The Classics Club Project – 20% to go!

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― Italo Calvino

On March 24, 2012 I started joining the most ambitious reading project ever—The Classics Club Project. At the beginning, I challenged myself to read 100 classics in 5 years, which meant I needed to read 20 books every year. Well, on the first two years I only managed to read 18 and 16 books, respectively, and the number declined significantly in the following two years to only 5 and 6 books.

Being aware of my own limitations, I made a huge cut in my Classics Club list—now it only contains 60 books. As of today, I have 12 books left to read (that’s the last 20% of the list) before the end date of this project: March 24, 2017.

Here are the books I plan to read to finish off the 5-year-long Classics Club Project, in no particular order:

1. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
2. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
3. The Screwtape Letters – C.S. Lewis
4. The Diary of A Young Girl – Anne Frank
5. Anne of Green Gables – L.M. Montgomery
6. Villette – Charlotte Bronte
7. The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
8. Good Wives – Louisa May Alcott
9. Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
10. The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins
11. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
12. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ – Lew Wallace

Alternatives, if I’m unable to finish any of the titles above:

1. Book 3-7 from The Chronicles of Narnia series by C.S. Lewis
2. A play from Oscar Wilde (looks like it’s going to be An Ideal Husband)
3. Mary Poppins – P.L. Travers

Of course the books on the above list are subject to change whenever I feel like it :D.

I will also read some Indonesian classics that I don’t include in the Classics Club list:

1. Habis Gelap Terbitlah Terang (Dutch: Door Duisternis tot Licht) – Raden Adjeng Kartini – currently reading
2. Bumi Manusia – Pramoedya Ananta Toer
3. Harimau! Harimau! – Mochtar Lubis

To see the books I have read and reviewed for The Classics Club Project, go to this post.

Now, I have a lot of books to read work to do! Wish me luck!