Classics Club

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:

1. A Little Princess – Frances Hodgson Burnett (Completed April 25, 2015)
2. The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett (Completed August 1, 2014)
3. The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway (Completed May 11, 2015)
4. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee (Completed September 23, 2014)
5. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz – L. Frank Baum
6. The World According to Garp – John Irving (Completed September 30, 2014)
7. 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.

1. Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
2. Little Woman – Louisa May Alcott
3. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
4. Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
5. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
6. Les Miserable – Victor Hugo
7. The Phantom of the Opera – Gaston Lerouch
8. Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison
9. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World – Haruki Murakami
10. The Scarlet Pimpernel – Baroness Orczy
11. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
12. Charlotte Temple – Susanna Rowson
13. Ceremony – Leslie Marmon Silko
14. 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.

1. Watership Down – Richard Adams
2. Little Men – Louisa May Alcott
3. Jo’s Boys – Louisa May Alcott
4. A Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
5. The Making of a Marchioness – Frances Hodgson Burnett
6. Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
7. O Pioneers! – Willa Cather
8. Don Quixotie – Miguel de Cervantes
9. The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
10. The Three Musketeers – Alexander Dumas
11. The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexander Dumas
12. The House of the Seven Gables – Nathaniel Hawthorne
13. The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo
14. Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
15. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow – Washington Irving
16. The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
17. Le Morte d’Arthur – Sir Thomas Malory
18. One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
19. Tar Baby – Toni Morrison
20. The Enchanted Castle – E. Nesbit
21. The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood – Howard Pyle
22. Cyrano de Bergerac – Edmond Rostand
23. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
24. The Lady of the Lake – Sir Walter Scott
25. Heidi – Johanna Spyri
26. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
27. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith
28. The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkein
29. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court – Mark Twain
30. The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton
31. The Once and Future King – T.H. White
32. A Room of One’s Own – Virginia Woolf
33. A Thousand and One Nights – Anonymous
34. I Am A Cat, by Natsume Soseki