Here’s a tentative list of classics I want to read and reread. I hope to complete or read as much that is on the list within 5 years.



Philippines Classics

1. Jose Rizal - Noli Me Tangere (Reread)


2. Jose Rizal - El Filibusterismo (Reread)

American Classics

1. Edith Wharton - The Age of Innocence


2. Edith Wharton - House of Myrth


3. Ernest Hemingway - The Sun Also Rises


4. Ernest Hemingway - A Farewell to Arms


5. Ernest Hemingway - The Garden of Eden


6. F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby


7. F. Scott Fitzgerald - This Side of Paradise


8. Herman Melville - Moby Dick


9. Mark Twain - The Prince and the Pauper


10. Mark Twain - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Reread)


11. Mark Twain - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Reread)


12. Richard Harding Davis - Cinderella


13. Truman Capote - Breakfast at Tiffany’s

Dutch Classics

1. Anne Frank - The Diary of a Young Girl


2. Harry Mulisch - The Discovery of Heaven

English Classics

1. Bram Stoker - Dracula


2. Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre


3. Charles Dickens - Great Expectations (Reread)


4. Charles Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities


5. Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol (Reread)


6. Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe (Reread)


7. Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights


8. Frances Hodgson Burnett - The Secret Garden (Reread)


9. Frances Hodgson Burnett - A Little Princess


10. George Orwell - Animal Farm


11. George Orwell - 1984


12. H.G. Wells - The Island of Dr. Moreau


13. Jane Austen - Persuasion (Reread)


14. Jane Austen - Mansfield Park


15. Jane Austen - Emma


16. Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility


17. Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey


18. Jonathan Swift - Gulliver’s Travel (Reread)


19. J.R.R. Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings


20. J.R.R. Tolkien - The Hobbit


21. Lewis Carroll - Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland (Reread)


22. Louisa May Alcott - Little Women (Reread)


23. Thomas Hardy - Tess of the D’Urbervilles


24. William Makepeace Thakeray - Vanity Fair


25. William Shakespeare - Much Ado About Nothing


26. William Shakespeare - Merchant of Venice


27. William Shakespeare - A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Reread)


28. William Shakespeare - Romeo and Juliet


29. Virginia Woolf - Mrs Dalloway


30. Virginia Woolf - A Room of One’s Own

French Classics

1. Alexandre Dumas - The Three Musketeers


2. Alexandre Dumas - The Count of Monte Cristo


3. Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary


4. Honore de Balzac - The Recruit


5. Honore de Balzac - A Daughter of Eve


6. Honore de Balzac - A Passion in the Desert


7. Honore de Balzac - A Prince of Bohemia


8. Victor Hugo - Les Miserables


9. Victor Hugo - The History of a Crime

German Classics

1. Friedrich Nietzsche - Beyond Good and Evil

Russian Classics

1. Anton Chekhov - The Schoolmaster


2. Andrei Bely - Petersburg


3. Fyodor Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazov


4. Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev - A House of Gentlefolk


5. Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina


6. Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita

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Some reference: http://www.penguinclassics.com/