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like you, I want to read all of Gaskell...so far I've only read North and South, but I own Wives & Daughters and plan on buying Ruth soon.

I'll probably finish off my Austen, all I have left are Persuasion and Mansfield Park...but after only reading North and South I prefer Gaskell too :P

Jude the Obscure and Tess of the d'Ubervilles by Hardy

Dickens-I own David Copperfield and Bleak House to read.

Portrait of a Lady by Henry James

Les Miserables :D I'm excited about this one, just need to psych myself up for it.

I'm sure I'm forgetting a ton, but those are what I've looked at recently.

There are soo many I would love to read eventually.

I've only read 4 of Shakesphere's plays, so I would love to read his complete works someday.

A Tale of Two Cities, Oliver Twist, and Hard Times by Charles Dickens

Anna Karenina and War and Peace by Tolstoy

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

I'd love to read LM Montgomery's complete works.

There is definately way more, since I really do love classic literature. I'm currently reading a classic which I have been wanting to read for such a long, long time - The Count of Monte Cristo, and I think I would love to read more Dumas someday.

Oh, and how could I forget Virginia Woolf and James Joyce.

I didn't know you were reading the Count April! What a great book. Do you love it? I'm about 1/3 of the way through it. It's really made me want to read everything Dumas wrote.

Laura, I love it so far. I'm on page 242, I love how intelligent and quick thinking Dantes is.

Shakespeare! I always forget about him, poor guy. I have his complete works, unfortunately...in textbook from from a Shakespeare class. It was honors so we had to read all the more obscure plays, well...not obscure but not as well known as Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet...we read Comedy of Errors and King Lear, can't remember everything else.

I always think of Othello, The Tempest, Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night and Midsummer Night's Dream as being my favorites, I need to re-read them.

Ooh, I love this thread already. Here's my list:

__Owned To Read__
Catch-22
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
The Age of Innocence
My Antonia
Lorna Doone
Middlemarch
The Brothers Karamazov
The Plague
Bleak House
Uncle Tom's Cabin
A Farewell to Arms
Paradise Lost/Regained
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The 120 Days of Sodom
Madame Bovary
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Northanger Abbey
The Woman In White
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Sherlock Holmes: The complete novels vol. 1
The Odyssey
The Fountainhead
Land Under England
The Idiot
The Thorn Birds
All the Shakespeare I haven't read already
20,000 Leagues under the sea
North and South (Gaskell)

__Do Not Own But Would Like To Read__
Anna Karenina
Animal Farm
The Metamorphosis
The Three Musketeers
The Man in the Iron Mask
Les Miserables
Little Dorrit
The Martian Chronicles and other Bradbury I haven't already read
The Catcher in the Rye
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Villette
Wuthering Heights
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
The Phantom of the Opera
The Moonstone
Treasure Island

Oh there are so many!

I think the ones I think about reading most lately are these:

Bleak House by Charles Dickens (my sister said since I loved Great Expectations I would adore Bleak House)

Persuasion by Jane Austen (last Jane Austen left)

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (read most of it and then dropped the book in fish oil.... gross)

Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (Just saw the miniseries and loved it)

Lady Chatterleys Lover by D.H. Lawrence (I always thought this was bawdy - not that that's a bad thing lol, but then I watched the miniseries and now can't wait to read the book)

Othello, King Lear and Twelfth Night by Shakespeare(just the ones I'm most interested in at the moment)

The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas (I loved The
Count of Monte Cristo)

Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (waiting on the shelf)

Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (my mom said this was amazing)

Moby Dick by Herman Melville (there are just so many references to this book everywhere, it makes me keen to read it)

Okay first I have to say to those that want to read "A Tale of Two Cities" and "Les Miserables":
Yes! Read them as soon as you can! Because they both are just that good. :)

As for me:

Shakespeare. All the ones I can get my hands on. Sure I have read some before, but that was back when I was in school and I don't remember much. Time to re-read!

Moby Dick. I am pretty sure I read this back in elementary school, but since I can't remember anything but "Call me Ishmael." I think I should read it again to be sure, lol.

Any and all Jane Austen.

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Any D.H. Lawrence. I have Women In Love on my computer, just waiting for me.

A Portrait of Dorian Gray. Also on my computer.

The Count of Monte Cristo. I first wanted to read it after watching Sleepers, then I saw everyone here talking about it, which only made me want to read it more.

