Catching up on Classics (and lots more!) discussion

I am a new member to the group and I'm loving the challenges. I have had a personal challenge for many years to read the top 100 old school classics. The only problem is that I could never find THE LIST, and the lists I found didn't agree. However, when I found this group, I saw your bookshelf.

So my new challenge (which will last the rest of my lifetime) is to read every book on the Catching up on the Classics shelf - currently at 354. As you can see, I have a long way to go.

Reading Challenge - Completed

1. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
2. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
3. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (2024)
4. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
5. Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
6. The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by JRR Tolkien
7. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (2019)
8. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (2021)
9. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (2024)
10. 1984 by George Orwell (2022)
11. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (2024)
12. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas (2022)
14. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (2019)
15. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (2021)
16. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
17. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
18. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (2022)
19. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (2024)
20. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (2022)
22. Persuasion by Jane Austen (2022)
23. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
24. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (2016)
25. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (2023)
26. Les Misérables by Victor Hugo (2024)
27. Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery (2020)
28. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (2023)
29. Animal Farm by George Orwell
30. Dracula by Bram Stoker
31. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
32. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (2021)
33. Emma by Jane Austen
34. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
35. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (2024)
37. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
38. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (2021)
39. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
41. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
43. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (2022)
44. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
46. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (2023)
48. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle (2022)
49. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
50. The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2023)
51. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie (2022)
52. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (2024)
53. Dune (Dune#1) by Frank Herbert (2022)
55. East of Eden by John Steinbeck (2023)
56. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
58. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
59.One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey (2022)
60. Watership Down by Richard Adams
61. Lord of the Flies by William Golding (2023)
63. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (2019)
65. The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe (2022)
68. Moby-Dick or, the Whale by Herman Melville (2021)
69. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (2022)
70. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (2019)
72. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (2019)
75. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (2022)
78. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith (2023)
80. Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove #1) by Larry McMurtry (2023)
81. The Iliad by Homer (2021)
82. The Color Purple by Alice Walker (2023)
84. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (2021)
85. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad ( 2022)
86. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (2024)
87. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3) by Arthur Conan Doyle (2022)
88. Beowulf by Unknown (2022)
89. The Princess Bride by William Goldman (2023)
90. The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells (2020)
91. Black Beauty by Anna Sewell (2023)
92. Beloved by Toni Morrison (2022)
93. The Stand by Stephen King
96. The Odyssey by Homer (2022)
98. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James (2022)
99. The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy (2023)
100. Othello by William Shakespeare (2024)

103. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (2022)
104. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera (2023)
108. The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry (2022)
109. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
110. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (2023)
111. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (2022)
112. Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne (2023)
113. My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier (2023)
114. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (2024)
115. The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury (2023)
116. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (2022)
117. Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1) by Chinua Achebe (2023)
118. The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux (2022)
119. The Plague by Albert Camus (2021)
120. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
121. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster (2022)
124. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, #1) by Lewis Carroll ( 2019)
125. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez (2023)
129. The Lottery by Shirley Jackson (2023)
130. The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells (2022)
131. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind (2022)
133. Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome (2024)
134. The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde (2023)
135. The Pearl by John Steinbeck (2023)
136. Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories by Truman Capote (2023)
137. Heidi by Johanna Spyri
138. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (2022)
139. Macbeth by William Shakespeare (2022)
142. Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie (2022)
145. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving (2021)
146. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
150. Mary Poppins (Mary Poppins, #1) by P.L. Travers (2024)
152. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1) by L. Frank Baum (2019)
153. The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (2023)
154. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett (2021)
159. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne (2022)
164. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (2023)
165. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende (2024)
172. 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff (2024)
174. Candide by Voltaire (2023)
177. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (2022)
178. At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft (2024)
179. Villette by Charlotte Brontë (2024)
180. The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe (2022)
182. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
186. The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde (2023)
189. Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen (2023)
190. Chess Story by Stefan Zweig (2023)
191. The Once and Future King (The Once and Future King, #1-4) by T.H. White
192. A Room with a View by E.M. Forster (2023)
195. The Raven and Other Poems by Edgar Allan Poe (2022)
197. Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson (2023)

200. Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, #2) by Lewis Carroll (2024)
207. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
208. A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote (2023)
209. The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros (2023)
215. The Birds by Daphne du Maurier (2024)
217. The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne (2024)
220. Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw (2024)
222. Ivanhoe by Walter Scott (2023)
223. The Call of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft (2022)
224. Foundation (Foundation, #1) by Isaac Asimov (2022)
225. Walden by Henry David Thoreau (2023)
227. The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe (2022)
229. The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen (2022)
232. Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
233. Ten Days in a Mad-House by Nellie Bly (2024)
234. The Art of War by Sun Tzu (2021)
235. Night (The Night Trilogy, #1) by Elie Wiesel
239. The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli (2023)
247. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (2024)
248. The Arabian Nights by Anonymous
250. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (2022)
253. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson (2023)
254. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
259. Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (2022)
262. The Country of the Blind by H.G. Wells (2023)
270. There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury (2023)
274. The Witness for the Prosecution: A Short Story by Agatha Christie (2024)
280. Ender's Game (Ender's Saga, #1) by Orson Scott Card
281. Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster by SvetlanaAlexievich (2023)
282. Emperor's New Clothes by Hans Christian Andersen (2022)
283. The Cricket on the Hearth by Charles Dickens (2022)
285. The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe (2024)
289. A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams (2023)
292. Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare (2023)
293. The Last Question by Isaac Asimov
294. The Magic Shop by H.G. Wells (2023)
296. Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie (2023)
297. The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper (2023)
301. The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde (2023)
307. White Fang by Jack London (2023)
313. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
314. Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3) by Sophocles (2022)
321. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1) by Arthur C. Clarke (2024)
322. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (2021)
329. The Giver (The Giver, #1) by Lois Lowry
332. The Book of Tea by Kakuzō Okakura (2023)
339. The Call of the Wild by Jack London (2021)
340. The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain (2023)
342. The Gold-Bug by Edgar Allan Poe (2022)
344. The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe (2023)
345. The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant (2023)
347. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie (2024)
355. The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice by Wilkie Collins (2023)
356. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (2022)
357. Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose (2023)
359. The Nutcracker and the Mouse King by E.T.A. Hoffman (2022)
367. Berenice by Edgar Allan Poe (2022)
368. The Tempest by William Shakespeare (2023)
369. Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay (2022)
370. Flush by Virginia Woolf (2022)
371. The Vicar of Wakefield (2022)
372. Oedipus the King by Sophocles (2022)
380. The Hand by Guy de Massauppant (2022)
382. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl (2024)
384. The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges (2024)
385. Blindness by Jose Saramago (2024)
388. Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand (2022)
394. Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu (2023)
395. King Solomon’s Mines by H. Rider Haggard (2024)
397. The 39 Steps by John Buchan (2023)
398. Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor (2023)

Other classics not on this list:

The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie (2022)
Oedipus at Collonus by Sophocles (2022)
Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini (2022)
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett (2022)
Old Yeller by Fred Gipson (2023)
The Black Flower: A Novel of the Civil War by Howard Bahr (2023)
Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing (2023)
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown (2023)
The Year of Jublio: A Novel of the Civil War” by Howard Bahr (2023)
The Naked Sun by Isaac Asimov (2023)
A Separate Peace by John Knowles (2023)
The Miracle Worker: A Play by William Gibson (2023)
Childhood’s End by Arthur C Clarke (2023)
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman (2023)
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Cran (2023)
The Willows by Algernon Blackwood (2024)
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro (2024)
The Ones That Walk Away From Omelas by Ursala Le Guin (2024)
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver (2024)
The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan (2024)
The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim (2024)
Lost Horizon by James Hilton (2024)
Hallowe’en Party by Agatha Christie (2024)
Xingu by Edith Wharton (2024)
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (2024)
Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington (2024)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (2024)
Atonement by Ian McEwan (2024)
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams (2024)

Well, 2022 was a good reading year. I read 55 books on the list - of, course, the list is now up to 402. Hopefully, 2023 will be just as good!

Karen wrote: "I am a new member to the group and I'm loving the challenges. I have had a personal challenge for many years to read the top 100 old school classics. The only problem is that I could never find THE..."

I hope you have a great time reading with your challenge.

400. The Dream of a Ridiculous Man by Fyodor Dostoevsky (2023)
401. Electra by Sophocles (2023)
402. Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather (2023)
403. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes #4) by Arthur Conan Doyle (2023)
404. Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx (2023)
407. The Big Sleep (Phillip Marlowe #1) by Raymond Chandler (2023)
408. The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck (2023)
409. Children of the Corn by Stephen King (2023)
410. A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare (2023)
411. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer (2023)
414. Medea by Euripides (2023)
415. How Much Land Does a Man Need? By Leo Tolstoy (2024)
416. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
417. Washington Square by Henry James (2023)
418. The Bear by William Faulkner (2023)
419. The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin (2023)
421. Lady Windermere’s Fan by Oscar Wilde (2023)
423. Winnie-the-Pooh #1 by A.A. Milne
427. The Sign of Four (Sherlock Holmes #2) by Arthur Conan Doyle (2024)
428. The Night Before Christmas by Nikolai Gogol (2023)
435. The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole (2024)
441. The Garden of Forking Paths by Jorge Luis Borges (2024)
442. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman (2024)
443. To Build A Fire by Jack London (2024)
444. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (2024)
445. The Beauties by Anton Chekhov (2024)
446. Neverwhere (London Below, #1) by Neil Gaiman (2024)
447. The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (2024)
448. The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol (2024)
449. The Castle of Otranto by Horace Wadpole (2024)
450. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame (2021)
453. The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie (2024)
454. The Eyes by Edith Wharton (2024)

2023 was a good reading year. I am making progress as I read 72 books on the list, but the list has grown to 433. That puts my total read up to 187, or 43.2%.

2024 was another good reading year. I did make progress with 44 books on the list read this year, but the list is up to 471. That puts my total read up to 234, or 49.7%.