Big Scribbles joins the Classics Club

Little Scribbles is all about everything baby and toddler, with a big emphasis on books and reading. However, Big Scribbles is taking moving in for a while ( approximately 5 years!)  to share an indulgence of classic books. As parents and carers, we all need a little motivation and inspiration when it comes to teaching, so with a love of adult literature we can hopefully pass on wonderful tales to our little ones ( as long as the Lady Chatterley stuff is post 16, of course! ). I have always been a bit of a geek and some of my best childhood memories involve just me sitting on my bed, getting lost in great books. I have read many great books but there are so many more that I have just not got around to picking up yet, so in the tradition of new year, I have joined the Classic Club and set myself the challenge of reading 66 books within 5 years. I chose 66 so that I can aim for one book per month plus a few extra to keep me on my toes. I will read more than one book a month, of course, but I want to make sure I tick of some of those on my very long ' I must read that' list.

Once I have read each book, I will post my thoughts on here so that I can share with other classic club members and hopefully inspire a few people to pick up an extra book or two. If you fancy joining the club then take a look and I hope to see your list.

Here is my list;

     1.James Joyce – Ulysses

     2.Toni Morrison- Beloved

     3.Toni Morrison- Tar Baby

     4.Louisa May Alcott- Little Women

     5.Toltsoy – Anna Keranina

     6.George Orwell- Animal Farm

     7.Oscar Wilde- The picture of Dorian Grey

8. Emily Bronte Wuthering heights
9. Mary Shelley – Frankenstein
10. DH Lawrence- lady chatterly
11. Dostoyevsky – Crime and punishment
12. William Goulding – Lord of the flies
13. Francis Hodgsen Burnett- The scecret garden
14. Jane Austen – Emma
15. Nathaniel Hawthorne- The scarlet letter
16. Ray Bradbury – Farenheit 451
17. Daphne Du Maurier- Rebecca
18. Betty Smith – A tree frows in Brooklyn
19. Richard Adams- Watership down
20. Gabriel Garcia Marquez- One hundred years of solitude
21. Anthony Burgess- A clockwork orange
22. Hermane Hesse – Siddhartha
23. Henry James- Portrait of a lady
24. Nabakov- Ada or Ardor
25. F Scott Fitzgerald- Tender is the night
26. Arthur Miller- Focus
27. George Orwell- down and out in paris and london
28. George Orwell- 1984
29. Charles Dickens- david copperfield
30. Thomas Hardy- a pair of blue eyes
31. Herman Mellville- moby dick
32. DH Lawrence- sons and lovers
33. Virginia woolf- the waves
34. Virginia Woolf – orlando
35. Joseph Conrad- nostramo
36. E.M Forster- where angels fear to thread
37. Zadie Smith- White teeth
38. Virginia Woolf- Night and Day
39. Evelyn Waugh- A handful of dust
40. Rudyard Kipling- Kim
41. Kingsley Amis- Lucky Jim
42. Ernest Hemingway- For Whom the bell tolls
43. Ernist Hemingway- A farewell to arms
44. Salman rushdie – The satanic verses
45. T S Eliot- The wasteland
46. John Steinbeck – East of eden
47. Chaucer- The Canterbury Tales
48. Arthur Millar- The crucible
49. Albert Camus- The stranger
50. Victor Hugo- The hunchback of notre dame
51. Madelaine L'Engle- A wrinkle in time
52. William Makepeace Thakeray- Vanity Fair
53. Upton Sinclair- The Jungle
54. Mararet Atwood- The handmaids tale
55. Shel Silverstein- The giving tree
56. William Faulkener- As I lay dying
57. Tennesse Williams- A streetcare named desire
58. Margaret Williams- The velvatine Rabbit
59. Henry Fielding- Tom Jones
60. Daniel Defoe- Robinson Crusoe
61. Jerome K Jerome- Three men in a boat
62. DH Lawrence- The Rainbow
63. Salman Rushdie- Haroun and the sea of stories
64. Graham Greene- The quiet American
65. Marilyn Robinson- Housekeeping