I made a goal to read around 12 classics in 2024. Here’s what I’ve read so far:
- The Count of Monte Cristo
- Arabian Nights
- The Sound and The Fury
- The Moonstone
- Jane Eyre
- Gullivers Travels
- Robinson Crusoe
- The Haunting of Hill House
- Frankenstein (currently reading)
- War and Peace (reading in December)
Suggest me a classic or two for November.
In the past I’ve also read David Copperfield, Mansfield Patk, Little Women, Hick Finn/Tom
Sawyer, and Mobu Dick
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Don Quixote
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
John William’s Stoner
The Grapes of Wrath (Steinbeck)
Andrei Bely – ***Petersburg***
Louis-Ferdinand Céline – ***Journey to the End of the Night***
Raymond Chandler – ***Farewell, My Lovely***
Günter Grass – ***The Tin Drum***
Graham Greene – ***Brighton Rock***
Franz Kafka – ***The Castle***
Malcolm Lowry – ***Under the Volcano***
Herman Melville – ***Moby Dick***
Vladimir Nabokov – ***Pale Fire***
Evelyn Waugh – ***Decline and Fall***
H.G. Wells – ***The Invisible Man***
Dennis Wheatley – ***The Devil Rides Out***
East of Eden
China Achebe: Things Fall Apart.
Isabel Allende: House of the Spirits.
A little bit more modern the your list so far, but I’d call them both classics, and either one would make your year a bit more wide-ranging geographically.
The Three Musketeers! It’s fabulous!
* Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
* Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
* Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
* To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
* Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
* The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
* The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
* One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
as i lay dying. better than sound and the fury (which i liked) and less of a pain in the ass to read!
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Dune
The Age of Innocence — Edith Wharton! Done!
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame.
It’s a lovely little homage to pastoral England and the main characters are critters (Mole, Weasel, and Badger) while the story also has a bit of silliness due to the flamboyantly oblivious and chaotic yet somehow also good natured Mr. Toad.
Figured I’d toss that one out there since the rest of yours all have human characters. It’d be a nice break. 🙂
We Have Always Lived in the Castle is better than The Haunting of Hill House, imo. So I recommend that.