I am updating this post as of 10/17/18. I’ve long since finished my first 50 books for the Classics Club, back on 9/1/2015, but I’m consolidating all of my classics reviews on this old, free blog, because I am getting ready to close down my self-hosted blog. This is just a way for me to organize the free blog so I can leave it up. There’s also a possibility that I might also renew my commitment to classic literature and do a second 50 classics in 5 years.
List of Classics (links to posts)
Alcott, Louisa May: Eight Cousins
Alcott, Louisa May: A Rose in Bloom
Alcott, Louisa May: Work: A Story of Experience
Austen, Jane: Lady Susan
Austen, Jane: Persuasion
Baum, L. Frank: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Barrie, J.M.: Peter Pan
Bronte, Anne: Agnes Grey
Bronte, Charlotte: Jane Eyre
Burnett, France Hodgson: The Secret Garden
Cather, Willa: One of Ours
Collins, Wilkie: The Woman in White
Collins, Wilkie: The Moonstone
Dickens, Charles: David Copperfield
Dickens, Charles: Dombey and Son
Dickens, Charles: Oliver Twist
Dickens, Charles: The Pickwick Papers
Doyle, Arthur Conan: The Hound of the Baskervilles
du Maurier, Daphne: Rebecca
Eliot, George: Middlemarch
Fitzgerald, F. Scott: Tender Is The Night
Flaubert, Gustave: Madame Bovary
Gaskell, Elizabeth: North and South
Grey, Zane: Riders of the Purple Sage
Haggard, H. Rider:King Solomon’s Mines
Hardy, Thomas:Far From the Madding Crowd
Hawthorne, Nathaniel: The Blithedale Romance
Hawthorne, Nathaniel: The Scarlet Letter
Heyer, Georgette: Powder and Patch
Hugo, Victor: Les Miserables
Irving, Washington: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Jackson, Shirley: The Haunting of Hill House
Jackson, Shirley: We Have Always Lived in the Castle
James, Henry: The Ambassadors
Kipling, Rudyard: Kim
L’Engle, Madeleine: A Wrinkle in Time
LeFanu, Sheridan: Uncle Silas
Lermontov, Mikhail: A Hero of Our Time
Montgomery, L.M.: Anne of Green Gables
Montgomery, L.M.: Anne of Windy Poplars
Oliphant, Margaret: Miss Marjoribanks
Orwell, George: Animal Farm
Sayers, Dorothy: Whose Body
Steinbeck, John: Cannery Row
Pasternak, Boris: Doctor Zhivago
Thirkell, Angela: Wild Strawberries
Tokien, J.R.R.: The Hobbit
Tolstoy, Leo: Anna Karenina
Trollope, Anthony: The Warden
Trollope, Anthony: Barchester Towers
Trollope, Anthony: Can You Forgive Her
Trollope, Anthony: Doctor Thorne
Trollope, Anthony: Framley Parsonage
Walpole, Horace: The Castle of Otranto
Von Arnim, Elizabeth: The Enchanted April
Wharton, Edith: The House of Mirth
Wharton, Edith: Summer
Wharton, Edith: The Custom of the Country
Wharton, Edith: The Age of Innocence
Total as of 8/31/2015: 50 books read/50 posts published.
I really, really like A Tale of Two Cities. I plan to read a lot more Dickens for my list as well. (Yay #22!) ๐
Great list! I’m tempted to add even more Dickens to my list after seeing your list. Wow! I love it. ๐
I am excited about my Dickens project. I’m planning to read them in order.
That’s a great idea! I took a Dickens literature course in the spring of 2011 and got through a decent chunk of his work, but of course there’s still a lot left.
Best of luck to you!
I have never read anything by Trollope, but I really need to!Welcome to the Classics Club!
Thank you! I highly recommend Trollope’s Where We Are Now. I read it a few years ago and thought that it was remarkably timely given the way that the global economy was trending. It’s also a stand-alone, so it’s much less of an emotional commitment than one of his two major series.
Hey, Christine, I came over from Dee’s blog ๐ I hope you do join us for Les Mis
I love the name of your blog! and I love love love North & South (Gaskell)!!!
Welcome to the Classics Club, btw, & good luck with your list.
I do plan to join you for Les Mis! I think it will be a lot of fun. I’m going to wait until Dee finds a good kindle version & probably go with the same one.
Welcome to the Club! Incredible list! We have a few of the same titles, but you are definitely exploring more Victorians than I am. But I also think you are coming from a more well read background than I! -Sarah
Thank you! I checked out your list as well. You also a lot of really good reading ahead of you!
Wow, that’s a lot of heavy reading! I think you have enough Dickens there to keep you busy for 5 years. ๐ Best of luck to you! :
I’ve been planning on trying Anthony Trollope for awhile. You’ve given me some motivation!
You know I read Villette and thought it was brilliant. I hope you like it.
I’ve also going to be reading North and South. Have you seen the mini series with Richard Armitage? It’s brilliantly done.
I was thrilled to see Magnificent Ambersons on your list. Have you seen the movie with Joseph Cotton? I love it and the book even more. It’s one of three books that I read in a weekend, because I literally only put it down to sleep (I even read it while riding the exercise bike).
Have you read north and south yet? I’m reading it now and thoroughly enjoying it.
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Great list! I’m reading the Barsetshire Chronicles and loving Anthony Trollope. And I second Jillian yay #22 – . Enjoy your reading!
Interesting list. I too have listed a lot a lot of Dicken’s work but not as many as you! Happy reading ๐
I love the Victorians and since moving to London I’ve been reading lots of them. Happy reading.