Classics bookworm Jillian of A Room of One’s Own has come up with the wonderful idea to set up The Classics Club for all those who have a love for, or would like to read more Classics. This isn’t a challenge but instead a project where like-minded people can get together, all you need to do is make a list of 50+ Classics you’d like to read in the next five years.
I seriously considered making a list with a mixture of novels, poetry, and plays but in the end decided it was just a bit complicated that way. So for my Classics Club I will just be focusing on novels/novellas (with only two exceptions).
My Classics Club List:
- Aesop Fables – Aesop
- Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
- Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
- Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen
- Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz – L Frank Baum
- Agnes Grey – Anne Bronte
- The Tenant of Wildfel Hall – Anne Bronte
- Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
- The Professor – Charlotte Bronte
- Shirley – Charlotte Bronte
- Villette – Charlotte Bronte
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
- Through the Looking Glass – Lewis Carroll
- The Sign of the Four – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Valley of Fear – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
- The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
- A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
- Bleak House – Charles Dickens
- David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
- Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
- Little Dorrit – Charles Dickens
- The Old Curiosity Shop – Charles Dickens
- Cranford – Elizabeth Gaskell
- North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell
- Wives and Daughters – Elizabeth Gaskell
- Lord of the Flies – William Golding
- The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
- The Little Princess – Frances Hodgson Burnett
- The Water-Babies – Charles Kingsley
- Kim – Rudyard Kipling
- The Jungle Book – Rudyard Kipling
- Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold – C S Lewis
- The Great Divorce – C S Lewis
- Out of the Silent Planet – C S Lewis
- Perelandra – C S Lewis
- That Hideous Strength – C S Lewis
- Frenchman’s Creek – Daphne du Maurier
- Jamaica Inn – Daphne du Maurier
- My Cousin Rachel – Daphne du Maurier
- Five Children and It – E Nesbit
- The Railway Children – E Nesbit
- Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
- Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson
- Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Time Machine – H G Wells
- War of the Worlds – H G Wells
- Grimm’s Fairy Tales
Start Date: 19th March 2012
End Date: 19th March 2017
Who else is joining The Classics Club?
Read any of my list? Any you would recommend?
Wonderful list. I look forward to joining this club.
Hello fellow bookworm, thank you for stopping by and commenting. I too look forward to seeing what you put on your list
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Love the list, looking forward to your reviews
Thank you Hafsah, I see you have also joined the project I look forward to seeing what you read as well
Wonderful list, Jessica — and I’m so excited you’ve joined. I can’t wait to read your thoughts on these works.
Welcome to the club!
Aw thank you Jillian, I can’t wait to get started either! Already got my eye on Pride and Prejudice
This seems like a good idea. I have many that I would like to read Crime and Punishment by Fyodor can’t-spell-his-last-name guy. There are many great Russian classics around and I see many Daphne Du Mauriers here. The 3 you have selected I have read them and they are a great choice. I must read the Great Divorce I heard it’s really good.
Yes I thought so too, no pressure like a challenge would have but the the encouragement of the others taking part, definitely something I need as I tend to be quite a sporadic Classics reader
I am particularly looking forward to reading more Daphne du Maurier and C S Lewis. I based my choices for du Maurier partly on your’s and Bina’s reviews of her work, so must say a small thank you for your inspiration JoV.
Aww.. I’m glad to be of any help at all. Some classics can be difficult to read but Du Maurier’s novels are easy and enjoyable!
Great list! I love the Brontes, Alexandre Dumas and Daphne du Maurier so would recommend any of their books. You’ve included some of my childhood favourites as well…The Jungle Book, The Secret Garden and The Railway Children. Good luck with this!
Thank you Helen. As a child I adored the film versions of The Secret Garden and The Railway Children but don’t think I ever read the books. Think it high time I did!
have read most of the books in your list, but there are several I would love to read again. Tell me, have you read Uncle Tom’s Cabin? or Call of the Wild by Jack London? If you haven’t, those would be my suggestions to your list.Oh, and also, Tom Brown’s School days.
I haven’t read any of those but wasn’t really planning to add to this list, 50 books is already a big expectation, so thought long and hard about what books I really wanted to read