The Classics Club

I have a large number of books on my bookshelf that would be considered Classics. I have read a fair number of them, but there are probably too many that remain unread. With this in mind, I have decided to join The Classics Club, an online community of Classics lovers, encouraging people to read more of the Classics. The idea is to set your own goal of the number of Classics you want to read, with the time frame you believe you can achieve this in, and then publish your intended book list on your blog.

I have decided to read 50 Classics and have set 31 December 2017 as the date of completion for this. That’s only 10 books a year for the following 5 years and I believe that this should be quite achievable. With the number of books I have on my shelves, as well as on my Kobo, I should probably have enough to do this without having to buy any more. Also, with limiting my number to 50, I can still continue to read other newer books as well.

Here is my list of 50 books, listed alphabetically by author. These are all books I have never fully read before. I will insert the date of completion in  brackets after each one and will add a hyperlink to the post where I review or write about that particular book:

1. Alcott, Louisa May – Little Women
2. Austen, Jane – Persuasion
3. Austen, Jane – Sense and Sensibility
4. Barrie, J.M. – Peter Pan (26 June, 2013)
5. Baum, L. Frank – The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
6. Bradbury, Ray – The Illustrated Man (8 March, 2014)
7. Bronte, Charlotte – Jane Eyre (14 November 2013)
8. Burnett, Frances Hodgson – The Secret Garden (3 May, 2013)
9. Chekhov, Anton – Three Sisters
10. Chesterton, G.K. – The Club of Queer Trades
11. Chesterton, G.K. – The Napoleon of Notting Hill
12. Crane, Stephen – Red Badge of Courage
13. Dickens, Charles – Great Expectations
14. Dostoevesky, Fyodor – The Idiot
15. Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan – The Lost World
16. Endo, Shusaku – Silence
17. Flaubert, Gustav – Madame Bovary
18. Gogol, Nikolai – The Inspector General
19. Hardy, Thomas – Mayor of Casterbridge
20. Hawthorne, Nathaniel – The Scarlet Letter
21. Hemingway, Ernest – Islands in the Stream
22. Hesse, Hermann – Siddhartha
23. Huxley, Aldous – Brave New World
24. James, Henry – Turn of the Screw
25. London, Jack – The Call of the Wild
26. MacDonald – The Princess and the Goblin
27. Marlowe, Christopher – Doctor Faustus (30 April 2015)
28. Montgomery, L.M. – Anne of Green Gables
29. More, Thomas – Utopia (25 August 2013)
30. Mowat, Farley – Never Cry Wolf
31. Orczy, Baroness – The Scarlet Pimpernel
32. Orwell, George – Burmese Days
33. Rostand, Edmond – Cyrano de Bergerac
34. Salinger, J.D. – The Catcher in the Rye
35. Scott, Sir Walter – Rob Roy
36. Sewell, Anna – Black Beauty
37. Stevenson, Robert Louis – Kidnapped (29 March 2014)
38. Thoreau, Henry David – Walden (26 April 2013)
39. Tolstoy, Leo – The Death of Ivan Ilyich
40. Turgenev, Ivan – Fathers and Sons
41. Twain, Mark – The Prince and the Pauper
42. Verne, Jules – Around the World in 80 Days (16 February 2015)
43. Verne, Jules – From the Earth to the Moon
44. Verne, Jules – Journey to the Center of the Earth
45. Verne, Jules – Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
46. Voltaire – Candide
47. Wells, H.G. – The Invisible Man
48. Wells, H.G. – The Time Machine
49. Wells, H.G. – The War of the Worlds (27 December 2013)
50. Wilde, Oscar – The Picture of Dorian Gray

Completed: 9/50