Long term Goal

I do not make new year resolutions; I do not believe in them. when I want to get something done, I get it done! So, since my blog has recently turned three, this is as good a time as any to make a resolution.

I read a lot of Classics as a child, I read the abridged versions initially; and later on in life I read the unabridged versions in full. Somewhere along my reading journey, other genres of books took over. There was fantasy, crime, magic realism, historical, philosophical and all sorts of other ‘phases’ of my reading life.

Last year, when V gifted me a Kindle, and I found scores and scores of Classics for free, two of the biggest problems were instantly solved. Those of weight and price! I re-read a few books and it reminded me of how much I loved reading Classics. So this is a list of 36, picked from The Big Book List, that I hope to read in the next three (hopefully) or four (realistically) years. I have been meaning to read some of these books for the longest time, and until I put this down and make it real, I’m not going to end up reading them. So here goes…

1. Achebe, Chinua: Things Fall Apart
2. Allende, Isabel: The House of the Spirits
3. Angelou, Maya: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
4. Aristophanes: Lysistrata
5. Arnow, Harriette: The Dollmaker
6. Borges, Jorge Luis: Ficciones
7. Bradbury, Ray: Fahrenheit 451
8. Bronte, Emily: Wuthering Heights
9. Camus, Albert: Stranger
10. Chekov, Anton: Cherry Orchard
11. Dickens, Charles: The Old Curiousity Shop
12. Dostoevsky, Fyodor: Crime and Punishment
13. Dumas, Alexandre: The Three Musketeers
14. Eco, Umberto: The Name of the Rose
15. Eliot, T.S.: The Waste Land
16. Joyce, James: Finnegans Wake
17. Kesey, Ken: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
18. Marlowe, Christopher: Doctor Faustus
19. Mishima, Yukio: The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
20. Morrison, Toni: Jazz
21. Nabokov, Vladimir: Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
22. Nietzsche, Friedrich: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
23. Scott, Sir Walter: Lady of the Lake
24. Scott, Sir Walter: Waverly
25. Shikibu, Murasaki: The Tale of Genji
26. Spark, Muriel: Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
27. Steinbeck, John: The Grapes of Wrath
28. Stevenson, Robert Louis: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
29. Tolstoy, Leo: Anna Karenina
30. Tolstoy, Leo: War and Peace
31. Trollope, Anthony: The Warden
32. Twain, Mark: A Tramp Abroad
33. Whitman, Walt: Leaves of Grass
34. Williams, Tennessee: A Streetcar Named Desire
35. Woolf, Virginia: To the Lighthouse
36. Yeats, William Butler: Irish Faerie Tales