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:

1. No Longer at Ease, Chinua Achibe, 1960
2. *Aesop's Fables
3. Eighty Fairy Tales, Hans Christian Andersen
4. The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck, 1931
5. Black Snow, Mikhail Bulgakov, 1965
6. *Song of the Lark, Willa Cather, 1915
7. A Lost Lady, Willa Cather, 1923
8. Diary of a Provincial Lady, E. M. Delafield, 1930
9. *Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens, 1838
10. *Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens, 1865
11. *Hard Times, Charles Dickens, 1854
12. *Little Dorrit, Charles Dickens, 1857
13. Middlemarch, George Eliot, 1872
14. *Come and Get It, Edna Ferber, 1935
15. The Beautiful and the Damned, F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1922
16. *Howards End, E. M. Forster, 1910
17. The Magus, John Fowles, 1965
18. *One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1967
19. In the Year of Jubilee, George Gissing, 1893
20. Riders of the Purple Sage, Zane Grey, 1912
21. *Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
22. Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein, 1961
23. *Dune, Frank Herbert, 1965
24. Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo, 1831
25. Ulysses, James Joyce, 1922
26. *Profiles in Courage, John F. Kennedy, 1955
27. *Steamboat Gothic, Francis Parkinson Keyes, 1952
28. *Russia House, John le Carre, 1989
29. *The Armies of the Night, Norman Mailer, 1968
30. Of Human Bondage, W. Somerset Maugham, 1915
31. *The Razor's Edge, W. Somerset Maugham, 1944
32. *Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry, 1985 [2025 readalong title]
33. The Black Prince, Iris Murdoch, 1973
34. A House for Mr Biswas, V. S. Naipaul, 1961
35. *True Grit, Charles Portis, 1968
36. *Swann's Way, Marcel Proust, 1913
37. *Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie, 1988
38. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth, 1993
39. *3 Lives, Gertrude Stein, 1909
40. *A Tale of a Tub, Jonathan Swift, 1704
41. *Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray, 1847
42. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy, 1867 
43. *Mary Poppins, P. L. Travers, 1934
44. *Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, 1945
45. *Delta Wedding, Eudora Welty, 1946
46. Harriet Hume, Rebecca West, 1929
47. Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton, 1920
48. Book of Merlyn, T. H. White, 1977
49. The Years, Virginia Woolf, 1937
50. *Autobiography of Malcolm X, Malcolm X, 1965
51. The Masterpiece, Emile Zola, 1886

 *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]
5. We, Yevgeny Zamyatin, 1924 [July 2024]
6. Dom Casmurro, Machado de Assis, 1899 [September 2024]
7. Three Men in a Boat, Jerome K. Jerome, 1889 [November 2024]
8. The Gods Themselves, Isaac Asimov, 1972 [January 2025]
9. Roots, Alex Haley, 1976 [April 2025]

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

Indiana, George Sand, 1832 [began and abandoned 2024]

A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens, 1859 [began and abandoned April 2025]