The Classics Club

50 Classics in 5 Years. Might not sound like much but trust me there's some whoppers in there. Hosted by Jillian at A Room of One's Own this club allows our inner classic geek to shine. Many of these are in my 100 book challenge that I set myself (without a time frame) but for this challenge I decided to make it extra hard by only allowing classics prior to 1900! Now this is going to be tricky and throw me right out of my comfort zone. So here they are! And because I'm also an organisation freak they're listed by initial publication date. Wish me luck.
  1. The Odyssey, Homer (750)
  2. The Lliad, Homer (750)
  3. The Inferno, Dante (1313)
  4. The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer (1390)
  5. Hamlet, William Shakespeare (1603)
  6. MacBeth, William Shakespeare (1606)
  7. Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift (1726)
  8. Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen (1811)
  9. Mansfield Park, Jane Austen (1814)
  10. Emma, Jane Austen (1815) 
  11. Persuasion, Jane Austen (1817)
  12. Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen (1817)
  13. Frankenstein, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1818)
  14. The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo (1831)
  15. Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens (1839)
  16. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens (1842)
  17. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens (1843) 
  18. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas (1844)
  19. The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas (1844)
  20. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë (1847)
  21. Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray (1848)
  22. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Bronte (1848)
  23. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens (1850) 
  24. The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850)
  25. Moby Dick, Herman Melville (1851)
  26. Bleak House, Charles Dickens (1853) 
  27. Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert (1857)
  28. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens (1859)
  29. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins (1859)
  30. Les Miserables, Victor Hugo (1862)
  31. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1866) 
  32. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott (1867)
  33. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy (1869)
  34. Middlemarch, George Eliot (1871)
  35. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy (1874)
  36. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy (1875) 
  37. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain (1876)
  38. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson (1881)
  39. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain (1884)
  40. Germinal, Emile Zola (1885)
  41. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson (1886)
  42. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1887) 
  43. A Little Princess, Frances Hodgson Burnett (1888)
  44. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy (1891)
  45. The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde (1895)
  46. The Time Machine, H.G. Wells (1895)
  47. The Island of Dr. Moreau, H.G. Wells (1896)
  48. Dracula, Bram Stoker (1897) 
  49. The War of the Worlds, H.G. Wells (1898) 
  50. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll (1899) 
So that makes completion date 30/3/2017 and my prize? Jealousy all round.
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