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. The perk is that, not only will you have read 50+ incredible (or at the very least thought-provoking) works in five years, you’ll get to do it along with all of these people. I've wanted to join the classics club ever since I discovered it. I love books. New books. Old books. Kids' books. Fiction. Nonfiction. You name it, I like it, but most of my favorites are classics. Ordinarily, I think of classic books as those that have stood the test of time. Books that keep getting reprinted and recommended. And, to be honest, sometimes those books your teachers forced you to read and that you vowed to toss on the nearest bonfire once school was out. My list includes favorite authors and new-to-me authors, books I've never read and books I've read a dozen times. Since I'm working on a couple of middle-grade books, there are children's books on my list, and I've included quite a few Newbery Award winners, since one of my reading goals is to finish every one of those. So, without further ado, in the next five years, I hope to read and review the following books:  New-to-me books and authors 1. A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway 2. Ben-Hur, Lew Wallace 3. Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury 4. Fateless, Imre Kertesz 5. Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes 6. I Capture the Castle, Dodie Smith 7. North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell 8. Tales of the Alhambra, Washington Irving 9. The Alchemist, Paula Coelho 10. The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison 11. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald 12. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver 13. The Princess Bride, William Goldman 14. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Bronte 15. The Waves, Virginia Woolf 16. The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins 17. Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston 18. Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe 19. Under the Tuscan Sun, Frances Mayes  Favorite authors, New-to-me books 20. A Tramp Abroad, Mark Twain 21. Captain Blood, Rafael Sabatini 22. Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather 23. Mother Mason, Bess Streeter Aldrich 24. Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens 25. Shirley, Charlotte Bronte 26. The Adventure of the Cardboard Box 27. The Wrong Box, Robert Louis Stevenson 28. Villette, Charlotte Bronte Familiar Authors, New-to-me books 29. 1984, George Orwell 30. East of Eden, John Steinbeck 31. Les Miserables, Victor Hugo 32. Roots, Alex Haley  Re-reads 33. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens 34. A Spinner in the Sun, Myrtle Reed 35. A White Bird Flying, Bess Streeter Aldrich 36. An Old Fashioned Girl, Louisa May Alcott 37. Dracula, Bram Stoker 38. Eight Cousins, Louisa Mae Alcott 39. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell 40. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens 41. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte 42. Miss Bishop, Bess Streeter Aldrich 43. My Antonia, Willa Cather 44. My Cousin Rachel, Daphne duMaurier 45. O Pioneers!, Willa Cather 46. Rebecca, Daphne duMaurier 47. Rose in Bloom, Louisa Mae Alcott 48. Song of Years, Bess Streeter Aldrich 49. Spring Came on Forever, Bess Streeter Aldrich 50. The Black Arrow, Robert Louis Stevenson 51. The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas 52. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck 53. The Rim of the Prairie, Bess Streeter Aldrich 54. The Time Machine, H. G. Wells 55. The White Moll, Frank Packard 56. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte  Y A and Children's Books, New-to-me authors 57. A Fine White Dust, Cynthia Rylant 58. A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L’Engle 59. Because of Winn Dixie, Kate DiCamillo 60. Poppy, Avi 61. The Children of the New Forest, Frederick Marryat 62. The Giver, Lois Lowry 63. The Good Master, Kate Seredy 64. The Tales of Despereaux, Kate DiCamillo 65. The Trumpeter of Krakow, Eric P. Kelly 66. The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, Avi 67. Watership Down, Richard Adams  Y A and Children's Books--Rereads and/or familiar authors 68. A Daughter of the Nile, Elizabeth George Speare
69. A Little Princess, Frances Hodgson Burnett 70. Anne of Avonlea, LM Montgomery 71. Anne of Green Gables, LM Montgomery 72. Anne of the Island, LM Montgomery 73. Anne of Windy Poplars, LM Montgomery 74. Anne’s House of Dreams, LM Montgomery 75. Betsy, Tacy, and Tib Go over the Big Hill, Maud Hart Lovelace 76. By The Shores of Silver Lake, Laura Ingalls Wilder 77. Charlotte’s Web, E.B. White 78. Dear Enemy, Jean Webster 79. Emily Climbs, LM Montgomery 80. Emily of New Moon, LM Montgomery 81. Emily’s Quest, LM Montgomery 82. Farmer Boy, Laura Ingalls Wilder 83. Heidi, Johanna Spyri 84. Number the Stars, Lois Lowry 85. Rainbow Valley, LM Montgomery 86. Rilla of Ingleside, LM Montgomery 87. The Borrowers, Mary Norton 88. The Cricket in Times Square, George Selden 89. The Diary of Anne Frank, Anne Frank 90. The Incredible Journey, Sheila Burnford 91. The Island of Blue Dolphins, Scott O’Dell 92. The Little Town on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder 93. The Long Winter, Laura Ingalls Wilder 94. The Moorchild, Eloise Jarvis McGraw 95. The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster 96. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett 97. The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Elizabeth George Speare 98. These Happy Golden Years, Laura Ingalls Wilder 99. Walk Two Moons, Sharon Creech 100. When the Legends Die, Hal Borland |