I'm starting to suspect that classics do date - my 2 are not the slightest bit enthused by most of the things I read as a child (and not just 'cos it was girly) eg Swallows and Amazons series, John MAsefiled (though I only really enjoyed Jim Davis), Alan Villiers, RH Dana, my favourite Hdgson Burnett was 'the lost prince' which seems to have faded into oblivion. Also stuff like Baroness Orczy.
(you will have spotted that I went for the historical novel genre).
to the original question, I can no longer remember what I have and havent read, I know I read Brothers Karamazov but can't remember any other Dostoievsky, some Turgenev (I read Fathers and Sons, everyone else read Sons and Lovers (forgot author)).
It took me several years to get beyond the first page of Redgauntlet (Scott) and I can still quote the beginning (I'll spare you).
I am getting lazy and may never get around to reading the rest of Chaucer, though I have his complete works, the Parliament of Fowls is supposed to be good. Also les Chansons do Roland, Mallory, Froissart.
I have no desire whatsoever to read the confessions of St Augustine.
I would like to read Requiem pro un campesino espanol without recourse to a dictionary.
And I have read Ulysses, the 'no punctuation' bit is just hype - after all, there isn't punctuation in spoken word either, the brain inserts it - which is what my brain did with Ulysses.
I also read the Gulag Archipelago (age 13/14) though I think this isn't a classic.
JB Priestly - has anyone even heard of him now?
Orwell seems to have been reduced to Animal Farm and 1984
etc.