I would like to join this! Since there are seven novels by Jane Austen, I think it would be fun to read all seven of her novels in a year. :) I already have a collection of her novels, so I'm all set!

I will put them up as a I Go and this is from Dec 3rd 2009 to dec 2nd 2010

* is the on am currently reading

1) A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings Read 11/12/09

1.Les Miserables
2.The idiot
3.Catcher in the Rye
4.Illiad
5.Odyssey
6.Vanity fair
7.The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Oh, this is great! It'll be a good motivation to finally read the classics that have been on my TBR list for years.

1. Ada, or Ardor by Vladimir Nabokov
2. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
3. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
4. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
5. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
6. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
7. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

Diane's 7+ Classics for 2009:

1. Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
2. The Stranger - Albert Camus
3. The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
4. Animal Farm - George Orwell
5. The Awakening - Kat Chopin
6. The Beast in the Jungle and Other Stories - Henry James
7. The Journey into the East - Herman Hesse
8. Night - Elie Wiesel
9. Madame de Treymes and Three Novellas - Edith Wharton
10. Flatland - Edwin A. Abbott

Fun book, you are in for a treat.

Thank you, Mark!

Mark wrote: "Yes it is a classic. Never read it though.


Brianna wrote: "I'm game!
Question. "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court," a classic yes or a classic no?

Yes it is a classic. Never read it though.


Brianna wrote: "I'm game!
Question. "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court," a classic yes or a classic no?

1. The Hound of the Baskervilles by: Arthur Conan Doyle
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I'm game!
Question. "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court," a classic yes or a classic no?

1. The Hound of the Baskervilles by: Arthur Conan Doyle
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Mark wrote: "Lynne wrote: "Just out of curiosity, which ones are your favorites? My list is in no particular order so I might have to bump the ones you say you think are great up from "maybe this year" to "defi..."

HEy Mark- Are you getting a summer? or are you still studying? Just thought I would let you know that I finished "A Tale of Two Cities" and really enjoyed it. I loved the language and metaphores. I also loved how all the characters ended up being connected to one another at the end. That is one of the things I have always enjoyed so much about PG Wodehouse. Plus I thought Citizeness Defarge got just what she deserved. I loved the characters Sydney Carton and the sewing girl at the end.

OK - So I didn't read Middlemarch. I did however, read both The Grapes of Wrath and started Robinson Crusoe. I'm coming to the conclusion that most classics are slower reads than popular fiction. There is so much going on, and since many of them are older, the language takes more concentration. BUT - all in all they are worth the extra time.

Esther wrote: "I read a ton of classics in my twenties but have been into popular fiction recently. .."
It's going slowly because I keep finding other books i need to read :0)

1. Love in the Time of Cholera
2. Cranford
3. Northanger Abbey
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I'm starting with Middlemarch. Not sure where I'll go from there. So many books, so little time. For those of you here who are not part of the Pick-a-Shelf group, you should look it up. It's a great group and we have some cool challenges.

Since I picked the Classics shelf for the Pick a Shelf group, I'm going to start "A Tale of Two Cities" for my June read. How about you guys?

Thank you :)

Kelly wrote: "Lynne you read my mind."

Well, I got to pick the shelf for next month and I picked "Classics". So have at it. (You can thank me later) :)

Lynne you read my mind.

Kelly wrote: "Awesome challenge. I've been wanting to work at the classics in my bookshelves for awhile. Hence, the list being 15 titles long...

1. Dubliners by James Joyce (Reading)
2. Swann's Way, Vol. I b..."

I LOVED "great Expectations" and "The Crucible". If you want my recommendation, start with those.

I am adding Wuthering Heights to my list since I just realized that I have never read it.

Awesome challenge. I've been wanting to work at the classics in my bookshelves for awhile. Hence, the lenth of the list...

1. Dubliners by James Joyce (6/10)
2. The Crucible by Arthur Miller (6/26)
3. Swann's Way, Vol. I by Marcel Proust (7/8)
4. 1984 by George Orwell (7/13)
5. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (7/15)
6. Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare (7/30)
7. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (8/19)
8.

Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
Silas Marner by George Eliot
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot (Rdg)
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Lucky for me I live in this time period and I did marry well.:)

Lynne wrote: "Yeah MArk, good luck on your M.A. from me too. I look forward to discussing the classics with you and my sister (the other Lyn)."

Thanks, ladies.

I started reading Tom Jones this week--it's long. I read Moll Flanders last week, and was pleasantly surprised by what an easy read it was considering it's from the late 17 century. I definitely recommend that book. Interesting to see what life for women was like in that period if you did not marry well.

