I used to alternate reading classics and contemporary fiction but that has well and truly fallen to the wayside over the last few years. I wanted to get back into reading classics and came across the classics club when researching ideas. So how could I resist!
The plan is to read 50 classics within the next five years (by 24 November 2023).
The List
- The Romance of the Forest - Ann Radcliffe
- Kidnapped - Sir Walter Scott
- Frankenstein - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo
- The Count of Monte-Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
- The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Cranford - Elizbeth Gaskell
- Bleak House - Charles Dickens
- The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
- Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
- Ben-Hur - Lew Wallace
- Little Dorrit - Charles Dickens
- The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
- Dracula - Bram Stoker
- Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
- Agnes Grey - Anne Bronte
- Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
- Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
- The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Thirty-Nine Steps - John Buchan
- The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
- Claudine's House - Collette
- Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
- The Well of Loneliness - Radcliffe Hall
- Orlando - Virginia Woolf
- All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
- Lady Chatterley's Lover - D.H. Lawrence
- Brighton Rock - Graham Greene
- Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
- The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- Doctor Faustus - Thomas Mann
- 1984 - George Orwell
- Love in a Cold Climate - Nancy Mitford
- Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham
- Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote
- The Talented Mr Ripley - Patricia Highsmith
- To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
- The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
- The Scarlet Pimpernel - Baroness Orzy
- Passing - Nella Larsen
- We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson
- The Ivy Tree - Mary Stewart
- The King Must Die - Mary Renault
- The Daughter of Time - Josephine Tey
- My Cousin Rachel - Daphne du Maurier
- I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith
- Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
- North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell
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