5 Classics I want to read!

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For the last couple of years I made it a goal to read one classic every month! Since I do really like reading classics, but I just give other books priority. So by making it a yearly goal I hoped to read more classics! And for the last 2 years I have been quite successful, with even reading more than 12 a year. This year though.. It is not going great haha! We’re in month 10 and I’ve read 6. Not too bad, but in this number I counted rereading the Anne of Green Gables graphic novel.. And most of the others were quite short ones, just so that I would have a classic read.. And that was not really the point of this goal haha!

I’m not going to force myself to read 6 more classics this year, since I do want to enjoy myself reading them. And I’m afraid I won’t if I force myself to read them!

But thinking about this goal made me want to make a list of the Top Five classics I still want to read! These might be the next five that I read! In no particular order:

  1. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (This is one of the favourites of a good friend of mine, so I’m curious!
  2. Winnie the Pooh by AA Milne (I’m just very curious to this one!)
  3. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
  4. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  5. Watership Down by Richard Adams

I’m adding an extra book, not really sure if it is considered a classic. But I feel kinda bad for not having read this one, since I’m Dutch:

The Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank

If I would pick this up, I would probably read it in Dutch, since that is the original language. I’m not a fan of reading in Dutch, but I feel a bit weird reading this in English haha!

(I have no idea why I have not read this, many people around me had to read this in High School?!)

What is a classic you really want to read? Any recommendations for me?

18 thoughts on “5 Classics I want to read!”

  1. Great list! I haven’t read any of these but I did have to watch the movie to Watership Down in high school which left me so upset that I blocked most of it out LOL.

  2. I love Watership Down so much! I started watching the TV show when I was younger and read the book later and it’s still one of my favourite classics! I hope you enjoy it when you pick it up <3

  3. The Winnie-the-Pooh books are so great! I love the poem collections too — I used to read them with my kids all the time when they were little. I read Brave New World ages ago, then re-read it more recently, and was pretty blown away by how much of our current world he’s managed to predict in some ways. I do love reading classics, but do it kind of spur-of-the-moment for the most part. Enjoy!

    1. I want it to be more spur-of-the-moment for me as well!
      Ooh that is intersting, defintiely want to check out Brave New World now!

  4. I have only read The diary of Anne Frank but I do want to read The Color Purple!

  5. I read Watership Down a really really long time ago, it’s one I want to reread as I can’t remember much about it, but I loved watching the TV shows as a child.

  6. Fyodor Dostoyevsky is a really god author, I have read a few of his works and was really pleasantly surprised how much I enjoyed them.

    I have quite a few classics I want to read, at the top of my list is The Color Purple, like you, and Frankenstein. I have a 50 book list and I try to read a few off of there each year.

    bookishluna.com

    1. For some reason I’m a bit afraid of his writing, idk why haha!
      Oog Frankenstein is good! And it is the right season to read it haha!

  7. I can highly recommend Winnie-the-Pooh, and The House at Pooh Corner. They’re both lovely!

  8. Brave New World is one of my favorite classics. I hope you enjoy it! ❤

  9. I really want to try Winnie the Pooh as well after seeing the Watership Down film, however … I don’t want to read that. Don’t need that kinda sadness in my life.

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