Yeah MArk, good luck on your M.A. from me too. I look forward to discussing the classics with you and my sister (the other Lyn).

Mark wrote: "Lyn wrote: "OK so I can't type -

Mark - seriously, can you let me know what you thought about the book and what you particularly liked. I'm trying to decide whether to try reading it again or n..."

Thanks - I think I might try to re-read it, but after I finish the ones on my list. I honestly can't remember exactly what I didn't like about it, just that I was having trouble getting into it. I'm actually curious about the book now, so it is back on my list.

Thanks

PS Good luck on your M.A.

Lyn wrote: "OK so I can't type -

Mark - seriously, can you let me know what you thought about the book and what you particularly liked. I'm trying to decide whether to try reading it again or not. "

It's been a LONG time since I read this one, but read it for a college course once. I just liked that it dealt with aging and the impact that sin has on it, in the story's context. It did seem rather subjective, but if you can get past the (I guess) narcissism, it's an interesting tale. I liked its gothic qualities, but I find it more gothic horror than just gothic, as Jane Eyre was. Sorry, I can't give much more.

Now you've made me want to add it to my list. But I'm actually preparing for an exam this fall for my English M.A. I have a ton to read already. But after October 24, I'm all FREE to read whatever I want. The classics I listed are on my list.

OK so I can't type -

Mark - seriously, can you let me know what you thought about the book and what you particularly liked. I'm trying to decide whether to try reading it again or not.

You "thoughts"? Maybe you shouldn't ask Mark. I don't want him to know what an illiterate family we come from. I already didn't know how to spell consciousness.

OK smarty - I thoughts that's what I just did. LOL

Lyn wrote: "Sis (Lynne) and Mark - Let me know what you thing of The picture of Dorian Gray. I tried to read it a few years ago, but had trouble getting into it. I am wondering if I should give it another try. "

Why don't you do what you usually do and let me read it first and tell you whether or not I think you would like it.LOL. Ask Mark. I think he has already read it.

Sis (Lynne) and Mark - Let me know what you thing of The picture of Dorian Gray. I tried to read it a few years ago, but had trouble getting into it. I am wondering if I should give it another try.

Before Goodreads I would never had attempted this, much less doing more than one challenge a year. Now I am doing 4 and am totally addicted. Here is my list:

1. FOUNDATION - by Isaac Asimov (Finished)
2. THE GIVER - by Lois Lowry (Finished)
3. A Tail of Two Cities
4. East of Eden
5. Rebecca
6. Robinson Caruso
7. Middlemarch -currently reading
8. The Handmaid's Tale
9. Wuthering Heights
10. THE GRAPES OF WRATH
And since my husband and I are reading them together, I will add the rest of the foundation series:

Foundation and Empire
Second Foundation
Foundation's Edge
Foundation and Earth
Prelude to Foundation
Forward the Foundation

Man I don't think that this is doing my A to Z any good since a lot of them start with the same letter. Maybe I'll adjust as I go along.

Actually - I guess The Giver is not actually a classic, though it should be. So I will replace it with The Grapes of Wrath, which believe it or not, I have never read.

Lynne wrote: "Actually, Heart of Darkness keeps coming into my conciousness (?) from many different angles. That is probably the one I would have read next anyway. Send me a message when you start and I will r..."

Sounds good.

Actually, Heart of Darkness keeps coming into my conciousness (?) from many different angles. That is probably the one I would have read next anyway. Send me a message when you start and I will read it too.

Lynne wrote: "Just out of curiosity, which ones are your favorites? My list is in no particular order so I might have to bump the ones you say you think are great up from "maybe this year" to "definitely this year" status."


Lynne, here are the ones I was referring to.

1. Heart of Darkness
2. Pride and Prejudice
3. A Tale of Two Cities
2. The Picture of Dorian Gray

I actually have to reread Heart of Darkness soon for a class--sometime before August. If you'd like to tackle it together and discuss, let me know.

Mark wrote: "Lynne, great list. You have several of my favorites on here. If you want to chat about any, send me a note.

Lynne wrote: "Okay, here are 12 I want to read, in no particular order. I will try to..."

Just out of curiosity, which ones are your favorites? My list is in no particular order so I might have to bump the ones you say you think are great up from "maybe this year" to "definitely this year" status.

Lynne, great list. You have several of my favorites on here. If you want to chat about any, send me a note.

Lynne wrote: "Okay, here are 12 I want to read, in no particular order. I will try to actually get to 6 of them this year (half):

1) Pride and Prejudice
2) A Tale of Two Cities
3) Farenheit 451
4) Picture..."

