespeare, William: Henry IV
159. Shakespeare, William: Henry V
160. Shakespeare, William: Henry VI Part I
161. Shakespeare, William: Henry VI Part II
162. Shakespeare, William: Henry VI Part III
163. Shakespeare, William: Henry VIII
164. Shakespeare, William: Julius Caesar
165. Shakespeare, William: King John
166. Shakespeare, William: King Lear
167. Shakespeare, William: Love’s Labor’s Lost
168. Shakespeare, William: Macbeth
169. Shakespeare, William: Measure for Measure
170. Shakespeare, William: Merchant of Venice
171. Shakespeare, William: Much Ado About Nothing
172. Shakespeare, William: Othello
173. Shakespeare, William: Pericles
174. Shakespeare, William: Richard II
175. Shakespeare, William: Richard III
176. Shakespeare, William: Romeo and Juliet
177. Shakespeare, William: The Comedy of Errors
178. Shakespeare, William: The Merry Wives of Windsor
179. Shakespeare, William: The Taming of the Shrew
180. Shakespeare, William: The Tempest
181. Shakespeare, William: Timon of Athens
182. Shakespeare, William: Titus Andronicus
183. Shakespeare, William: Trolius and Cressida
184. Shakespeare, William: Twelfth Night
185. Shakespeare, William: Two Gentlemen of Verona
186. Shaw, George Bernard: Mrs. Warren’s Profession
187. Shaw, George Bernard: Pygmalion
188. Shaw, George Bernard: Saint Joan
189. Solzhenitsyn, Alexander: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
190. Sophocles: Oedipus Rex
191. Steinbeck, John: America and Americans
192. Steinbeck, John: Cannery Row
193. Steinbeck, John: East of Eden
194. Steinbeck, John: Sweet Thursday
195. Steinbeck, John: The Grapes of Wrath
196. Steinbeck, John: The Pastures of Heaven
197. Steinbeck, John: The Red Pony
198. Steinbeck, John: The Winter of Our Discontent
199. Steinbeck, John: Tortilla Flat
200. Steinbeck, John: Travels with Charley in Search of America
201. Stendhal: The Red and the Black
202. Stevenson, Robert Louis: Kidnapped
203. Stevenson, Robert Louis: The Black Arrow
204. Thackeray, William Makepeace: Vanity Fair
205. Tolstoy, Leo: The Death of Ivan Ilyich
206. Trollope, Anthony: Barchester Towers
207. Trollope, Anthony: Doctor Thorne
208. Trollope, Anthony: Framley Parsonage
209. Trollope, Anthony: The Last Chronicle of Barset
210. Trollope, Anthony: The Small House at Allington
211. Trollope, Anthony: The Warden
212. Trollope, Anthony: The Way We Live Now
213. Turgenev, Ivan: Fathers and Sons
214. Turgenev, Ivan: First Love
215. Twain, Mark: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
216. Twain, Mark: A Tramp Abroad
217. Twain, Mark: Pudd’nhead Wilson
218. Twain, Mark: The Prince and the Pauper
219. Tzsu, Sun: The Art of War
220. Verne, Jules: A Floating City
221. Verne, Jules: Around the Moon
222. Verne, Jules: From the Earth to the Moon
223. Virgil: The Aenid
224. Vonnegut, Kurt: Slaughterhouse Five
225. Walker, Alice: The Color Purple
226. Watson, Winifred: Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
227. Waugh, Evelyn: Brideshead Revisited
228. Waugh, Evelyn: Vile Bodies
229. Webster, Jean: Daddy-Long-Legs (February 2015)
230. Wharton, Edith: Madame de Treymes
231. Wharton, Edith: Old New York
232. Wharton, Edith: Roman Fever
233. Wharton, Edith: Sanctuary
234. Wharton, Edith: Summer
235. Wharton, Edith: The Buccaneers
236. Wharton, Edith: The Custom of the Country
237. Wharton, Edith: The Glimpses of the Moon
238. Wharton, Edith: The Reef
239. Wharton, Edith: The Touchstone
240. Wilde, Oscar: An Ideal Husband
241. Wilde, Oscar: De Profundis
242. Wilde, Oscar: Salomé
243. Wilde, Oscar: The Canterville Ghost
244. Wilde, Oscar: The Happy Prince and Other Tales
245. Williams, Tennessee: A Streetcar Named Desire
246. Williams, Tennessee: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
247. Williams, Tennessee: The Glass Menagerie
248. Zamyatin, Yevgeny: We
249. Zola, Emile: Germinal
250. Zola, Emile: Nana
251. Zola, Emile: The Earth
252. Zola, Emile: The Kill
253. Zola, Emile: Therese Raquin

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