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Posted - Aug 13 2012 : 09:39:29 AM I recently joined a club where people are challenging themselves to read 50 or more classic books (classic is your own interpretation) in 5 years (or longer if you want). I am pretty excited about joining and have already started reading my first book. Here is the info if anyone wants to join, http://theclassicsclubblog.wordpress.com/about/
Here is the list of classic that I plan on reading. Most of them I have collected over the years, but as yet have not read. The asteriak mark * means this is a reread for me. I hope to complete this list by Aug 1 2017. I consider memoirs to be classics. Here is my list;
1. Pat of Silverbush by L.M. Montgomery 2.The Children by Edith Wharton 3. The Cossacks & the Raid by Leo Tolstoy 4. Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott 5. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens 6. A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett 7. Heart of Darkness & Selected Short Fiction by Joseph Conrad 8. The Republic by Plato 9. Child of the Dark by Carolina Maria de Jesus 10. Walden & Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau 11. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton * 12. Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis 13. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 14. Germinal by Emile Zola 15. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson * 16. The House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 17. The Memoirs of Gluckel of Hameln 18. Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson 19. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 20. Wives & Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell 21. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck * 22. The Awakening by Kate Chopin 23. Othello by William Shakespeare 24. The Prince & the Pauper by Mark Twain 25. Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens 26. Rights of Man by Thomas Paine 27. Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane 28. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad 29. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett 30. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 31. The Book of Margery Kempe 32. The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis 33. The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis 34. The Horse & His Boy by C.S. Lewis 35. Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis 36. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis 37. The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis 38. The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis 39. The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton 40. The Death of Ivan Ilych & other stories by Leo Tolstoy 41. Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott 42. War & Peace by Leo Tolstoy 43. The Railway Children by E. Nesbit 44. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy 45. Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen 46. Sense & Sensibility by Jane Austen 47. Emma by Jane Austen 48. Persuasion by Jane Austen 49. Five Little Peppers & How They Grow by Margaret Sidney 50. Little Dorritt by Charles Dickens 51. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain 52. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair 53. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen 54. Poor Folk & other stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 55. North & South by Elizabeth Gaskell 56. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis 57. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton 58. The Pioneers by James Fenimore Cooper 59. Private Yankee Doodle by J.P. Martin 60. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky 61. Love Letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn 62. Kilvert's Diary by Reverend Francis Kilvert 63. My Antonia by Willa Cather 64. The Oregon Trail by Francis Parkman, Jr. 65. The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy 66. The Letters of the Rozmberk Sisters 67. Larkrise to Candleford by Flora Thompson
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Posted - Oct 09 2012 : 5:17:12 PM Poe is a great place to start. I agree that it is good this time of year. LOL
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Posted - Oct 09 2012 : 08:28:23 AM Wow! This sounds amazing and fun!! I have a collection of books that belonged to my Great, great Grandpa. My wonderful, sweet Grandma left them to me before she passed away 14 years ago, and I have always been too afraid to handle them for fear that something would happen to them. But what's the point of having them if I can't enjoy them... right?! There are so many intriguing titles.. I wonder where to start!! I am going to join your reading challenge and I believe I will start with Tales by Edgar Allan Poe. Perhaps this is a fitting time of year to read something a little bit... dark? I don't know whether or not this is considered a classic - but it must have meant something special to my Great great Grandpa! Although I have to say that the book is not as worn as some of the others!! I think he was more a Dickens fan ![](icons/icon_smile.gif)
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vmfein |
Posted - Oct 08 2012 : 8:45:38 PM I finally finished Pat of Silver Bush, it was an ok book. Not one that I think I will ever reread. There is a sequel to it, but haven't decided if I will read that one or not.
I have already started reading the second book on my list, The Children by Edith Wharton. So far I am liking it, only on page 25, but just trying to keep all of the characters straight.
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Posted - Oct 08 2012 : 8:43:47 PM
quote: Originally posted by sewbug
I started reading O'Pioneers, would that be on anyone's list? I find it not to be an easy read, which I am use to.
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I could never get into that one either, but have chosen to try to read My Antonia later. I remember watching the made for tv movie of My Antonia will Neil Patrick Harris years ago and I enjoyed that (course that isn't a guarantee I will enjoy the book, but still).
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Ninibini |
Posted - Oct 03 2012 : 12:18:45 PM Oh my goodness! I didn't know there were more than one! Thank you, Amy! How cool! Hugs - Nini
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Posted - Oct 03 2012 : 10:06:00 AM Look here on Amazon for Jane Austen cookbooks!!
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Ninibini |
Posted - Oct 03 2012 : 10:01:27 AM Kristina - have you ever seen or do you have the Jane Austen cookbook? I would love to check that out sometime! How neat it must be!!!
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Ninibini |
Posted - Oct 03 2012 : 09:59:49 AM I'm going to have to read that, Amy! We have finished "The Aenid" and are getting ready to wrap up Livy's, "Early History of Rome." I am finding the Romans much easier to read than the Greeks, but love the stories of both just the same. :) Very interesting stuff! :)
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Nini
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Posted - Oct 03 2012 : 08:56:22 AM Finished "Sign of the Four". Great read.
