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Classics Club List

 Classics Club reading list. Last updated: 7/4/25 

(I updated my list with classics I read before I started blogging and with classics still languishing on my TBR on 5/21/25. So I am well beyond the first 50 books on my classics club list, though I never kept a copy of my original list.)

Title

Author

Date completed

Things Fall Apart

Achebe, Chinua

30-Apr-07

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, A

Adams, Douglass

11-May-11

A Death in the Family

Agee, James

16-Oct-24

Little Women (Re-read)

Alcott, Louisa May

27-Nov-16 

Divine Comedy

Alighieri, Dante

 

Bless Me, Ultima

Anaya, Ruldolfo

5-Oct-14

Fairy Tales

Anderson, Hans Christian

 

Winesburg, Ohio

Anderson, Sherwood

21-Oct-19

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Angelou, Maya

15-Oct-06

Wouldn’t Take Nothing from My Journey Now

Angelou, Maya

15-Jun-96

Emma

Austen, Jane

1-Nov-10

Lady Susan

Austen, Jane

15-Sep-10

Love and Friendship

Austen, Jane

10 Oct-18

Mansfield Park

Austen, Jane

14-Apr-14

Sense and Sensibility

Austen, Jane

22-Jun-13

Sanditon and The Watsons

Austen, Jane

15-Feb-07

If Beale Street Could Talk

Baldwin, James

12-Sep-19

Giovanni’s Room

Baldwin, James

28-Oct-24

Go Tell It on the Mountain

Baldwin, James

4-Jun-25 

Peter Pan

Barrie, J.M.

 

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Baum, L. Frank

 

Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret

Blume, Judy

1-May-20

Aleph and Other Stories

Borges, Jorges Luis

15-Oct-23

Fahrenheit 451

Bradbury, Ray

10-Oct-08

Something by

Bradbury, Ray

 

Tenant of Wildfell Hall, The

Bronte, Anne

 

Jane Eyre

Bronte, Charlotte

15-Jan-80

Wuthering Heights

Bronte, Emily

1-Dec-08

The Good Earth (Reread)

Buck, Pearl S.

 

The Master and Margarita

Bulgakov, Mikhail

 

The Secret Garden

Burnett, Francis Hodgson

1-Mar-22

Kindred

Butler, Octavia

15-Mar-18

The Postman Always Rings Twice

Cain, James

06-Nov-24

If On a Winter's Night a Traveler

Calvino, Italo

15-Jan-23

Breakfast at Tiffany’s

Capote, Truman

11-June-23

A Christmas Memory, et al

Capote, Truman

30-Nov-24

Death Comes for the Archbishop

Cather, Willa

 

My Antonia

Cather, Willa

15-Dec-08

One of Ours

Cather, Willa

6-Jun-21 

Don Quixote

de Cervantes, Miguels

 

Big Sleep, The

Chandler, Raymond

10-Aug-19

Cherry Orchard, The

Chekhov, Anton

 

ABC Murders, The

Christie, Agatha

20-Mar-23

And Then There Were None

Christie, Agatha

19-June-16

Cards on the Table

Christie, Agatha

 

Murder on the Orient Express

Christie, Agatha

21-Feb-22

Murder of Roger Ackroyd, The

Christie, Agatha

06-Jun-18

Murder at the Vicarage, The

Christie, Agatha

23-Jan-18

Mysterious Affair at Styles, The

Christie, Agatha

1-May-03

The House on Mango Street

Cisneros, Sandra

1-Oct-07

Woman in White, The

Collins, Wilkie

5-May-15

Heart of Darkness

Conrad, Joseph

 

BFG, The

Dahl, Roald

28-Feb-19

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Dahl, Roald

 

Robinson Crusoe

Defoe, Daniel

 

A Christmas Carol

Dickens, Charles

19-Oct-24

David Copperfield

Dickens, Charles

2, May-25

Great Expectations

Dickens, Charles

19-Sep-15

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Dickens, Charles

 

The Tale of Two Cities

Dickens, Charles

 

Out of Africa

Dinesen, Isak

23-Oct.-16

The Brothers Karamazov

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

30-Mar-25

Crime and Punishment

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

 

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass ...

