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 100 books in 5 years (from 1st Jan 2020 to 31st Dec 2024):
Short Story Collections/Anthologies:
- Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant
- Short Stories by Anton Chekhov (13 Volumes – Translated by Constance Garnett)
- The Complete Tales of Nikolai Gogol (2 Volumes)
- Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
- The Complete Stories – Edgar Allen Poe
- Tales of the Unexpected – Roald Dahl
- Twice-Told Tales – Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The Country of the Blind and Other Stories – H.G. Wells
- The Garden Party and Other Stories – Katherine Mansfield
- The Illustrated Man – Ray Bradbury
- Malgudi Days – R.K. Narayan
- Nine Stories – J D Saligner
- The Unhappiness of Being a Single Man: Essential Stories – Franz Kafka
- The Aleph and Other Stories – Jorge Luis Borges
- Tales of Ordinary Madness – Charles Bukowski
- Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick
- The Found And The Lost – Ursula K. Le Guin *
- A Clutch of Indian Masterpieces *
- The Greatest Bengali Stories Ever Told – Arunava Sinha (Translator) *
- The Tamil Story – Subashree Krishnaswamy (Translator) *
- Manto: Selected Stories – Aatish Taseer (Translator)
- Great Stories By Nobel Prize Winners
- Short Stories of Washington Irving
- Short Stories of Herman Melville
- Selected Stories by O. Henry
- Selected Stories by Oscar Wilde
- Selected Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Selected Stories by Leo Tolstoy
- Selected Stories by Rudyard Kipling
- Selected Stories by Charles Dickens
- Selected Stories by James Joyce
- Selected Stories Jack London
- Selected Stories by D. H. Lawrence
- Selected Stories Joseph Conrad
- Selected Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Selected Stories by Saki
- Selected Stories by Bram Stoker
- Selected Stories by W. W. Jacobs
- Selected Stories Honoré de Balzac
- Selected Stories by Henry James
* Most of the stories in these collections fall under the ‘Classics’ category and a few don’t.
Fables and Folktales:
- Panchatantra
- Aesop’s Fables
- Fables of La Fontaine
- Tales from the 1001 Nights
- Sukasaptati (Seventy tales of the parrot)
Poetry Collections:
- Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
- Shakespeare’s Sonnets – William Shakespeare
- Poems of Christina Rossetti
- The Pleasures of the Damned – Charles Bukowski
- Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley
- The Captain’s Verses – Pablo Neruda
- Poems of John Donne
- Sonnets from the Portuguese – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems – Alexander Pope
- The Complete Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Others (Novels, Epics, Essays, Discourses, Plays, etc.):
I gathered most of these books from Great Books and Classics. They are listed in the chronological order of the authors.
- The Epic of Gilgamesh
- The Iliad – Homer
- The Odyssey – Homer
- The Upanishads
- The Art of War – Sun Tzu
- Lysistrata – Aristophanes
- Arthashastra – Kautilya (Chanakya)
- Beowulf
- Njal’s Saga (The Saga of Burnt Njal)
- Divine Comedy – Dante Alighieri
- Essays – Michel de Montaigne
- Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes
- Macbeth – William Shakespeare
- A Book of Five Rings (Go Rin no Sho) – Miyamoto Musashi
- Meditations on First Philosophy – Rene Descartes
- The Misanthrope – Molière
- Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
- Dracula – Bram Stoker
- Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
- The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
- Dead Souls – Nikolay Gogol
- Walden – Henry David Thoreau
- Bartleby the Scrivener – Herman Melville
- Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
- A Doll’s House – Henrik Ibsen
- War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
- The Strange Case of Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Importance of Being Earnest – Oscar Wilde
- Pygmalion – George Bernard Shaw
- The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton
- Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
- The Scarlet Pimpernel – Baroness Orczy
- The Phantom of the Opera – Gaston Leroux
- In Search of Lost Time – Marcel Proust
- Demian – Hermann Hesse
- Mrs.Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
- Ulysses – James Joyce
- The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
- Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
- Ponniyin Selvan – Kalki Krishnamurthy
- Nausea – Jean-Paul Sartre
- Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
- Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut
- The Stranger – Albert Camus
- A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
- One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
- Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie