The Classics Club

I first read about The Classics Club on Lakeside Musing.  I was intrigued.  I have read a lot of classics in my life, but I feel like I haven’t read that many in the past five years or so.  I have a LOT of classics in my “to read” bookshelf at home so I started to make a list of them. I also added in a few books I don’t own that I would really like to read, and also a few that I’ve already read that I would love to read again.

My list has ended up long – 116 novels!  My goal is to try to finish this list in five years.  January 1, 2021 is my completion date.  I plan to link all of my reviews on to this page and I may update and change the list as we go along . . . we’ll see where this leads.  I just want a way to inspire me to get back to reading the classics and to read the books I already own!  What do you think of my list?

1.      Morte Arthur by Author Unknown

2.      Christmas Treasury by Louisa May Alcott

3.      A Garland for Girls by Louisa May Alcott

4.      Jo’s Boys by Louisa May Alcott

5.      Little Men by Louisa May Alcott

6.      The House of the Spirits  by Isabel Allende

7.      Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson

8.      I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (reread)

9.      Foundation by Isaac Asimov

10.  Robot Empire by Isaac Asimov

11.  Emma by Jane Austen (reread)

12.  Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (reread)

13.  Persuasion by Jane Austen (reread)

14.  If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin

15.  Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury

16.  The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

17.  Something Wicked this Way Comes by Ray Bradbury

18.  The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum

19.  The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

20.  Letter from Peking by Pearl Buck

21.  A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett (reread)

22.  Alexander’s Bridge by Willa Cather

23.  My Mortal Enemy by Willa Cather

24.  The Professor’s House by Willa Cather

25.  Shadows on the Rock by Willa Cather

26.  Selected Stories by Anton Chekhov

27.  The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

28.  The Pathfinder by James Fenimore Cooper

29.  Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

30.  Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick

31.  Bleak House by Charles Dickens

32.  A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (reread)

33.  The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

34.  Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

35.  Crime and Punishment by Fyoder Dostoyevsky

36.  The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

37.  Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser

38.  The House on the Strand by Daphne du Maurier

39.  Hungry Hill by Daphne du Maurier

40.  Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier (reread)

41.  The Parasites by Daphne du Maurier

42.  Scrapegoat by Daphne du Maurier

43.  Daniel Deronda by George Eliot

44.  Middlemarch by George Eliot

45.  The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

46.  Saratoga Creek by Edna Ferber

47.  So Big by Edna Ferber

48.  The Story of Tom Jones by Henry Fielding

49.  The Beautiful and the Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerold

50.  Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin (reread)

51.  North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

52.  Sylvia’s Lovers by Elizabeth Gaskell

53.  Jeremy Poldark by Winston Graham

54.  King Solomon’s Mines by H. Rider Haggard

55.  Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

56.  The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

57.  The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy

58.  The Blithedale Romance by Nathanial Hawthorne

59.  Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

60.  Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

61.  The Complete Short Stories by Ernest Hemingway

62.  The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

63.  The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer

64.  The Quiet Gentleman by Georgette Heyer

65.  The Spanish Bride by Georgette Heyer

66.  The World According to Garp by John Irving

67.  The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

68.  The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

69.  The Golden Bowl by Henry James

70.  The Stand by Stephen King

71.  Born on the Fourth of July by Ron Kovic

72.  The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

73.  Ann Vickers by Sinclair Lewis

74.  Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis

75.  Dodsworth by Sinclair Lewis

76.  Kingsblood Royal by Sinclair Lewis

77.  The Call of the Wild by Jack London

78.  The Betsy-Tacy Treasury by Maud Hart Lovelace

79.  Heidi:  A Story for Girls by H.A. Melcon

80.  Christmas with Anne by L.M. Montgomery

81.  The Complete Stories by Flannery O’Conner

82.  The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orcey

83.  Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton

84.  Freckles by Gene Stratton Porter

85.  The Harvester by Gene Stratton Porter

86.  Keeper of the Bees by Gene Stratton Porter

87.  Laddie by Gene Stratton Porter

88.  Ship of Fools by Katherine Anne Porter

89.  All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

90.  Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott

91.  Waverly by Sir Walter Scott

92.  The Mistletoe and the Sword by Anya Seton

93.  My Theodosia by Anya Seton

94.  A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

95.  This Rough Magic by Mary Stewart

96.  Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

97.  The Lady or the Tiger by Frank R. Stockton

98.  Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

99.  Walden by Henry David Thoreau (reread)

100.          The Death of Ivan Ilych and other Stories by Leo Tolstoy

101.          Christmas at Thompson Hall: And Other Christmas Stories by Anthony Trollope

102.          Framley Parsonage by Anthony Trollope

103.          A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain

104.          Essays and Sketches of Mark Twain

105.          From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne

106.          Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder (reread)

107.          Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder (reread)

108.          Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder (reread)

109.          On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder (reread)

110.          On the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder (reread)

111.          The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder (reread)

112.          Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder (reread)

113.          These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder (reread)

114.          The First Four Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder (reread)

115.          Twilight Sleep by Edith Wharton

116.          Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss