The Classics Club is a club created to inspire people to read and blog about classic books. There’s no time limit to join.You simply sign up to read and write on your blog about at least 50 classic books in at most five years.

I’ve dithered about joining The Classics Club for over a year now and have finally decided to take the plunge. I’m good at listing books, even if after that I don’t read them all, or write about them.

The 50 books on this list are all books I own, either physical books on the bookshelves or e-books on Kindle  They do say that you shouldn’t plan too far into the future, and going off what’s happened in the last five years that’s a good thing, but I would like to think that I’ll read them within the next five years (that is by April 2018!!). I like the fact that this doesn’t have to be a fixed list – this is my initial list, which I’ve already changed since I started compiling it!

I’ve listed them in a-z author order.

1. Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sanditon by Jane Austen
2. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen (re-read)
3. The Old Wives Tale by Arnold Bennett
4. Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor by R D Blackmore
5. Lady Audley’s Secret by M E Braddon
6. The Thirty Nine Steps by John Buchan
7. The Making of a Marchioness by Frances Hodgson Burnett
8. My Antonia by Willa Cather
9. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
10. No Name by Wilkie Collins
11. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
12. A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe
13. Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
14. Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens
15. Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
16. Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
17. Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens
18. The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens
19. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
20. Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
21. Out of Africa – Isak Dinesen
22. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
23. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
24. Adam Bede by George Eliot
25. The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
26. Silas Marner by George Eliot
27. Parade’s End by Ford Maddox Ford
28. The Women’s Room by Marilyn French
29. The Forsyte Saga (1-3) by John Galsworthy
30. Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
31. North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
32. Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
33. Notre-Dame of Paris by Victor Hugo
34. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
35. Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome
36. The Man Who Would Be King by Rudyard Kipling
37. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
38. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
39. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
40. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
41. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
42. Of Human Bondage by W Somerset Maugham
43. Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
44. Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes by Robert Louis Stevenson
45. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
46. Barchester Towers (Barsetshire Chronicles, #2) by Anthony Trollope
47. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
48. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
49. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
50. The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf