The Classics Club was launched in 2012 with the aim of uniting people who like to read and blog about classic literature. The idea is to make a list of fifty or more classics you want to read within the next five years – modern classics and re-reads can also be included.
My goal is to finish by 10 March 2017 and I am hoping to read the 80 books listed below.
Progress: 21/85 books read.
My list:
The Lancashire Witches by William Harrison Ainsworth
A Long Fatal Love Chase by Louisa May Alcott – read November 2012
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood – read December 2012
Emma by Jane Austen (re-read) – read August 2012
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (re-read)
Lorna Doone by R.D. Blackmore
Aurora Floyd by Mary Elizabeth Braddon – read March 2013
Shirley by Charlotte Bronte
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (re-read)
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (re-read)
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Hide and Seek by Wilkie Collins
Family Roundabout by Richmal Crompton
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (re-read)
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas (re-read) – read March 2013
Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas
The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas
La Reine Margot by Alexandre Dumas
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (re-read)
Frenchman’s Creek by Daphne du Maurier
Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
A Room with a View by E.M. Forster – read February 2013
Howards End by E.M. Forster
The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
Sylvia’s Lovers by Elizabeth Gaskell – read July 2012
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
The Odd Women by George Gissing
The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway – read October 2012
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg – read January 2013
The Odyssey by Homer
The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope – read August 2012
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Washington Square by Henry James
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
The Princess of Cleves by Madame de Lafayette – read August 2012
The House by the Churchyard by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni
The Painted Veil by W Somerset Maugham – read March 2013
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy – read August 2012
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak – read February 2013, review to follow
Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
The Romance of the Forest by Ann Radcliffe
The Cloister and the Hearth by Charles Reade
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Clarissa by Samuel Richardson – read in 2012
Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini
Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini – read May 2012
The Sea Hawk by Rafael Sabatini
The Heart of Midlothian by Sir Walter Scott
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott – read April 2012
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
The Charterhouse of Parma by Henri Stendhal
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson – Read September 2012
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
The Small House at Allington by Anthony Trollope – Read January 2013
The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope – Read March 2013
Can You Forgive Her? by Anthony Trollope
Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham
The Heir of Redclyffe by Charlotte M. Yonge
The Ladies’ Paradise by Emile Zola – read April 2013; review to follow
Germinal by Emile Zola
