Classics I Want to Read in 2025

in light of the current affairs in america, i've made a plethora of changing to my reading plans for 2025.

 I will post these changes in another tab. This list can remain still.

classics for 2025

I, of course, am bringing some classics over from 2024. 2024 was a really hard year for me. I did deep reading, but I re-read as much or more as I read new-to-me novels. 

So, did I read all the classics I listed for 2024? No. Is that okay? Of course it is.

Classics I Want to Read in 2025

1. The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang Goethe ✔️ 
2. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
3. Another Country by James Baldwin
4. Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien
1. The Fellowship of the Ring ✔️ 
2. The Two Towers ✔️ 
3. The Return of the King
5. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes ✔️ 
6. Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas
7. Candide by Voltaire
8. The Queen of Spades by Alexander Pushkin
9. Germinal by Èmile Zola ✔️ 
10. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf ✔️ 

Contemporary Novels to Read in 2025

1. Remains of the Day by  Kazuo Ishiguro ✔️ 
2. Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
3. Ghost Mountain by Rónán Hession
4. Schoolgirl by Osamu Dazai ✔️ 
5. Dead Flowers by Osamu Dazai ✔️ 
6. Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami  ( no longer interested in this author)
7. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami 

Author Focus for 2025: Clarice Lispector

1. Hour of the Star 
2. The Chandelier 
3. An Apple in the Dark
4. A Breath of Life