Twenty Classics In 2020

Last week I discussed my thoughts on memorization and how I am *embarrassingly* bad at it (you can read that post here). In addition to memorizing new poems and Latin phrases I’m planning to read twenty classics. Some of these titles will be a re-read, however it’s been awhile so I imagine it will feel like I’m reading them for the first time—and besides C.S. Lewis said…

“I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”

—C.S. Lewis

Below I have listed my classic reading list for 2020 in no particular order. I’ll ✔ books off throughout the year each time I finish reading them!

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1. Gone With the Wind // first
2. Great Expectations // first
3. Crime and Punishment // first, currently reading
4. The Brothers Karamazov // first
5. The Odyssey // first
6. A Farewell To Arms // first
7. The Picture of Dorian Gray // first
8. The Metamorphosis // first (✔ finished 1.16.2020)
9. The Aeneid // re-read
10. Wuthering Heights // re-read
11. Pride and Prejudice // re-read
12. For Whom The Bell Tolls // first
13. War and Peace // re-read
14. The Stranger // first
15. The Divine Comedy // re-read
16. Paradise Lost // re-read, however this time I have C.S. Lewis’ A Preface to Paradise Lost as a companion, yay!
17. Descent Into Hell // first
18. A Tale of Two Cities // first
19. The Wind in the Willows // re-read
20. Persuasion // re-read
    

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Are any of your favorite titles listed above?
Do you have a book that you read over and over?