Classic Club Master List

The Classic Club – community of classics lovers

The Classics Club is a club created to inspire people to read and blog about classic books. There’s no time limit to join and you’re most welcome, as long as you’re willing to sign up to read and write on your blog about 50 classic books in at most five years.

You can join HERE.

July 2018 –  July 2020   – I hope to finish these classics

UPDATE: 20.02.2019 –>  COMPLETED!!

 

1. Pascal, B. – Pensées – READ
   
2. Shelley, M.  – Frankenstein – READ
   
3. Stendhal – La Chartreuse de Parme (french edition) – READ
   
4. Miller A.  – Death of a Salesman – (play) – READ
   
5. Vaz da Camões, L.  – The Lusiads – READ (epic poem)
   
6. Alighieri, Dante  – The Divine Comedy – READ
   
7. Doyle, Arthur Conan – The Hound of the Baskervilles – READ
   
8. Hermans, W.F. – Nooit Meer Slapen (Beyond Sleep) – READ
   
9. De Lorris, G. et De Meun, J. – Le Roman de la Rose – READ 
   
10. Woolf, V. – Mrs. Dalloway – READ
    
11. Wollstonecraft, M.  – A Vindication of the Rights of Women – READ
    
12. Virgil –The Aeneid – READ
13. Cooper, J.F. – Deerslayer – READ
14. Hemingway, E. – The Sun Also Rises – READ
15. James, H. – The Golden Bowl – READ
16. Shirer, W. – The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich – READ
17. Seneca – Letters From a Stoic – READ
    
18. Dickens, C. – Our Mutual Friend – READ
    
19. Dickens, C. – David Copperfield – READ
    
20. Dickens, C. – Great Expectations – READ
21. Sei Shonagon –The Pillow Book – READ
22. Chaucer – The Knights Tale – READ
    
23. Maupassant, G. de  –  Une vie – (french edition) – READ
    
24. Caro, R. – Means of Ascent (LBJ) modern classic non-fiction – READ
    
25. Sophocles – Electra – READ (play)
    
26. Ibsen, I. – Rosmersholm – READ (play)
27. Bronte, A. – The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – READ
28. Boswell, J. – The Life of Samuel Johnson – READ
    
29. Austen, J  – Pride and Prejudice – READ
30. Anonymous, – Myths from Mesopotamia – trans. S. Dalley – READ
    
31. Horace, – Satires – READ
    
32. Eusebius,   – The History of the Church – READ
    
33. Eliot, G. – Selected Essays, Poems and other Writings– READ 
    
34. Dickens, C.  – The Christmas Carol – READ
35. Shakespeare, W.  – Midsummer Night’s Dream – READ
    
36. Shakespeare, W.  – Othello –  READ
    
37. Shakespeare, W. – Hamlet – READ – review?
    
38. Shakespeare, W. – Richard II – READ
39. Melville, H.  – Moby Dick – READ
    
40. Du Maurier, D.  – Rebecca – READ
41. Anonymous  – Beowulf – READ  – review?
42. Chopin, K. – The Awakening – READ
    
43. Plato – The Symposium – READ
    
44. O’ Connor, Flannery – The Selected Stories – READ
45. Suetonius – The Twelve Caesars – READ
46. Conrad, J. – The Heart of Darkness – READ
47. Fitzgerald, F.S. – The Great Gatsby – READ
    
48. Dickens, C.  – A Tale of Two Cities – READ
    
49. Eliot, G. – The Mill on the Floss – READ
    
50. Poe, E.A.  – The Portable Edgar Allan Poe, 28 tales – READ
    

 

Short stories:

1. The Angel of the Odd – E.A. Poe (The Complete Short Stories)
2. The Birthday of the Infanta – O. Wilde ( The Works of Oscar  Wilde)

 

 

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