100 Classics I Want to Read

I’ve really gotten into classics lately. My latest reads have included Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte and The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. Today, I want to share a list of a further 100 classics I want to read. By when? Who knows!

At some point in my life, I would like to get to these classics. And here they are:

1. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte ✔
2. Ben-Hur by Lew Wallace
3. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
4. Bleak House by Charles Dickens ✔
5. Villette by Charlotte Bronte
6. The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
7. Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier
8. My Cousin Rachel by Daphne Du Maurier ✔
9. The Last Mohican by James Fenimore Cooper
10. A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
11. The Ladies Paradise by Emilie Zola
12. The Monk by Matthew Lewis
13. Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
14. Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
15. Sanditon by Jane Austen
16. Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
17. 1984 by George Orwell
18. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
19. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
20. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
21. Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
22. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
23. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
24. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
25. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
26. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
27. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
28. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
29. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
30. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
31. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
32. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria
33. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
34. Dracula by Bram Stoker
35. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
36. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
37. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
38. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
39. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens ✔
40. The Clocks by Agatha Christie ✔
41. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
42. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
43. Beloved by Toni Morrison
44. Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell
45. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
46. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackery
47. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
48. A Room With a View by E.M. Forster ✔
49. Howard’s End by E.M. Forster
50. Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster ✔
51. The King’s General by Daphne Du Maurier
52. Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
53. Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne
54. Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne
55. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset. Maugham
56. Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
57. The Last Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald
58. Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
59. Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
60. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
61. The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
62. Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
63. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson ✔
64. The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
65. Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
66. One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest by Ken Kesey
67. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
68. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
69. A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf ✔
70. The Iliad by Homer
71. The Odyssey by Homer
72. Daphnis and Chloe by Longus ✔
73. Cider With Rosie by Laurie Lee
74. The Pearl by John Steinbeck ✔
75. Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans ✔
76. Moonfleet by J. Meade Faulkner
77. The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge ✔
78. Oroonoko by Aphra Behn
79. Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
80. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
81. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
82. The Woman in Black by Susan Hill
83. Aesop’s Fables by Aesop
84. The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
85. Carol by Patricia Highsmith
86. Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter
87. Cousin Phillis and Other Stories by Elizabeth Gaskell
88. The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
89. The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
90. The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux ✔
91. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia-Marquez
92. A Town Like Alice by Nevile Shute
93. Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
94. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
95. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
96. Tropic of Cancer by Henry James
97. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
98. The Aeneid by Virgil
99. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
100. 101 Dalmations by Dodie Smith

There we have it. 100 Classics I want to read in my lifetime. How many of these have you read? I’ll be ticking them off as I get through them, so be sure to check back in once in a while.

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