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Calling all book lovers!!
If you’re anything like me, you love to read. However, I’ve never really immersed myself in reading classics unless it was school. But I want to change that. Classical literature is essential to scholarship, and it greatly affects how modern literature is written today. This is why I’ve decided that I want to appreciate the classics.
The list I created has a good mix of classical literature as well as 21st-century classics. I thought this would be a good way to transition to reading classics.
The Challenge:
I compiled a list of 100 books from various “must-read” classics lists for this endeavor. My goal is to read all 100 of them, even if I have read them before. And I’ll be documenting my entire journey here! So if you want to join the challenge with me, follow and we can tackle this list together!
Virtual Book Club Information:
I’m hoping to create an online book club where we can discuss the books, talk about our favorite parts and quotes, and have a community that is working towards a common goal! If you’ve stumbled upon this post, then don’t be shy and join the growing community! Follow @sscorpiodiaries on Instagram and TikTok, where we will be discussing the classic books on this list as well as other popular modern ones!
100 Classics You Must Read
1. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank
4. 1984, George Orwell
5. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, J.K. Rowling
6. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
7. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
8. And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie
9. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
10. The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
11. Fahrenheit 451, A Novel, Ray Bradbury
12. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
13. Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
14. Animal Farm, George Orwell
15. The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
16. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
17. The Help, Kathryn Stockett
18. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
19. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis
20. The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
21. The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
22. Lord of the Flies, William Golding
23. The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
24. Night, Elie Wiesel
25. Hamlet, William Shakespeare
26. A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
27. A Wrinkle in Time, Madeline L’Engle
28. Persuasion, Jane Austen
29. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
30. Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
31. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
32. Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare
33. The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
34. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
35. The Little Prince, Antoine Saint-Exupery
36. Where the Sidewalk Ends, Shel Silverstein
37. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
38. The Giver, Lois Lowry
39. Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery
40. Macbeth, William Shakespeare
41. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain
42. To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
43. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
44. In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
45. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsonn
46. The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas pere
47. The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton
48. The Color Purple, Alice Walker
49. East of Eden, John Steinbeck
50. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith
51. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
52. Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
53. The Stand, Stephen King
54. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll
55. Watership Down, Richard Adams
56. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
57. Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card
58. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
59. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
60. Memoirs of a Geisha: A Novel, Arthur Golden
61. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle
62. Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
63. The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway
64. Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire Book 1), George R.R. Martin
65. The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern’s Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure, William Goldman
66. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
67. Life of Pi, Yann Martel
68. The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follet
69. Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
70. The Scarlett Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
71. Dracula, Bram Stoker
72. Another Country, James Baldwin
73. The Mill on the Floss, George Eliot
74. Water for the Elephants: A Novel, Sara Gruen
75. The Raven, Edgar Allen Poe
76. The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
77. Outlander, Diana Gabaldon
78. One Hundred Years of Soltitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
79. The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel, Barbara Kingslover
80. The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck
81. The Time Traveler’s Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
82. The Odyssey, Homer
83. Celebrating Silence: Excerpts from Five Years of Weekly Knowledge 1995-2000, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
84. A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving
8. Moby-Dick, Herman Melville
86. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot
87. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCullough
88. The Glass Castle: A Memoir, Jeannette Walls
89. Vanity Fair, William Makepeace
90. The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien
91. The Road, Cormac McCarthy
92. Cutting for Stone, Abraham Verghese
93. The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky
94. Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse
95. Beloved, Toni Morrison
96. Helen Keller: The Story of My Life, Helen Keller
97. The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster
98. From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, E.L. Konigsburg
99. Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn
100. Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I’ve read a few of these books, but I wanted to include them because I wanted to make sure that I could annotate them and appreciate them in this context. Some of these books are the first of a series, but we will only be reading the ones mentioned. After we finish this list, we can dive into other series’!
I hope you decide to join me in this challenge! If you want to, follow this blog and @sscorpiodiaries on Instagram and TikTok. We will be discussing a book every week or so, and I will be posting my favorite annotations from the book!
First book on the list: To Kill A Mockingbird!
Thanks for reading ❤
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