I finished this first list for the Classics Club in August 2020. I was thrilled to meet my goal! Please check out my reviews and leave comments! I appreciate you stopping by 🙂
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I’m excited to participate in the Classics Club Challenge. My goal is to read 50 classics by September 2020.
Here are the basics. Make a list of at least 50 classics you want to read and the timeline in which you will finish them. Post the list on your blog. Then as you finish the classics, write reviews and link back to the master post. Check out the full details on The Classics Club. I’m excited to get started!
Here is my list. Some are rereads because I just love them. Most are new reads. A few are huge–800 plus pages. Several are children’s classics. All are books I am excited to read!
- Aesop’s Fables by Aesop
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
- Little Men by Louisa May Alcott
- Jo’s Boys by Louisa May Alcott
- Emma by Jane Austen
- Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
- Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
- Persuasion by Jane Austen
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
- Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L Frank Baum
- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
- The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom
- The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
- Evelina by Fanny Burney
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
- The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
- Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
- Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Self Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
- The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
- North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
- The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
- Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
- Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
- The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
- The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis
- Winnie the Pooh by A A Milne
- Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
- The Complete Tales of Beatrix Potter by Beatrix Potter
- The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott
- Hamlet by William Shakespeare
- Macbeth by William Shakespeare
- The Tempest by William Shakespeare
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- Heidi by Johanna Spyri
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
- Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
- Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White
- The Prelude by William Wordsworth
What a great list! Here are the books on your list I loved: Little Women, P&P, Persuasion, Sense & Sensibility, The Tenant of Wilfell Hall, The Hiding Place, Alice in Wonderland, Jane Eyre, Pilgrim’s Progress, Little Prince, North and South, Les Mis, Mere Christianity, Screwtape Letters, Anne of Green Gables, Heidi, Grapes of Wrath, Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer.
And here are the ones I have on my CC list too: Wizard of Oz, The Hobbit, Treasure Island.
I’ll link my list if interested!
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Thanks so much, Elena! So neat that you have read and loved so many of these classics! Several of them are my favorites now too. I hope you enjoy The Hobbit especially! Have you read it before?
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Such an inspiring list of classics. Your list has now made me want to read all these novels. 🙂
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Well thank you! I am enjoying my classics journey thus far. Glad I have more time to complete this list 🙂
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You sure have some good reads on your list. I do not recall “Sandition” by Jane Austen Enjoy.
Marilyn
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Thank you! I believe Sandition is the last book Austen started, and someone else finished it. Looking forward to it. Thank you for stopping by 🙂
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It’s actually Sanditon. I only correct you because my brain also turned it into Sandition when I read the title, & I was embarrassed in a lit class to be mispronouncing it. It ends with the sound “tin”, not “shin.” Spreading the word! 🙂
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Thanks for the tip! 🙂
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Hi Jane, nice list. We have a fair amount of overlap between our lists, so I’ll look forward to comparing notes. My list: http://100greatestnovelsofalltimequest.blogspot.com/2011/08/the-official-list-of-100-greatest.html
Welcome to the Classics Club.
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Thanks so much! I will definitely need to check out your list as well. Excited to read more classics!
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So many wonderful choices! The Tempest is one of my favorite Shakespeare plays.
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Thank you! I am excited to check out The Tempest–one of the few I haven’t read but really want to!
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I love this idea! And great choices! I may have to work on a list of my own.
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Thanks! You totally should check it out. It’s a great way to get motivated to read some classics. Thanks for stopping by!
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Lots & lots of great choices! Little Women! I love that you are reading Pooh to your husband. 🙂 Anne Frank’s diary is excellent, as are the Austens. Welcome!!
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Thank you!! I love Jane Austen (a few are rereads 🙂 ) And we are loving Winnie the Pooh–it’s just so sweet!
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