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busy91's "Classics I Need to Read"

My goal for 2007 is to get through at least 12 of these classics. That is one a month. that would be 20% of my total goal of 60 books for the year of 2007.

A classic for my purposes will be any book that pre-dates my year of birth.

1. The Age of Innocence (Barnes & Noble Classics)
by Edith Wharton
 
2. Pride and Prejudice (Bantam Classics)
by Jane Austen
 
3. Sense and Sensibility (Penguin Classics)
by Jane Austen
 
4. The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
 
5. To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
 
6. Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
 
7. Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
 
8. Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
 
9. 1984 (Signet Classics)
by George Orwell
 
10. The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
by John Steinbeck
 
11. The Woman in White (Penguin Classics)
by Wilkie Collins
 
12. Mrs. Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf
 
13. Jane Eyre (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Charlotte Brontë
 
14. The Lover
by Marguerite Duras
 
15. A Doll's House
by Henrik, Ibsen
 
16. The Hobbit
by J.R.R. Tolkien
 
17. The American (Penguin Classics)
by Henry James
 
18. Lord of the Flies  
19. Lady Chatterley's Lover
by D. H. Lawrence
 
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Created by busy91 on Oct 31, 2006.