The Classics Club




 The Classics Club was launched in March 2012 by blogger Jillian and was given its own site in August 2012. The goal is to pick 50+ classic novels to read (bonus: and talk about via social media) within five years.

End Date: March 10, 2025
Total Books: 55 (I snuck in a couple of  'modern classics' - published in the 60's & 70's)
Books I' m Most Excited to Read: all of the Russian novels and the children's classics
Books I'm Most Intimidated By: Bleak House and The Woman in White (a.k.a. the 'monster-size-of-1,000-pages')


My List:
  1. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen*
  2. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
  3. Emma by Jane Austen*
  4. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov*
  5. Alice's Adventure in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll* ✔
  6. Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll*✓
  7. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
  8. Bleak House by Charles Dickens*
  9. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams* ✔
  10. Out of Africa by Karen Blixen (pen name: Isak Dinesen)
  11. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky*
  12. Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier ✔
  13. My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier*
  14. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
  15. Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev*
  16. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas*
  17. The Wasteland by T.S. Eliot
  18. Absalom, Absalom by William Faulkner* ✔
  19. Go Down, Moses by William Faulkner ✔
  20. The Reivers by William Faulkner* ✔
  21. Sanctuary by William Faulkner *
  22. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka ✔
  23. The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald*
  24. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
  25. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak*
  26. The Sons by Franz Kafka*
  27. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez*
  28. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston* ✔
  29. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L 'Engle ✔
  30. Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
  31. The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux*
  32. The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald*
  33. Moby Dick by Herman Melville* ✔
  34. Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery*
  35. Ada, or Ardor by Vladimir Nabokov*
  36. The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy
  37. 1984 by George Orwell*
  38. Five Children and It by E. Nesbit*
  39. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley* ✓
  40. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith ✓
  41. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien*✓
  42. The Magus by John Fowles
  43. Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie*
  44. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
  45. The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton*
  46. The Path to the Spiders' Nests by Italo Calvino
  47. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde*
  48. On the Road by Jack Kerouac* 
  49. The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse
  50. Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
Rereads:
  1. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen*
  2. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte*
  3. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens*
  4. Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger*
  5. A Midsummer's Night Dream by William Shakespeare*

Completed: 14/55

*I own it
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