The Classics Club

A Room of One's Own is hosting The Classics Club, not so much a challenge as a long-term project.  This kind of thing is catnip to me--I absolutely cannot resist (not least because it seems a good way to work through the TBR pile).  The challenge/project is to read 50 to 200 classics in five years.

This project is so very ambitious, that I've decided to take a prudent approach:  I will read 50 classics in five years.  That puts my end date at March 15, 2017.  Here is my tentative list:


Novels:
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (response here)

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (response here)
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Hard Times by Charles Dickens
The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (response here)
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
The Assault by Harry Mulisch (response here)
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells (response here)
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth (response here)
Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald (response here)
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (response here)
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte (response here)
My Antonia by Willa Cather
The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (response here)
David Golder by Irene Nemirovsky (response here)
In the First Circle by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (response here)
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
The Warden by Anthony Trollope
Middlemarch by George Eliot (response here)
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (response here)

Story Collections:
The Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle (response here)
Five Women Who Loved Love by Ihara Saikaku
Casting the Runes and Other Ghost Stories by M. R. James (response here)
Dubliners by James Joyce
Selected Stories of O. Henry by O. Henry
Selected Short Stories by Guy de Maupassant (response here)
The Lady With the Dog and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov (response here)
The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Stories by H. P. Lovecraft (response here)



Plays:
The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster
The Revenger's Tragedy by Cyril Tourneur (response here)

Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare (response here)
The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare (response here)
Lysistrata by Aristophanes
The Trojan Women by Euripedes

Ancient/Medieval Literature:
The Aeneid by Virgil
Inferno by Dante
Metamorphoses by Ovid
Bhagavad Gita, by Anonymous
Ramayana, by Valmiki (retelling by Narayan)
The Legend of Seyavash by Firdausi
The Recognition of Sakuntala by Kalidasa
The Sunjata Story by Anonymous
Njal's Saga by Anonymous
The Five Books of Moses by Anonymous and Everett Fox
Narrow Road to the Deep North by Matsuo Basho (response here)
The Niebelungenlied by Anonymous

Poetry:
Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin (response here)


Non-Fiction:
The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (response here)
Tagebuch by Anne Frank (response here)