Classics Club Commitment

Did anyone else skip out on all of the required reading for high school? I sure did, and I missed a lot of the literature that made up a core reference point for a lot of readers.  Even for my AP English course I only read one book, Native Son by Richard Wright, and it was so good that I decided I didn't need to continue with anything else on the list.  I've made up some ground through college and the past two years post-grad but I'm still missing out on a lot of good literature. I am remedying this by joining the Classics Club.  Below are the 36 books that I will read before October 7, 2014 (my 27th birthday).  I've separated them into a few categories:

Books I've Previously Read/Attempted to Read and Didn't Understand:

• Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
• Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
• Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Caroll
• Invisble Man - Ralph Ellison
• Slaughterhouse Five- Kurt Vonnegut
• Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller
• Beloved - Toni Morrison
• Sula - Toni Morrison
• 1984 - George Orwell

Books I Own:

• Emma - Jane Austen
• Island - Aldous Huxley
• Life of Pi - Yann Martell
• Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
• Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
• Revolutionary Road - Richard Yates
• House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski
• Mythology - Edith Hamilton
• A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
• One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

• Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
• The Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham
• If I Die in a Combat Zone - Tim O'Brien
• The Collected Stories - Edgar Allen Poe
• Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare
• The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

Other Classics:

• Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
• Peter Pan - JM Barrie
• This Side of Paradise - F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Easter Parade - Richard Yates
• The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
• A View from the Bridge - Arthur Miller
• Lolita - Vladimir Nabakov
• A Streetcar Named Desire - Tennessee Williams
• The Glass Menagerie - Tennessee Williams
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglass Adams