The Classics Club

This is a wonderful initiative with a fairly simple premise: Read classic literature!

Make a list of at least 50 classic titles and commit to finishing your list in 5 years. Every time you review a book for your blog submit the post to the Club. There are readalongs with other members and something called the Spin. Read more about the community here.

Here is my (2nd) list that I commit to finishing by December 30, 2030

  1. Alcott, Louisa May-Good Wives
  2. Alcott, Louisa May-Under the Lilacs
  3. Blackmore, RD-Lorna Doone
  4. Bronte, Charlotte-The Professor
  5. Burney, Frances-Camilla
  6. Cambridge, Ada-The Three Miss Kings
  7. Collins, Wilkie-The Moonstone
  8. Crane, Stephen-The Red Badge of Courage
  9. Dana, William Henry-Two Years before the Mast
  10. Dostoevsky, Fyodor-The Brothers Karamatzov
  11. Doyle, Arthur Conan-A Study in Scarlet
  12. Eliot, George-Silas Marner
  13. Fitzgerald, F Scott-This Side of Paradise
  14. Galsworthy, John-The Forsyte Saga
  15. Gaskell, Elizabeth-Mary Barton
  16. Hawthorne, Nathaniel-The Marble Faun
  17. Holtby, Winifred-South Riding
  18. Homer-The Illiad
  19. Howells, Willian Dean-The Rise of Sils Lapham
  20. Hugo, Victor-The Hunchback of Notre Dame
  21. Irving, Washington-The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories
  22. Jackson, Shirley-We have always Lived in the Castle
  23. James, Henry-The Ambassadors
  24. Lennox, Charlotte-The Female Quixote
  25. Lewis, Sinclair-Main Street
  26. Maugham, W Somerset-The Moon and Sixpence
  27. Maugham, W. Somerset-The Painted Veil
  28. Mayor, FM-The Rector’s Daughter
  29. Meredith, George-The Egoist
  30. Meredith, George-Diana of the Crossways
  31. Morley, Christopher-The Haunted Bookshop
  32. Mrs. Oliphant-The Rector
  33. Pym, Barbara-Excellent Women
  34. Richardson, Samuel-Pamela
  35. Sackville-West, Vita-The Dark Island
  36. Scott, Walter-Ivanhoe
  37. Sharp, Margery-Cluny Brown
  38. Shelley, Mary-The Last Man
  39. Sinclair, Upton-Oil!
  40. Smith, Dodie-I Capture the Castle
  41. Steinbeck, John-Sweet Thursday
  42. Steinbeck, John-East of Eden
  43. Taylor, Elizabeth-At Mrs. Lippincote’s
  44. Thackeray-Vanity Fair
  45. Trollope-The Warden
  46. Trollope-Castle Richmond
  47. Twain, Mark-Innocents Abroad
  48. Wells, HG-The War in the Air
  49. Wells, HG-In the Days of the Comet
  50. Wells, HG-A Modern Utopia
  51. Wharton, Edith-A Backward Glance
  52. Wharton, Edith-The Reef
  53. Wharton, Edith-French Ways and their Meaning
  54. Wolf, Emma-Other Things being Equal
  55. Woolf, Virginia-Jacob’s Room
  56. Zola, Emile-The Ladies Paradise


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