Thanks to everyone for all your great suggestions!!  I’m over 50 at this point so this project may actually end up taking me five years to finish.  I’ve had grand plans of planning out the entire five years in advance but I think that’s overly ambitious of me (and why it’s taken me so long to get this list posted).  So here’s the list of books that I’m going to attempt to tackle over the next five years.  I’ll be blogging about each one as I finish it.  Feel free to suggest more if you think of them!

My goal is to finish this list by July 2018.

I’m also submitting this list to The Classics Club to join in the community over there!

1. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
2. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
3. Persuasion by Jane Austen
4. Emma by Jane Austen
5. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
6. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
7. Middlemarch by George Eliot
8. Silas Marner by George Eliot
9. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
10. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
11. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
12. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
13. Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
14. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
15. Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
16. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
17. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
18. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
19. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
20. North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
21. O Pioneers by Willa Cather
22. Song of the Lark by Willa Cather
23. My Antonia by Willa Cather
24. Too Late the Phalarope by Alan Paton
25. The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
26. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriett Beecher Stowe
27. Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
28. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
29. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
30. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
31. A Lost Lady by Willa Cather
32. Turn of the Screw by Henry James
33. Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy
34. Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
35. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain
36. Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell
37. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
38. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
39. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
40. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
41. The Four Loves by C. S. Lewis
42. The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis
43. A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis
44. Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis
45. Brothers Karamasov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
46. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
47. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
48. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
49. A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksander Solzhenitsyn
50. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard (NF)
51. How To Lie With Statistics by Darrell Huff (NF)
52. Silent Spring by Rachel Carson (NF)
53. Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton (NF)
54. The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton
55. M. C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton (NA)
56. Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars (NA)
57. I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino (NA)
58. Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorensen (NA)
59. Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark (NA)
60. The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène du Bois (NA)

NA = Newbery Award
NF = nonfiction

P.S. Please let me know if you see any spelling mistakes in titles or authors and I’ll correct them.  I tried to double check everything but it’s possible I missed some errors.