I’m finally joining The Classics Club. Better late than never, right? I’ve been trying to read more classics and this just gives me an extra push. The Classics Club has been around since 2012. The goal is to “unite those of us who like to blog about classic literature, as well as to inspire people to make the classics an integral part of life.”
Here is my list of 50 classics I want to read by March 16, 2023. It’s a “living” list, allowed to change and adapt. It’s made up of mostly novels, but there are also a few novellas, childrens books, and non-fiction titles thrown in.
The Secret Agent by Joseph Conradreview 4/4/19- The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
- The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wild
The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rineheartreview 9/26/18- Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
- The Borrowers by Mary Norton
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandlerreview 7/5/18- The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
A Man Lay Dead by Ngaio Marshreview 4/4/18- Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Blue Castle by Lucy Maud Montgomery
- The Nine Tailors by Dorothy L Sayers
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurierreview 12/31/18- The Odyssey by Homer
- In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
- The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens
Death on the Nile by Agatha Christiereview 9/10/18- Orient Express by Graham Greene
The Crime at Black Dudley by Margery Allinghamreview 5/2/19- Anatomy of a Murder by Robert Traver
- Double Indemnity by James M. Cain
From Russia with Love by Ian Flemingreview 10/16/18- Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
A Judgement in Stone by Ruth Rendellreview 8/13/18- The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John Le Carré
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczyreview 5/10/18- Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey
- Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
- Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
Something Fresh by P. G. Wodehousereview 2/19/19- Orlando by Virginia Woolf
- Walden by Henry David Thoreau
- The 13 Clocks by James Thurber
- Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
- The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twainreview 5/4/2018We by Yevgeny Zamyatinreview 6/1/2019We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jacksonreview 10/11/2018A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Englereview 3/22/2018The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christiereview 07/02/2018- The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
- Middlemarch by George Eliot
Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsayreview 7/23/2019The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumasreview 1/30/2019- Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzákis
- Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Miss Buncle’s Book by D.E. Stevensonreview 5/16/2019Enter a Murderer by Ngaio Marshreview 4/7/2018The Time Machine by H.G. Wellsreview 6/27/18- Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Holy Cow!
It only really breaks down to 10 a year and I’ve already read 3 this year, even if they don’t count.
Still…Holy Cow! Some of those titles…I was an English Minor in college and I read some of those but I could never do it again!
Yay! Your #46 makes me smile. 🙂 #32 is one of my favorites. And #42 is in my list! Have fun. <3
I think I’ll enjoy reading them – at least for the most part.
I like the list, it seems like a good balance of light and heavy, short and long! I have toyed with joining since the list can change…anything written in stone and I immediately feel hemmed in and don’t want to do it!
I don’t know if you follow Silvia Cachia (https://silviacachia.wordpress.com/ ) but I am hoping she will organize a Don Quixote read along in 2019 in which I would like to take part. She has read it previously and is Spanish so I think it would be a very interesting exchange. I find that reading with a group helps me sometimes tackle those weightier tomes
I do not follow her yet. I’ll have to go check her blog out. Thanks for the suggestion!
Have fun!
I’m looking forward to it. I’m glad I finally joined.
I’ve thought about joining a few times but just never did. Enjoy your classic reads!
I’m glad I finally did.
When modern writing lets me down, I return to the oldies. I see several titles I have read and many I would like to read.
Any particular favorites I should start with?
I like Conan Doyle, Dashell Hammet, and Katherine Green. 🙂
Katherine Green is the only one of those three that I’ve never read.
That’s quite a list 🙂
I have read #2, #28, #29, #34 and #49. Gulliver’s Travels (#28) was one of my old favourites during my teen years and I also put it in my list, hoping to reread any time soon.
I only have one re-read on my list – The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. The rest will all be new to me, although obviously I know the basic plots of several.
Very nice list. Picking a few up myself from this lot
We’ll see how it goes. I’m glad we can change the list as time goes on if we want.
Great list, welcome to the Club, enjoy!
Thanks! i’m glad I finally signed up.
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Great list and it looks like your off to a flying start! I always like when people include a bit of classic crime and sci-fi on their lists. We have some crossovers – Anatomy of a Murder, Edwin Drood and The Spy Who Came In from the Cold are all on my list too. Happy reading!
I love classic/vintage crime.