Classics Club List 3

The Classics Club is a club created to inspire people to read and blog about classic books.  Members are invited to make out a list of (at least 50) classic titles they intend to read and blog about within the next five years. I completed my first list in September 2018, and my second list in November 2023. This is my third list and my goal is to read 50 of these titles by December 31, 2028 which means I need to read 10 each year.

There are 63 titles on the list, so I have a few alternate choices. I am setting it as a rule for myself that I cannot add to this list, I have to select from these titles. My posts about this project, both this list and the earlier ones, are here. 

The unread titles:

No Longer at Ease, Chinua Achibe, 1960

*Aesop's Fables

Eighty Fairy Tales, Hans Christian Andersen

The Gods Themselves, Isaac Asimov, 1972

The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck, 1931

Black Snow, Mikhail Bulgakov, 1965

*Song of the Lark, Willa Cather, 1915

A Lost Lady, Willa Cather, 1923

Diary of a Provincial Lady, E. M. Delafield, 1930

*Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens, 1838

*Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens, 1865

*A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens, 1859

*Hard Times, Charles Dickens, 1854

*Little Dorrit, Charles Dickens, 1857

Middlemarch, George Eliot, 1872

*Come and Get It, Edna Ferber, 1935

The Beautiful and the Damned, F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1922

*Howards End, E. M. Forster, 1910

The Magus, John Fowles, 1965

One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1967

In the Year of Jubilee, George Gissing, 1893

Riders of the Purple Sage, Zane Grey, 1912

*Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales

*Roots, Alex Haley, 1976

Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein, 1961

*Dune, Frank Herbert, 1965

Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo, 1831

*Three Men in a Boat, Jerome K. Jerome, 1889

Ulysses, James Joyce, 1922

*Profiles in Courage, John F. Kennedy, 1955

*Steamboat Gothic, Francis Parkinson Keyes, 1952

*Russia House, John le Carre, 1989

Dom Casmurro, Machado de Assis, 1899

*The Armies of the Night, Norman Mailer, 1968

Of Human Bondage, W. Somerset Maugham, 1915

*The Razor's Edge, W. Somerset Maugham, 1944

*Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry, 1985 

The Black Prince, Iris Murdoch, 1973

A House for Mr Biswas, V. S. Naipaul, 1961

*True Grit, Charles Portis, 1968

*Swann's Way, Marcel Proust, 1913

*Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie, 1988

Indiana, George Sand, 1832

A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth, 1993

*3 Lives, Gertrude Stein, 1909

*A Tale of a Tub, Jonathan Swift, 1704

*Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray, 1847

*Mary Poppins, P. L. Travers, 1934

Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, 1945

Delta Wedding, Eudora Welty, 1946

Harriet Hume, Rebecca West, 1929

Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton, 1920

Book of Merlyn, T. H. White, 1977

The Years, Virginia Woolf, 1937

*Autobiography of Malcolm X, Malcolm X, 1965

We, Yevgeny Zamyatin, 1924

The Masterpiece, Emile Zola, 1886

War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy, 1867 [began reading in Jan. 2024]

 *I have a copy of this book on my shelves.

The books I have finished reading:

1. Jamaica Inn, Daphne du Maurier, 1936 [Jan. 2024]
2. Nightwood, Djuna Barnes, 1937 [Feb. 2024]
3. The Quiet American, Graham Greene, 1955 [Mar., 2024]
4. The Postman Always Rings Twice, James M. Cain, 1934 [Apr 2024]

Journey to the Center of the Earth, Jules Verne, 1864 [began and abandoned 2024]