If you want to participate, you must dedicate yourself to read 50+ classics for the next 5 years. I think it is a great idea as I'm trying to read classics as often as I could but I never keep track of them. After checking my TBR list and all those unread books sitting on my shelves, I decided to make my list to see if I'll readch 50 books and I did! I must admit it was rather easy as I'm trying to read sci-fi classics (yes, my list includes those) and "1001 Books You Should Read Before You Die". Although my list was around 60 books, I decided to read 50 classics in the next 3 years. (I decided to read one book/author). There are only 3 rereads in my list and 50 different authors. My list includes a few Turkish classics as well.
Start Date: June 2, 2012
Goal Date To Finish: June 2, 2015
Most Looking Forward To: Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Most Scared To Attempt: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick (Mainly because I'll attempt to read it in English.)
Prizes: I think I'll allow myself to buy more books as a good number of the books in my list are already sitting on my shelves.
THE LIST:
- 2001: A Space Odyssey / Arthur C. Clarke
- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea / Jules Verne
A Clockwork Orange / Anthony Burgess(18.06.2012)- A Bend in the River / V.S. Naipaul
- A Passage to India / E.M. Forster
- A Tale of Two Cities / Charles Dickens
- Alias Grace / Margaret Atwood
- Araba Sevdası / Recaizade Mahmut Ekrem
- Atlas Shrugged / Ayn Rand
- Atonement / Ian McEwan
- Bonjour Tristesse / François Sagan
- Brave New World / Aldous Huxley
- Charlotte's Web / E.B. White
- Death of Ivan Ilych / Lev Tolstoy
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? / Philip K. Dick
- Dune / Frank Herbert
Ender's Game / Orson Scott Card(12.06.2012)- Esir Şehrin İnsanları / Kemal Tahir
- Felatun Bey ve Rakım Efendi / Ahmet Mithat
- Fight Club / Chuck Palahniuk
- Frankenstein / Mary Shelley
- In Search of Lost Time / Marcel Proust
Jane Eyre / Charlotte Bronte(19.07.2012)- Life of Pi / Yann Martel
- Midnight's Children / Salman Rushdie
- Murder on the Orient Express / Agatha Christie
- Neuromancer / William Gibson
- Obabakoak / Bernardo Axtaga
- Oblomov / Ivan Goncharov
- Old Goriot / Honore de Balzac
- One Hundred Years of Solitude / Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Painted Bird / Jerzy Kosinski
- Paradise Lost / John Milton
- Pride and Prejudice / Jane Austin
Rabbit Run / John Updike(07.08.2012)- Siddharta / Hermann Hesse
- Shibumi / Trevanian
- Slaughterhouse-Five / Kurt Vonnegut
- The Cider House Rules / John Irving
- The Color Purple / Alice Walker
- The Feast of the Goat / Mario Vargas Llosa
- The God of Small Things / Arundhati Roy
- The History of the Siege of Lisbon / José Saramago
The Hitchiker's Guide to Galaxy / Douglas Adams(07.07.2012)- The Name of the Rose / Umberto Eco
- The Rainbow / D.H. Lawrence
- The Stranger / Albert Camus
- The Time Machine / Herbert George Wells
- The Wind-up Bird Chronicle / Haruki Murakami
- Tütün Zamanı / Necati Cumalı
Many thanks to Gillian for organizing this!
Hi, and welcome to the club, Pinar! I most especially hope you enjoy 5, 10, 13, 23 and 34. 44 and 48 are intriguing me recently, too. Cheers and enjoy!! - Jillian
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