Animal Farm and 1984. I would like to re-read these to refresh my memory.

@ Becky - I read The Thorn Birds back when I was around 13 or 14, and I still remember it. It is an epic story, and so very, very good.

Wow, look at these lists.
Ok, here are mine... they can also be found on my To Buy and Owned To Read shelves!

The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights- Anon
Giovanni's Room - Baldwin
Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained - Milton

Everything That Rises Must Converge - O'Connor
Three - O'Connor
The Violent Bear it Away - O'Connor

Five Weeks in a Balloon - Verne
Fifteen Year Old Captain - Verne
Master of the World - Verne

The Insulted and Humiliated - Dostoevsky
The Double - Dostoevsky
The House of the Dead and Poor Folk - Dostoevsky
The Idiot - Dostoevsky
Demons - Dostoevsky
Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky

War and Peace - Tolstoy
Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings - Twain
The Diaries of Adam and Eve - Twain
The Invention of Morel - Casares

Garden of Eden - Hemingway
A Moveable Feast - Hemingway
The Sun also Rises - Hemingway
For Whom the Bell Tolls - Hemingway

The Phantom of the Opera - Leroux
The Inheritors - Golding
The Woman in White - Collins
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Smith
The Monk - Lewis
Billy Budd, Sailor - Melville
Moby Dick - Melville
Utopia - More
What Dreams May Come - Matheson
The Bonfire of the Vanities - Wolfe
A Lesson Before Dying - Gaines
Penguin Island - France
A Separate Peace - Knowles

The Unvanquished - Faulkner
The Sound and the Fury - Faulkner

Ulysess - Joyce
Dubliners - Joyce
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - Joyce

The EYe - Nabokov
Lolita - Nabokov

Moon and Sixspence - Maugham
The Razors Edge - Maugham

Babbit - Lewis
Three Musketeers - Dumas
Robinson Crusoe - Defoe
Dr. Zhivago - Pasternack
The Painted Bird - Kosinski

The Time Machine - Wells
The Island of Dr. Moreau - Wells
The Invisible Man - Wells
The War of the Worlds - Wells

Cancer Ward - Solzhenitsyn

Believe it or not, I actually own most of these :)

There are so very very many, though I've been putting quite a dent in them throughout the year thus far. I'm also hoping to get to these in the next couple of years:

Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Dr. Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
Eyeless in Gaza by Aldous Huxley
For Whom The Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
Passage to India by E.M. Forster
Herzog by Saul Bellow
King Solomon's Mine by H. Rider Haggard
A Light In August by William Faulkner
To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Orlando by Virginia Woolf
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
If On A Winter's Night A Traveler by Italo Calvino

I think that I could be quite happy for quite a long while if I stuck solely to Southern authors and Russian classics for a long while. Also, I think that I could quite easily go the rest of my life without cracking any of the Victorians that I have yet to read and be none the worse for wear, likewise for the rest of Dickens' oeuvre. Also, I think that a reread of The Great Gatsby is in order because I only vaguely remember most of it.

Hi Logan! Long time no see here ;)

What a great thread! I only had 2 or 3 until I read everyone's lists! Here's mine, in no particular order:

1. War and Peace
2. Pride and Prejudice
3. Wuthering Heights
4. Les Miserables
5. Grapes of Wrath
6. Uncle Tom's Cabin; and
7. Animal Farm
8. Jane Eyre
9. The Scarlett Letter

I'm working my way through 2 I've wanted to read "Middlemarch" and "A Tale of Two Cities". I also tend to read non popular classics.

Others:
1 - Bleak House (which I started a while ago but never finished).
2 - Grapes of Wrath
3 - Wuthering Heights
4 - The Mill on the Floss
5 - The Count of Monte Cristo
6 - A Little Princess
7 - The Little Lame Prince
8 - The Custom of the Country
9 - Old New York
10 - The Golden Notebook
11 - Novel on Yellow Paper

Fiona wrote: "What classic books do you WANT to read that you haven't already, obviously.

For me:

...Fanny Hill - James Cleaveland...

"

Its by John Cleland.

I'm a mad Elizabeth Gaskell fan as well. I think Ruth and Cranford, completely different from each other, are her best books.

A while back I decided I needed to read more literature and fewer "trashy mystery novels". I probably have lists of several hundred classics that I mean to get to someday....and some that want to be read sooner.

