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