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Monday, 26 November 2018

Classics Club Challenge

I'm a Project Manager by day. Anyone who knows me knows that in addition to loving to read I also love to plan, to make lists and to research. Guess I'm in the right profession! 

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


  1. The Romance of the Forest - Ann Radcliffe
  2. Kidnapped - Sir Walter Scott
  3. Frankenstein - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  4. The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo
  5. The Count of Monte-Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
  6. The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
  7. Cranford - Elizbeth Gaskell
  8. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
  9. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
  10. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
  11. Ben-Hur - Lew Wallace
  12. Little Dorrit - Charles Dickens
  13. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
  14. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
  15. Dracula - Bram Stoker
  16. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
  17. Agnes Grey - Anne Bronte
  18. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
  19. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
  20. The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  21. The Thirty-Nine Steps - John Buchan
  22. The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
  23. Claudine's House - Collette
  24. Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
  25. The Well of Loneliness - Radcliffe Hall
  26. Orlando - Virginia Woolf
  27. All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
  28. Lady Chatterley's Lover - D.H. Lawrence
  29. Brighton Rock - Graham Greene
  30. Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
  31. The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  32. Doctor Faustus - Thomas Mann
  33. 1984 - George Orwell
  34. Love in a Cold Climate - Nancy Mitford
  35. Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham
  36. Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote
  37. The Talented Mr Ripley - Patricia Highsmith
  38. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
  39. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
  40. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
  41. The Scarlet Pimpernel - Baroness Orzy
  42. Passing - Nella Larsen
  43. We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson
  44. The Ivy Tree - Mary Stewart
  45. The King Must Die - Mary Renault
  46. The Daughter of Time - Josephine Tey
  47. My Cousin Rachel - Daphne du Maurier
  48. I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith
  49. Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
  50. North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell



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