I've never read anything by Kafka; I must remedy this soon. The Trial is currently staring at me accusingly from my bookshelf.

I am completely intimidated by Russian Literature. I have so much trouble with remembering names in real life that keeping track of the character's names and all the variations is rather daunting. Perhaps I'll start small, with Notes from Underground, but I also want to attempt Eugene Onegin, Dead Souls, Cancer Ward, and Pale Fire.

I'm increasingly curious about Elizabeth Gaskell, what with all the praise heaped on her by TNBBC members. Eventually I will find a copy of Cranford in a used book store.

I recently read Mrs. Dalloway. Well, not so much read as fell headlong into it, absorbing it too fast to actually comprehend it. I should probably re-read it, but would rather try another one, such as The Waves.

I have an impression of Dickens as being a bit tedious (those long long wordy descriptions), but I enjoyed A Tale of Two Cities & A Christmas Carol. Perhaps Bleak House will alter my perception.

I read The Sound and the Fury a long time ago & loved the unconventional points of view. I have Absalom, Absalom! patiently waiting on the bookshelf.

Finally, to broaden my horizons, I want to read July's People, Labyrinths, Tale of the Genji, The Feast of the Goat, Arrow of God, The Labyrinth of Solitude, Rashomon, Some Prefer Nettles, Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring, Silence, Home and the World, Untouchable, and Monkey: A Journey to the West.

wow! these lists are amazing! my list:

count of monte cristo
uncle toms cabin
les mis
lolita
three musketeers
a tree grows in brooklyn
the phantom of the opera
for whom the bell tolls
the bell jar
to kill a mockingbird
crime and punishment
the portrait of dorinan gray
sherlock holmes

and i highly recommend jane eyre and dracula!

I just read Rebecca this year...Wow...what a great classic.

Jennifer wrote: "wow! these lists are amazing! my list:

count of monte cristo
uncle toms cabin
les mis
lolita
three musketeers
a tree grows in brooklyn
the phantom of the opera
for whom the bell tolls
..."

Jennifer, thanks for the reminder on Jane Eyre! that's another one for me.

ooooooooooooo....... let me look at the book and I will be back with my list.... there are so many I want to read!!!

How do you define classic? Can it be a classic if hardly anyones heard of it? or if it belongs to an esoteric literary genre? Or if its less than say 30 years old? Every book in my to read list is a classic, but some are more classic than others...

Foundation
The Demolished Man
The Plague
In Cold Blood
Journey to the End of the Night
The Long Goodbye
Rendezvous with Rama
Childhood's End
Robinson Crusoe
The Sound and the Fury
Madame Bovary
Dead souls by Nikolai Gogol
Hunger
The Sun Also Rises
Siddhartha
Ulysses
Rebecca
The Complete Saki
Lolita
Swann's Way In Search of Lost Time, Vol. 1
Eugene Onegin A Novel in Verse
The Red and the Black
Treasure Island
More Than Human
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
A Confederacy of Dunces
The War of the Worlds

These are the ones I can remember off the top of my head:

The Count of Monte Cristo
The Canterbury Tales
Don Quixote
The Great Gatsby
Ivanhoe, I read this in middle school and thought it was an awful bore, but maybe I was too young
Frankenstein

Wow, all of these mentions of Elizabeth Gaskell make me want to read something by her!

As for my list, going just by the ones that I currently own, I want to read:
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Wuthering Heights
The Count of Monte Cristo
All of Shakespeare
The Scarlet Letter
Letters from the Underworld
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
The Bell Jar
The Sound and the Fury
and many others that I'm too tired to think of at the moment. First priority at the moment, however, is to finish War and Peace. I don't dislike it, but it's very easy for me to put down. Too easy for a book that has 1400-some pages.

Oh geez, this is a long list. For one thing, as much Virignia Woolf and Shakespeare as I can get my hands on.
Also Emma, Mansfield Park and Northanger Abbey. Here goes....
Anna Karenina
North and South
Little Women
Wuthering Heights
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Tenant of Wyldfylde Hall (sp?)
A Tale of Two Cities
Bleak House
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The Bell Jar
Madam Bovary
Lolita
The War of the Worlds
Silas Manor
many by James Joyce
And so many others.

Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
Lady Windermere's Fan: A Play About A Good Woman by Oscar Wilde
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
Mourning Becomes Electra by Eugene O'Neill
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
Candide by Voltaire
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
The Brothers Karamazov, The Idiot, The House of the Dead and Poor Folk, and Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Plague, The Fall, and The Rebel by Albert Camus
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
The Turn of the Screw and Daisy Miller by Henry James
Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte
The Taming of the Shrew by Shakespeare
Shamela by Henry Fielding
Dr. Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
Ada by Vladimir Nabokov

...I'm sure I missed some but that's all I could think of at the moment! :D

Hmmmm. I guess mine would include:

Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
Middlemarch - George Eliot the Great and Terrible
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
The Tragedy of King Richard III - William Shakespeare
A Passage to India - E.M. Forster
The Innocents Abroad or, The New Pilgrims' Progress - Mark Twain

Everything by Nabakov
As You Like It
War and Peace
Ulysses
Lady Chatterly's Lover
Daniel Deronda
Animal Farm
Hadji Murad
The Grass Harp
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovisch
Ethan Frome
Enders Game
The Sound and the Fury

Also, I am currently reading Tale of Two Cities and Les Miserables for the first time.

My list would be too long to put here. I did make a list of 101 Books to Read Before I Croak and it is mainly made up of classics but the ones I hope to read in my immediate future would be:

War and Peace- I started earlier in the year but laid it aside for books I got for Christmas (damn you Sookie Stackhouse!)
A Passage to India
Jane Eyre
The Three Musketeers
Les Mis
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Pride and Prejudice
Dr Zhivago
Lolita
The Grapes of Wrath

I just thought of another which I added to my list: The Scarlett Letter

A couple of classics that come to mind:

- Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov
- Forster's The Longest Journey
- Gaskell's Wives and Daughters (which is actually sitting on my shelf atm)
- Dumas's The Three Musketeers
- Tolstoy's Anna Karenina

And that's all I can think of at the moment, lol xD

I love seeing all the lists with Monte Cristo on it. I just finished this one and think it is something that everyone should read!

I definitely want to finish out Dostoevsky- so far I've read Brothers K and Crime and Punishment. Also War and Peace- pretty much any classic Russian novel, actually.

I also want to read all of Dickens' stuff, and I'd second the complete works of Shakespeare that I saw up there somewhere.

Fiona wrote: "What classic books do you WANT to read that you haven't already, obviously.

For me:

Ruth
Mary Barton
Wives and Daugters and everything else under the sun by Elizabeth Gaskell.

Little Dor..."

What a beautiful list! I've read some but not all of these. Eva

Killthepopular wrote: "How do you define classic? Can it be a classic if hardly anyones heard of it? or if it belongs to an esoteric literary genre? Or if its less than say 30 years old? Every book in my to read list is ..."

I like your name! I'm also very interested in under-appreciated, unsung, neglected great books. I'm reading one now that might fall into that category: A Season in the Life of Emmanuel by Marie-Claire Blais, first published in 1966, to international acclaim. I think it's on Good Reads only in French. (She is French-Canadian.) Eva

All of them? Haha.

Reasonably, these are what I want to read sometime "soon":
The Divine Comedy Inferno; Purgatorio; Paradiso by Dante Aligheri (I have been talking about this for 20 years!)
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Heidi by Joanna Spyri
Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
and I am always up for something by Wilkie Collins or Balzac

On the upside, I have actually read Kidnapped, Mrs. Dalloway, The Adventures of Robin Hood, and The Day of the Locust this year--all for the first time.

I am trying to read more "boy" classics, because I have sons--and I've never read so many of them!

I also just heard about the NYRB classics series:
and now want to read them all! I haven't even heard of most of them.

Thanks for this list, which contains quite a few classics by women that I've never read. Just what I've been wanting to add to my shelf. Mary Barton, Elizabeth Gaskell, H Beecher Stowe, Flora Thompson. Is Equiano a man or woman? I need to branch into more non-Western literature, too. I guess I"ll need a new shelf for that direction. I have some Japanese novelists, but not enough world lit. Maybe that would be a good thread...

Eva wrote: "Thanks for this list, which contains quite a few classics by women that I've never read. Just what I've been wanting to add to my shelf. Mary Barton, Elizabeth Gaskell, H Beecher Stowe, Flora Tho..."

