The Classics Club: List Adjustments 2019

At the beginning of the month, I reflected back on the first year reading from my second list for The Classics Club. From the start I have left my list open to alteration, so I could add or remove books to reflect my mood and reading experiences. After reflecting on my first, slightly disappointing, year of reading, here are the alterations I have made to my list:

ABC – Additions
ABC – Removals
ABC – Read

1. Jo’s Boys by Louisa May Alcott
2. Little Men by Louisa May Alcott
3. Emma by Jane Austen [re-read] ***
4. Lady Susan, The Watsons and Sanditon by Jane Austen
5. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen [re-read]
6. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen [re-read]
7. Persuasion by Jane Austen [re-read]
8. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen [re-read]
9. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen [re-read]
10. The Marvelous Land of Oz by Frank L Baum
11. Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë
12. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë ***
13. The Professor by Charlotte Brontë
14. Villette by Charlotte Brontë
15. The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan **
16. A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
17. A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
18. Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
19. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
20. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
21. Hard Times by Charles Dickens
22. Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
23. Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens [re-read]
24. The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle
25. The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas
26. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
27. Middlemarch by George Eliot
28. The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
29. Romola by George Eliot
30. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
31. This Side of Paradise by F Scott Fitzgerald *
32. A Passage to India by E M Forster
33. A Room with a View by E M Forster
34. Howards End by E M Forster
35. Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
36. Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
37. King Solomon’s Mine by H. Ryder Haggard
38. Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy [re-read]
39. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
40. Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
41. The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
42. Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
43. Kim by Rudyard Kipling
44. The Man Who Would Be King by Rudyard Kipling
45. Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
46. The Enchanted Castle by E Nesbit *
47. Sandokan, The Pirates of Malaysia by Emilio Salgari **
48. The Black Corsair by Emilio Salgari
49. The Queen of the Caribbean by Emilio Salgari
50. Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
51. Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott [Re-Read]
52. Heidi by Johann Spyri
53. The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne
54. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
55. The Time Machine by H G Wells
56. War of the Worlds by H G Wells
57. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
58. The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

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That leaves me with a list of 52 books. All the additions are from Lost Worlds: The Ultimate Anthology: 24 Classic Tales edited by Nico Lorenzutti, which I am excited to dive into after getting my hands on a copy of it at the end of last year. While most of my removals are books I don’t own copies of and so would rather prioritise the books I do already own. Except Les Misérables that has been removed after I watched the recent BBC adaptation, because I now know the story is too long and too miserable for me to manage!

What do you think of my changes? Have you read any of the books on my list? Are there any you think I should prioritise?