Does anyone else have a list of “classics” that they want to read before they ‘kick the bucket’? Here is mine, not including the 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century list (not determined by me), and not including all of Shakespeare’s plays. The sad part is that I currently own a lot of these. Now that doesn’t even include my ever-growing To Be Read List… which maybe I’ll blog about in a few weeks! I try to put books on my Amazon Wish List when I remember to.

  • David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (own)
  • Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
  • Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand (own)

  • The Portrait of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
  • Les Misérables by Victor Hugo (own)
  • The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
  • The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
  • Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
  • Nicholas Nickelby by Charles Dickens
  • Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
  • Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
  • The Three Muskateers by Alexandre Dumas
  • The Murder Room by P.D. James (own)
  • Rape of the Lock by A. Pope
  • White Oleander by Janey Fitch
  • She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb (own)
  • Watership Down by Richard Adams (own)
  • Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
  • Emma by Jane Austen
  • The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans (own)
  • The Shining by Stephen King
  • A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
  • Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne
  • Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
  • 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
  • East of Eden by John Steinbeck (own)
  • Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
  • The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
  • The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton
  • An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde