The Classics Club

I first read about The Classics Club on Lakeside Musing in 2015.  I was intrigued.  I have read a lot of classics in my life, but I want to read more.  I have a LOT of classics in my “to read” bookshelf at home so I started this journey.  I ended up reading some on my list, and a lot not on my list.  My five years in the classics club ended January 1, 2021.  I am starting round two on January 1, 2021 with and ending date of January 1, 2026.  I started a classics book club at my local library in 2019, but with COVID in 2020, all events were cancelled.  I’m hoping we are back on track at some point in 2021 to help me with my reading list.  What do you think of my reading list?

My “to-read” classics list for 2021-2026:

1.  Morte Arthur by Author Unknown
2. A Garland for Girls by Louisa May Alcott
3. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (reread)
4. Jo’s Boys by Louisa May Alcott 
5.  The House of the Spirits  by Isabel Allende
6. Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
7. Foundation by Isaac Asimov
8.  Robot Empire by Isaac Asimov
9. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (reread)
10. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (2023 reread)
11.  Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (reread)
12. Emma by Jane Austen (reread)
13. Emma by Jane Austen (2022 reread)
14. Persuasion by Jane Austen (reread)
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 Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte (reread)
20. Letter from Peking by Pearl Buck
21. The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (reread)
22. Sons by Pearl S. Buck
23. The Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
24. A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett (reread)
25. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (reread)
26. A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote (reread)
27. My Mortal Enemy by Willa Cather
28. The Professor’s House by Willa Cather
29.  Shadows on the Rock by Willa Cather
30.  Selected Stories by Anton Chekhov
31. The Pathfinder by James Fenimore Cooper
32. 4:50 from Paddington by Agatha Christie
33. After the Funeral by Agatha Christie
34. Crooked House by Agatha Christie 
35. Death Comes as the End by Agatha Christie
36. Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
37. Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie (2023)
38. A Deadly Affair by Agatha Christie
39. Destination Unknown by Agatha Christie
40. Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie
41. Hercule Poirot’s Christmas by Agatha Christie
42. Lord Edgware Dies by Agatha Christie
43. The Man in the Brown Suit by Agatha Christie
44. The Moving Finger by Agatha Christie
45. The Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie
46. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
47. The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie
48. The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
49. Partners in Crime by Agatha Christie
50. A Pocket Full of Rye by Agatha Christie
51. The Sittaford Mystery by Agatha Christie
52. Sparkling Cyanide by Agatha Christie
53. They Do It With Mirrors by Agatha Christie
54. Towards Zero by Agatha Christie
55. Why Didn't They Ask Evans by Agatha Christie
56. The Twits by Roald Dahl
57.  Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick
58.  Bleak House by Charles Dickens
59. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (reread)
60. The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens (reread)
61. The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
62.  Crime and Punishment by Fyoder Dostoyevsky
63. The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
64. Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
65. The House on the Strand by Daphne du Maurier
66. Hungry Hill by Daphne du Maurier
67. The Parasites by Daphne du Maurier
68. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (reread)
69.  Scrapegoat by Daphne du Maurier
70. Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
71.   Middlemarch by George Eliot
72. The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
73. The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
74. Saratoga Creek by Edna Ferber
75. So Big by Edna Ferber (reread)
76. The Story of Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
77. The Beautiful and the Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerold
78. Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin (reread)
79. North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
80. Sylvia’s Lovers by Elizabeth Gaskell
81. Warleggan by Winston Graham
82. The Black Moon by Winston Graham
83. The Four Swans by Winston Graham
84.  King Solomon’s Mines by H. Rider Haggard
85. Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
86. The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
87. The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
88. The Blithedale Romance by Nathanial Hawthorne
89. The Scarlet Letter by Nathanial Hawthorne (reread)
90.  Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne
91. The Complete Short Stories by Ernest Hemingway 
92. Friday's Child by Georgette Heyer
93. The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer
94. The Quiet Gentleman by Georgette Heyer
95. The Spanish Bride by Georgette Heyer
96. The World According to Garp by John Irving
97. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James (reread)
98.  The Stand by Stephen King
99. A Separate Peace by John Knowles
100.  Born on the Fourth of July by Ron Kovic
101. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (reread)
102. The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
103. Ann Vickers by Sinclair Lewis
104. Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis
105.  Dodsworth by Sinclair Lewis
106.   Kingsblood Royal by Sinclair Lewis
107.  The Betsy-Tacy Treasury by Maud Hart Lovelace
108.   Heidi:  A Story for Girls by H.A. Melcon
109. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (reread)
110. The Story Girl by L.M. Montgomery
111. Beloved by Toni Morrison
112.  The Complete Stories by Flannery O’Conner
113. The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orcey
114. Animal Farm by George Orwell
115.  Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
116. Freckles by Gene Stratton Porter
117. The Harvester by Gene Stratton Porter
118. Keeper of the Bees by Gene Stratton Porter
119.  Laddie by Gene Stratton Porter
120.  Ship of Fools by Katherine Anne Porter
121. Peter Rabbit and Other Stories by Beatrix Potter
122. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
123.  Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
124. Waverly by Sir Walter Scott
125. The Mistletoe and the Sword by Anya Seton
126.  My Theodosia by Anya Seton
127. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (reread)
128.  This Rough Magic by Mary Stewart
129.  Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
130. The Lady or the Tiger by Frank R. Stockton
131. Dracula by Bram Stoker
132.  Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
133. Walden by Henry David Thoreau (reread)
134. The Death of Ivan Ilych and other Stories by Leo Tolstoy
135. Christmas at Thompson Hall: And Other Christmas Stories by Anthony Trollope
136. Framley Parsonage by Anthony Trollope
137. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain
138. Essays and Sketches of Mark Twain
139. Around the Moon by Jules Verne
140. The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
141. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells (reread)
142. The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
143. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (reread)
144.  Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder (reread)
145.  Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder (reread)
146. These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder (reread)
147. The First Four Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder (reread)
148. Twilight Sleep by Edith Wharton
149. Native Son by Richard Wright
150.  Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss
151. Haunted Tales Edited by Lisa Morton and Leslie S. Klinger (contains stories by Oscar Wilde, HG Wells, Rudyard Kipling, Virginia Woolf, etc.)
152. The Penguin Book of Christmas Stories: From Hans Christian Andersen to Angela Carter edited by Jessica Harrison

