Classics Club List

The goal of The Classics Club is to make reading classics a priority. Read whatever books you want at your own pace. Visit The Classics Club blog for more details about how to join. Here's my list... 

1) Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams

2) The Oresteia by Aeschylus

3) Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

4) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

5) Lysistrata by Aristophanes

6) Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
7) The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

8) The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood
9) Emma by Jane Austen

10) Lady Susan, Sanditon, and Juvenelia by Jane Austen

11) Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

12) Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

13) Persuasion by Jane Austen

14) Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

15) Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin

16)  Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry

17) The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte

18) Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

19) Villette by Charlotte Bronte

20) The Master and the Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

21) Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns

22) If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino

23) My Antonia by Willa Cather 
24) The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather
25) Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

26) Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov

27) The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

28) Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

29) Bleak House by Charles Dickens

30) Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
31) The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

32) The Final Problem / The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 

33) The Sign of Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
34) An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser

35) The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

36) The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

37) Adam Bede by George Eliot

38) Birdsong by Sebastian Faulk

39) As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

40) The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

41) The Beautiful and the Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald

42) American Gods by Neil Gaiman

43) Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons 

44) The Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales by The Brothers Grimm

45) Mythology by Edith Hamilton

46) Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy 
47) Tess of the d'Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy

48) The Garden of Eden by Ernest Hemingway

49) The Odyssey by Homer
50) Washington Square by Henry James

51) The Trial by Franz Kafka

52) The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac

53) Lady Chatterly's Lover by D.H. Lawrence

54) Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis

55) Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren

56) The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

57) One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel G. Marquez

58) The Painted Veil by W Somerset Maugham

59) After the Fall by Arthur Miller

60) Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

61) Emily of New Moon by L.M. Montgomery

62) Rilla of Ingleside by L.M. Montgomery

63) Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov

64) A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor

65) The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy

66) The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine 

67) The Republic by Plato

68) Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter
69) Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome

70) The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

71) Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters by J.D. Salinger

72) Coriolanus by William Shakespeare

73) Henry V by William Shakespeare

74) Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare

75) Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare
76) On the Beach by Nevil Shute 

77) In Dubious Battle by John Steinbeck

78) A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter 
79) Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

80) The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington

81) Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

82) Walden by Henry David Thoreau

83) The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien 
84) The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien 
85) The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien   
86) Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope

87) Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope

88) The Warden by Anthony Trollope

89) Roughing It by Mark Twain

90) Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne
91) The Aenid by Virgil

92) Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut  

93) Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut

94) The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh

95) The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty  

96) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams 

97) A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

98) A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

99) Native Son by Richard Wright

100) Germinal by Émile Zola

I joined The Classics Club in March 2012 and I served as one of the original moderators. My completion date was March 9, 2017 and I did it! 

  

I loved the challenge and the community so much that I decided to create a new list of 50 classics. I am giving myself a little grace here and instead of reviewing each one with a post, I may just mark it as complete when I am done. 

1) Little Men by Louisa May Alcott ✔

2) The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

3) Foundation by Isaac Asimov ✔

4) Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood

5) Go Tell It On the Mountain by James Baldwin ✔

6) The Professor by Charlotte Bronte ✔

7) Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs ✔

8) The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré

9) Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather

10) Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe ✔

11) Hard Times by Charles Dickens

12) Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

13) The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas

14) The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

15) Juneteenth by Ralph Ellison

16) Go Down, Moses by William Faulkner

17) The Invasion of the Body Snatchers by Jack Finney

18) The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy

19) North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell ✔

20) Neuromancer by William Gibson

21) The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene

22) Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy ✔

23) The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy ✔

24) Death in the Afternoon by Ernest Hemingway

25) Ulysses by James Joyce ✔

26) Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey

27) Independent People by Halldor Laxness ✔

28) The Earthsea Quartet by Ursula K. Le Guin ✔

29) Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian

30) Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez

31) Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

32) Lucifer’s Hammer by Larry Niven

33) The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine

34) Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

35) The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

36) Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

37) Henry IV part 1 & 2 by William Shakespeare ✔

38) King John by William Shakespeare ✔

39) Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild

40) Sophie's Choice by William Clark Styron

41) The Death of Ivan Ilych and other Stories by Leo Tolstoy

42) A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain

43) God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut

44) The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut

45) The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells ✔

46) The Once and Future King by T. H. White

47) Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin

48) Black Boy by Richard Wright ✔

49) The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham

50) We by Yevgeny Zamyatin

Additional Classics Reviews:

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott  

The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen  

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury 

The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury 

The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan 

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins 

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe  

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens 

The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle  

Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier 

My Cousin Rachel by by Daphne Du Maurier

Middlemarch by George Eliot 

Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner 

Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald  

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 

The Longest Journey by E.M. Forster  

Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell  

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 

The End of the Affair by Graham Greene

King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard  

Jude, The Obscure by Thomas Hardy 

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller  

A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway  

The Iliad by Homer  

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo  

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James 

Dubliners by James Joyce  

Kim by Rudyard Kipling  

Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis  

Moby Dick by Herman Melville 

The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker 

Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe  

All Quiet on the Western Front by Enrich Maria Remarque

King Lear by William Shakespeare  

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith 

Heidi by Johanna Spyri

Sweet Thursday by John Steinbeck  

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy 

The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne 

The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells  

The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton  

Here is New York by E.B. White   

*I reserve the right to change the list as I go.