The Classics Club

For the past year or so I've been aware of a book/blogging community known as the Classics Club, whose members have pledge to read a list of fifty or so "classics" within five years, and share their thoughts about them with other members of the group. Although that sort of thing seems right up my alley, I've not joined in yet because I didn't too much like having to choose the books in advance.  On reflection, however,  I realized that I'm going to be reading classics, anyway: I might as well have company in doing it.  So, here's my official throwing-in announcement: below is the list of titles I expect to read before September 22nd, 2020.

These move generally from western civ classics to American literature, including southern literature.

1. The Epic of Gilgamesh, trans. Danny Jackson
2. The Aenid, Virgil
3. The Histories, Herodotus
4. The Conquest of Gaul, Julius Caesar
5. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. I, Edward Gibbon
6. One Thousand and One Nights, trans. Husain Haddawy
7. The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas
8. The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo
9. The Prince, Machiavelli 
10. Inferno, Dante
11. The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoeyesky
12. The Seven-Storey Mountain,  Thomas Merton
13. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
14. The Gulag Archipelago, Alexander Solzhenitsyn
15. The Hiding Place, Corrie ten Boom
16. Dracula, Bram Stoker
17. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
18. The Swiss Family Robinson, Robert Louis Stevenson
19. Canterbury Tales, Chaucer
20. Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen
21. Emma, Jane Austen
22. The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
23. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
24. The Vicar of Wakefield, Oliver Goldsmith
25. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
26. Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
27. The Pilgrim's Progress, John Bunyan
28. Lord of the Flies, William Golding
29. Down and Out in Paris and London, George Orwell
30. The Federalist Papers, various
31. The Education of Henry Adams, Henry Adams
32. .Life on the Mississippi, Mark Twain 
33. Up from Slavery, Booker T. Washington
34. The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane
35. Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather
36. O Pioneers!  Willa Cather
37. White Fang, Jack London
38. Moby-Dick, Herman Melville
39. The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
40. A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
41. The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
42. East of Eden, John Steinbeck
43. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
44. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
45. The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury
46. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
47. The Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
48. Love Among the Ruins, Walker Percy
49. The Moviegoer, Walker Percy
50. 2001: A Space Odyessey, Arthur C. Clarke