The Classics Challenge

OVERVIEW
This is one of the challenges I'm doing for 2010, along with some of my friends and family. Below is a list of 150 novels, novellas, short story collections, epic poems, and plays. All of these works are considered classics and were published about 50 years ago or more. There is only one book listed per author, so feel free to substitute a different book by the same author, or even add an author you believe should have been included. I'm aware that a few of these books are controversial, some books are classics within a genre, others have cultural relevance. It's up to you to decide what books suit you best.

WHAT TO DO
Copy or print this list and mark which books you've read. Then choose ten books you haven't read to read this year. If you think 10 books is unrealistic for you (or not challenging enough) feel free to adjust the number and time period (one book from this list in the next three months, for instance).

If you have any friends or family members who want to join you, I'd suggest marking any books you'd be open to reading, then comparing lists to see which you have in common. There are quite a few children's classics if you want to try this with your kids. You also might choose to only read a few books together instead of all ten, and then read the rest individually.

THE LIST
1. Aesop’s Fables
2. Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
3. A Death in the Family - James Agee
4. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
5. Fairy Tales - Hans Christian Andersen
6. Winesburg, Ohio – Sherwood Anderson
7. Foundation – Isaac Asimov
8. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
9. Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin
10. The Black Sheep - Honore De Balzac
11. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz – L. Frank Baum
12. The Adventures of Augie March – Saul Bellow
13. The Mandarins - Simone de Beauvoir
14. Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett
15. Beowulf
16. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
17. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
18. Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
19. The Good Earth – Pearl S. Buck
20. Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan
21. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
22. Tarzan of the Apes – Edgar Rice Burroughs
23. Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote
24. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold – John le Carre
25. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
26. My Antonia – Willa Cather
27. Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes
28. The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler
29. The Canterbury Tales – Geoffrey Chaucer
30. The Seagull - Anton Chekhov
31. The Awakening – Kate Chopin
32. Murder on the Orient Express – Agatha Christie
33. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
34. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
35. The Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper
36. The Red Badge of Courage – Stephen Crane
37. The Enormous Room – e. e. cummings
38. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
39. Inferno - Dante
40. Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
41. The Man in the High Castle – Philip K. Dick
42. Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
43. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
44. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
45. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
46. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
47. Camille – Alexander Dumas fils.
48. Middlemarch - George Eliot
49. Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
50. Medea - Euripedes
51. The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
52. Tom Jones - Henry Fielding
53. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
54. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
55. The Good Soldier – Ford Maddox Ford
56. A Passage to India – E.M. Forster
57. Cranford - Elizabeth Gaskell
58. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
59. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
60. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
61. Riders of the Purple Range – Zane Grey
62. Grimm's Fairy Tales - Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
63. She – H. Rider Haggard
64. The Glass Key – Dashiell Hammett
65. A Raisin in the Sun  - Lorraine Hansberry
66. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
67. Uncle Remus: His Songs and Sayings - Joel Chandler Harris
68. The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
69. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
70. The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
71. Cabbages and Kings - O. Henry
72. The Odyssey – Homer
73. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
74. Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
75. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
76. A Doll's House - Henrik Ibsen
77. Daisy Miller – Henry James
78. From Here to Eternity – James Jones
79. Ulysses - James Joyce
80. The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka
81. Just So Stories – Rudyard Kipling
82. Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence
83. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
84. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
85. Babbitt – Sinclair Lewis
86. The Call of the Wild – Jack London
87. The Naked and the Dead – Norman Mailer
88. Le Morte d'Arthur - Thomas Malory
89. The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann
90. Doctor Faustus - Christopher Marlowe
91. Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugham
92. Selected Short Stories - Guy de Maupassant
93. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
94. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers
95. The Last Picture Show - Larry McMurtry
96. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
97. Tales of the South Pacific - James Michener
98. Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller
99. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
100. Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
101. Tartuffe - Molière
102. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
103. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
104. A Good Man Is Hard to Find – Flannery O’Connor
105. Mourning Becomes Electra - Eugene O'Neill
106. One Thousand and One Nights (a.k.a. Arabian Nights)
107. The Scarlet Pimpernel – Baroness Orczy
108. Animal Farm - George Orwell
109. Selected Short Stories - Edgar Allan Poe
110. The Collected Short Stories of Katherine Anne Porter - Katherine Anne Porter
111. Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
112. All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
113. Clarissa - Samuel Richardson
114. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
115. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
116. Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott
117. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
118. Pygmalion - George Bernard Shaw
119. Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
120. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
121. The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
122. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith
123. Oedipus Rex - Sophocles
124. The Faerie Queene - Edmund Spenser
125. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
126. Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson
127. Dracula - Bram Stoker
128. Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe
129. Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
130. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
131. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
132. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
133. Lady Anna - Anthony Trollope
134. Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
135. Rabbit, Run – John Updike
136. The City and the Pillar – Gore Vidal
137. Candide - Voltaire
138. Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
139. All the King’s Men - Robert Penn Warren
140. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
141. The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
142. A Curtain of Green - Eudora Welty
143. The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton
144. Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White
145. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
146. Little House on the Prairie – Laura Ingalls Wilder
147. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Tennessee Williams
148. To the Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
149. Native Son - Richard Wright
150. Germinal - Emile Zola