Monday, August 12, 2013

Classics Club Reading List

I am joining the Classics Club! This is the kind of reading I love to think about doing, and having the club should keep me going. (When I'm not reading my Vintage Mysteries of course!). Here's the list:
  1. The Tale of Genji - Murasaki Shikibu
  2. The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  3. The Love Department - William Trevor
  4. The Transformations of Lucius - Apuleius
  5. Sentimental Education - Gustave Flaubert
  6. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
  7. Barnaby Rudge - Charles Dickens
  8. The Stranger - Albert Camus
  9. The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad
  10. The Wonderful Years - Reiner Kunze
  11. Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak
  12. Candide - Voltaire
  13. I'm Not Stiller - Max Frisch
  14. Therese Raquin - Emile Zola
  15. Eugenie Grandet - Honore de Balzac
  16. The Tartar Steppe - Dino Buzzati
  17. The Late Mattia Pascal - Luigi Pirandello
  18. Journey to the West - Wu Cheng-en
  19. I nostri antenati - Italo Calvino
  20. The Charterhouse of Parma - Stendhal
  21. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
  22. Buddenbrooks - Thomas Mann
  23. The Makioka Sisters - Tanizaki Junichiro
  24. The Crime of Father Amaro - Eca de Queiros
  25. The Man with Seven Names - Alves Redol
  26. Gargantua and Pantagruel - Francois Rabelais
  27. Simplicius Simplicissimus - J. J. C. Von Grimmelshausen
  28. The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo
  29. Outlaws of the Marsh - Shi Nai'an
  30. Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
  31. The Glass-Bead Game - Hermann Hesse
  32. The Spanish Bawd - Fernando de Rojas
  33. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
  34. The Odyssey - Homer
  35. Sons and Lovers - D. H. Lawrence
  36. The Iliad - Homer
  37. The Vicar of Wakefield - Oliver Goldsmith
  38. The Blind Owl - Sadeq Hedayat
  39. Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre
  40. Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
  41. Memoirs of a Good-for-Nothing - Joseph, Freiherr von Eichendorff
  42. We - Evgeni Zamiatin
  43. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
  44. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
  45. Oblomov - Ivan Goncharov
  46. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  47. Fathers and Sons - Ivan Turgenev
  48. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  49. Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
  50. The Story of the Stone - Cao Xueqin

2 comments:

  1. The Brothers Karamazov is on my list too! I read Jude the Obscure last year and it's incredible, but very dark. Welcome to the club!

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  2. They're both books I'm really looking forward to reading. Thanks for the welcome!

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