I have this for my second choice: http://www.amazon.com/Rangers-Story-Early-Mississippi-ebook/dp/B004TRD0LG/ref=pd_rhf_pe_p_t_2
This for my third choice: http://www.amazon.com/The-Mysterious-Affair-Styles-ebook/dp/B004UJCK50/ref=pd_rhf_pe_p_t_2
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Posted - Sep 29 2012 : 06:23:56 AM It is on the Classics list.
Let us know if you like it.
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sewbug |
Posted - Sep 29 2012 : 05:54:19 AM I started reading O'Pioneers, would that be on anyone's list? I find it not to be an easy read, which I am use to.
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Posted - Sep 29 2012 : 04:59:24 AM I think you all have inspired me to take my Jane Austen books off the shelf and start reading them again.
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Posted - Sep 28 2012 : 4:53:16 PM I am now reading "The Sign of the Four" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Great read so far.
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Posted - Sep 28 2012 : 11:21:22 AM Here is my book blog to put my reviews and book musings.
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Posted - Sep 25 2012 : 08:59:48 AM I will have to hop into this.
I will also add some to my daughter's reading list.
Plus this will get me out of my reading rut. I have historic Christian Romace on the brain. LOL
Give me time to look and think and I will post a list.
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Ninibini |
Posted - Sep 24 2012 : 4:15:07 PM WOW! That's AWESOME, Valerie!
We use the classics as a basis for my son's homeschool for history, english, literature, geography, etc... We do a MINIMUM of 30 books per year. Believe me, I know what an undertaking this is, but you are going to be sooo happy once you've achieved your goal!
Last year we read (and I mean the entire book, cover to cover):
The Iliad by Homer The Odyssey by Homer Theogeny by Hesiod The Complete Fables of Aesop Greek Tragedies, Vol I Greek Tragedies, Vol II Greek Tragedies, Vol III Histories by Herodotus The Collected Dialogues of Plato (not quite all of them, though) Landmark Thucydides - The Peloponnesian War Greek Lives by Plutarch The Complete Plays of Aristophanes The First Philosophers - The PreSocratics and the Sophists Euclid, Book I, (various sections) Basic Works of Aristotle (various sections)
In addition, we read several books from the Bible, and my son read optional personally selected books on Theology, World War I and II, American History, Baseball History and others. I would have to look them up for you, because our old computer died; but I remember they included titles such as Huckleberry Finn, Chance or Purpose, Ethics: The Drama of the Moral Life, and others. When all was said and done, he read 46 books total, the majority of which were classics. Quite an accomplishment for a high school freshman! And he can intelligently discuss them, too!
This year, his core curriculum includes:
The Aenid by Virgil The Complete Works of Tacitus Cicero On Duties On the Nature of Things by Lucretius The Conquest of Gaul by Julius Caesar Early History of Rome by Livy Meditations by Marcus Aurelius Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius Crusade of St. Louis by Al-Makrisi Memoirs of the Crusade and Sir Galahad by Tennyson Ecclesiastical History of the English People by St. Bede Enneads by Plotinus Discourses by Epicitus Little Flowers of Saint Francis Ptolemy's Almagest Saint Augustine's Confessions Sir Gawain and the Green Knight The Divine Comedy by Dante Plutarch's Lives, Vol. I (again) Plutarch's Lives, Vol. II (again) Excerpts from the Quran Two Lives of Charlemagne The Guide for the Perplexed by Moses Maimonides
And he has already almost completed another personal book selection on Vietnam.
The kid's a born reader, historian and storyteller... He breezes through this stuff like it's nothing, and really gets most of it. He actually gets upset when he notices discrepencies and "stretches" in documentaries and textbooks, and loves to explain them clearly to anyone who will listen. Mom, on the other hand, takes a bit longer to read and re-read to make sure she understands. Herodotus about killed me! LOL! All in all, though, he's getting a remarkable education by reading the classics! It's pretty exciting stuff. :)
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Nini
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njaw09 |
Posted - Sep 24 2012 : 2:40:20 PM I am reading Jane Austen: the complete novel (more than a 1000 pages) and anna Karenina both at the same time. I know I should start one at a time but can't help it.
I have lots of books you listed here and looking forward to read them also. You have a nice list here and hoping you don't mind if I copy it and jot it down on my notebook.
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Posted - Sep 24 2012 : 07:15:38 AM I wouldn't mind doing something like this over a winter, but definitely not over a summer. I have many of those books on my own shelf too.
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Posted - Aug 13 2012 : 1:39:47 PM I tried to pick books that I thought sounded at least somewhat interesing to me, but time will only tell if I like them. I know that I probably won't like all of the books on my list, as there is bound to be one that in the end I won't like. Most of the authors on my list I have never read before. Although I have read Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment which I really liked, even though I didn't agree with what the character did. I have heard his book The House of the Dead, is supposed to be really about his own true experience being in Serbia for his crimes against writing about his viewpoints of the Czar. I will have to look up that book Precious Bane and see what it is about. I love to find new books and authors.
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Posted - Aug 13 2012 : 11:04:44 AM I hope you have better luck with Ivanhoe and Thomas Hardy than I did! Edith Wharton I found very...well, let's just say I will never understand why her work is considered classic. ( I actually find her morally offensive.) Ugh.
Five Little Peppers, Jane Eyre, and anything by Dickens you will probably LOVE. Tolstoy possibly too, although I find I can only read him in winter for some reason.
If you have time, may I suggest one more? Precious Bane by Mary Webb. Underrated and amazing.
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