For Christmas last year, I bought my boyfriend what I thought was a scratch off movie poster. to my surprise I accidentally ordered this gorgeous essential novels poster. (yes it was an accident). I decided to keep it, since I had always been interested in reading more classic works and had never had the time in the past to do so. One of my Reading Goals for 2020 is to read 6 of the books off of this chart. For anyone interested, I am listing what’s on the chart below and keeping track of my personal progress.
Key:
Strikethrough = Read
*= Read before 2020
**= Want to Re-read
Updated: 1/5/2020
|Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra pub. 1603 – 1023 pgs
|Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe pub. 1719 – 320 pgs
|Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen pub. 1813 – 279 pgs
|Frankenstein by Mary Shelley pub. 1818 – 288 pgs*
|Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte pub. 1847 – 507 pgs
|Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte pub. 1847 – 464 pgs
|The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne pub. 1850 – 234 pgs*
|Moby Dick by Herman Melville pub. 1851 – 720 pgs
|Great Expectations by Charles Dickens pub. 1861 – 505 pgs
|Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky pub. 1866 – 671 pgs
|Middlemarch by George Eliot pub. 1871 – 904 pgs
|Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy pub. 1877 – 964 pgs
|The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain pub. 1884 – 327 pgs
|Red Badge of Courage – by Stephen Crane pub. 1895 – 170 pgs
|Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad pub. 1901 – 188 pgs
|The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton pub. 1905 – 351 pgs
|The Good Solider by Ford Madox Ford – 368 pgs
|The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka – 201 pgs
|A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce – 329 pgs
|A Passage to India by E.M. Forester – 416 pgs
|An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser – 859 pgs
|The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald pub 1925 – 180 pgs
|Mrs. Dalloway by Virgina Woolfe – 194 pgs
|The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway – 189 pgs
|The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder – 138 pgs
|Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather – 279 pgs
|To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolfe – 209 pgs
|The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammet – 213 pgs
|The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner – 326 pgs
|Appointment in Samarra by John O’Hara – 251 pgs
|I Claudius by Robert Graves pub. 1934 – 468 pgs
|Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller pub. 1934 – 318 pgs
|Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell pub 1936 – 1037 pgs
|Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston – 219 pgs
|The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen – 418 pgs
|At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O’Brien pub. 1939 – 239 pgs
|The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler – 231 pgs
|The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck – 479 pgs
|The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West – 208 pgs
|The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers – 368 pgs
|Native Son by Richard Wright – 504 pgs
|Animal Farm by George Orwell – 122 pgs
|All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren – 439 pgs
|Under the Volcano by Malcom Lowry – 397 pgs
|The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene – 272 pgs
|1984 by George Orwell pub. 1949 – 328 pgs*
|The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis pub. 1950 – 206 pgs (Read 5/17/18)
|The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger pub. 1951 – 277 pgs**
|A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell pub. 1951 – 718 pgs
|Invisible Man by Ralph Elliot pub. 1952
|The Adventure of Augie March by Saul Bellow – 586 pgs
|Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin – 256 pgs
|Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury – 175 pgs*
|The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien – 398 pgs*
|Under the Net by Iris Murdoch
|Lord of the Flies by William Golding – 188 pgs
|Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov – 331 pgs
|The Recognitions by William Gaddis – 976 pgs
|On the Road by Jack Kerouac pub. 1957- 307 pgs
|A Death in the Family by James Agee pub 1957 – 320 pgs
|Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe – 209 pgs
|Naked Lunch by William Burroughs – 289 pgs
|Rabbit Run by John Updike – 325 pgs
|To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee pub. 1960 – 324 pgs*
|Catch-22 by Joseph Heller – 453 pgs
|A House Made for Mr Biswas
|The Golden Notebook by Dorris Lessing – 640 pgs
|One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey – 325 pgs
|Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov – 246 pgs
|A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess – 212 pgs
|The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosiński pub. 1965 – 234 pgs
|The Crying Lot of 49 by Thomas Pynchon – 152 pgs
|Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys – 171 pgs
|One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez – 417 pgs
|Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut – 275 pgs
|Deliverance by James Dickey – 288 pgs
|Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone – 342 pgs
|Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow pub. 1975 – 320 pgs
|Falconer by John Cheever – 221 pgs
|Play it as it Lays by Joan Didion – 213 pgs
|If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino – 260 pgs
|Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie – 647 pgs
|Money by Martin Amis pub. 1984 – 394 pgs
|Neuromancer by William Gibson – 261 pgs
|White Noise by Don DeLillo – 320 pgs
|Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy – 337 pgs
|The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood – 311 pgs
|The Sportswriter by Richard Ford – 375 pgs
|Beloved by Toni Morrison – 324 pgs
|Wittgenstein’s Mistress by David Markson – 279 pgs
|The Shipping News by Anne Proulx – 352 pgs
|Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace – 1088 pgs
|American Pastoral by Philip Roth – 432 pgs
|The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy – 340 pgs
|White Teeth by Zadie Smith – 448 pgs
|Middlesex by Jeffery Euguenides – 529 pgs
|2666 by Roberto Bolano – 1226 pgs
|Gilead by Marilynne Robinson – 282 pgs
|The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz – 335 pgs
|Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson – 614 pgs
Read 9/100
Read in 2020 0/6
What do you think; what should I start reading first? Anything not worth the read? How many of these ‘classics’ have you read?
Bookish Aidan 