I have chosen 55 books to be read over the course of 5 years. (Goal Date: April 13, 2019)
Making this list is not as easy as I thought it would be. It took me over a week to complete and I'm not sure it's really finished. I started off with around 100 books. I wanted to stick with a firm 50, but ended up settling on 55 because there were a few books I really just wanted to include on here. 55 allows for one book per month, with a 1 month grace period each year.
Note: The date next to the book reflects the date I completed reading it, not the date reviewed.
Bonus Goals
-Currently postponed, but possibly will pick it back up again.
-Parental: (p) For books aimed at children, I want to give a parent review, in addition to a regular one. If I can get the daughter to read the book as well, include her own review.
-Movie/TV: (m) For books where there is a visual adaptation (most of them), I would also like to do a review of that as well.
(This list may change over time.)
- Alcott, Louisa May – Little Women
- Austen, Jane – Emma
- Baum, L. Frank – The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
- Bennett, Arnold – The Grand Babylon Hotel
- Brontë, Anne – Agnes Grey
- Brontë, Charlotte – Villette
- Brontë, Emily – Wuthering Heights
- Burnett, Frances Hodgson – The Secret Garden (07/14/2014)
- Capote, Truman – Breakfast at Tiffany’s (06/08/2014)
- Carroll, Lewis – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
- Cather, Willa – O Pioneers!
- Chesterton, G. K. – The Innocence of Father Brown
- Christie, Agatha – And Then There Were None
- Collins, Wilkie – The Woman in White
- de Laclos, Pierre Choderlos – Dangerous Liaisons
- DeFoe, Daniel – Moll Flanders
- Dickens, Charles – Great Expectations
- Dostoevsky, Fyodor – Crime and Punishment
- Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan – Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- Dumas, Alexandre – The Three Musketeers
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott – The Great Gatsby
- Forster, E. M. – A Room With a View
- Galsworthy, John – The Man of Property
- Gaskell, Elizabeth – North and South
- Hardy, Thomas – Tess of the D'Urbervilles
- Hammett, Dashiell – The Maltese Falcon
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel – The Scarlet Letter
- Heyer, Georgette – The Black Moth
- Hugo, Victor – Les Misérables
- Jacobs, Harriet – Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
- James, Henry – Daisy Miller and Washington Square
- Lewis, Sinclair – Main Street
- London, Jack – The Call of the Wild and White Fang
- Montgomery, Lucy Maud – Anne of Green Gables (p) (04/20/2014)
- Northup, Solomon – Twelve Years a Slave
- Orwell, George – Nineteen Eighty-Four (11/30/2014)
- Porter, Eleanor H. – Pollyanna
- Rostand, Edmond – Cyrano de Bergerac
- Sayers, Dorothy L. – Whose Body?
- Sewell, Anna – Black Beauty
- Shelley, Mary – Frankenstein
- Spyri, Johanna – Heidi
- Steinbeck, John – The Grapes of Wrath
- Stevenson, D.E. – Miss Buncle’s Book
- Stevenson, Robert Louis – The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- Stoker, Bram – Dracula
- Thackeray, William Makepeace – Vanity Fair
- Tolkien, J.R.R. – The Fellowship of the Ring
- Tolstoy, Leo – Anna Karenina
- Trollope, Anthony – The Chronicles of Barsetshire
- Twain, Mark – The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- Verne, Jules – Journey to the Center of the Earth
- Waugh, Evelyn – Brideshead Revisited
- Wells, H.G. – The Time Machine
- Wharton, Edith – The Age of Innocence