The Mission

Reading has always been something I've enjoyed. I have gone through many phases of genres; from adventure to chick lit to paranormal romance. I kept reading and reading, but realized I haven't really read any of the classic literature books. I've read a few of them in school and never got to appreciate them since I had to read them. Now I'm done with school and I'm free to read what I want, when I want, and go figure, I actually want to write book reports on the books I read.

The mission: 51 books of classic literature, some I've read before, others I've heard of and have wanted to read, and a select few that I dread reading but feel as though I must (I'll save them for the end.) After I've finished a book, I will write up a post on how/what I felt about it. I'm no scholar or English major; just a 24 year old girl who wants to read.

Below is a list of the books I'm setting out to read. They're in no particular order:

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1. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll

2. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

3. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen

4. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain

5. Dracula – Bram Stoker

6. The Iliad & The Odyssey– Homer

7. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte

8. The Prince – Niccolo Machiavelli

9. Through the Looking-Glass – Lewis Carroll

10 The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas

11. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy

12. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain

13. Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

14. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens

15. Moby Dick – Herman Melville

16. Grimms Fairy Tales – Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm

17. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte

18. Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

19. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens

20. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen

21. Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkein

22. The Hobbit – JRR Tolkein

23. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee

24. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams

25. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas

26. Catch 22 – Joseph Heller

27. All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Remarque

28. Crash – JG Ballard

29. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

30. Dr Zhivago – Boris Pasternak

31. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson

32. Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift

33. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov

34. The Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger

35. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck

36. The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald

37. Atonement – Ian McEwan

38. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert

39. 1984 – George Orwell

40. Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe

41. Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes

42. David Copperfield

43. Gone with the Wind – Margaret Mitchell

44. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – CS Lewis

45. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley

46. Lord of the Flies – William Golding

47. Animal Farm – George Orwell

48. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott

59. The Pearl – John Steinbeck

50. Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson

51. Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradburty
52.The Giver - Lois Lowry