List of books for The Classics Club

You might be wondering why I am writing this post in English. Well, I've decided to join The Classics Club, a community of people committed to reading 50 classics or more in a period of five years. The main requirement for this club is to write a review of each classic we read. I have decided to write them in English to actually be able to share them with the members of the club; therefore, this blog is now bilingual. I will continue to publish posts in Spanish for the books that don't belong to this list, but the posts for the club will be in English. I plan to translate the reviews of Spanish classics and other reviews I consider necessary (reviews of books I have really loved, for example).

The list of books is very similar to my 2013 reading challenge list. The difference is that for the classics club I added books I have already read but haven’t reviewed yet and eliminated books I don’t consider classics. 

My goal date is January, 2018. 

So without much further ado, here’s my list of classics to read in the next five years:

Brecht, Bertolt Trommeln in der Nacht Bronte, Anne The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Bronte, Charlotte Jane Eyre* Bronte, Charlotte Villete Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Shirley Wuthering Heights* Browning, Elizabeth Aurora Leigh Camus, Albert The Plague Chordelos de Laclos, Pierre Collins, Wilkie Les Liaisons Dangereuses The Woman in White Conan Doyle, Arthur The Complete Sherlock Holmes Novels (4 books) Conan, Doyle Arthur Cortázar, Julio The Complete Sherlock Holmes Short Stories (56 short stories) Rayuela (Hopscotch)* de Balzac, Honoré Eugenie Grandet de Maupassant, Guy Une vie de Maupassant, Guy Bel-Ami Dickens, Charles A Tale of Two Cities Dickens, Charles Great Expectations Dickens, Charles Dostoevsky, Fyodor Bleak House The Brothers Karamazov Dostoevsky, Fyodor Crime and Punishment Dumas, Alexandre The Count of Monte Cristo* Dumas, Alexandre The Three Musketeers Eliot, George Middlemarch Eliot, TS Murder in the Cathedral Faulkner, William As I Lay Dying Fitzgerald, F. Scott The Great Gatsby* Flaubert, Gustave Madame Bovary* Fuentes, Carlos The Death of Artemio Cruz García Márquez, Gabriel A Hundred Years of Solitude* García Márquez, Gabriel Love In The Time of Cholera* García Márquez, Gabriel Chronicle Of A Death Foretold* Gaskell, Elizabeth North and South Grass, Gunter Danziger Trilogie Hawthorne, Nathaniel The Scarlett Letter Hemingway, Ernest A Moveable Feast Hemingway, Ernest The Sun Also Rises Hemingway, Ernest Hesse, Hermann A Farewell to Arms Steppenwolf Hodgson Burnett, Frances The Secret Garden Hugo, Victor Les Miserables Hugo, Victor The Hunchback of Notre Dame James, Henry The American James, Henry Washington Square Kerouac, Jack On the Road Lee, Harper To Kill a Mockingbird Mann, Thomas The Magic Mountain Nabokov, Vladimir Lolita Onetti, Juan Carlos La vida breve (The Brief Life) Orwell, George 1984 Poe, Edgar Allan The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Vol. I, II, III and IV) Richardson, Samuel Clarissa Radcliffe, Anne Rulfo, Juan The mysteries of Udolpho Pedro Páramo Scott, Walter The Waverley Novels Shakespeare, William As you like it Shakespeare, William The Merchant of Venice Shakespeare, William The Tempest Shakespeare, William The Winter's Tale Shakespeare, William Shakespeare, William Hamlet Julius Caesar Shakespeare, William Macbeth Shakespeare, William King Lear Shelley, Mary Frankenstein Thackeray, William Vanity Fair Tolkien, J.R.R. The Hobbit Turgenev, Ivan First Love Vargas Llosa, Mario Conversation in the Cathedral* Vargas Llosa, Mario The Time of the Hero* von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Faust Wharton, Edith Wilde, Oscar The House of Mirth A Woman Of No Importance Woolf, Virginia Mrs. Dalloway* Woolf, Virginia A Room of One's Own* Woolf, Virginia Night and Day Woolf, Virginia The Waves Woolf, Virginia To The Lighthouse Zola, Emile Nana

The asterisks indicate the books I will be rereading for the Club.