Thursday, March 14, 2024

100 Classics in 5 Years

I have joined the Classics Club Challenge.  My goal is to complete 100 classics in 5 years, by March 14, 2029.  I will blog about each book as I finish it, updating the list as I go.  Here's my list:

Books Completed: 7/100

1. Lark Rise to Candleford - Flora Thompson

2. Armadale - Wilkie Collins

3. The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot

4. Middlemarch - George Eliot

5. Adam Bede - George Eliot

6. Daniel Deronda - George Eliot

7. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens

8. Confessions of an English Opium Eater - Thomas De Quincey

9. The Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens

10. Nicholas Nickleby - Charles Dickens

11. Mary Barton - Elizabeth Gaskell

12. Wives and Daughters - Elizabeth Gaskell

13. Ruth - Elizabeth Gaskell 4/18/24

14. Kim - Rudyard Kipling 3/17/24

15. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray

16. The Return of the Native - Thomas Hardy

17. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy

18. A Pair of Blue Eyes - Thomas Hardy

19. Under the Greenwood Tree - Thomas Hardy 3/15/24

20. The Woodlanders - Thomas Hardy

21. Three Men in a Boat - Jerome K. Jerome 3/21/24

22. Barchester Towers - Anthony Trollope

23. Lady Audley's Secret - Mary Elizabeth Braddon

24. Aurora Floyd - Mary Elizabeth Braddon

25. Shirley - Charlotte Bronte

26. East Lynne - Mrs. Henry Wood

27. The Odd Women - George Gissing

28. New Grub Street - George Gissing

29. Red Pottage - Mary Cholmondeley

30. Deerbrook - Harriet Martineau

31. Olive - Dinah Mulock Craik

32. Hester - Mrs. Oliphant

33. Miss Marjoribanks - Mrs. Oliphant

34. The Faerie Queene - Edmund Spenser

35. The Forsyte Saga - John Galsworthy

36. Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe

37. Nightmare Abbey - Thomas Love Peacock

38. The Golden Ass - Apuleius

39. An Ecclesiastical History of the English People - Bede

40. Excellent Women - Barbara Pym

41. Vera - Elizabeth von Arnim

42. Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier

43. The Castle of Otranto - Horace Walpole

44. The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer

45. Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift

46. The Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan

47. The Vicar of Wakefield - Oliver Goldsmith

48. Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott

49. A Journal of the Plague Year - Daniel Defoe

50. Evelina - Frances Burney 4/25/24

51. The Way of All Flesh - Samuel Butler

52. The Awakening - Kate Chopin

53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons

54. The Scarlet Pimpernel - Baroness Orczy

55. Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys 4/26/24

56. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith

57. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

58. Kipps - H.G. Wells

59. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne

60. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes

61. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky

62. The Trial - Franz Kafka

63. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

64. The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway

65. The Beautiful and the Damned - F. Scott Fitzgerald

66. The Brothers Karamozov - Fyodor Dostoevsky

67. Vile Bodies - Evelyn Waugh

68. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman - Mary Wollstonecraft

69. Picnic at Hanging Rock - Joan Lindsay 3/30/24

70. The Book of Margery Kempe - Margery Kempe

71. Our Mutual Friend - Charles Dickens

72. A Philosophical Enquiry - Edmund Burke

73. Cindie - Jean DeVanny

74. The Lottery and Other Stories - Shirley Jackson

75. Uncle Silas - Sheridan Le Fanu

76. Trilby - George du Maurier

77. Faust - Goethe

78. A Sentimental Journey - Laurence Sterne

79. The Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham

80. The Edwardians - Vita Sackville-West

81. The Bride of Lammermoor - Sir Walter Scott

82. Recollections of the Lakes and the Lake Poets - Thomas De Quincey

83. The Monarch of the Glen - Compton Mackenzie

84. In the Mountains - Elizabeth von Arnim

85. We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson

86. Melmoth the Wanderer - Charles Maturin

87. Piers Ploughman - William Langland

88. The Travels of Sir John Mandeville

89. The Song of Roland

90. The History of Rasselas - Samuel Johnson

91. Rob Roy - Sir Walter Scott

92. He Knew He Was Right - Anthony Trollope

93. The Mysteries of Udolpho - Ann Radcliffe

94. Parzival - Wolfram von Eschenbach

95. From the Earth to the Moon - Jules Verne

96. The White People and Other Weird Stories - Arthur Machen

97. The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals - Dorothy Wordsworth

98. Lud-in-the-Mist - Hope Mirrlees

99. The Lark - E. Nesbit

100. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner - James Hogg


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