The Classics Club

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!!). April 2018 has been and gone and I didn’t read all 50 books, having read 26 books by that date. I’m carrying on … and extending the end date to 2020.

It is now 2022 and I’ve read and reviewed all 50 books.

This is my finished list.

I’ve listed them in a-z author order.

  1. Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sanditon by Jane Austen – finished 24 August 2015
  2. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen – finished 29 June 2014
  3. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (a re-read) – read in November 2014
  4. Greenmantle by John Buchan – finished  14 January 2019
  5. The Thirty Nine Steps by John Buchan – finished 21 February 2014
  6. Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote – finished 10 March 2019
  7. He Who Whispers by John Dickson Carr – finished 18 August 2018
  8. My Antonia by Willa Cather – finished 26 September 2013
  9. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler –finished December 2020
  10. The Dead Secret by Wilkie Collins – finished 30 September 2015
  11. Our Spoons Came from Woolworths by Barbara Comyns –finished 23 June 2017
  12. Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens – finished 29 June 2013
  13. Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens – finished 6 June 2021
  14. Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens – finished 30 December 2017
  15. The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens – finished 10 October 2015
  16. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens – finished 16 January 2020
  17. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas – finished 10 December 2021
  18. Adam Bede by George Eliot – finished 18 September 2015
  19. The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot – finished 21 April 2016
  20. Silas Marner by George Eliot – finished 29 November 2016
  21. Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell – finished 2 November 2019
  22. Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell – finished 26 April 2017
  23. Smallbone Deceased by Michael Gilbert – finished 2 August 2020
  24. The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy – finished 4 June 2020
  25. South Riding by Winifred Holtby – finished 19 August 2017
  26. Appleby’s End by Michael Innes – finished 6 September 2018
  27. Washington Square by Henry James – finished 17 December 2013
  28. Three Man in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome – finished 9 December 2018
  29. The Man Who Would Be King by Rudyard Kipling – finished 17 July 2016 
  30. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee – finished 16 July 2013
  31. The Call of the Wild by Jack London – finished 10 December 2014
  32. Fell Murder by E C R Lorac – finished 14 December 2019
  33. Murder by Matchlight by E C R Lorac – finished 2 October 2019
  34. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell – finished 20 November 2013
  35. The Railway Children by E Nesbit – finished 12 June 2021
  36. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
  37. Clouds of Witness by Dorothy L Sayers – finished 25 July 2019
  38. Cecile is Dead by Georges Simenon – finished 28 August 2018
  39. The Dancer at the Gai Moulin by Georges Simenon – finished 15 September 2018
  40. East of Eden by John Steinbeck – finished 22 September 2018 (very short review)
  41. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck – finished 18 June 2018
  42. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck – finished 20 September 2015 (very short review)
  43. Sweet Thursday by John Steinbeck – finished 5 June 2019
  44. Barchester Towers (Barsetshire Chronicles, 2) by Anthony Trollope – finished 22 February 2015
  45. Doctor Thorne (Barsetshire Chronicles, 3) by Anthony Trollope – finished 3 March 2016
  46. Framley Parsonage (Barchester Chronicles, 4)Anthony Trollope – finished 8 August 2021
  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 – finished 31 January 2021
  50. The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf – finished 1 May 2016

One thought on “The Classics Club

  1. Hi! I’m the person who founded The Classics Club forever ago, then slunk away because I was slightly overwhelmed by how many people joined, ha ha! I just wanted to say hello to you & cheer you on in your list! I’ve read a few of these titles, & have a few on my own TBR. Sending good thoughts! 🙂

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