The Classics Club

Here’s the goal: a minimum of 50 classics in a maximum of 5 years.

I’ll be marking off titles and posting reviews as I read.  My deadline is July 3, 2017.

You can learn more here.

My Classics Club Book List

(alphabetical by author)

(serial titles are listed chronologically)

*re-read

1. Little Women//L.M. Alcott* REVIEW
2. An Old Fashioned Girl//L.M. Alcott* REVIEW
3. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings//Maya Angelou
4. Pride & Prejudice//Jane Austen*
5. Persuasion//Jane Austen  REVIEW
6. Northanger Abbey//Jane Austen
7. Go Tell it On the Mountain//James Baldwin
8. Fahrenheit 451//Ray Bradbury
9. To My Husband and Other Poems//Anne Bradstreet
10. Caddie Woodlawn//Carol Ryrie Brink*
11. Jane Eyre//Charlotte Bronte
12. East Wind, West Wind//Pearl S. Buck
13. The Pilgrim’s Progress//John Bunyan REVIEW
14. A Little Princess//Frances Hodgson Burnett*
15. Mildred Pierce//James A. Cain
16. What Katy Did//Susan Coolidge*
17. The Red Badge of Courage//Stephen Crane
18. Letters from an American Farmer//Hector St. John de Crevecoeur
19. Little Dorrit//Charles Dickens
20. The Old Curiosity Shop//Charles Dickens
21. The Brothers Karamazov//Fyodor Dostoyevsky REVIEW
22. Crime and Punishment//Fyodor Dostoyevsky
23. The Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass//Fredrick Douglass REVIEW
24. An American Tragedy//Theodore Dreiser
25. Invisible Man//Ralph Ellison
26. Middlemarch//George Eliot
27. Silas Marner//George Eliot
28. The Waste Land//T. S. Eliot REVIEW
29. As I Lay Dying//William Faulkner
30. The Beautiful and the Damned//F. Scott Fitzgerald
31. The Great Gatsby//F. Scott Fitzgerald REVIEW
32. Madame Bovary//Gustave Flaubert
33. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin//Benjamin Franklin
34. North & South//Elizabeth Gaskell
35. The Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire//Edward Gibbon
36. A Raisin in the Sun//Lorraine Hansberry
37. For Whom the Bell Tolls//Ernest Hemingway
38. The Old Man and the Sea//Ernest Hemingway*
39. King of the Wind//Marguerite Henry*  REVIEW
40. Les Miserables//Victor Hugo
41. Portrait of a Lady//Henry James
42. To Kill a Mockingbird//Harper Lee* REVIEW
    
43. Betsy-Tacy//Maud Hart Lovelace* REVIEW
44. Betsy-Tacy and Tib//Maud Hart Lovelace*
45. Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill//Maud Hart Lovelace*
46. Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown//Maud Hart Lovelace*
47. Heaven to Betsy//Maud Hart Lovelace*
48. Betsy in Spite of Herself//Maud Hart Lovelace*
49. Betsy Was a Junior//Maud Hart Lovelace*
50. Betsy and Joe//Maud Hart Lovelace*
51. Betsy and the Great World//Maud Hart Lovelace*
52. Betsy’s Wedding//Maud Hart Lovelace*
53. Emily of Deep Valley//Maud Hart Lovelace*
54. Moby Dick//Herman Melville
55. Gone With the Wind//Margaret Mitchell REVIEW
56. The Death of a Salesman//Arthur Miller
57. Anne of Green Gables//Lucy Maud Montgomery* REVIEW
    
58. Anne of Avonlea//Lucy Maud Montgomery*
59. Anne of the Island//Lucy Maud Montgomery*
60. Anne of Windy Poplars//Lucy Maud Montgomery*
61. Anne’s of House of Dreams//Lucy Maud Montgomery*
62. Anne of Ingleside//Lucy Maud Montgomery*
63. Rainbow Valley//Lucy Maud Montgomery**
64. Rilla of Ingleside//Lucy Maud Montgomery**
65. The Scarlet Pimpernel//Baroness Orczy
66. Common Sense//Thomas Paine
67. Pygmalion//George Bernard Shaw
68. The Jungle//Upton Sinclair
69. East of Eden//John Steinbeck
70. The Grapes of Wrath//John Steinbeck
71. Of Mice and Men//John Steinbeck
72. All-of-a-Kind Family//Sydney Taylor*
73. All-of-a-Kind Family Downtown//Sydney Taylor*
74. More All-of-a-Kind Family//Sydney Taylor*
75. All-of-a-Kind Family Uptown//Sydney Taylor*
76. Ella of All-of-a-Kind Family//Sydney Taylor*
77. Anna Karenina//Leo Tolstoy
78. War & Peace//Leo Tolstoy
79. The Warden//Anthony Trollope
80. Around the World in 80 Days//Jules Verne*
81. The Color Purple//Alice Walker
82. Ben Hur//Lew Wallace*
83. The Age of Innocence//Edith Wharton
84. Charlotte’s Web//E. B. White*
85. Stuart Little//E. B. White*
86. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm//Kate Douglas Wiggin*
87. The Importance of Being Ernest//Oscar Wilde
88. Little House in the Big Woods//Laura Ingalls Wilder*
89. Little House on the Prairie//Laura Ingalls Wilder*
90. Farmer Boy//Laura Ingalls Wilder*
91. On the Banks of Plum Creek//Laura Ingalls Wilder*
92. By the Shores of Silver Lake//Laura Ingalls Wilder*
93. The Long Winter//Laura Ingalls Wilder*
94. Little Town on the Prairie//Laura Ingalls Wilder*
95. These Happy Golden Years//Laura Ingalls Wilder*
96. The First Four Years//Laura Ingalls Wilder*
97. Glass Menagerie//Tennessee Williams
98. Mrs. Dalloway//Virginia Woolf

