The Classics Club List

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This is my Classics Club book list! I'm going for 50 in 5 years. Date finis: March 14, 2029


1. Howards End, E.M. Forster
2. Melmoth the Wanderer, Charles Maturin
3. The Way We Live Now, Anthony Trollope
4. He Knew He Was Right, Anthony Trollope
5. The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo
6. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
7. Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
8. Aurora Leigh, Elizabeth Barrett Browning
9. The Lark, E. Nesbit
10. Lyrical Ballads, William Wordsworth & Samuel Taylor Coleridge – READ
11. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier – READ
12. Trilby, George du Maurier
13. North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell
15. The Lost Princess; or, The Wise Woman, George MacDonald
18. The Four Feathers, A.E.W. Mason
19. Emma, Jane Austen
20. Persuasion, Jane Austen
21. Rob Roy, Sir Walter Scott
22. Vile Bodies, Evelyn Waugh
24. Mansfield Park, Jane Austen
25. The Worm Ouroboros, E.R. Edison
26. The Lair of the White Worm, Bram Stoker
27. The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens
28. Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy
29. Agnes Grey, Anne Brontë
30. The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins – READING
31. The Warden, Anthony Trollope
32. The Mayor of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy – READ
33. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley – READ
34. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
35. The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
37. Le Morte d'Arthur, Thomas Malory
38. The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Charles Dickens
39. A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens – READ
40. Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift
41. Greyfriars Bobby, Eleanor Atkinson
42. Kidnapped, Robert Louis Stevenson
43. The Saga of King Hrolf Kraki
44. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight – READ
46. Malice Aforethought, Francis Iles
47. The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins
48. The Iliad, Homer
49. The Odyssey, Homer
50. Confessions of an English Opium Eater, Thomas De Quincey

Comments

  1. Ruth @ with freedom and booksTuesday, April 23, 2024

    I see a few Hardy's on your list. He's my favorite. Several from your list were from my first CC list. Lots of memories!! Good luck!!

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    1. ElizabethTuesday, April 30, 2024

      I'm really looking forward to reading more of him! I've only read Far from the Madding Crowd, but it was exceptional!

      Thank you so much!!

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