In Love of Books and Friendship

I'm going to do it. I'm going to read 50 classics in 5 years! It's been a lifetime goal of mine to read the classics before my death and while I am not in imminent danger I am certainly not getting any younger. I've read many classics but there are still so many I find referenced in books, movies, or conversations that have kept me curious and yearning for more. This list was so easy to compile in that I have bought SO many of these with a long overdue intended goal that I own nearly all listed. Needless to say, this should also bring relief to the TBR stacks in my life (and house). I plan to get started April 1st - no fooling - and have my list completed March 31, 2019.

1. Little Men by Louisa May Alcott
2. Emma by Jane Austen
3. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
4. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
5. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Stowe Beecher
6. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
7. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
8. Shirley by Charlotte Bronte
9. Villette by Charlotte Bronte
10. The Good Earth by Pearl. S. Buck
11. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
12. My Antonia by Willa Cather
13. Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
14. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
15. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
16. The Names by Don DiLillo
17. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
18. Middlemarch by George Eliot
19. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
20. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
21. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
22. The Beautiful and the Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
23. Passage to India by E.M. Forster
24. Howard's End by E.M. Forster
25. The Scarlett Letter by Nathanial Hawthorne
26. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
27. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
28. The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
29. The World According to Garp by John Irving
30. The Remains of the Day by Kazao Ishiguro
31. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
32. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingslover
33. Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
34. Up at the Villa by W. Somerset Maugham
35. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
36. Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
37. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
38. A Fine Balance by Rohinton Misty
39. The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford
40. Dr. Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
41. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
42. Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
43. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
44. Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
45. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
46. A God Unknown by John Steinbeck
47. In Dubious Battle by John Steinbeck
48. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
49. The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
50. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf