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