I just recently read Sawako Ariyoshi's The River Ki and really enjoyed it. I would consider it a modern classic, but you mentioned wanting to read Japanese novelists (Ariyoshi was also a woman). She had other books, but I haven't had a chance to read them. Maybe soon!

Just to name a few...
Precious Bane, Mary Webb.
The Italian, Ann Radcliffe.
Far from the Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy.
Ivanhoe, Sir Walter Scott.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Agnes Grey, Anne Bronte.
The Odd Women, George Gissing.
A Passage to India, EM Forster.
Vanity Fair, William Thackeray.
Fathers and Sons, Ivan Turgenev.
The Damnation of Theron Ware Or Illumination, Harold Frederic.
Middlemarch, George Eliot.
The Canterville Ghost, Oscar Wilde.
The Mysterious Island, Jules Verne.
The House of the Dead and Poor Folk, Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Little over halfway through War and Peace so soon I'll be able to mark that off my list.

El, Mysterious Island... do it! do it! do it!

I don't know if all of these count, but:

Northanger Abbey
Vanity Fair
Gone with the Wind
Siddhartha
The Three Musketeers

I'm reading Wuthering Heights right now. It's quite different than any book I've read, but sometimes I find it too slow.

I'm on a big classics kick right now, so my list is long. I'm just finishing Sense & Sensibility by Jane Austen and then I want to read Persuasion and Northanger Abbey and I will have read all of her novels.

After that, at the top of my list are:
Jane Eyre
Wuthering Heights
Great Gatsby
Gone with the Wind
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Mrs. Dalloway
The Scarlet Letter
Great Expectations
Oliver Twist
Rebecca
Madame Bovary
Robinson Crusoe
Brideshead Revisited
North & South (thanks to all of the heavy recommendations!)
To Kill A Mockingbird

There are so many more, but these are the ones off the top of my head, that seem to be universally liked and recommended - and therefore "safe" (at least more so than some - like Moby Dick) and seem like they might best align with my interests. The list is continually growing though...

Great Gatsby
Madame Bovary
To Kill A Mockingbird
Vanity Fair
War and Peace
Les Miserables
Pride and prejudice
Trial
The Odyssey
Crime and punishment
The Divine Comedy
Don Quixote

I just finished To Kill a Mockingbird and was trying to think of classics I'd like to read. I have thought of a some I want to re-read:

Watership Down
Little Women
Call of the Wild
Death Comes for the Archbishop

Here are the ones I haven't read but would like to, in no particular order:

Lord of the Flies
My Antonia
Robinson Crusoe
Pride and Prejudice
Treasure Island


I'm sure there are more and there are probably some that I've read but that I just don't remember. lol

Fiona wrote: "What classic books do you WANT to read that you haven't already, obviously.

For me:

Ruth ... Burmese Days by George Orwell.

And many many others! "

That should keep you busy for a while, Fiona!! ; )

My list is about as long, another reason why I bought my eReader--full of classics!!

Tracy wrote: "I just finished To Kill a Mockingbird and was trying to think of classics I'd like to read. I have thought of a some I want to re-read:

Watership Down
Little Women
Call of the Wild
Death Come..."

Pride and Prejudice was amazing. You should definitely read it.

I have lots of classics waiting around the house for me to read. The ones that I want to get to next are...
Sense and Sensibility
The Three Musketeers
Silas Marner

Recently I finished...
Pride and Prejudice (loved it)
The Remains of the Day (BORING!)
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea (boring!)
The Woman in White (very good)
Rebecca (excellent)

Lots! The first that come to mind are:

everything by Sigrid Undset
War and Peace
Daniel Deronda
Dombey and Son
The House of the Seven Gables
Death Comes for the Archbishop

Lisa wrote: "I have lots of classics waiting around the house for me to read. The ones that I want to get to next are...
Sense and Sensibility
The Three Musketeers
[book:Silas Mar..."

Lisa - regarding The Woman in White there is a group discussion with this group. Have you joined in?

I have read the thread. I can't remember if I posted anything to it, though. I tend to lurk rather than post most days.

I have these books on my shelf and want to get to them (sooner, hopefully, rather than later):

The Count of Monte Cristo
David Copperfield
Cannery Row
Tess of the Dubervilles
Jane Eyre
Rebecca

Count of Monte Cristo... what a great book!!