The Classics Reading Challenge

I stumbled across the Gilmore Girls challenge, but found that most of the books on the list I had read, and if I hadn't then I didn't want to. (i.e. Henry James. Seriously. Can only take so much, ok?)

So, instead we're coming up with our own classics challenge. I don't have a button and this is pretty laid back, but the idea is, to make a list of classics that you'd like to read, but never got around to.
I am a voracious reader, like all of you, of course, and have read an inordinate amount of classics - in fact, they were about all that I'd read during high school. (I slaughtered the children's section during elementary school, and the YA after college.) So. This may seem a bit eclectic, and of course, if you have any suggestions, feel free to comment and say so.

The books:
Mary Barton, by Elizabeth Gaskell
Cranford, by Elizabeth Gaskell
Ruth, by Elizabeth Gaskell
The Jungle Books, by Rudyard Kipling (Never finished...)
The Four Feathers
Under a Greenwood Tree, by Thomas Hardy (started)
The Haunted House, ed. Charles Dickens (short stories with contemporary authors like Dickens, Collins, and Gaskell)
St. Ives, by Robert Louis Stevenson (I own it, but it's such an old edition that I'm afraid to read it.)
Lorna Doone, by Richard Blackmore
Mrs. Miniver, by Jan Struther (I realize this is more of a 'modern' classic.)


The goal is to read 5 of these books by the end of the year. I realize that seems a bit...sparse, but since I read mostly YA and children's books, I figure that sounds about right.