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Classics Club List

 Classics Club reading list. Last updated: 5/2125 

(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

 

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

 

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

 

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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