Classics Club list I read from 2016 to 2021:

1.  Christmas Treasury by Louisa May Alcott 

2.  Little Men by Louisa May Alcott

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

4.  The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

5.  Emma by Jane Austen (reread)

6.  Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (reread)

7.  Persuasion & Poems by Jane Austen (reread)

8.   Pride and Prejudice with Songs from Regency England by Jane Austen (reread)

9.  The Search for Delicious by Natalie Babbitt  

10.  If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin

11.   The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

12.  Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

13.  Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

14.    A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote

15.   Alice's Adventure's in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

16.   Alexander’s Bridge by Willa Cather 

17.  The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

18.  The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie

19.  And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

20.  Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

21.  Matilda by Roald Dahl

22.  Revolting Rhymes and Dirty Beasts by Roald Dahl

23.  The Twits, The Minpins, and The Magic Finger by Roald Dahl

24.  The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupery

25.   A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (reread)

26.  Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

27.  Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier (reread) (1/16)

28.   So Big by Edna Ferber

29.  Jeremy Poldark by Winston Graham

30.    Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

31.  The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

32.  A Christmas Party by Georgette Heyer

33.  Regency Buck by Georgette Heyer

34.  Sylvester by Georgette Heyer 

35.  The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

36.   The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

37.  Young Pioneers (Let the Hurricane Roar) by Rose Wilder Lane

38.  A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

39.  The Call of the Wild by Jack London

40.   The Giver by Lois Lowry

41.  So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell

42.  Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

43.  Anne of Avonlea by L.M. Montgomery

44.  Anne of the Island by L.M. Montgomery

45.  Anne of Windy Poplars by L.M. Montgomery

46.  Anne's House of Dreams by L.M. Montgomery

47.  Anne of Ingleside by L.M. Montgomery

48.  Rainbow Valley by L.M. Montgomery

49.  Rilla of Ingleside by L.M. Montgomery

50.  At the Altar:  Matrimonial Tales by L.M. Montgomery

51.  Christmas with Anne by L.M. Montgomery

52.  Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien

53.  A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

54.  Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

55.   A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

56.   The Cay by Theodore Taylor  

57.  From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne

58.  The Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. White

59.   Stuart Little by E.B. White

60.  The Sword in the Stone by T.H. White

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

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

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

64.  By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder (reread)

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