#15 create a list of 100 literary classics to read

I have compiled the list of one hundred literary classics that I will read/ re-read for my thirty-by-thirty list. As of today I have 704 days to complete this. Many of these I have already read, but time passes quickly and I have forgotten much of the details. A handful of these books have been read over and over with great love, while there are a few that I really did not care for, but hope to gain more appreciation with a second perusal. Some of my choices may not be deemed “classics” by others, or perhaps there are some great books I may have missed. I would love more suggestions or feedback! With a limit of one hundred I was unable to include everything I might have otherwise selected for a more thorough list. Luckily I already own all but twelve of these wonderful titles. I will return to this post and check them off as I progress.

1. Wuthering Heights by: Emily Bronte
2. The Old Man and the Sea by: Ernest Hemingway
3. The Stranger by: Albert Camus
4. The End of the Affair by: Graham Greene
5. The Sun Also Rises by: Ernest Hemingway
6. A Farewell to Arms by: Ernest Hemingway
7. Men Without Women by: Ernest Hemingway
8. One Hundred Years of Solitude by: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
9. Love in the Time of Cholera by: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
10. Chronicle of a Death Foretold by: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
11. Memories of my Melancholy Whores by: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
12. Catch-22 by: Joseph Heller
13. A Clockwork Orange by: Anthony Burgess
14. Slaughter-House-Five by: Kurt Vonnegut
15. Fahrenheit 451 by: Ray Bradbury
16. Brave New World by: Aldous Huxley
17. Island by: Aldous Huxley
18. A Separate Peace by: John Knowles
19. East of Eden by: John Steinbeck
20. The Grapes of Wrath by: John Steinbeck
21. In Dubious Battle by: John Steinbeck
22. Of Mice and Men by: John Steinbeck
23. The Pearl by: John Steinbeck
24. Light in August by: William Faulkner
25. As I Lay Dying by: William Faulkner
26. The Sound and the Fury by: William Faulkner
27. The Catcher in the Rye by: J.D. Salinger
28. Last of the Mohicans by: James Fenimore Cooper
29. The Deerslayer by: James Fenimore Cooper
30. The Great Gatsby by: F. Scott Fitzgerald
31. Tender is the Night by: F. Scott Fitzgerald
32. 1984 by: George Orwell
33. Animal Farm by: George Orwell
34. The Giver by: Lois Lowery
35. Night by: Elie Wiesel
36. Lord of the Flies by: William Golding
37. Around the World in Eighty Days by: Jules Verne
38. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by: Jules Verne
39. The Lost World by: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
40. The Time Machine by: H.G. Wells
41. In the Days of the Comet by: H.G. Wells
42. The War of the Worlds by: H.G. Wells
43. The Count of Monte Cristo by: Alexandre Dumas
44. The Three Musketeers by: Alexandre Dumas
45. The Awakening by: Kate Chopin
46. The Scarlet Letter by: Nathaniel Hawthorne
47. The Bell Jar by: Sylvia Plath
48. Great Expectations by: Charles Dickens
49. Dracula by: Bram Stoker
50. Herland by: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
51. The Quiet American by: Graham Greene
52. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by: Muriel Spark
53. Heart of Darkness by: Joseph Conrad
54. The Fountainhead by: Ayn Rand
55. The Communist Manifesto by: Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
56. The Metamorphosis by: Franz Kafka
57. Doctor Zhivago by: Boris Pasternak
58. The English Patient by: Michael Ondaatje
59. McTeague by: Frank Norris
60. The Cider House Rules by: John Irving
61. The Woman in White by: Wilkie Collins
62. The Jungle by: Upton Sinclair
63. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by: Ken Kesey
64. Utopia by: Sir Thomas More
65. The Inferno by: Dante Alighieri
66. The Picture of Dorian Gray by: Oscar Wilde
67. Anna Karenina by: Leo Tolstoy
68. War and Peace by: Leo Tolstoy
69. Vanity Fair by: William Makepeace Thackeray
70. The Odyssey by: Homer
71. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by: Lewis Carroll
72. Beloved by: Toni Morrison
73. Native Son by: Richard Wright
74. Their Eyes Were Watching God by: Zora Neale Hurston
75. Invisible Man by: Ralph Ellison
76. Ceremony by: Leslie Marmon Silko
77. Mary Barton by: Elizabeth Gaskell
78. Rebecca by: Daphne Du Maurier
79. The Good Earth by: Pearl S. Buck
80. My Antonia by: Willa Cather
81. Cry, the Beloved Country by: Alan Paton
82. Of Human Bondage by: W. Somerset Maugham
83. Middlemarch by: George Eliot
84. Lolita by: Vladimir Nabokov
85. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by: Harriet Beecher Stowe
86. To Kill a Mockingbird by: Harper Lee
87. Three Men in a Boat by: Jerome K. Jerome
88. Deliverance by: James Dickey
89. Man Without a Country by: Edward Everett Hale
90. All Quiet on the Western Front by: Erich Maria Remarque
91. The Red Badge of Courage by: Stephen Crane
92. Wild Animals I Have Known by: Ernest Thompson Seton
93. The Prince by: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
94. The Call of the Wild by: Jack London
95. Little Women by: Louisa May Alcott
96. A Passage to India by: E.M. Forster
97. On the Road by: Jack Kerouac
98. The Secret Garden by: Frances Hodgson Burnett
99. Robinson Crusoe by: Daniel Defoe
100. The Wind in the Willows by: Kenneth Grahame