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. In the Year of Jubilee, George Gissing, 1893
19. Riders of the Purple Sage, Zane Grey, 1912
20. *Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
21. Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein, 1961
22. *Dune, Frank Herbert, 1965
23. Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo, 1831
24. Ulysses, James Joyce, 1922
25. *Profiles in Courage, John F. Kennedy, 1955
26. *Steamboat Gothic, Francis Parkinson Keyes, 1952
27. *Russia House, John le Carre, 1989
28. *The Armies of the Night, Norman Mailer, 1968
29. Of Human Bondage, W. Somerset Maugham, 1915
30. *The Razor's Edge, W. Somerset Maugham, 1944
31. The Black Prince, Iris Murdoch, 1973
32. A House for Mr Biswas, V. S. Naipaul, 1961
33. *True Grit, Charles Portis, 1968
34. *Swann's Way, Marcel Proust, 1913
35. *Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie, 1988
36. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth, 1993
37. *A Tale of a Tub, Jonathan Swift, 1704
38. *Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray, 1847
39. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy, 1867 
40. *Mary Poppins, P. L. Travers, 1934
41. *Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, 1945
42. *Delta Wedding, Eudora Welty, 1946
43. Harriet Hume, Rebecca West, 1929
44. Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton, 1920
45. Book of Merlyn, T. H. White, 1977
46. The Years, Virginia Woolf, 1937
47. *Autobiography of Malcolm X, Malcolm X, 1965
48. 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]
10. Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry, 1985  [August 2025]
11. One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1967 [February 2026]

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]

3 Lives, Gertrude Stein, 1909 [began and abandoned July 2025]