Marlene's classics

[Marlene]

This folder sounds like a great idea, so I'll make a list of my classics, too. It's good to see what I've already read and what I want to read. Also, it could be a nice way of motivation to see the list grow.

As I'm not always sure if what I've read is a classic or not, there will be a list of them, too. Everybody is invited to tell me what they think about them because I have no idea how else to find out. Thanks for that in advance!

[Marlene]

Read:

1984
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Lesson Before Dying
A Murder Is Announced
Brave New World
Die Verwandlung
Dracula
Fahrenheit 451
Fairy Tales Of Wilhelm Hauff
Frankenstein
Hamlet
Im Westen Nichts Neues
Jane Eyre
Les Misérables
Light in August
Macbeth
Murder on the Orient Express
Nathan der Weise : ein dramatisches Gedicht in fünf Aufzügen
Paradise Lost
Persuasion
Pride and Prejudice
Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories
Romeo and Juliet
Sense and Sensibility
The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
The Complete Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales
The Complete Sherlock Holmes
The Diary of a Young Girl (Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank)
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Hobbit
The Hollow
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
The Little Prince
The Neverending Story
The Prince and the Pauper
The Two Towers
To Kill a Mockingbird
Twelfth Night
Wuthering Heights

[Marlene]

Possible classics?:

Der kleine Wassermann
Der Sandmann
Die Physiker
Fraulein Else
Jim Knopf und Lukas der Lokomotivführer
Jim Knopf und die Wilde 13
Krabat
Max und Moritz. Eine Bubengeschichte in sieben Streichen
Momo
Pippi Longstocking
The Dispossessed
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
The Name of the Rose

Most of them are German children's books, so you might not even know them or know them by a different name. I've already seen discussions like "what makes a book a classic", so I know this is not just a problem for me. I really have no idea.
Of course there could be mistakes in the other lists as well, so feel free to correct me.

[Marlene]

Already on my shelf:

Absalom, Absalom!
Anna Karenina
East of Eden
Faust
Gone with the Wind
Oliver Twist
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Catcher in the Rye
The Great Gatsby
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Once and Future King
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Rebecca
The Return of the King
The Silmarillion

[Marlene]

To-read:

A Christmas Carol
A Clockwork Orange
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
A Midsummer Night's Dream
And Then There Were None
Animal Farm
Anne of Green Gables
Around the World in Eighty Days
As I Lay Dying
A Tale of Two Cities
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
A Wrinkle in Time
Briefe an einen jungen Dichter/Briefe an eine junge Frau
Complete Stories and Poems (Edgar Allan Poe)
David Copperfield
Emma
Great Expectations
I Capture the Castle
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Little Women
Lord of the Flies
Moby-Dick
Mrs. Dalloway
Of Mice and Men
Peter Pan
The ABC Murders
The Body in the Library
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Crucible
The Illustrated Man
The Invisible Man
The Last of the Mohicans
The Man in the Iron Mask
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
The Professor
The Red Badge of Courage
The Reivers
The Scarlet Letter
The Secret Garden
The Sound and the Fury
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The Three Musketeers
The Time Machine
The Trial
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Treasure Island
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Uncle Tom's Cabin
War and Peace

[Marlene]

Currently reading:

[Marlene]

I always welcome suggestions - I just don't know how fast I can read them. :)

[Krystal]

Was the man in the iron mask harder to follow without having read all the books in between??

[Marlene]

Sorry, I haven't read it yet. It's still on my to-read shelf (and I haven't even bought it yet). I think I'll read the books from the beginning, though.