The Classics Club

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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.

The books on this list are all books I own, either physical books on the bookshelves or e-books on Kindle. 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 and I’ve altered it several times – this is my current list.

I’ve listed them in a-z author order. I’ve read the books shown in bold:

1. Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sanditon by Jane Austen – finished 24 August 2015
2. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen – finished 29 June 2014
3. Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor by R D Blackmore
4. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (a re-read) – read in November 2014
5. The Thirty Nine Steps by John Buchan – finished 21 February 2014
6. My Antonia by Willa Cather – finished 26 September 2013
7. The Dead Secret by Wilkie Collins – finished 30 September 2015
8. The Black Robe by Wilkie Collins
9. Our Spoons Came from Woolworths by Barbara Comyns –finished 23 June 2017
10. Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens – finished 29 June 2013
11. Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
12. Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
13. Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens
14. The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens – finished 10 October 2015
15. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
16. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
17. Adam Bede by George Eliot – finished 18 September 2015
18. The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot – finished 21 April 2016
19. Romola by George Eliot
20. Silas Marner by George Eliot – finished 29 November 2016
21. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
22. Parade’s End by Ford Maddox Ford
23. The Forsyte Saga (1-3) by John Galsworthy
24. Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
25. North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
26. Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell – finished 26 April 2017
27. Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
28. The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
29. South Riding by Winifred Holtby – finished 19 August 2017
30. Washington Square by Henry James – finished 17 December 2013
31. The Man Who Would Be King by Rudyard Kipling – finished 17 July 2016 
32. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee – finished 16 July 2013
33. The Call of the Wild by Jack London – finished 10 December 2014
34. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
35. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
36. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell – finished 20 November 2013
37. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
38. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
39. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck – finished 20 September 2015
40. Sweet Thursday by John Steinbeck
41. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
42. Barchester Towers (Barsetshire Chronicles, #2) by Anthony Trollope – finished 22 February 2015
43. Doctor Thorne (Barsetshire Chronicles, #3) by Anthony Trollope – finished 3 March 2016
44. Framley Parsonage (Barsetshire Chronicles, #4) by Anthony Trollope
45.  The Small House at Allington (Barsetshire Chronicles, #5) by Anthony Trollope
46. The Last Chronicle of Barset (Barsetshire Chronicles, #6) by Anthony Trollope
47. The Time Machine by H G Wells – finished 29 March 2014
48. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton – finished 22 February 2014
49. Orlando by Virginia Woolf
50. The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf – finished 1 May 2016