Classics Club

100 titles to be read in 5 years with the Classics Club

Start Date: July 1, 2012
End Date: June 30, 2017

Prize winners:

• 124 from the 1001 list (not a prize, but of note)
• 21 Nobel laureates
• 11 Pulitzers

Languages (31):

• English (50)
• Japanese (23)
• French (24)
• German (22)
• Russian (15)
• Spanish (11)
• Polish (4)
• Chinese (3)
• Arabic (2), Portuguese (2), Swedish (2), Norwegian (2), Welsh (2)
• Bengali (1), Bosnian (1), Bulgarian (1), Catalan (1), Czech (1), Croation (1), Dutch (1), Flemish (1), Finnish (1), Galician (1), Greek (1), Hebrew (1), Hungarian (1), Italian (1), Latin (1) Persian (1), Romanian (1), Sesotho (1),

1. 1021 - The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu (1001, Japanese)
2. 1469 - The Golden Ass - Lucius Apuleius (1001, Italy, Latin)
3. 1592 - Monkey: Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en (1001, Chinese)
4. 1608 - King Lear by Shakespeare (UK, English)
5. 1688 - Oroonoko - Aphra Behn (1001, UK, English, own)
6. 1774 - The Sorrows of Young Werther - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1001, German)
7. 1776 - Tales of Moonlight and Rain by Ueda Akinari (Japanese)
8. 1779 - Hyperion - Friedrich Holderlin (1001, German)
9. 1809 - Elective Affinities - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1001, German)
10. 1810 - Michael Kohlhaas by von Kleist (1001, German)
11. 1817 - Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (1001, UK, English)
12. 1820 - The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr by Hoffman (1001, German)
13. 1826 - The Life of a Good-for-Nothing by von Eichendorff (1001, German)
14. 1831 - The Red and the Black - Stendhal (1001, French, own)
15. 1833 - Eugene Onegin by Pushkin (1001, Russian, own)
16. 1836 - The Nose by Gogol (1001, Ukraine, Russian)
17. 1840 - A Hero for our Time by Lermontov (1001, Russian)
18. 1843 - A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (1001, UK, English)
19. 1846 - Devils Pool George Sand (1001, French)
20. 1853 - Rock Crystal by Adalbert Stifter (Austria, German)
21. 1859 - Oblomov - Ivan Goncharov (1001, Russian)
22. 1862 - Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (1001, French)
23. 1864 - Notes from the Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky (1001, Russian, own)
24. 1865 - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (1001, UK, English, own)
25. 1866 - Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky (1001 Russian, own)
26. 1867 - Therese Raquin - Emile Zola (1001, French)
27. 1868 - The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins (1001, UK, English)
28. 1869 - The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky (1001, Russian)
29. 1869 - War and Peace by Tolstoy (1001, Russian, own)
30. 1870 - Seven Brothers Aleksis Kivi (Finnish)
31. 1872 - The Devils - Fyodor Dostoevsky (1001, Russian)
32. 1873 - The Enchanted Wanderer - Nicolai Leskov (1001, Russian)
33. 1874 - Middlemarch by George Eliot (1001, UK, English, own)
34. 1874 - Pepita Jimenez by Valera (1001, Spanish)
35. 1883 - A Woman's Life - Guy de Maupassant (1001, French)
36. 1884 - Against the Grain - Joris-Karl Huysmans (1001, French)
37. 1885 - Bel-Ami - Guy de Maupassant (1001, French)
38. 1888 - Under the Yoke by Vazov (1001, Bulgarian)
39. 1889 - Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang (Scotland, English, at library)
40. 1890 - Hunger by Knut Hamsun (1001, Norwegian, Nobel, own)
41. 1890 - The Kreutzer Sonata by Tolstoy (1001, Russian, own)
42. 1891 - Gosta Berling's Saga - Selma Lagerlof (1001, Swedish, Nobel)
43. 1896 - Quo Vadis - Henryk Sienkiewicz (1001, Polish, Nobel)
44. 1899 - Eclipse of the Crescent Moon by Gardonyi (1001, Hungarian)
45. 1899 - Dom Casmurro by de Assis (11001, Brazil, Portuguese)
46. 1900 - Stories of God by Rainer Maria Rilke (Austria, German)
47. 1902 - The Immoralist - Andre Gide (1001, French)
48. 1903 - The Ambassadors by Henry James (1001, USA, English)
49. 1905 - Solitude by Catala (1001, Spain, Catalan)
50. 1905 - I am a Cat by Natsume Soseki (Japanese)
51. 1906 - Botchan by Natsume Soseki (Japanese)
52. 1906 - Young Torless - Robert Musil (1001, Austria, German, own)
53. 1909 - Strait is the Gate - Andre Gide (1001, French)
