In Which I Join The Classics Club

I discovered The Classics Club via some kind of internet wandering probably a year or so ago, and thought about joining and promptly didn't. But I've been wanting to get more involved in the larger book blogging community for a long time and considering the goals of the broader Two Hectobooks project, joining The Classics Club fits right in.

WTF is The Classics Club?

A group of people who love classics and/or want to read more of them. More specifically, club members commit to reading 50+ classics in at most five years.

What end date will I aim for?

Well, we all know how ambitious I can be and how utterly I can fail at said ambitions. Hence I will give myself the most possible time and aim for October 23, 2022. Ack.

What is a classic?

I hope to get into this more in a post next month, but for the purposes of this particular challenge, I'm going to define a classic as any book that's older than I am.

What am I going to read?

Probably mostly List books (but I'm going to be realistic and not include all of the remaining ones). If you take a spin through the items below, you'll notice that quite a few of them are classic sf. I've alphabetized everything and bolded List books.

1. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
   
2. Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
   
3. The End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov
   
4. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
   
5. Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow
   
6. The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester
   
7. A Woman of Substance by Barbara Taylor Bradford
   
8. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
   
9. Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
   
10. The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler
    
11. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
    
12. U.S.A. (trilogy) by John Dos Passos
    
13. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    
14. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
    
15. Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
    
16. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
    
17. The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
    
18. The Studs Lonigan Trilogy by James T. Farrell
    
19. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
    
20. Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
    
21. The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
    
22. Thursday's Children by Rumer Godden
    
23. The Princess Bride by William Goldman
    
24. I, Claudius by Robert Graves
    
25. Roots by Alex Haley
    
26. Bridge of Birds by Barry Hughart
    
27. Three Cheers for Me by Donald Jack
    
28. The Ambassadors by Henry James
    
29. The Golden Bowl by Henry James
    
30. The Wings of the Dove by Henry James
    
31. The Star Diaries by Stanislaw Lem
    
32. The Stream of Life by Clarice Lispector
    
33. The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
    
34. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
    
35. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien
    
36. Appointment in Samarra by John O'Hara
    
37. 1984 by George Orwell
    
38. Animal Farm by George Orwell
    
39. Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins
    
40. The Big Rock Candy Mountain by Wallace Stegner
    
41. The Doomed City by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
    
42. Hard to Be a God by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
    
43. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
    
44. All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
    
45. A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
    
46. The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
    
47. My Man Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
    
48. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
    
49. Native Son by Richard Wright
    
50. Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny