My Thoughts: The Classics Club Challenge

I came across  The Classics Club web site the other day. 

The premise is inspirational.  It is a challenge for book bloggers to read at least 50 classic books in the next five years and blog about them.  I'm up for the challenge and I think I will limit my list to 50:

1. Watership Down by Richard Adams
2. Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
3. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
4. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
5. Stranger by Albert Camus
6. Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
7. Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov
8. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
9. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
10. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
11. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
12. Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
13. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
14. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
15. Madame Bovary by Gustav Flaubert
16. Howard’s End by E.M. Forster
17. A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines
18. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
19. The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
20. The House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
21. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
22. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
23. The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
24. Doll’s House by Henrick Ibsen
25. Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
26. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
27. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
28. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
29. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
30. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
31. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
32. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
33. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
34. Animal Farm by George Orwell
35. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
36. The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle
37. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
38. Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
39. Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
40. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
41. Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck
42. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
43. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
44. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
45. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
46. Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
47. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
48. The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
49. The Once and Future King by T.H. White
50. Nana by Emile Zola

Wow! That's a lot of reading. Most of these are new books for me (no judging!). If I have read it, it was so long age that I do not remember much.