54. 1910 - The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rilke (1001, German)
55. 1912 - Death in Venice - Thomas Mann (1001, German, Nobel)
56. 1914 - Kokoro - Natsume Soseki (1001, Japanese, own)
57. 1914 - Platero and I by Jimenez (1001, Spanish, Nobel)
58. 1914 - Mist by Miguel De Unamuno (Spain, Spanish)
59. 1916 - The Home and the World by Tagore (1001, India, Bengali, own, Nobel)
60. 1917 - Anne's House of Dreams by L.M. Montgomery (Canada, English)
61. 1917 - Summer by Edith Wharton (1001, USA, English)
62. 1917 - His Family by Ernest Poole (USA, English, Pulitzer)
63. 1918 - The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington (USA, English, Pulitzer)
64. 1921 - Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington (USA, English, Pulitzer)
65. 1921 - Crome Yellow - Aldous Huxley (1001, UK, English)
66. 1922 - Amok - Stefan Zweig (1001, Austria, German)
67. 1922 - One of Ours by Willa Cather (USA, English, Pulitzer)
68. 1923 - The Devil in the Flesh - Raymond Radiguet (1001, French)
69. 1924 - So Big by Ferber (USA, English, Pulitzer, own)
70. 1924 - Naomi by Tanizaki Jun'ichiro (Japanese)
71. 1925 - Chaka the Zulu by Mofolo (1001, South Africa, Sesotho)
72. 1925 - Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis (USA, English, Pulitzer, Nobel)
73. 1926 - One, No One and a Hundred Thousand - Luigi Pirandello (1001, Italian, Nobel)
74. 1926 - Early Autumn by Louis Bromfield (USA, English, Pulitzer)
75. 1926 - Alberta and Jacob by Sandel (1001, Norwegian)
76. 1927 - Armand by Emmanuel Bove (France, French)
77. 1927 - Steppenwolf - Herman Hesse (1001, German, Nobel)
78. 1928 - Some Prefer Nettles by Tanizaki (1001, Japanese, own)
79. 1928 - Nadja - Andre Breton (1001, French)
80. 1929 - Les Enfants Terribles - Jean Cocteau (1001, French)
81. 1929 - Passing - Nella Larsen (1001, USA, English)
82. 1930 - Monica by Saunders Lewis (1001, Welsh)
83. 1931 - Family by Pa Chin (Chinese)
84. 1932 - To the North - Elizabeth Bowen (1001, Ireland, English)
85. 1932 - Journey to the End of the Night - Louis-Ferdinand Celine (1001, French)
86. 1932 - Vipers' Tangle by Mauriac (1001, French)
87. 1932 - Brave New World by Huxley (1001, USA, English)
88. 1932 - Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons (1001, UK, English)
89. 1933 - The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas - Gertrude Stein (1001, USA, English)
90. 1933 - Miss Lonelyhearts - Nathanael West (1001, USA, English)
91. 1933 - Cheese by Elsschot (1001, Belgium, Flemish)
92. 1934 - The Villagers by Jorge Icaza (Ecuador, Spanish)
93. 1934 - On the Heights of Despair by Cioran (1001, Romanian)
94. 1934 - The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz (1001, Polish)
95. 1935 - They Shoot Horses, Don't They? - Horace McCoy (1001, USA, English)
96. 1934 - The Postman Always Rings Twice - James M. Cain (1001, USA, English)
97. 1935 - Untouchable by Anand (1001, India, English)
98. 1936 - At the Mountains of Madness - H.P. Lovecraft (1001, USA, English)
99. 1936 - Anne of Windy Poplars by L.M. Montgomery (Canada, English)
100. 1936 - Gone with the Wind (1001, USA, English, Pulitzer)
101. 1936 - Rickshaw Boy by Lao She (1001, Chinese)
102. 1936 - Absalom, Absalom! - William Faulkner (1001, USA, English, Nobel)
103. 1937 - The Hobbit by Tolkien (1001, UK/South Africa, English, own)
104. 1937 - Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen (1001, Denmark, English)
105. 1937 - The Blind Owl by Hedayat (1001, Iran, Persian)
106. 1938 - Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre (1001, French, Nobel)
107. 1938 - On the Edge of Reason by Krleza (1001, Croatian)
108. 1939 - Anne of Ingleside by L.M. Montgomery (Canada, English)
109. 1939 - Good Morning, Midnight - Jean Rhys (1001, Dominica, English)
110. 1940 - The Power and the Glory - Graham Greene (1001, UK, English)
111. 1940 - Twilight in Delhi by Ahmed Ali (India, English)
112. 1941,42,44,56 - Ficciones - Jorge Luis Borges (1001, Argentina, Spanish)
113. 1942 - The Stranger -- Albert Camus (1001, Algeria, French)
114. 1942- Chess Story by Zweig (1001, Austria, German)
115. 1943-8 - The Makioki Sisters by Tanizaki Jun'ichiro (Japanese)
116. 1945 - The Bridge on the Drina - Ivo Andric (1001, Bosnian, Nobel)
117. 1946 - Zorba the Greek by Kazantzakis (1001, Greek)