Douglass, Frederick

29-Jul-08

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

 

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

1-Feb-08

Rebecca (reread)

Du Maurier, Daphne

1-Sep-09

The Count of Monte Cristo

Dumas, Alexandre

28-Mar-23 

The Name of the Rose

Eco, Umberto

10-Sep-18 

Invisible Man

Ellison, Ralph

 

Middlemarch

Eliot, George

29-Oct-23

Silas Marner

Eliot, George

 

Four Quartets

Eliott, T.S.

 15-Apr-16

Neverending Story

Ende, Michael

17-Apr-15

As I Lay Dying

Faulkner, William

2-Oct-22

Reivers, The

Faulkner, William

 

So Big

Ferber, Edna

30-May-20

Great Gatsby, The

Fitzgerald, Scott F.

24-Apr-13

Madam Bovary

Flaubert, Gustave

 

Passage to India

Forster, E.M.

 

Alas Babylon

Frank, Pat

1-Jul-08

My Brilliant Career

Franklin, Miles

1-Jan-18

The Snow Goose

Gallico, Paul

11-Nov-11

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Garcia Marquez, Gabriel

7-Sep-14

Something by

Gaskell, Elizabeth

 

The Odd Women

Gissing, George

12-Nov-97

Lord of the Flies

Golding, William

22-Feb-11

Princess Bride, The

Goldman, William

18-Nov-20

Grimm’s Fairy Tales

Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm

 

The Maltese Falcon

Hammett, Dashell

15-Aug-03

84, Charing Cross Road

Hanff, Helene

18-Oct-21

Tess of the D’Urbervilles

Hardy, Thomas

 

The Scarlet Letter

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

 

Catch-22

Heller, Joseph

3-Jul-25 

Farewell to Arms, A

Hemingway, Ernest

3-Oct-13

Old Man and the Sea (Reread)

Hemingway, Ernest

26-Feb-24

The Sun Also Rises

Hemingway, Ernest

 

Moveable Feast, A

Hemingway, Ernest

27-Apr-13

Dune

Herbert, Frank

24-Apr-20

A Bell for Adano

Hersey, John

5-Sept-24

Siddhartha

Hesse, Herman

 

Talented Mr. Ripley, The

Highsmith, Patricia

 

Outsiders

Hinton, S.E.

1-Feb-06

Iliad

Homer

 

Hind’s Feet in High Places

Hurnard, Hannah

17-Jun-20

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Hurston, Zora Neale

 15-Aug-15

Brave New World, A

Huxley, Aldous

3-Mar-11

The Turn of the Screw

James, Henry

10-Nov-24

Something by

James, Henry

 

Sound of the Mountain

Kawabata, Yasunari

 

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Kesey, Ken

1-Sept-23

Three Men in a Boat

Jerome, Jerome K.

20-Mar-15

Now in November

Johnson, Josephine Winslow

 

Phantom Tollbooth, The

Juster, Norton

11-Nov-11

Metamorphosis, The

Kafka, Franz

19-May-21 

Trial, The

Kafka, Franz

 

On the Road

Kerouac, Jack

 

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Khayyam, Omar

 

The Jungle Book

Kipling, Rudyard

 

Passing

Larson, Nella

28-May-25 

Spy Who Came in from the Cold, The

le Carre, John

 

To Kill a Mockingbird

Lee, Harper

15-Jul-15

Left Hand of Darkness

Le Guin, Ursula

 

The Chronicles of Narnia (reread series)

Lewis, C.S.

Mar-May-22

The Great Divorce

Lewis, C.S.

15-Apr-96

Elmer Gantry

Lewis, Sinclair

 

The Robe

Lloyd, Douglas

 

The Palace Walk

Mahfouz, Naguib

 

West With the Night

Markham, Beryl

          30-Jun-16

The Painted Veil

Maugham, Somerset

05-Nov-21

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

McCullers, Carson

1-May-96

Lonesome Dove

McMurtry, Larry

15-Apr-20

Gone with the Wind

Mitchell, Margaret

1-Sep-76

Moby-Dick

Melville, Herman

 

Tales of the South Pacific

Michener, James

12-Apr-17

Anne of Green Gables (Reread)

Montgomery, L.M.

