I’ve gone against type and joined a club! The Classic Book Club!
I’m so excited to begin my FIVE YEAR JOURNEY reading through and blogging about 50 classic books! My goal is to read and post about a book each month.
The list below is in no particular order (though while compiling the list I’ve nearly finished War and Peace and can’t wait to write my first response post).
I’ve set my starting date as August 1, 2017 and my end date as September 1, 2022 (I think I actually have 51 books on the list and may want to sneak in a few extras).
Any last minute suggestions? I’d love to hear them!
Classics Club Book List
War and Peace Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy
Tom Jones Henry Fielding
Clarissa Samuel Richardson
The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas
Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë
Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray
The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame
A Passage to India EM Forster
A Light in August (or The Hamlet) William Faulkner
The Pursuit of Love Nancy Mitford
The Woman in White Wilkie Collins
Three Men in a Boat Jerome Jerome
Candide Voltaire
Cecilia Fanny Burney
The Life and Opinions Tristam Shandy, Laurence Sterne
The Vicar of Wakefield Oliver Goldsmith
The Nun Diderot
The Prairie James Fennimore cooper
Blithedale Romance Nathaniel Hawthorne
Tess of the D’Urbervilles Thomas Hardy
Black Beauty Anna Sewall
The Perpetual Curate Margaret Oliphant
Lilith George Macdonald
Washington Square Henry James
Silas Marner George Eliot
The Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Ambrose Beirce
Love Stendhal
The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Moll Flanders Daniel Defoe
Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro
The Prince Niccolo Machiavelli
The Sailor who fell from Grace with the Sea Yukio Mishima
The Misanthrope Moliere
Writings on Nature John Muir
Animal Farm George Orwell
Doctor Zhivago Boris Pasternak
The Story of an African Farm Olive Schreiner
The Red and the Black Stendhal
The General CS Forester
The Divine Comedy Dante Alighieri
Lord of the Flies William Golding
Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Edward Gibbon
Kim Rudyard Kipling
Flowers of Evil Charles Baudelaire
Night Elie Wiesel
Moonstone Wilkie Collins
Miss Ravenel’s Conversion from Secession to Loyalty John W. De Forest

My reading companion Elizabeth