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My Classics Club List

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Cover for The Long ShipsIt’s a coincidence that I picked this book cover to illustrate my short classics list for the Classics Spin 5, because this book is the one selected for me to read as part of the spin! Having committed to that much, I decided I might as well join the Classics Club. In the Classics Club, you select your own list of 50 or more books and a date by which you decide to have read them all, within five years.

Since I am posting this list today, my deadline date is February 12, 2019.

Here is my proposed list, also located permanently under my About menu.

Early Classics

  • Beowulf (Seamus Heaney translation)

16th Century

  • Henry VI Pt I by William Shakespeare (1591)
  • Henry VI Pt. II by William Shakespeare (1596-1599)
  • Henry VI Pt. III by William Shakespeare (1591)

17th Century

  • Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes (1605 and 1615)

18th Century

  • Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (1719)
  • The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith (1761-1762)

19th Century

  • The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins (1868)
  • Bleak House by Charles Dickens (1852-1853)
  • Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens (1864-1865)
  • The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1868-1869)
  • Queen Margot by Alexandre Dumas (1845)
  • Middlemarch by George Eliot (1871-1872)
  • Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy (1874)
  • The Perpetual Curate by Margaret Oliphant (1864)
  • The Scottish Chiefs by Jane Porter (1810)
  • Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray (1848)

20th Century

  • Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (1958)
  • The Long Ships by Frans G. Bengtsson (1941 and 1945)
  • Sisters by a River by Barbara Comyns Carr (1947)
  • O Pioneers! by Willa Cather (1913)
  • The Hours by Michael Cunningham (1998)
  • Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (1938)
  • Troubles by J. G. Farrell (1970)
  • Light in August by William Faulkner (1932)
  • Selected Poems by Robert Frost (1934)
  • Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1915)
  • Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves (1929)
  • Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (1937)
  • Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (1932)
  • The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (1989)
  • Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata (1956)
  • Troy Chimneys by Margaret Kennedy (1953)
  • The Call of the Wild by Jack London (1903)
  • Death in Venice by Thomas Mann (1912)
  • Selected Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1992)
  • Beloved by Toni Morrison (1987)
  • The Beggar Maid by Alice Munro (1978)
  • Ada by Vladimir Nabokov (1969)
  • That Lady by Kate O’Brien (1946)
  • Giants in the Earth by A. E. Rolvaag (1924-1925)
  • A Wreath of Roses by Elizabeth Taylor (1949)
  • The True Heart by Sylvia Townsend Warner (1929)
  • The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (1920)
  • Summer by Edith Wharton (1917)
  • Greenbanks by Dorothy Whipple (1923)
  • Night by Elie Wiesel (1958)
  • Stoner by John Williams (1965)

21st Century

  • The Broken Road by Patrick Leigh Fermor (2013)
  • The Known World by Edward P. Jones (2003)

My Classics List

~ whatmeread ~ 30 Comments

I am following my friend Cecilia’s lead and participating in the Classics Spin. It sounds like fun. It isn’t clear to me if you have to be a member of the Classics Club or not, but anyway, here goes. I have to make my own list of 20 classics, and then each month the club will arbitrarily pick a number, and I have to read and review that book that month. Sounds like fun! Most of these are books I haven’t read, although there are a few I want to reread in the near future. Here is my list, in no particular order.

  1. Cover for The Long ShipsThe Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
  2. Summer by Edith Wharton
  3. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
  4. Stoner by John Williams
  5. Middlemarch by George Eliot
  6. The Known World by Edward P. Jones
  7. O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
  8. Bleak House by Charles Dickens
  9. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
  10. Greenbanks by Dorothy Whipple
  11. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  12. The Scottish Chiefs by Jane Porter
  13. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
  14. Beloved by Toni Morrison
  15. Light in August by William Faulkner
  16. Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata
  17. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  18. The Beggar Maid by Alice Munro
  19. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
  20. The Long Ships by Frans G. Bengtsson