In Which I Complete My Classics Club Quest, and Begin Another

I joined the Classics Club in January of 2014, having seen so many bloggers enjoy participating in it and deciding I should just go ahead and try it.  Slightly less than three years later, I have completed my fiftieth book, which most fittingly was my favorite book of all time, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë.  

Because I feel like celebrating, I'm sharing my completed list here :-)

1. Anne of Avonlea* by Lucy Maud Montgomery (Finished 2-26-16)
2. Anne of Green Gables* by Lucy Maud Montgomery (Finished 1-23-16)
3. Anne of Ingleside* by Lucy Maud Montgomery (Finished 7-2-16)
4. Anne of the Island* by Lucy Maud Montgomery (Finished 3-17-16)
5. Anne of Windy Poplars* by Lucy Maud Montgomery (Finished 4-28-16)
6. Anne's House of Dreams* by Lucy Maud Montgomery (Finished 6-2-16)
7. Betsy-Tacy by Maud Hart Lovelace (Finished 10-1-14)
8. The Black Moth by Georgette Heyer (Finished 4-6-16)
9. The Blue Castle by Lucy Maud Montgomery (Finished 9-10-15)
10. The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes* by A. Conan Doyle (Finished 2-7-14)
11. Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster (Finished 11-25-14)
12. Dear Enemy by Jean Webster (Finished 9-3-15)
13. Flappers and Philosophers by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Finished 3-6-14)
14. The Further Adventures of Zorro by Johnston McCulley (Finished 3-2-16)
15. Greenwillow by B. J. Chute (Finished 7-24-16)
16. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark* by William Shakespeare (Finished 12-22-15)
17. The High Window* by Raymond Chandler (Finished 4-20-16)
18. His Last Bow* by A. Conan Doyle (Finished 1-10-14)
19. The Hobbit* by J.R.R. Tolkien (Finished 2-10-14) 
20. The Hound of the Baskervilles* by A. Conan Doyle (Finished 11-18-14)
21. Jane Eyre* by Charlotte Bronte (Finished 11-12-16)
22. A Lantern in Her Hand by Bess Streeter Aldrich (Finished 6-13-16)
23. Letters of a Woman Homesteader by Elinore Pruitt Stewart (Finished 12-06-15)
24. Letters on an Elk Hunt by Elinore Pruitt Stewart (Finished 11-3-16)
25. The Light in the Forest* by Conrad Richter (Finished 9-30-16)
26. The Light of Western Stars by Zane Grey (Finished 2-5-15)
27. Little Women* by Louisa May Alcott (Finished 6-9-15)
28. The Lord of the Rings* by J.R.R. Tolkien (Finished 7-1-14)
29. The Mark of Zorro by Johnston McCulley (Finished 5-27-14)
30. The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle (Finished 8-12-15)
31. Middlemarch by George Eliot (Finished 7-3-15)
32. North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell (Finished 5-18-15)
33. And Now Tomorrow by Rachel Field (Finished 5-16-16)
34. Of Mice and Men* by John Steinbeck (Finished 8-21-15)
35. The Old Man and the Sea* by Ernest Hemingway (Finished 7-21-14)
36. The Outsiders* by S. E. Hinton (Finished 9-21-16)
37. Persuasion* by Jane Austen (Finished 2-27-15)
38. The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster (Finished 3-9-14)
39. The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes by Vincent Starrett (Finished 6-26-14)
40. The Quiet Little Woman by Louisa May Alcott (Finished 12-11-15)
41. Rainbow Valley* by Lucy Maud Montgomery (Finished 8-19-16)
42. Rilla of Ingleside* by Lucy Maud Montgomery (Finished 10-1-16)
43. Shane* by Jack Schaefer (Finished 2-16-15)
44. The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien (Finished 10-16-15)
45. Spiderweb for Two* by Elizabeth Enright (Finished 12-15-14)
46. The Sun Also Rises* by Ernest Hemingway (Finished 4-30-14)
47. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (Finished 3-30-14)
48. Tales of the Jazz Age by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Finished 3-23-14)
49. Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck (Finished 7-15-14)
50. The Witch of Blackbird Pond* by Elizabeth George Speare (Finished 8-28-16)

And because this really was a good incentive for me to read more of the classics I've always intended to read, I am reenlisting, as it were, and starting over.  So here is what I currently have on my "new" Classics Club list, to read before December of 2021:

1. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
2. Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte
3. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
4. The Blythes are Quoted by Lucy Maud Montgomery
5. By-Line:  Ernest Hemingway
6. Camille by Alexandre Dumas fils
7. Chronicles of Avonlea by Lucy Maud Montgomery
8. Coriolanus by William Shakespeare
9. Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
10. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
11. Death Comes to the Archbishop by Willa Cather
12. The Deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper
13. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
14. The Door into Summer by Robert Heinlein
15. Drums Along the Mohawk by Walter D. Edmonds
16. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
17. Evelina by Frances Burney
18. Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
19. Further Chronicles of Avonlea by Lucy Maud Montgomery
20. Good-bye, Mr. Chips by James Hilton
21. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
22. The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
23. House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
24. Howard's End by E.M. Forster
25. Ivanhoe* by Sir Walter Scott
26. The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott
27. The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
28. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
29. Lost Horizon by James Hilton
30. A Man Called Peter by Catherine Marshall
31. Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
32. The Merchant of Venice* by William Shakespeare
33. The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
34. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
35. Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
36. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
37. The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe
38. The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne
39. The Once and Future King by T. H. White
40. The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
41. The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
42. The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emma Orczy
43. The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis
44. Silas Marner* by George Eliot
45. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carre
46. Tales of India by Rudyard Kipling
47. A Tale of Two Cities* by Charles Dickens
48. The Taming of the Shrew* by William Shakespeare
49. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
50. Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
51. Tess of the D'Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy
52. To Kill a Mockingbird* by Harper Lee
53. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
54. Twice-Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne
55. Under the Deodars by Rudyard Kipling
56. Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy
57. Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell

Basically, my original list had grown to 107 books by the time I read my 50th book, so those extra books I hadn't gotten to are my "new" list.

My thanks to the creators and sustainers of the club!  I've met some cool bloggers through it, and it's always fun to go read other people's thoughts on a book after I've finished it, which is so easy thanks to their list of clubbers' reviews.