Classics for Beginners discussion

My Have Read and To Read lists.

* = I should probably re-read it (many were read for English classes in school)

Have Read

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain*
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley*
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Chronicles of Narnia series by C.S. Lewis
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley*
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Hamlet by William Shakespeare*
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Lord of the Rings trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe*
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Watership Down by Richard Adams

To Read

1984 by George Orwell
Adam Bede by George Eliot
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Agnes Gray by Anne Bronte
Ana Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Anne of Green Gables series by L.M. Montgomery
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
The Beautiful and the Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
The Chrysalids by John Wyndham
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Common Sense by Thomas Paine
The Complete Fairy Tales and Stories by Hans Christian Andersen
The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm
The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Complete Short Stories by Ernest Hemingway
The Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allen Poe
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
The Day of the Tryffids by John Wyndham
Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Emma by Jane Austen
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne
From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Gulliver's Travels by Johnathan Swift
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
I, Claudius by Robert Graves
The Illiad by Homer
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
Ivanhoe by Walter Scott
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Madam Bovary by Gustav Flaubert
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Middlemarch by George Eliot
The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
The Odyssey by Homer
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
The Once and Future King by T.H. White
The Pearl by John Steinbeck
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Plague by Albert Camus
The Plays and Short Stories of Anton Chekhov
The Poetry of Robert Frost
The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
The Professor by Charlotte Bronte
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Tayler Coleridge
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Silas Marner by George Eliot
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Swiss Family Robinson by John David Wyss
The Sword in the Stone by T.H. White
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Trial by Franz Kafka
Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Villette by Charlotte Bronte
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Wow HUGE to-read list!

Good luck with your to-read list, Danielle. I've read about two dozen of them, and have several others in Mount TBR.

I want to read eeeeeeverythiiiiing :P

Don't we all, Danielle? Don't we all? XD