Classics Club

The Classics Club is a virtual book club created to inspire people to read and blog about classic books. To join, you have to pledge that you’ll read 50+ classics in 5 years or less and post reviews on your blog. This page is my pledge and a means for me to track my progress.

I plan to read and review the following 50 books in 5 years (from 1st Oct 2022 to 30 Sep 2027):

1. The Epic of Gilgamesh
2. The Iliad – Homer
3. The Odyssey – Homer
4. The Upanishads
5. The Art of War – Sun Tzu
6. Lysistrata – Aristophanes
7. Arthashastra – Kautilya (Chanakya)
8. Beowulf
9. Njal’s Saga (The Saga of Burnt Njal)
10. Divine Comedy – Dante Alighieri
11. Essays – Michel de Montaigne
12. Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes
13. Macbeth – William Shakespeare
14. A Book of Five Rings (Go Rin no Sho) – Miyamoto Musashi
15. Meditations on First Philosophy – Rene Descartes
16. The Misanthrope – Molière
17. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
18. Dracula – Bram Stoker
19. Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
20. The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
21. Dead Souls – Nikolay Gogol
22. Walden – Henry David Thoreau
23. Bartleby the Scrivener – Herman Melville
24. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
25. A Doll’s House – Henrik Ibsen
26. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
27. The Strange Case of Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
28. The Importance of Being Earnest – Oscar Wilde
29. Pygmalion – George Bernard Shaw
30. The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton
31. Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
32. The Scarlet Pimpernel – Baroness Orczy
33. The Phantom of the Opera – Gaston Leroux
34. In Search of Lost Time – Marcel Proust
35. Demian – Hermann Hesse
36. Mrs.Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
37. Ulysses – James Joyce
38. The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
39. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
40. Ponniyin Selvan – Kalki Krishnamurthy
41. Nausea – Jean-Paul Sartre
42. Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
43. Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut
44. The Stranger – Albert Camus
45. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
46. One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
47. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
48. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
49. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
50. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie

I gathered most of the above books from Great Books and Classics and recommend checking out the site. They are listed in the chronological order of the authors.