Classics Club

Thanks to La Graciada - who is much better at consistently blogging than I am - I have now stumbled upon the classics club. Since she thought she was late to the party I can only assume that means I am extremely late to the party, but the idea sounded so great that I cannot pass it up.

You pick 50 "classic books" which you want to read over a set time period. I am really just listing these in the order they come to me / the order I see them on my bookshelf. I am going to make one of these for movies as well in the coming weeks.

I am really interested in finding out what other people's lists look like, so if you have made one or want to put the link in a comment or just paste the list so I can check it out.

1.     War and Peace - Tolstoy 

2.     Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man - Joyce

3.     Ulyssess - Joyce

4.     The Illiad - Homer

5.     Sir Gwain and the Green Knight

6.     Canterbury Tales - Chaucer (I've only read parts)

7.     Il Decameron - Boccaccio (I am going to read it in Italian!)

8.     The Name of the Rose - Eco (Not sure if I'll try it in Italian)

9.     If on a winters night a traveler.... - Calvino

10. Invisible Cities - Calvino

11. V - Pynchon

12. Underworld - Delillo

13. To the Lighthouse - Wolff

14. Orlando - Wolff

15. Tropic of Capricorn - Miller

16. Middlesex - Eugenides

17. Nausea - Satre

18. Waverly - Sir Walter Scott

19. Mysterious Stranger No. 44 - Twain

20. Complete Short Stories - John Cheever

21. The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury

22. The Invisible Man - Ellison

23. Giovanni's Room – Baldwin

24. Death Comes for the Archbishop - Cather

25. Chery Orchard - Chekhov

26. Fictions - Borges

27. House of Leaves - Danielwski

28. Leaves of Grass - Whitman (I've only read parts)

29. The Complete Poems - Philip Larkin

30. Paradise Lost - Milton

31. Great Expectations - Dickens

32. Tale of Two Cities - Dickens

33. Notes from the Underground - Dostoevsky

34. Absalom, Absalom! - Faulkner

35. Light in August - Faulkner

36. Tender is the Night - Fitzgerald

37. Catch-22 - Heller

38. The Blind Assasin - Atwood

39. Love in a Time of Cholera - Marquez

40. 100 Years of Solititude - Marquez 

41. Moby Dick - Melville

42. Perdido Street Station - Mieville

43. Beloved - Morrison

44. Lolita - Nabokov

45. Interpreter of Maladies - Lahiri

46. Homage to Catalonia - Orwell

47. Ars Amartoria - Ovid (in Latin)

48. Snow - Orhan Pamuk

49. Measure for Measure - Shakespeare

50. Satanic Verses - Rushdie

51. The Inverted Forest - Salinger

52. The Importance of Being Earnest - Wilde

53. Germinal - Zola

54. Collected Poems - Yeats

55. Footnotes in Gaza – Sacco (Comic)

56. Invisibles – Morrison (Comic)

57. The Dispossessed - Ursla

58. Red Mars - Stanley Robinson

59. The Souls of Black Folk - Dubois

60. Black Reconstruction - Dubois

61. History of the Siege of Lisbon - Saramago

62. My Name is Red - Pamuk

63. This is How You Lose Her - Junot Diaz

64. Ubik - Dick

65. Age of Revolutions - Hobsbawm

66. Living in the End Times - Zizek

67. The Political Unconcious - Jameson

68. Metahistory - White

69. Sweet Thursday - Steinbeck

70. The Book of Daniel - Doctorow

71. Ragtime – Doctorow

72. The Autumn of the Middle Ages

73. War of the End of the World - Vargos

74. Magnus - Brown

75. Complete Plays - Euripides (In Latin)

76. Hidden Reality - Greene

77. America - Bauldrillard

78. Society of Spectacle - Debord

79.  The Age of Wire and String – Marcus

80.  2666 - Bolano

After making this list I am confronted by the fact that there are about 200 more books that easily come to mind to be added. Guess I need to get started. Also note this list does not represent everything I am going to read over the time period allotted - in my case four years - but just an idea of some of what I will definitely be reading.