Over at 5 Minutes for Books they have a Classics Bookclub. It was because of them that I read Rebecca this past year. I also read at least 8 other classics this year and really enjoyed it. Some were books I had not ever read, others were books I had read in school and didn’t remember or appreciate like Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights. I know that before 2009, To Kill a Mockingbird was not my favorite book, but it is now.

So, as we approach 2010 I am setting more goals. I don’t have a separate Classics category for the next year, but I have a few of them on my list.

1. Pilgrim’s Progress for my church book club at the end of January – this is a reread for me
2. Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini – I just finished reading Captain Blood
3. Red Badge of Courage
4. Catch-22

I also intend to read some books by these authors

1. Anthony Trollope
2. Chaim Potok
3. Graham Greene
4. Dorothy Sayers
5. GK Chesterton
6. Wilkie Collins