50 Classics to read before I am 50

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On another thread, I wrote that I want to compile a list of 50 things to do before I am 50 (in 2 years), and a poster suggested that I read 50 classics, any suggestions??

Wuthering Heights

Catcher in the Rye

Chuck in a coule of Shakespeare plays perhaps?

couple

And anything by F Scott Fitzgerald and John Steinbeck.

Yes to Steinbeck.

Lord Of The Flies

Sherlock Holmes stories

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

Some Forster maybe

Poe's stories

The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

This thread has inspired me. Don't reckon I could do 50 classics in two years tho.

A Room of One's Own - Virginia Woolf (bonus as this is very short)

The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood

Mary Barton - Elizabeth Gaskell

Yes to complete Sherlock Holmes. they are fab and rally easy to read.

Started my journey last night, got my hands on a copy of To Kill a Mockingbird :)

Good one! Have you had a chace to start it yet?

Bonjour Tristesse
Great Gatsby
The Road
Handmaids Tale
Catcher in the Rye
End of the affair

lemmondifficult the go between - excellent choice.

of mice and men
lord of the flies
an inspector calls

can you tell i have a child doing [email protected] of the best bits of having a teen is re-reading these!!

The Bell, by Iris Murdoch

Anything by Anne Tyler

Iain Banks - The Wasp Factory

The House of the Spirits - Isabel Allende
Year of Wonders - Geraldine Brooks
Uncle Fred in the Springtime - PG Wodehouse
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
The Portable Door - Tom Holt
Like Water for Chocolate - Laura Esquivel
The Liar - Stephen Fry
In the Wet - Neville Shute
The World according to Garp - John Irving
Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote
The Pursuit of Love - Nancy Mitford
The Importance of being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
The Walpole Orange - Frank Muir
100 years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Homer, Arabian Nights

Thats all I can think of for now. Brillant idea.