Okay, here are 12 I want to read, in no particular order. I will try to actually get to 6 of them this year (half):

1) Pride and Prejudice
2) A Tale of Two Cities
3) Farenheit 451
4) Picture of Dorian Gray
5) Heart of Darkness
6) The Good Earth
7) Rebecca
8) THE GIVER (done)
9) Hound of the Baskervilles
10) Brideshead Revisited
11) Maltese Falcon
12) How Green Was My Valley

I got a little caught up in Proust, so my list has changed a bit.

1. Swann's Way: In Search of Lost Time, Vol. 1
2. In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower: In Search of Lost Time, Vol. 2
3. Mrs. Dalloway
4. Don Quixote
5. Benito Cereno
6. The Guermantes Way: In Search of Lost Time, Volume 3 (in progress)
7. Sodom and Gomorrah: In Search of Lost Time, Volume 4 (next on the list)

OK, so here are mine, not in reading order:

1. Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe 14 May 09
2. Tom Jones - Henry Fielding 17 July 09
3. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African 20 August 09
4. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Harriet Jacobs 09 September 09
5. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave - Frederick Douglass 14 September 09
6. Paradise Lost - John Milton
7. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
8. Middlemarch - George Eliot
9. To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
10. Waiting for Godot - Samuel Becket

If anyone is interested in starting a separate group to discuss any of these, feel free to contact me.

I keep adding new ones.

I'm in!

Here are the classics that I've read this year:

1. Anonymous - Sweeney Todd or the String of Pearls
2. Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist
3. Charles Dickens - Bleak House
4. Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility
5. Haneif Kureishi - The Buddha of Suburbia
6. William Shakespeare - Hamlet
7. Toni Morrison - Beloved
8. Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale
9. Samuel Beckett - Waiting For Godot
10. Arthur Miller - The Crucible
11. Bram Stoker - Dracula
12. Nikolaj Gogol - The Overcoat
13.Henrik Ibsen - Et Dukkhjem
14. Karin Boye - Kallo Cain
15. August Strindberg - Tjänstekvinnans Son

UPDATED 6/23/09

1.Alice in Wonderland
2.Jane Eyre
3. The Time Machine
4.Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
5. Picture of Dorian Gray
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My 7 in 2008:
1. Catcher in the Rye
2. Wuthering Heights
3. Lord of the Flies
4. The Great Gatsby
5. Of Mice and Men
6. Great Expectations
7. The Old Man and the Sea
8. Animal Farm

I'm definitely up for this. I have my own personal "30 Books in 2009" challenge with some classics on it, so here are my 7:

1. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
2. Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
4. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
5. The Crucible by Arthur Miller
6. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
7. Dracula by Bram Stoker


2 are already down because they were at the top of my book list for this year. Nine months and 5 books to go!


* By the way, I find it interesting that so many people included Jane Eyre in their list. One of my FAVORITE books of all time. I hope you love it!

Here's my list for 2009.

1. North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
2. Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
3. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
4. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
5. Persuasion by Jane Austen
6. Dune by Frank Herbert
7. The Sound and the Fury by William Falkner

Have just read Wuthering heights and loved it, so I guess its time to read or reread the classics. I will add as I go!
1. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
2. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

Jennifer wrote: "oh! I have been picking up some classics too!

1. War and Peace
2. Catcher and the Rye
3. To Kill a Mockingbird
4. 1984
5. Crime and Punishment
6. Lord of the Flies
7. Jane Eyre

..."


Lord of the Flies, Mockingbird, Catcher in the Rye. 3 down, 4 to go. :).

My Progress so far on this challenge:
1. A Farewell to Arms by Hemingway
2. The Catcher in the Rye by Salinger
3. Of Mice and Men by Steinbeck (changed out Cannery Row, since I actually read Cannery Row in 2008)
4. The Bluest Eye - a change from my original list

Here I go, Wow Rachel we're similar
1. Pride and Prejudice
2. Gone with the Wind
3. Emma
4. Sense and Sensibility
5. The Iliad
6. The Prince and the Pauper
7. Les Miserables or The Hunchback of Notre Dame

1. Pride and Predjudice
2. Gone With the Wind
3. Hamlet
4. A Midsummers Night Dream
5. Romeo and Juliet
6. King Authur and the Quest for Camalot
7. Alice in Wonderland

I'm in too - my first batch of 7:
Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Emma - Jane Austen

Okay, I'm in....this book challenge stuff is soooo addicting!

1. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
2. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
3. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
4. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
5. Dracula by Bram Stoker
6. Animal Farm by George Orwell
7. All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren