
The Classics Club is a group of bloggers getting together to read, and write, about the classics (defined broadly). The baselines goal is to read at least 50 classics in 5 years.
I joined the group in June 2014, with a rather large list (84 books!) However, come June of 2019 (my Goal Date) I had not read very many of these. Here are the ones I had read:
- A Little Princess – Frances Hodgson Burnett (Completed April 25, 2015)
- The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett (Completed August 1, 2014)
- The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway (Completed May 11, 2015)
- To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee (Completed September 23, 2014)
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz – L. Frank Baum
- The World According to Garp – John Irving (Completed September 30, 2014)
- Anne of Green Gables – L.M. Montgomery (Completed July 15, 2014)
So, now, it is time for a new goal, and a new list! I’m going to start with my old list, but pare it down even more… hopefully to a reasonable level.
My list!
The Re-reads.
Books I read some time long ago (with a few exceptions, over a decade ago) and have wanted to revisit.
- Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
- Little Woman – Louisa May Alcott
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
- Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
- A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
- Les Miserable – Victor Hugo
- The Phantom of the Opera – Gaston Lerouch
- Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison
- Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World – Haruki Murakami
- The Scarlet Pimpernel – Baroness Orczy
- The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
- Charlotte Temple – Susanna Rowson
- Ceremony – Leslie Marmon Silko
- The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton
The First-Arounds
Books I’ve been meaning to read (sometimes for a very long time) and now will make myself get around to. Some of these I’ve found myself surprised I haven’t read… yet.
- Watership Down – Richard Adams
- Little Men – Louisa May Alcott
- Jo’s Boys – Louisa May Alcott
- A Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
- The Making of a Marchioness – Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
- O Pioneers! – Willa Cather
- Don Quixotie – Miguel de Cervantes
- The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- The Three Musketeers – Alexander Dumas
- The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexander Dumas
- The House of the Seven Gables – Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo
- Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow – Washington Irving
- The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
- Le Morte d’Arthur – Sir Thomas Malory
- One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Tar Baby – Toni Morrison
- The Enchanted Castle – E. Nesbit
- The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood – Howard Pyle
- Cyrano de Bergerac – Edmond Rostand
- Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
- The Lady of the Lake – Sir Walter Scott
- Heidi – Johanna Spyri
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith
- The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkein
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court – Mark Twain
- The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton
- The Once and Future King – T.H. White
- A Room of One’s Own – Virginia Woolf
- A Thousand and One Nights – Anonymous
- I Am A Cat, by Natsume Soseki
Austen, Alcott and Atwood, you can’t go wrong! Welcome to the club!
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Looking forward to it! Think I might have to grant myself some classics-reading weekends 🙂
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What a great list! I see a lot of favorites & want-to-reads in your plans. Have fun, & welcome! 🙂
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Thanks!
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