I've been reading books off a hypothetical new Classics Club list of fifty books for a while now, but it's a new year maybe it's time to formalize that list.
I finished my first Classics Club list of fifty books on August 27th of 2024.
English Language Fiction
1.) Frances Burney/Evelina
2.) Willa Cather/Lucy Gayheart
3.) Willa Cather/Sapphira and the Slave Girl
4.) Willa Cather/Song of the Lark
5.) G. K. Chesterton/The Man Who Was Thursday
6.) Elizabeth Gaskell/Wives and Daughters
7.) George Gissing/New Grub Street
8.) Nella Larsen/Passing
9.) Ursula K. Le Guin/The Left Hand of Darkness
10.) Ursula K. Le Guin/The Dispossessed
11.) Sinclair Lewis/Elmer Gantry
12.) Jack London/The Iron Heel
13.) Jack London/Martin Eden
14.) Walter Pater/Imaginary Portraits
15.) Harry Mark Petrakis/A Dream of Kings
16.) Dawn Powell/A Time To Be Born
17.) Leslie Marmon Silko/Ceremony
18.) Edgar Wallace/The Four Just Men
19.) Eudora Welty/Delta Wedding
20.) Rebecca West/The Fountain Overflows
21.) Virginia Woolf/The Years
22.) Virginia Woolf/Between The Acts
23.) Israel Zangwill/The Big Bow Mystery
Fiction in Translation
24.) Andrei Bely/Petersburg
25.) Mikhail Bulgakov/Heart of a Dog
26.) Simone de Beauvoir/The Mandarins
27.) Knut Hamsun/Hunger
28.) Halldor Laxness/Salka Valka
29.) Joachin Machado de Assis/Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas
30.) Benito Perez Galdos/That Bringas Woman31.) Robert Walser/Jakob von Gunten
Non-Fiction
32.) Dee Brown/Bury My Heart at Wounded Knew
33.) Thomas Carlyle/Heroes and Hero-Worship
34.) Diogenes Laertius/Lives of the Eminent Philosophers
35.) W. E. B. Du Bois/The Autobiography
36.) Johann Wolfgang Goethe/Poetry and Truth
37.) J. S. Mill/Autobiography
38.) Robert Pirsig/Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
39.) John Ruskin/Unto This Last
40.) Konstantin Stanislavki/My Life in Art
41.) R. L. Stevenson/An Inland Voyage
42.) R. L. Stevenson/Travels With a Donkey
43.) Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun/Memoirs
Narrative Poetry
44.) Apollonius Rhodius/Argonautica
45.) Lucan/Civil War
46.) Luis Vaz de Camões/The Lusiads
47.) Nezami Ganjavi/Layli and Majnun
48.) Fakhraddin Gorgani/Vis and Ramin
49.) Nikos Kazantzakis/Odyssey: A Modern Sequel
Drama
50.) Gotthold Lessing/Nathan The Wise
I originally thought I would include eBooks and rereads (there are a few) but in the end I decided to emphasize knocking things off that TBR pile. Unto This Last, Elmer Gantry, and the Jack London snuck in there now because, alas, they seem to fit the mood of the times.
Since it's January 5th of 2026, I *will* finish these by that same date in 2031.
Link to my first now-completed Classics Club list.
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