The Classics Club

The Classics Club was created 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. The club has been such a huge success that it now has its own site and staff, please check it out here.

For my Classics Club list I decided to keep things simple. My list focuses on novels, novellas and short story collections that I have not read before. I am leaving my list open to alteration, so as my mood and experiences change as a reader I will be able to add or take-away books from the list. My aim is just to read 50 books off my list however long or short it might become.

Start Date: 19th March 2012

End Date: 19th March 2017

Read: 12/50

My Classics Club List:

1. Aesop’s Fables – Aesop
2. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
3. Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tales
4. Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
5. Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen
6. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
7. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz – L Frank Baum
8. Agnes Grey – Anne Brontë
9. The Tenant of Wildfel Hall – Anne Brontë
10. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
11. The Professor – Charlotte Brontë
12. Shirley – Charlotte Brontë
13. Villette – Charlotte Brontë
14. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
15. Through the Looking Glass – Lewis Carroll
16. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Arthur Conan Doyle
17. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes – Arthur Conan Doyle
18. The Sign of the Four – Arthur Conan Doyle
19. The Hound of the Baskervilles – Arthur Conan Doyle
20. The Valley of Fear – Arthur Conan Doyle
21. Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
22. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
23. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
24. Bleak House – Charles Dickens
25. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
26. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
27. Little Dorrit – Charles Dickens
28. The Pickwick Papers – Charles Dickens
29. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
30. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
31. The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
32. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
33. Cranford – Elizabeth Gaskell
34. North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell
35. Wives and Daughters – Elizabeth Gaskell
36. The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
37. Grimm’s Fairy Tales
38. The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
39. The Little Princess – Frances Hodgson Burnett
40. The Water-Babies – Charles Kingsley
41. Kim – Rudyard Kipling
42. The Jungle Book – Rudyard Kipling
43. The Children of the New Forest – Frederick Marryat
44. Five Children and It – E Nesbit
45. The Railway Children – E Nesbit
46. Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
47. Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson
48. Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
49. Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne
50. Journey to the Center of the Earth – Jules Verne
51. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea – Jules Verne
52. The Time Machine – H G Wells
53. War of the Worlds – H G Wells

Green - books read 2012-2013 (please click on titles to read my thoughts)
Blue – books read 2013-2014 (please click on titles to read my thoughts)