
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. This is my second list of books I would like to read in the next 5 years ie by January 2027, although my first list took me nearly 10 years!
It is not a fixed list and I can/most likely will make changes.
I have read the books shown in bold.:
- Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (reread)
- Another Part of the Wood by Beryl Bainbridge
- Every Man for Himself by Beryl Bainbridge
- Fair Stood the Wind for France by H E Bates
- Death in the Tunnel by Miles Burton
- In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
- The Awakening by Kate Chopin
- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
- The Case of the Gilded Fly by Edmund Crispin
- Buried for Pleasure by Edmund Crispin
- The Hog’s Back Mystery by Freeman Wills Croft
- The Stars Look Down by A J Cronin
- Bleak House by Charles Dickens
- David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
- Dickens at Christmas by Charles Dickens
- Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens
- Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
- The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas
- A Room with a View by E M Forster
- The Man of Property by John Galsworthy Forsyte Saga (1)
- The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth
- North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
- Daisy Miller by Henry James
- The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard
- Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
- Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- Hamlet, Revenge! by Michael Innes
- The Night Manager by John le Carre
- Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
- Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay
- Friends and Heroes by Olivia Manning
- I’ll Never Be Young Again by Daphne du Maurier
- Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
- The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell
- Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
- Fire from Heaven by Mary Renault
- A Town Like Alice by Neville Shute
- On the Beach by Nevil Shute
- Loitering with Intent by Muriel Spark
- Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck
- Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
- The Singing Sands by Josephine Tey
- The Small House at Allington by Anthony Trollop
- Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
- The Invisible Man by H G Wells
- Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf