The Classics Club | List Adjustments 2020

Hello my fellow bookworms, near the end of last month, I shared with you what I had read in my second year of reading off my second Classics Club list (The Classics Club | Two Years Gone). Now, after reflecting on how many books I read; what I enjoyed and what I’ve lost interest in, here are the alterations I would like to make 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 by Jane Austen
5. The Watsons by Jane Austen
6. Sanditon by Jane Austen **
7. Lady Susan, The Watsons and Sanditon by Jane Austen
8. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen [Re-Read]
9. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen [Re-Read]
10. Persuasion by Jane Austen [Re-Read] ***
11. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen [Re-Read]
12. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen [Re-Read]
13. The Marvelous Land of Oz by Frank L Baum
14. Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë
15. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë ***
16. The Professor by Charlotte Brontë
17. Villette by Charlotte Brontë
18. The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan **
19. A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett ***
20. A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
21. Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
22. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
23. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
24. Hard Times by Charles Dickens
25. Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
26. Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens [Re-Read]
27. The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle
28. The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas
29. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
30. This Side of Paradise by F Scott Fitzgerald *
31. A Passage to India by E M Forster
32. A Room with a View by E M Forster
33. Howards End by E M Forster ***
34. Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
35. Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
36. King Solomon’s Mine by H. Ryder Haggard
37. Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy [Re-Read] ***
38. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
39. Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
40. Kim by Rudyard Kipling
41. The Man Who Would Be King by Rudyard Kipling
42. Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
43. The Enchanted Castle by E Nesbit *
44. Sandokan, The Pirates of Malaysia by Emilio Salgari **
45. The Black Corsair by Emilio Salgari
46. The Queen of the Caribbean by Emilio Salgari
47. Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
48. Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott [Re-Read]
49. Heidi by Johann Spyri
50. The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne
51. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
52. The Invisible Man by H G Wells
53. The Island of Doctor Moreau by H G Wells
54. The Time Machine by H G Wells **
55. The War of the Worlds by H G Wells **
56. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
57. The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

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That leaves me with a list of 55 books. First off, all I’ve done is to separate Jane Austen’s shorter, unfinished works into individual books on my list, because I think this is fairer when I come to review them. Then I have added two more of H. G. Wells’ novels, after having enjoyed the two that were already on my list in the last year.

While I have removed the two Edith Wharton novels I had on my list – Simply because I have lost interest in reading them, well in comparison to the other books on my list anyway.

Now over to you: 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?

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