Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Oldies But Goodies: A Classics Challenge

Perpetual Challenge

Reading With Sea is hosting the Oldies But Goodies: A Classics Challenge.  Here's what she says:

Goal: To read classic and timeless novels.

Timeline:  This challenge will be running for as long as it takes to make it through the list.

Guidelines:
-Participants will read the listed novels.
-Overlaps with other challenges are allowed.
-Post the books as you go and make your way down the list.
-Participants can read the novels listed below in any order they wish.

Books to be read:
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Victory by Joseph Conrad
The Hills Beyond by Thomas Wolfe
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Lord of the Rings (The full Series) by Tolkien
Intruder in the Dust by William Faulkner
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Native Son by Richard Wright
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
The Stranger by Albert Camus

To join, go to Oldies But Goodies: A Classics Challenge.