Classics Club List

This is my first list of fifty books for the Classics Club. I signed up with a slightly different version of this list on November 22, 2017.

English Language Fiction

1.) Margaret Atwood/The Handmaid's Tale

2.) James Baldwin/Giovanni's Room

3.) James Baldwin/Go Tell It On The Mountain

4.) Samuel Butler/The Way of All Flesh

5.) Willa Cather/A Lost Lady

6.) Willa Cather/One of Ours

7.) Daphne du Maurier/Rebecca

8.) George Eliot/Adam Bede

9.) George Eliot/Romola

10.) George Eliot/Scenes of Clerical Life

11.) George Eliot/Silas Marner

12.) William Faulkner/Light in August

13.) John Galsworthy/The Forsyte Saga

14.) Oliver Goldsmith/The Vicar of Wakefield

15.) Thomas Hardy/Wessex Tales

16.) Henry James/The American

17.) Henry James/The Wings of the Dove

18.) Malcolm Lowry/Under the Volcano

19.) W. Somerset Maugham/The Razor's Edge

20.) Toni Morrison/Song of Solomon

21.) Sylvia Plath/The Bell Jar

22.) J. F. Powers/Morte d'Urban

23.) Sir Walter Scott/Count Robert of Paris

24.) Robert Louis Stevenson/Black Arrow

25.) Bram Stoker/Dracula

26.) Edith Wharton/The Custom of the Country

27.) Edith Wharton/The House of Mirth

28.) Virginia Woolf/The Waves

Fiction in Translation

29.) Honoré de Balzac/Cousin Bette

30.) Giovanni Boccaccio/The Decameron

31.) Hermann Broch/The Death of Virgil

32.) Goethe/Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

33.) Yasunari Kawabata/Snow Country

34.) Giuseppe di Lampedusa/The Leopard

35.) Romand Rolland/Jean-Christophe

36.) Henryk Sienkewicz/Quo Vadis

37.) Jules Verne/20000 Leagues Under the Sea

38.) Yevgeny Zamyatin/We

Non-Fiction

39.) James Baldwin/Notes of.a Native Son

40.) Frederick Douglass/Narrative of the Life

41.) Bertrand Russell/A History of Western Philosophy

42.) Barbara Tuchman/The Guns of August

43.) Mark Twain/A Tramp Abroad

44.) Edmund Wilson/Axel's Castle

45.) Edmund Wilson/Patriotic Gore

46.) Mary Wollstonecraft/The Vindication of the Rights of Women

47.) Virginia Woolf/A Room of One's Own 

Plays

48.) George Bernard Shaw/Major Barbara

49.) George Bernard Shaw/Pygmalion

50.) Richard Brinsley Sheridan/A School for Scandal

The original version of the list (found here) had fifty-five items on it, but in retrospect I decided that things that were too long or consisted of short pieces or poems weren't suitable for my blogging style and so I've cut them from the list

 

This list was finished! On the 27th of August, 2024.