16-Aug-16

The Bluest Eye

Morrison, Toni

14-May-2000

Beloved

Morrison, Toni

8-Apr-11

Lolita

Nabokov, Vladimir

1-Feb-07

Suite Française

Nemirovsky, Irene

8-Sep-18

A Good Man is Hard to Find

O’Connor, Flannery

30-Jun-16

1984 (Reread)

Orwell, George

24-Feb-09

Something by

Parker, Dorothy

 

Cry, The Beloved Country

Paton, Alan

 

Bell Jar, The

Plath, Sylvia

30-Apr-11

The Raven (Reread)

Poe, Edgar Allan

16-Apr-12

Remembrance of Things Past

Proust, Marcel

 

Excellent Women

Pym, Barbara

 

Westing Game, The

Raskin, Ellen

 

Yearling, The

Rawling, Marjorie Kinnan

9-Jan-16

Wild Sargasso Sea

Rhys, Jean

28-Jan-19

Poems from the Book of Hours

Rilke, Rainier Maria

12-Mar-16

Letters to a Young Poet

Rilke, Rainier Maria

21-Mar-16 

The Goblin Market and other Poems

Rossetti, Christina

05-Mar-23

Pedro Paramo

Rulfo, Juan

26-Nov-24

Masnavi: Book One

Rumi

 

Little Prince, The

Saint-Exupery, Antoine du

3-Apr-15

The Catcher in the Rye

Salinger, J.D.

15-Nov-95

Hamlet

Shakespeare

 

Romeo and Juliet

Shakespeare

16-Apr-23

Frankenstein

Shelley, Mary

20-Jul-23 

Tale of the Genji

Shikibu, Murasaki

 

A Town Like Alive

Shute, Neville

7-Dec-11

Tree Grows in Brooklyn, A

Smith, Betty

1-Feb-06

I Capture the Castle

Smith, Dodie

9-Nov-97

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr

 

Kokoro

Soseki, Natsume

 

Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The

Spark, Muriel

 

The Angle of Repose

Stegner, Wallace

12-Nov-97

Grapes of Wrath, The

Steinbeck, John

8-Sep-22 

East of Eden

Steinbeck, John

15-Feb-20 

The Red Pony

Steinbeck, John

5-Jun-09

A Child’s Garden of Verses

Stevenson, Robert Louis

26-Nov-21

Treasure Island

Stevenson, Robert Louis

02-Nov-21

Dracula

Stoker, Dram

 

Valley of the Dolls

Susann, Jaqueline

 

The Magnificent Ambersons

Tarkington, Booth

18-May-25

The Fellowship of the Ring Trilogy

Tolkien, J.R.R.

1974

Anna Karenina

Tolstoy, Leo

 

The Death of Ivan Ilyich

Tolstoy, Leo

09-Nov-24

Confederacy of Dunces, A

Toole, John Kennedy

18-Aug-13

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Twain, Mark

1-Feb-09

Breathing Lessons

Tyler, Anne

11-Jul-21

Around the World in Eighty Days

Verne, Jules

17-Mar-07

Candide

Voltaire

 

Slaughterhouse -Five

Vonnegut, Kurt

27-Sep-17

Winter Wheat

Walker, Mildred

14-Jul-19

All the King’s Men

Warren, Robert Penn

 

Brideshead Revisited

Waugh, Evelyn

15-Jan-09

Scoop

Waugh, Evelyn

 

Optimist’s Daughter, The

Welty, Eudora

20-Jan-25

Age of Innocence, The

Wharton, Edith

 20-Apr-16

Leaves of Grass

Whitman, Walt

9-Mar-17 

The Sword in the Stone

White, T.H.

11-Oct-17

Picture of Dorian Grey

Wilde, Oscar

22-Oct-21

Bridge Over San Luis Rey

Wilder, Thornton

06-Nov-23

Our Town

Wilder, Thornton

08-Nov-23

Joy in the Morning

Wodehouse, P.G.

 

The Return of Jeeves

Wodehouse, P.G.

25-Apr-23

A Room of One’s Own

Woolf, Virginia

27-Nov-24

To the Lighthouse

Woolf, Virginia

 

Mrs. Dalloway

Woolf, Virginia

20-May-24

Germinal

Zola, Emile

 


 

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