Classics Club Update

I began my Classics Club list in September 2012 so I should finish reading 50 books from it by September 2017 (that is, within 5 years).  

As we begin 2017 I thought a summary of progress was in order. I have read and reviewed 32 books on my list so far and will need to read 18 more in the next 9 months to complete the five year challenge.

I began and abandoned 2:

• The History of England, Jane Austen  
• Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe

There are 24 titles remaining on the list:

• Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen [1811]
• The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir [1949]
• The Decameron, Giovanni Boccaccio [1353]
• The Sword of Shannara, Terry Brooks [1977] *
• If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, Italo Calvino [1979] *
• Ender's Game (Ender's Saga, #1), Orson Scott Card [1985] *
• The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky [1880]
• On Green Dolphin Street, Sebastian Faulks [2001] *
• The French Lieutenant's Woman, John Fowles [1969] *
• Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons [1932]
• The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne [1850]
• Catch-22, Joseph Heller [1961]
• A Bell for Adano, John Hersey [1944]
• Dubliners, James Joyce [1914]
• Portrait of a Lady, Henry James 
• A Separate Peace, John Knowles [1959]
• Cakes and Ale, W. Somerset Maugham [1930]
• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami [1994] *
• Swann's Way, Marcel Proust [1913]
• Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys [1966]
• The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger [1951]
• Eminent Victorians, Lytton Strachey [1918]
• The Robber Bridegroom, Eudora Welty [1942]
• Orlando: A Biography, Virginia Woolf [1928]

* These titles are less than 50 years old so don't qualify for the 2017 Back to the Classics challenge.