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 (2025 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. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (reread)
8. Foundation by Isaac Asimov
9.  Robot Empire by Isaac Asimov
10. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (reread)
11. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (2023 reread)
12.  Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (reread)
13. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (2025 reread)
14. Emma by Jane Austen (reread)
15. Emma by Jane Austen (2022 reread)
16. Persuasion by Jane Austen (reread)
17. Persuasion by Jane Austen (2024 reread)
18. Persuasion by Jane Austen (2025 reread)
19. Go Tell it On the Mountain by James Baldwin
20. Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
21.  The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
22. Something Wicked this Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
23. The Heroine by Eaton Stannard Barrett
24.  The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum
25. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte (reread)
26. The Professor by Charlotte Bronte (reread)
27. Letter from Peking by Pearl Buck
28. The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (reread)
29. Sons by Pearl S. Buck
30. The Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
31. A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett (reread)
32. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (reread)
33. A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote (reread)
34. My Mortal Enemy by Willa Cather
35. The Professor’s House by Willa Cather
36.  Shadows on the Rock by Willa Cather
37.  Selected Stories by Anton Chekhov
38. The Pathfinder by James Fenimore Cooper
39. 4:50 from Paddington by Agatha Christie
40. After the Funeral by Agatha Christie
41. Cards on the Table by Agatha Christie
42. Crooked House by Agatha Christie 
43. Death Comes as the End by Agatha Christie
44. Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
45. Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie (2023)
46. A Deadly Affair by Agatha Christie
47. Destination Unknown by Agatha Christie
48. Elephants Can Remember by Agatha Christie
49. Endless Night by Agatha Christie
50. Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie
51. Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie
52. Hallowe'en Party by Agatha Christie
53. Hercule Poirot’s Christmas by Agatha Christie
54. Lord Edgware Dies by Agatha Christie
55. The Man in the Brown Suit by Agatha Christie
56. Midwinter Murders by Agatha Christie
57. The Moving Finger by Agatha Christie
58. A Murder is Announced by Agatha Christie
59. The Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie
60. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
61. The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie
62. The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
63. The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie
64. Ordeal by Innocence by Agatha Christie
65. Partners in Crime by Agatha Christie
66. A Pocket Full of Rye by Agatha Christie
67. The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie
68. The Seven Dials Mystery by Agatha Christie
69. The Sittaford Mystery by Agatha Christie
70. Sparkling Cyanide by Agatha Christie
71. Taken at the Flood by Agatha Christie
72. They Do It With Mirrors by Agatha Christie
73. Third Girl by Agatha Christie
74. The Thirteen Problems by Agatha Christie
75. Three Act Tragedy by Agatha Christie
76. Towards Zero by Agatha Christie
77. Why Didn't They Ask Evans by Agatha Christie
78. The Twits by Roald Dahl
79.  Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick
80.  Bleak House by Charles Dickens
81. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (reread)
82. The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens (reread)
83. The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
84. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (reread)
85.  Crime and Punishment by Fyoder Dostoyevsky
86. The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
87. Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
88. The House on the Strand by Daphne du Maurier
89. Hungry Hill by Daphne du Maurier
90. The Parasites by Daphne du Maurier
91. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (reread)
92.  Scrapegoat by Daphne du Maurier
93. Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
94.   Middlemarch by George Eliot
95. The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
96. The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
97. Saratoga Creek by Edna Ferber
98. So Big by Edna Ferber (reread)
99. The Story of Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
100. The Beautiful and the Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerold
101. Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin (reread)
102. Mountain Interval by Robert Frost
103. North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
104. Sylvia’s Lovers by Elizabeth Gaskell
105. Warleggan by Winston Graham
106. The Black Moon by Winston Graham
107. The Four Swans by Winston Graham
108. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
109.  King Solomon’s Mines by H. Rider Haggard
110. Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
111. The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
112. The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
113. The Blithedale Romance by Nathanial Hawthorne
114. The Scarlet Letter by Nathanial Hawthorne (reread)
115.  Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne
116. The Complete Short Stories by Ernest Hemingway 
117. Friday's Child by Georgette Heyer
118. The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer
119. The Nonesuch by Georgette Heyer
120. The Quiet Gentleman by Georgette Heyer
121. The Spanish Bride by Georgette Heyer
122. The Talisman Ring by Georgette Heyer
123. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
124. The World According to Garp by John Irving
125. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James (reread)
126.  The Stand by Stephen King
127. A Separate Peace by John Knowles
128.  Born on the Fourth of July by Ron Kovic
129. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (reread)
130. The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
131. Ann Vickers by Sinclair Lewis
132. Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis
133.  Dodsworth by Sinclair Lewis
134.   Kingsblood Royal by Sinclair Lewis
135.  The Betsy-Tacy Treasury by Maud Hart Lovelace
136.   Heidi:  A Story for Girls by H.A. Melcon
137. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (reread)
138. Jane of Lantern Hill by L.M. Montgomery (reread)
139. The Story Girl by L.M. Montgomery (reread)
140. Beloved by Toni Morrison
141.  The Complete Stories by Flannery O’Conner
142. The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orcey
143. Animal Farm by George Orwell
144.  Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
145.  The Street by Ann Petry
146. Freckles by Gene Stratton Porter
147. The Harvester by Gene Stratton Porter
148. Keeper of the Bees by Gene Stratton Porter
149.  Laddie by Gene Stratton Porter
150.  Ship of Fools by Katherine Anne Porter
151. Peter Rabbit and Other Stories by Beatrix Potter
152. Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
153. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
154.  Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
155. Waverly by Sir Walter Scott
156. Katherine by Anya Seton (reread)
157. The Mistletoe and the Sword by Anya Seton
158.  My Theodosia by Anya Seton
159. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (reread)
160.  Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
161. Rose Cottage by Mary Stewart
162.  This Rough Magic by Mary Stewart
163. The Lady or the Tiger by Frank R. Stockton
164. Dracula by Bram Stoker
165.  Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
166. Walden by Henry David Thoreau (reread)
167. The Death of Ivan Ilych and other Stories by Leo Tolstoy
168. Christmas at Thompson Hall: And Other Christmas Stories by Anthony Trollope
169. Framley Parsonage by Anthony Trollope
170. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain
171. Essays and Sketches of Mark Twain
172. Around the Moon by Jules Verne
173. The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
174. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells (reread)
175. The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
176. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (reread)
177.  Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder (reread)
178.  Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder (reread)
179. These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder (reread)
180. The First Four Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder (reread)
181. Twilight Sleep by Edith Wharton
182. Native Son by Richard Wright
183.  Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss
184. Haunted Tales Edited by Lisa Morton and Leslie S. Klinger (contains stories by Oscar Wilde, HG Wells, Rudyard Kipling, Virginia Woolf, etc.)
185. 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)