Revised on 9/06/2012: Removed Tess of the D’urbervilles//Thomas Hardy and added What Katy Did//Susan Coolidge

Revised on 10/31/2012: Removed The Wind in the Willows//Kenneth Graham and added War & Peace//Leo Tolstoy

Added on 11/5/2012: The Jungle//Upton Sinclair, To My Husband and Other Poems//Anne Bradstreet

Added on 11/6/2012: The Old Man and the Sea//Ernest Hemingway

Added on 11/29/2012: Madame Bovary//Gustave Flaubert

Revised on 11/30/2012: Replaced Cranford//Elizabeth Gaskell with Wives and Daughters//Elizabeth Gaskell

Added on 1/3/2013: Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm//Kate Douglas Wiggin

Added on 1/4/2013: Betsy-Tacy//Maud Hart Lovelace*, Betsy-Tacy and Tib//Maud Hart Lovelace*, Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill//Maud Hart Lovelace*, Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown//Maud Hart Lovelace*, King of the Wind//Marguerite Henry*, Charlotte’s Web//E. B. White**, Stuart Little//E. B. White**

Added on 2/10/2013: The Beautiful and the Damned//F. Scott Fitzgerald, Fahrenheit 451//Ray Bradbury, East Wind, West Wind//Pearl S. Buck, Letter’s from an American Farmer//Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, Robinson Crusoe//Daniel Defoe, The Waste Land//T. S. Eliot, Heaven to Betsy//Maud Hart Lovelace*, Betsy in Spite of Herself//Maud Hart Lovelace*, Betsy Was a Junior//Maud Hart Lovelace*, Betsy and Joe//Maud Hart Lovelace*, Betsy and the Great World//Maud Hart Lovelace*, Betsy’s Wedding//Maud Hart Lovelace*, Emily of Deep Valley//Maud Hart Lovelace*, Anne of Avonlea//Lucy Maud Montgomery*, Anne of the Island//Lucy Maud Montgomery*, Anne of Windy Poplars//Lucy Maud Montgomery*, Anne’s of House of Dreams//Lucy Maud Montgomery*, Anne of Ingleside//Lucy Maud Montgomery*, Rainbow Valley//Lucy Maud Montgomery**, Rilla of Ingleside//Lucy Maud Montgomery**, Chronicles of Avonlea//Lucy Maud Montgomery, Further Chronicles of Avonlea//Lucy Maud Montgomery, The Road to Yesterday//Lucy Maud Montgomery, Little House in the Big Woods//Laura Ingalls Wilder*, Farmer Boy//Laura Ingalls Wilder*, On the Banks of Plum Creek//Laura Ingalls Wilder*, By the Shores of Silver Lake//Laura Ingalls Wilder*, The Long Winter//Laura Ingalls Wilder*, Little Town on the Prairie//Laura Ingalls Wilder*, These Happy Golden Years//Laura Ingalls Wilder*, The First Four Years//Laura Ingalls Wilder*, A Raisin in the Sun//Lorraine Hansberry, Glass Menagerie//Tennessee Williams, The Death of a Salesman//Arthur Miller, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings//Maya Angelou, Middlemarch//George Eliot

Added on 3/29/2013: East of Eden//John Steinbeck

Added on 4/23/2013: Swiss Family Robinson//Johann David Wyss

Added on 5/18/2013: The Red Badge of Courage//Stephen Crane

Added on 6/18/2013: All-of-a-Kind Family//Sydney Taylor*, All-of-a-Kind Family Downtown//Sydney Taylor*, More All-of-a-Kind Family//Sydney Taylor*, All-of-a-Kind Family Uptown//Sydney Taylor*, Ella of All-of-a-Kind Family//Sydney Taylor*, All the Kings Men//Robert Penn Warren

Added on 01/01/2014: Common Sense//Thomas Paine

Revised on 12/20/2015: Removed Don Quixote//Miguel de Cervantes, The Count of Monte Cristo//Alexandre Dumas, Robinson Crusoe//Daniel Defoe, Wives and Daughters//Elizabeth Gaskell, The Scarlet Letter//Nathaniel Hawthorne, Chronicles of Avonlea//Lucy Maud Montgomery, Further Chronicles of Avonlea//Lucy Maud Montgomery, The Road to Yesterday//Lucy Maud Montgomery, All the Kings Men//Robert Penn Warren, A Streetcar Named Desire//Tennessee Williams, Swiss Family Robinson//Johann David Wyss