50 Classic Books to Read Before Turning 50
This was such a fun project to put together, and a big thank you to @MyMessyBookshelf for the inspiration. Please go and check out Nicky’s video: her own list of 50 before 50 is seriously impressive: • My 50 Books before 50 Project | Part 1 00:00 - Intro 01:28 - To be Finally Finished 04:02 - Rereads 05:33 - Non-Fiction 06:40 - The Funny Ones 09:46 - The Giants 21:28 - Anglo-American 30:52 - The Strange Ones 34:54 - Drama 36:19 - Translated Classics 42:13 - Outro All the titles mentioned in the video, in alphabetical order: Abigail — Magda Szabó — 1970 — Hungary Anna Karenina — Leo Tolstoy — 1878 — Russia Another Day of Life — Ryszard Kapuściński — 1976 — Poland Brat Farrar — Josephine Tey — 1949 — Scotland Carry On, Jeeves — P. G. Wodehouse — 1925 — England Doctor Zhivago — Boris Pasternak — 1957 — Russia Don Quixote — Miguel de Cervantes — 1605/1615 — Spain East of Eden — John Steinbeck — 1952 — United States Frankenstein — Mary Shelley — 1818 — England Great Expectations — Charles Dickens — 1861 — England Independent People — Halldór Laxness — 1934–1935 — Iceland Irretrievable — Theodor Fontane — 1892 — Germany Jamaica Inn — Daphne du Maurier — 1936 — England Kristin Lavransdatter — Sigrid Undset — 1920–1922 — Norway Lies and Sorcery — Elsa Morante — 1948 — Italy Madame Bovary — Gustave Flaubert — 1856 — France Mansfield Park — Jane Austen — 1814 — England Meditations — Marcus Aurelius — c. 180 AD — Roman Empire Mrs Dalloway — Virginia Woolf — 1925 — England One Hundred Years of Solitude — Gabriel García Márquez — 1967 — Colombia Pan — Knut Hamsun — 1894 — Norway Persuasion — Jane Austen — 1817 — England Plays — Anton Chekhov — 1880s–1900s — Russia Siddhartha — Hermann Hesse — 1922 — Germany Sister Carrie — Theodore Dreiser — 1900 — United States Tess of the d'Urbervilles — Thomas Hardy — 1891 — England The Age of Innocence — Edith Wharton — 1920 — United States The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz — Mordecai Richler — 1959 — Canada The End of the Affair — Graham Greene — 1951 — England The Good Soldier — Ford Madox Ford — 1915 — England The Invention of Morel — Adolfo Bioy Casares — 1940 — Argentina The Lady of the Camellias — Alexandre Dumas Fils — 1848 — France The Leopard — Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa — 1958 — Italy The Liar — Martin A. Hansen — 1950 — Denmark The Makioka Sisters — Jun'ichirō Tanizaki — 1943–1948 — Japan The Metamorphosis — Franz Kafka — 1915 — Austro-Hungarian Empire The Mill on the Floss — George Eliot — 1860 — England The Moonstone — Wilkie Collins — 1868 — England The Morality of Mrs Dulska — Gabriela Zapolska — 1906 — Poland The Possessed — Witold Gombrowicz — 1939 — Poland The Pursuit of Love — Nancy Mitford — 1945 — England The Sound and the Fury — William Faulkner — 1929 — United States The Tenant of Wildfell Hall — Anne Brontë — 1848 — England Villette — Charlotte Brontë — 1853 — England Virgin Soil — Ivan Turgenev — 1877 — Russia White Nights — Fyodor Dostoevsky — 1848 — Russia Wide Sargasso Sea — Jean Rhys — 1966 — Dominica/United Kingdom Wives and Daughters — Elizabeth Gaskell — 1865 — England

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