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I first joined The Classics Club in March of 2017 and signed up to read 50 books in 5 years. I just completed those fifty books and it turned out to be a really enjoyable reading experience for me. I do love reading the classics, so here I go with a second round of reading 50 books in the next 5 years!
As with my first list, my reading will be a mix of novels, novellas, non-fiction, short stories, and poetry — a combination of adult and children’s literature. This time I’ve decided to create a pool of classics I’m interested in reading, add to it often as I run into other books I’d like to read, and choose my 50 from that pool of books. I will keep a running list of the books I read along this journey, so please check back here to see my progress. My new time goal for completing this second round of reading 50 books in 5 years is October 1, 2026! Once again, that sounds so far away, but I know that five years goes by in a flash, and what pleasurable reading years they will be!
(Click here to see my completed Classics Club List #1)
Classics Club List #2
GOAL DATE: October 1, 2021 – October 1, 2026
Progress = 13/50
Red = Link to my review
Blue = Read but not reviewed yet
- Walking, by Henry David Thoreau
- The Fortnight in September, by R.C. Sherriff
- The Amethyst Box, by Anna Katharine Green
- I Heard the Owl Call My Name, by Margaret Craven
- The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien
- Summer at Fairacre, by Miss Read
- My Robin, by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, by Mark Twain
- The Long Winter, by Laura Ingalls Wilder
- A Little Princess, by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- The Three Musketeers, by Alexandre Dumas
- Call It Courage, by Armstrong Sperry
- The Golden Goblet, by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
- Round the Bend, by Nevil Shute
- The Enchantress of Florence, by Salman Rushdie
- Misty of Chincoteague, by Marguerite Henry
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CLASSICS I’M INTERESTED IN READING, found on my shelves or on my Kindle, collected over the years:
Adams, Douglas: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Agee, James: A Death in the Family
Allende, Isabel: The House of the Spirits
Arkell, Reginald: Old Herbaceous
Armstrong, William K.: Sounder
Austin, Mary Hunter: The Land of Little Rain
Baldwin, James: The Fire Next Time
Beston, Henry: The Northern Farm: A Glorious Year on a Small Maine Farm
Bronte, Anne: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Bronte, Charlotte: The Professor
Bronte, Charlotte: Shirley
Bronte, Charlotte: Villette
Bronte, Charlotte: The Green Dwarf
Buck, Pearl S: Sons
Buck, Pearl S: A House Divided
Buck, Pearl S: Mandala
Burnett, Frances Hodgson: A Little Princess
Burnett, Frances Hodgson: Little Lord Fauntleroy
Burnett, Frances Hodgson: My Robin
Camus, Albert: The Stranger
Carson, Rachel: The Sea Around Us
Chekhov, Anton: The Black Monk
Conrad, Joseph: The Secret Agent
Conrad, Pam: My Daniel
Craven, Margaret: I Heard the Owl Call My Name
Dickens, Charles: The Chimes
Dinesen, Isak: Winter Tales
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor: The Idiot
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor: White Nights
Douglass, Frederick: A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Doyle, Arthur Conan: The Sign of the Four
Doyle, Arthur Conan: The Hound of the Baskerville
Doyle, Arthur Conan: The Valley of Fear
Du Bois, W.E.B.: The Souls of Black Folk
Dumas, Alexandre: The Three Musketeers
Easwaren, Eknath, translator: The Bhagavad Gita
Eliot, George: Daniel Deronda
Emecheta, Buhi: The Joys of Motherhood
Enright, Elizabeth: Thimble Summer
Fleming, Ian: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: The Magical Car
Gaskell, Elizabeth: Ruth
Gaskell, Elizabeth: Mary Barton
Goldman, William: The Princess Bride
Green, Anna Katharine: The Amethyst Box
Green, Bette: Phillip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon
Gunther, John: Death Be Not Proud
Hamilton, Virginia: The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales
Hardy, Thomas: The Return of the Native
Harrer, Hermann: Seven Years in Tibet
Henry, Marguerite: Misty of Chincoteague
Hesse, Hermann: Siddhartha
Heyer, Georgette: Venetia
Hinton, S.E.: The Outsiders
Hudson, W.H.: Green Mansions
Irving, Washington: Tales of the Alhambra
Irving, Washington: Old Christmas
Knowles, John: A Separate Peace
Lawrence, Elizabeth: The Little Bulbs: A Tale of Two Gardens
Lee, Laurie: As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
Lee, Laurie: A Moment of War
Lee, Laurie: A Rose for Winter
Lofting, Hugh: The Story of Dr. Dolittle
Macdonald, Betty: The Egg and I
Mansfield, Katherine: New Zealand Stories
Matthiessen, Peter: The Snow Leopard
McGraw, Eloise Jarvis: The Golden Goblet
Momaday, N. Scott: House Made of Dawn
Morrison, Toni: Home
Narayan, R.K.: Malgudi Days
Nichols, Beverley: Garden Open Today
Nichols, Beverley: Garden Open Tomorrow
Okakura, Kazuko: The Book of Tea
Perenyi, Eleanor: Green Thoughts
Proust, Marcel: Days of Reading
Proust, Marcel: Remembrance of Things Past
Pym, Barbara: Some Tame Gazelle
Read, Miss: Summer at Fairacre
Rushdie, Salman: The Enchantress of Florence
Rushdie, Salman: Luka and the Fire of Life
Scott, Sir Walter: Ivanhoe
Shakespeare, William: Hamlet
Sharma, Bulbul: The Ramayana
Sherriff, R.C.: The Fortnight in September
Shute, Nevil: On the Beach
Shute, Nevil: Round the Bend
Shute, Nevil: What Happened to the Corbetts?
Smith, Betty: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Sorensen, Virginia: Miracles on Maple Hill
Soseki, Natsume: Kokoro
Sperry, Armstrong: Call It Courage
Taylor, Mildred D.: Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry
Thoreau, Henry David: Walking
Tolkien, J.R.R.: The Hobbit
Tolstoy, Leo: The Cossacks
Trollope, Anthony: Barchester Towers
Trollope, Anthony: Doctor Thorne
Trollope, Anthony: Framley Parsonage
Trollope, Anthony: The Small House at Allington
Trollope, Anthony: The Last Chronicle of Barset
Twain, Mark: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
Tzu, Lao: Tao Te Ching
Verne, Jules: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
von Arnim, Elizabeth: The Caravaners
von Arnim, Elizabeth: Princess Pricilla’s Fortnight
Washington, Booker T.: Up From Slavery
Welty, Eudora: Delta Wedding
Welty, Eudora: Losing Battles
Wharton, Edith: In Morocco
Whitman, Walt: Walt Whitman’s Diary: A Summer in Canada, 1880
Wiesel, Elie: Night
Wiesel, Elie: Day
Wiesel, Elie: Dawn
Wilder, Laura Ingalls: The Long Winter
Woolf, Virginia: A Room of One’s Own
Zola, Emile: Therese Raquin

Reading on the porch…