118. 1946 - Bells of Nagasaki by Takashi Nagai (Japanese)
119. 1947 - The Tin Flute by Gabrielle Roy (1001, Canada, French)
120. 1948 - Leaving My Children Behind by Takashi Nagai (Japanese)
121. 1948 - In the Heart of the Sea by Agnon (1001, Israel, Hebrew)
122. 1948 - This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen by Borowski (1001, Polish)
123. 1949-50 - Silent Angel by Heinrich Boll (Germany, German)
124. 1949-57 The Waiting Years by Enchi Fumiko (Japanese)
125. 1950 - The Guiltless by Broch (1001, Austria/US, German)
126. 1950 - Barabbas by Lagerkvist (1001, Swedish, Nobel, own)
127. 1950 - The Grass is Singing - Doris Lessing (1001, Iran/Rhodesia/UK, English, Nobel)
128. 1951 - Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham (1001, UK, English)
129. 1951-54 - The Master of Go by Yasunari Kawabata (Japanese)
130. 1952 - Excellent Women by Barbara Pym (1001, UK, English)
131. 1952 - The Judge and His Hangman - Friedrich Durrenmatt (1001, Switzerland, German)
132. 1953 - The Hothouse by Koeppen (1001, German)
133. 1953 - The Captive Mind by Czeslaw Milosz (Polish, Nobel)
134. 1953 - The Dark Child by Laye (1001, Guinea, French)
135. 1954 - Death in Rome by Koeppen (1001, German)
136. 1954 - I'm Not Stiller - Max Frisch (1001, Switzerland, German)
137. 1954 - The Sound of Waves by Mishima (1001, Japanese, own)
138. 1954 - A Fable by William Faulkner (USA, English, Pulitzer)
139. 1955 - Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo (Mexico, Spanish)
140. 1955 - The Tree of Man by Patrick White (1001, Australia, English, Nobel)
141. 1955 - Return of the King by Tolkien (1001, UK/South Africa, English, own)
142. 1957 - Doctor Zhivago by Pasternak (1001, Russian, Nobel, own)
143. 1957 - Homo Faber - Max Frisch (1001, Switzerland, German)
144. 1957 - The Glass Bees by Junger (1001, German)
145. 1958 - Masks by Fumiko Enchi (Japanese)
146. 1958 - Gabriela, Clove, and Cinnamon by Jorge Amada (1001, Brazil, Portuguese, own)
147. 1958 - Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids by Kenzaburo Oe (1001, Japanese, Nobel)
148. 1959 - The Cubs and Other Stories - Mario Vargas Llosa (1001, Peru, Spanish, Nobel, at library)
149. 1959 - Memento Mori by Muriel Spark (1001, Scotland, English, own)
150. 1959 - Wonderful Fool by Shusaku Endo (Japanese)
151. 1959 - Stained Glass Elegies by Shusaku Endo (Japanese)
152. 1960 - Volcano by Shusaku Endo (Japanese)
153. 1960 - Promise at Dawn - Romain Gary (1001, Lithuania/France, French)
154. 1960 - God's Bits of Wood by Sembene (1001, Senegal, French)
155. 1960 - No Longer At Ease - Chinua Achebe (Nigeria, English)
156. 1960 - The Magician of Lublin by Isaac Bashevis Singer (1001, Poland, Yiddish)
157. 1961 - One Moonlit Night by Caradog Prichard (Welsh)
158. 1961 - Memoirs of a Peasant Boy by Vilos (1001, Spain, Galician)
159. 1961 - Faces in the Water - Janet Frame (1001, New Zealand, English)
160. 1961 - The Shipyard by Onetti (1001, Uruguay, Spanish)
161. 1962 - Wonder by Hugo Claus (Belgium, Dutch)
162. 1962 - Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe (Japanese, own)
163. 1962 - Labyrinths - Jorge Luis Borges (1001, Argentina, Spanish)
164. 1962 - The Death of Artemio Cruz by Fuentes (1001, Colombia, Spanish)
165. 1962 - The Reivers by William Faulkner (USA, English, Pulitzer, own)
166. 1963 - Cat and Mouse - Gunter Grass (1001, German, Nobel)
167. 1963 - The Sailor Who Fell from Grace by the Sea by Yukio Mishima (Japanese)
168. 1963 - Hopscotch by Julio Cortazar (Argentina, Spanish)
169. 1967 - Evening Clouds bu Junzo Shono (Japanese)
170. 1964 - Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence (Canada, French)
171. 1964 - Jean de Florette by Marcel Pagnol (French, own)
172. 1964 - Manon des Sources - Marcel Pagnol (1001, French, own)
173. 1964 - Arrow of God - Chinua Achebe (1001, Nigeria, English)
174. 1965 - Closely Watched Trains by Hrabal (1001, Czech)
175. 1965 - The River Between - Ngugi wa Thiong'o (1001, Kenya, English, own)
176. 1966 - Black Rain by Masuji Ibuse (Japanese)
177. 1967 - Silent Cry by Kenzaburo Oe (Japanese)
178. 1967 - Miramar by Mahfouz (1001, Egypt, Arabic, Nobel)
179. 1967 - The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (1001, Russian)