With The Sea Hawk I have finished my second Classics Club list. By some marathon reading, I finished posting my last reviews exactly a week later than my original deadline, owing to my neglect of the list for a couple of years. I was reading a lot of classics, just not the ones on my list, and I forgot to notice my deadline until six months ago.

In any case, it is time for a third list. Here it is. I am posting this list on July 7, 2021, and setting myself a deadline of July 6, 2026. As usual, I am attempting to read some classics from different centuries. I am also picking books from a few more countries than just England and the U. S. In some ways, this list seems more imposing than my previous ones.

BC

• The Aeneid by Virgil (30 to 19 BCE)

15^th Century

• The Book of Dede Korkut by Anonymous (14^th or 15^th century)

16^th Century

• Hero and Leander by Christopher Marlowe (1598)
• Love’s Labour’s Lost by William Shakespeare (1598)

17^th 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)

18^th Century

• Cecilia, Memoirs of an Heiress by Frances Burney (1782)
• The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole (1764)

19^th 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)
• Belinda by Maria Edgeworth (1801)
• The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy (1878)
• Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs (1861)
• The Saga of Gosta Berling by Selma Lagerloft (1891)
• The Prophet’s Mantle by 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)

20^th 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 Moorland Cottage by Elizabeth Gaskell (1950)
• 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 Moon Spinners by Mary Stewart (1962)
• Iza’s Ballad by Magda Szabo (1963)
• Father by Elizabeth Von Arnim (1931)
• Miss Mole by E. H. Young (1930)
• We by Yevgeny Zemyatin (1920)