My 100 Classics

Well, this is my 100 Classics list for Classics Club and it took me ages! The first 25 were relatively easy, then I started going through classics lists and then I had to figure out what I thought  a classic was. I find it very hard to write down what I think a classic is, it just has a certain quality to it that makes it both recognizable as being from a certain area but also timeless and essentially human.

I originally created this list years ago when I first went to university. Now we're years later and I'm still here slowly but surely making my way through. The list will also continue to change over time. I've already removed one after starting it, 'Crash' by Ballard. I just can't with that one.

Last update: 8/12/2022

Legend:

Bold - Read (Hyperlinked if I posted a review)

Underlined - Currently Reading  

1. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Anne Brontë
2. Germinal – Emile Zola
3. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
4. The Iliad – Homer
5. Paradise Lost – John Milton
6. The Cherry Orchard – Anton Checkov
7. The Epic of Gilgamesh - Anonymous
8. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
9. The Last of the Mohicans – James F. Cooper
10. The Picture of Dorian Grey – Oscar Wilde
11. Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe
12. Hard Times – Charles Dickens
13. Notes from Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky
14. The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
15. Ivanhoe – Walter Scott
16. The Lifted Veil – George Eliot
17. The Waste Land – T.S. Eliot
18. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano – Olaudah Equino
19. Duino Elegies - Rainer Maria Rilke
20. Speculum of the Other Woman - Luce Irigay
21. The Black Sheep - Honore De Balzac 
    
22. The Diary of a Nobody – George Grossmith
23. The Call of the Wild – Jack London
24. The Good Soldier – Ford Madox Ford
25. The Plague – Albert Camus
26. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
27. The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
28. On The Road – Jack Kerouac
29. Betrayal – Harold Pinter
30. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
31. Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
32. One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel G. Marquez
33. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Philip K. Dick
34. Love – Toni Morrison
35. If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler – Italo Calvino
36. Lanark – Alasdair Gray
37. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting – Milan Kundera
38. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
39. An American Tragedy – Theodore Dreiser
40. 1984 - George Orwell
41. The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
42. The Kalevala - Elias Lönnrot
43. If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho - Sappho, trans. Anne Carson
44. A Death in the Family – James Agee
    
45. The Death of the Heart – Elizabeth Bowen
46. The Magus – John Fowles
47. Electra - Sophocles
48. The Man Who Loved Children – Christina Stead
49. The Sorrows of Young Werther – Goethe
50. The Waves – Virginia Woolf
51. The Painted Bird – Jerzy Kosinski
52. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark
53. The Awakening - Kate Chopin
54. Angels in America – Tony Kushner
55. Slaughterhouse Five – Kurt Vonnegut
56. The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
57. Anthem - Ayn Rand
58. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea – Jules Verne
59. The Tale of Genji – Lady Murasaki
60.  Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche
61. Die Blechtrommel – Gunter Grass
62. Far From The Maddening Crowd – Thomas Hardy
63. The Secret Garden – Frances H. Burnett
64. The Fountainhead – Ayn Rand
65. I Capture the Castle – Dodie Smith
66. The Famished Road – Ben Okri
67. River of Fire – Qurratulain Hyder
68. Baudolino – Umberto Eco
69. The Mandrake – Nicolo Machiavelli
70. De Droomkoningin – Maarten ‘t Hart.
71. Faust - Goethe
72. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
73. The Decameron – Giovanni Boccaccio
74. The Stranger - Albert Camus
75. The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare – G. K. Chesterton
76. Waiting for Godot – Samuel Beckett
77. Watership Down – Richard Adams
78. Candide – Voltaire
79. All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich M. Remarque
80. The Pearl – John Steinbeck
81. The Feigned Courtesan – Aphra Behn
82. The Count of Monte Christo – Alexander Dumas
83. My Antonia – Willa Cather
84. Flowers for Algernon – Daniel Keyes
85. The Glass Menagerie – Tennessee Williams
86. The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
87. Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger
88. Whose Afraid of Virginia Woolf? – Edward Albee
89. Die Hamletmachine – Heiner Muller
90. Murder on the Orient Express – Agatha Christie
91. Equus – Peter Shaffer
92. The Poetic Edda - Anonymous
93. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
94. Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
95. A House for Mr. Biswas – V.S. Naipaul
96. Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town – Stephen Leacock
97. Housekeeping – Marilynne Robinson
98. Les Misérables - Victor Hugo
99. Bluebeard – Kurt Vonnegut
100. Cyrano de Bergerac – Edmond Rostand

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