In the Classics Club, you select your own list of classics to read by a stated date. I have completed two lists:
My Third List!
I posted this list on July 7, 2021, and intend to read the books on it by July 6, 2026.
BC
- The Aeneid by Virgil (30 to 19 BCE)
15th Century
- The Book of Dede Korkut by Anonymous (14th or 15th century)
16th Century
- Hero and Leander by Christopher Marlowe (1598)
- Love’s Labour’s Lost by William Shakespeare (1598)
17th Century
- The Fair Jilt by Aphra Behn (1688)
- Tis Pity She’s a Whore by John Ford (1633)
- The Princess of Cleves by Madame de La Fayette (1678)
18th Century
- Cecilia, Memoirs of an Heiress by Frances Burney (1782)
- The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole (1764)
19th Century
- Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (1811)
- The Dead Secret by Wilkie Collins (1856)
- Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens (1865)
- The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas (1844)
- Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth (1801)
- The Moorland Cottage by Elizabeth Gaskell (1850)
- The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy (1878)
- The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope (1894)
- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs (1861)
- The Saga of Gosta Berling by Selma Lagerlof (1891)
- The Prophet’s Mantle by Fabian Bland (E. Nesbit) (1885)
- Merkland, A Story of Scottish Life by Margaret Oliphant (1851)
- A Double Life by Karolina Pavlova (1848)
- The Bride of Lammermoor by Walter Scott (1889)
- The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson (1883)
- Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope (1867-1869)
20th Century
- Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin (1953)
- Grand Hotel by Vicki Baum (1929)
- The Passenger by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz (1938)
- The Methods of Lady Walderhurst by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1901)
- The Book of Lamentations by Rosario Castellanos (1962)
- Sleeping Murder by Agatha Christie (1976)
- Weatherley Parade by Richmal Crompton (1944)
- The Ten Thousand Things by Maria Dermoût (1955)
- The Deepening Stream by Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1933)
- The Woods in Winter by Stella Gibbons (1970)
- The Mayor’s Wife by Anna Katherine Green (1907)
- The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer (1950)
- Les Misérables by Victor Hugo (1862)
- Dust Tracks on a Road by Zora Neale Hurston (1942)
- Much Dithering by Dorothy Lambert (1938)
- The Tavern Knight by Rafael Sabatini (1904)
- Rhododendron Pie by Margery Sharp (1930)
- A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute (1950)
- The Tree of Heaven by May Sinclair (1917)
- Miss Plum and Miss Penny by Dorothy Evelyn Smith (1959)
- Music in the Hills by D. E. Stevenson (1950)
- The Moonspinners by Mary Stewart (1962)
- Iza’s Ballad by Magda Szabo (1963)
- Miss Mole by E. H. Young (1930)
- We by Yevgeny Zemyatin (1920)
I love seeing them broken up by century. You’ve picked some great ones!
Thanks! I can’t claim that was an original idea, however. I copied it from another Classics Club friend.
Which ones are your “tried & true” favorites? I think you mentioned 6-8 of your classics you’ve read & re-read. Just curious to see what your favorites are. Your list looks great! You have a lor of really great books & even a few I haven’t heard much about yet. Keep us posted on how this goes!
I love Victorian novels,so among others the Dickens books, Middlemarch, and the Hardy are retreads.
Nice list! I see several favorites here (Rebecca! Robinson Crusoe!), and several that are also on my list. Welcome to the club! I’ve only been a member since early January, but it’s already been a lot of fun and a great way to meet new book-loving bloggers.
Thanks so much! I’ll have to take a look at your list!
Wow – you’re third list! That’s awesome! I just joined this month with my first list. 🙂 I’ve read three of the books on your list: The Aeneid, The Castle of Otranto, and Les Mis. Les Mis is one of my all-time favorite classics and books in general!
I know it’s very long. I hope I like it.