#2023 Classic Club Reading List
- It is time to get back some serious classic reading in 2023.
- I have selected 50 books for third classic list!
- Group hashtag: #ccbookreviews
- Twitter: @ourclassicsclub
READ: 01/50
- 1970: 84, Charing Cross Road – Helene Hanff
- 1970: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee – Dee Brown
- 1927: Death Comes for the Archbishop – W. Cather
- 1963: The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
- 1963: Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut
- 1969: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
- 1819: Ivanhoe – Walter Scott
- 1895: Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
- 1905: The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
- 1854: North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell
- 1958: The Once and Future King – T.H. White
- 1924: A Passage to India – E.M. Forster
- 1961: Revolutionary Road – R. Yates
- 1942: The Stranger – Albert Camus
- 1887: A Study in Scarlet – Arthur Conan Doyle
- 1958: Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
- 1962: We Have Always Lived in the Castle – Shirley Jackson
- 1859: The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
- 1943: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith
- 1927: To the Lighthouse – V. Woolf
- 1916: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
- 1940: Darkness at Noon – Arthur Koestler
- 1940: Native Son – Richard Wright
- 1932: Tobacco Road – Erskine Caldwell
- 1953: The Adventures of Augie March – Saul Bellow
- 1961: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark
- 1939: The Day of the Locust – Nathanael West
- 1929: A High Wind in Jamaica – Richard Hughes
- 1951: From Here to Eternity – James Jones
- 1960: The Moviegoer – Walker Percy
- 1900: Sister Carrie – Theodore Dreiser
- 1928: Point Counter Point – Aldous Huxley
- 1911: Zuleika Dobson – Max Beerbohm
- 1928: Parade’s End – Ford Madox Ford
- 1945: A Bell for Adano – John Hersey
- 1943: Dragon’s Teeth – Upton Sinclair
- 1938: The Late George Apley – John Phillips Marquand
- 1935: Now in November – Josephine Winslow Johnson
- 1934: Lamb in His Bosom – Caroline Miller
- 1969: House Made of Dawn – N. Scott Momaday
- 1965: The Keepers of the House – Shirley Ann Grau
- 1962: The Edge of Sadness – Edwin O’Connor
- 1959: The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters – Robert Lewis Taylor
- 1958: A Death in the Family – James Agee
- 1955: A Fable – William Faulkner
- 1952: The Caine Mutiny – Herman Wouk
- 1950: The Way West – A. B. Guthrie, Jr.
- 1949: Guard of Honor – James Gould Cozzens
- 1948: Tales of the South Pacific – James A. Michener
- 1944: Journey in the Dark – Martin Flavin
7 Comments
Post a comment
NancyElin 
Some gtreat books on your list Nancy plus some I don’t know. It’s always fascinating to see what books and authors are still out there for me/us to read!!
The unfamiliar books are Pulitzer Prize winners in the 1940s-1950s.
Forgotten…I want to see if they are worth reading in 21st C!
I’ve just woken up after a big week at work & socially to see Netherlands still fighting on!!
OMG what a close game!!
How are you holding up?
Go Netherlands !!!
We did our best….lost with penalty shots….again.
Time for our boys to come home…we are so proud of them!
Mr Books was with you all the way!
Now that Australia is out I cannot do the early starts every day. But the extra time and penalty shot outs were dramatic!! And nail biting. An adrenaline boosting way to start my day!
Brona, this was the best World Cup in years….with all the upsets.
Smaller countries really gave us some great games with a lot of “never give up” spirit.
Yassssssssssssssss!!! The Jungle!!!! One of my favorite books of ALL TIME and one of maybe a handful of books that I’ve ever read more than once…more than twice…more than three times. I LOVE THAT BOOK SO MUCH!
Are all these books new to you, Nancy?
I have read and loved:
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
We Have Always LIved in the Castle
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (I’ve read that at least 3 times as well…love it!)
Sister Carrie
And I THINK I’ve read Augie March and A Death In The Family. Sometimes books are on my list(s) for so long I don’t know if I’ve read them or not!
I look forward to your reviews…especially The Jungle.