Reading the classics has always been a joy for me. So I am very happy to finally become a member of The Classics Club!
My list is a mix of novels, novellas, non-fiction, short stories, and poetry, a combination of adult and children’s literature. Many of these books are already on my bookshelves or on my Kindle, and I love listening to audiobooks. I add to or change the list occasionally as I find other classics I’d really like to read for this challenge. My goal is to read 50 books in 5 years. That sounds so far away, but I know that five years goes by in a flash. What pleasurable reading years they will be!
Classics Club List #1
Goal date: March 7, 2022. COMPLETED on September 30, 2021!
Progress = 50/50
Red = Link to my review
Blue = Read but not reviewed yet
- Death Comes For the Archbishop, Willa Cather
- The Railway Children, Edith Nesbitt
- Pippi Longstocking, Astrid Lindgren
- A River Runs Through It, Norman McClean
- Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Salman Rushdie
- Persuasion, Jane Austen
- The Rainbow and the Rose, Nevil Shute
- Around the World in Eighty Days, Jules Verne
- The Solitary Summer, Elizabeth von Arnim
- A Very Easy Death, Simone de Beauvoir
- Heidi, Johanna Spyri
- The Country of the Pointed Firs, Sarah Orne Jewett
- Death in the Castle, Pearl S. Buck
- Pollyanna, Eleanor H. Porter
- This Star Shall Abide, Sylvia Engdahl
- The Haunted Bookshop, Christopher Morley
- A Tiger For Malgudi, R. K. Narayan
- The Moorland Cottage, Elizabeth Gaskell
- The Call of the Wild, Jack London
- Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke
- Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Kate Douglas Wiggin
- Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
- The Spectator Bird, Wallace Stegner
- Kindred, Octavia Butler
- The Unicorn and Other Poems, Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- Excellent Women, Barbara Pym
- Crooked House, Agatha Christie
- Kidnapped, Robert Louis Stevenson
- Marcovaldo, or The Seasons in the CIty, Italo Calvino
- Cider With Rosie, Laurie Lee
- The Seventh Seal, Ingmar Bergman
- The Outermost House, Henry Beston
- The Door in the Wall, Marguerite de Angeli
- The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros
- The Red Pony, John Steinbeck
- Kew Gardens, Virginia Woolf
- One Day At Teton Marsh, Sally Carraghar
- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- The Enchanted April, Elizabeth von Arnim
- Most Secret, Nevil Shute
- The Reluctant Dragon, Kenneth Grahame
- Travels With a Donkey in the Cévennes, Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Measure of My Days, Florida Scott-Maxwell
- The Living Reed, Pearl S. Buck
- Lost in the Yellowstone, by Truman Everts
- A Christmas Tragedy, by Baroness Orczy
- Pietr the Latvian, by George Simenon
- The Prophet, by Kahlil Gibran
- Barracoon, Zora Neale Hurston
- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, by Washington Irving
Good for you, Robin! Good luck!
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Thank you, Weebitsofhappy! I know I’ll enjoy reading these books. And it’s only time, after all.😊 By the way, I linked over to your new blog and it’s really nice. I love the idea of it and I plan to be a frequent visitor.
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Hi Robin, welcome on board! I’m also a Classics-Clubbers since 5 years ago. I have just finished my challenge several days ago, and am now beginning my 2nd round. It’s always nice to meet more classics-lovers 🙂
Impressive list you have there… many of them I haven’t heard.
The Ramayana is very interesting. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, The House of Mirth, and Crooked House are among my favorites. I think there will be a new adaptation of Crooked House coming out soon, starring Gillian Anderson. That made me wanting to reread it…
Anyway, good luck with the challenge! I’m adding you to my blogroll 🙂
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Fanda Kutubuku, congratulations on finishing your first 5 years worth of classics and starting on your second round! That’s quite an achievement and inspires me as I get started on my first round. And thank you for adding me to your blogroll.
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I’m not a big classics reader, but wish you luck in your challenge. I know that many participate in this one. You’ve got a few of my favorites on your list. ROSE IN BLOOM, PERSUASION, A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN, CROOKED HOUSE – love all those.
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Thanks, Kay! I’m looking forward to reading those favorites of yours!
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Fantastic! I also should have joined up ages ago but was busy with my chapter books project and such. I need to refocus on the classics.
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Kristen, it took me 5 years to decide to finally do it. It seemed like a huge commitment back then, but I’m glad I’ve finally decided to just do it. I know I will enjoy it.
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This is an amazing list. I find your choices really exciting and different. Silent Spring! Rose in Bloom! Can’t wait to see your thoughts on these books. Very best wishes. 🙂
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Thank you, Jillian! I put together a list of books I’ve always wanted to read but just haven’t done so yet (and included a couple of treasures to reread), so I am really enjoying my classics reading!
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I completed A River Runs Through It a couple months ago. Just beautiful. Thought I’d share since I see it on your list. 🙂
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You have some wonderful books on this list, and two of my favorite authors, Willa Cather and Edith Wharton. I just completed by 46th book, but of course my list has grown from 51 to 88. 🙂 Have fun reading!
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I love it! I’m going to do this too! I’ve seen the buttons, but haven’t signed up yet. I didn’t realize we could all have our own five years. I like it!
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I’m just popping through from the Classics Club Membership List to say hi! I joined the CC a couple of years ago and have thoroughly enjoyed it so far. Your list looks great – a nice mix of well known and lesser known classics, and I like that you’ve included a bit of classic crime fiction in there. Looking forward to reading more of your reviews! 😀
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I’m a newbie here in the CC and am trying to pop in and visit some of the members blogs to check out their list and read some of their reviews. I see you’ve read Persuasion (it’s my favorite Austen to date although I have a few left to read) and Jane Eyre is also one I really enjoyed. I have a few of these on my list too, Excellent Women which I probably will read next month, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. I’m going to look up Kinfolk by Pearl Saturday Buck; I recently read The Good Earth for the 3rd time and decided I need to read something else by her. Thanks for sharing The Book of Tea (I’m a tea lover and will look that up now too)
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We are set to finish about the same time!! How’s your list coming along?? It looks like you’re doing well!!
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What a great list! You have made wonderful progress so far. Do you have any favorites from the ones you have read off your list?
I read and loved: Middlemarch, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Persuasion, Heidi, Jane Eyre
I have these classics on my list too: Around the World in Eighty Days, Excellent Women, Rebeca of Sunnybrook Farm.
Here is my Classics Club list, if interested! https://elle-alice.blogspot.com/2020/07/the-classics-club-55-classics-in-5.html
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Thanks, Elena! I took a peek at your list and love it! Lots of favorites and lots that I would love to read, too! Good luck and enjoy your reading!
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Robin, I have now added you to the Wall of Honor on the Classics Club blog.
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Thank you so much, Deb, for adding me to the Wall of Honor! I am so enjoying this ongoing challenge!
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