My List of Classsics TBR

The mean reason I opened this blog is to share my opinions and reviews about classic books, so I decided I want to join The Classics Club.

I’m going to be indulgent with myself and I’m going to put my goal of 75 books in 5 years.

This list is going to be from January 1st of 2023 to December 31st of 2027, probably is going to be in less time (I expected that).

If I read classics that aren’t on this list, I will add them.

☑️ Means that I have them on my bookshelf but I haven’t read it. ✅ Means that I have read that book.

Section 1 Shakespeare

1. Romeo and Juliet (1597) ☑️
2. Hamlet (1603)
3. Othello (1604)
4. A Midsummer night’s dream (1605)
5. King Lear (1606)
6. Macbeth (1606)

Section 2 Modern Classics

7. East of Eden, John Steinbeck (1952)
8. Into the War, Italo Calvino (1954)
9. On the road, Jack Kerouac (1957)
10. Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs (1959)
11. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee (1960)
12. In Cold Blood, Truman Capote (1965)
13. The Name of the rose, Umberto Eco (1980)

Section 3 Greek and Roman

14. The Iliad, Homero(8th century BC)
15. The Odyssey, Homero(8th century BC)
16. The Persians, Aeschylus(472 BC)
17. Ajax, Sophocles (441 BC)
18. Lysistrata, Aristophanes (411 BC)
19. Aeneid, Virgil(19 BC)

Section 4 Non-white authors

20. The Blacker the Berry, Wallace Thurman (1929)
21. Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison (1952)
22. Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe (1958)
23. The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison (1970)
24. If Beale Street could talk (1974)
25. The Color Purple, Alice Walker (1982)

Section 5 Realism/Naturalism

26. Eugenie Grandet, Honore de Balzac (1833)
27. Les Misérables, Victor Hugo (1862)
28. La Fortune des Rougon, Emile Zola(1871)
29. The Bostonians, Henry James (1886)
30. The House of Ulloa, Emilia Pardo Bazan (1886)
31. Fortunata and Jacinta, Benito Perez Galdós (1887)

Section 6 Latin American Authors

32. Doña Barbara, Romulo Gallegos (1929)
33. The Labyrinth of Solitude, Octavio Paz (1950)
34. Recollections of Things to Come, Elena Garro (1963)
35. The Time of the Hero, Mario Vargas Llosa (1963)
36. The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende (1982)
37. Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel García Marquez (1985)

Section 7 Russian Authors

38. Eugene Onegin, Alexander Pushkin (1833)
39. Dead Souls, Nikolai Gogol (1842)
40. Poor Folk, Fyodor Dostoievski (1846)
41. Fathers and Sons, Ivan Turgenev (1862) ✅
42. Ana Karenina, Leo Tolstoy (1878)
43. The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov (1966)

Section 8 Science Fiction/Fantasy

44. From the Earth to the Moon, Jules Verne (1865)
45. The Time Machine, H. G. Wells (1895)
46. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley (1932)
47. Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury (1953)
48. The Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien (1954)
49. Dune, Frank Herbert (1965)

Section 9 Victorian Literature

50. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte(1847)☑️
51. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte (1847)☑️ de
52. Basil, Wilkie Collins (1852)
53. North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell (1854)
54. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens (1861)
55. Far from the Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy (1874)

Section 10 Female Authors

56. Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen (1817)
57. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Brontë (1848)
58. The Lifted Veil, George Eliot (1859)
59. The Age of the Innocence, Edith Wharton (1920)✅
60. Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf (1925)
61. Rebecca, Daphne Du Marier (1938)
62. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith (1943)

Section 11 Poetry

63. Poetry of Emily Dickinson
64. Poetry of Lord Byron
65. Sonnets and Poems by Shakespeare (1609)
66. Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, Pablo Neruda (1924)
67. Gypsy Ballads, Frederico Garcia Lorca (1928)
68. Mexico City Blues, Jack Kerouac (1959)

Section 12 Wild Card

69. The Count of Montecristo, Alexandre Dumas (1846)✅
70. A study in Scarlet, Arthur Conan Doyle (1887)
71. A Room With a View, E. M. Foster (1908)
72. The Great Gatsby, Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
73. Lady Chatterley’s Lover, David Herbert Lawrence (1928)
74. The Outsider, Albert Camus (1942) ✅
75. Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak (1957)