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.

2018 – 2020   – I hope to finish these classics

 

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. Hugo, Victor – Les Misérables – READING
    
11. Woolf, V. – Mrs. Dalloway – READ
    
12. Wollstonecraft, M.  – A Vindication of the Rights of Women – REA
    
13. Virgil –The Aeneid – READ
14. Cooper, J.F. – Deerslayer – READ
15. Hemingway, E. – The Sun Also Rises – READ
16. James, H. – The Golden Bowl – READ
17. Shirer, W. – The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich – READ
18. Seneca – Letters From a Stoic – READ
    
19. Dickens, C. – Our Mutual Friend – READ
    
20. Dickens, C. – David Copperfield – READ
    
21. Dickens, C. – Great Expectations – READ
22. Sei Shonagon –The Pillow Book – READ
23. Chaucer – The Knights Tale – READ
    
24. Maupassant, G. de  –  Une vie – (french edition) – READ
    
25. Caro, R. – Means of Ascent (LBJ) modern classic non-fiction – READ
    
26. Sophocles – Electra – READ (play)
    
27. Ibsen, I. – Rosmersholm – READ (play)
28. Bronte, A. – The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – READ
29. Boswell, J. – The Life of Samuel Johnson – READ
    
30. Austen, J  – Pride and Prejudice – READ
31. Anonymous, – Myths from Mesopotamia – trans. S. Dalley – READ
    
32. Horace, – Satires – READ
    
33. Eusebius,   – The History of the Church – READ
    
34. Eliot, G. – Selected Essays, Poems and other Writings– READ 
    
35. Dickens, C.  – The Christmas Carol – READ
36. Shakespeare, W.  – Midsummer Night’s Dream – READ
    
37. Shakespeare, W.  – Othello –  READ
    
38. Shakespeare, W. – Hamlet –
39. Thackeray, William – Vanity Fair –
40. Suetonius – The Twelve Caesars – ancient classic non-fiction –
41. Pepys, S. – The Diary of Samuel Pepys Vol 1 1660
42. Du Maurier, D. – Rebecca –
    
43. Faulkner, W. – Absalom, Absalom
44. McCullers, C. – The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
45. Spark, M. – The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
46. Shakespeare, W.  – Macbeth –
47. Mahfouz, N.- The Palace Walk
48. Laxness, H. – Independent People
49. Atwood, M. – The Handmaid’s Tale –
50. Melville, H.  – Moby Dick – READ  – review?
    

 

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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