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Classics Club Challenge

I'm a Project Manager by day. Anyone who knows me knows that in addition to loving to read I also love to plan, to make lists and to research. Guess I'm in the right profession! 

I used to alternate reading classics and contemporary fiction but that has well and truly fallen to the wayside over the last few years. I wanted to get back into reading classics and came across the classics club when researching ideas. So how could I resist! 

The plan is to read 50 classics within the next five years (by 24 November 2023). 

The List

1. The Romance of the Forest - Ann Radcliffe
2. Kidnapped - Sir Walter Scott
3. Frankenstein - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
4. The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo
5. The Count of Monte-Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
6. The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
7. Cranford - Elizbeth Gaskell
8. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
9. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
10. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
11. Ben-Hur - Lew Wallace
12. Little Dorrit - Charles Dickens
13. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
14. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
15. Dracula - Bram Stoker
16. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
17. Agnes Grey - Anne Bronte
18. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
19. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
20. The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
21. The Thirty-Nine Steps - John Buchan
22. The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
23. Claudine's House - Collette
24. Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
25. The Well of Loneliness - Radcliffe Hall
26. Orlando - Virginia Woolf
27. All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
28. Lady Chatterley's Lover - D.H. Lawrence
29. Brighton Rock - Graham Greene
30. Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
31. The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
32. Doctor Faustus - Thomas Mann
33. 1984 - George Orwell
34. Love in a Cold Climate - Nancy Mitford
35. Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham
36. Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote
37. The Talented Mr Ripley - Patricia Highsmith
38. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
39. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
40. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
41. The Scarlet Pimpernel - Baroness Orzy
42. Passing - Nella Larsen
43. We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson
44. The Ivy Tree - Mary Stewart
45. The King Must Die - Mary Renault
46. The Daughter of Time - Josephine Tey
47. My Cousin Rachel - Daphne du Maurier
48. I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith
49. Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
50. North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell

Hello

I've been reading blogs for a number of years now and have finally built up the courage to start my own. I love reading and I've started this blog primarily to jot down my thoughts on the books I read. 

But first some introductions...

My name is Sarah Elizabeth and I'm in my late thirties. I have a Masters Degree in Human Rights and Criminal Justice. By day I'm a criminal justice programme manager. When not at work I like to spend my time reading or with my two dogs - Zelda and Porter. In addition to reading and my dogs, I love my husband, knitting and being by the sea. This blog will mostly be about books, but other topics may slip in once and awhile.