I define "classic" as being more than 50 years old , being well-known (or by a well-known author), and/or being influential on society or other writers.
If you want to see my original, completed list of 50 books for my first go-'round with the Classics Club, click here. If you want to see my new list of 50 books for my third go-'round, click here.
- All the Mowgli Stories by Rudyard Kipling (Finished 1-15-20)
- April Twilights and Other Poems by Willa Cather (Finished 4-23-17)
- The Big Sleep* by Raymond Chandler (Finished 7-29-17)
- The Blythes are Quoted by Lucy Maud Montgomery (Finished 11-16-16)
- By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Finished 7-01-19)
- Caddie Woodlawn* by Carol Ryrie Brink (Finished 4-10-19)
- A Christmas Carol* by Charles Dickens (Finished 12-16-16)
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory* by Roald Dahl (Finished 9-18-18)
- Chronicles of Avonlea by Lucy Maud Montgomery (Finished 6-16-20)
- Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather (Finished 4-23-18)
- The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim (Finished 4-25-20)
- Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton (Finished 12-15-16)
- Fahrenheit 451* by Ray Bradbury (Finished 10-3-18)
- Famous Gunfighters of the Western Frontier by W. B. "Bat" Masterson (Finished 8-22-18)
- The Four-Story Mistake* by Elizabeth Enright (Finished 1-29-19)
- Gone-Away Lake* by Elizabeth Enright (Finished 9-4-18)
- The Great Divorce by C. S. Lewis (Finished 3-12-19)
- The Great Gatsby* by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Finished 6-29-17)
- Homer Price* by Robert McCloskey (Finished 3-17-19)
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo (Finished 6-28-20)
- The Hundred Dresses* by Eleanor Estes (Finished 1-8-19)
- I, Robot* by Isaac Asimov (Finished 5-9-17)
- Jane of Lantern Hill by Lucy Maud Montgomery (Finished 2-4-18)
- The Lady in the Lake* by Raymond Chandler (Finished 3-2-19)
- Letters from Father Christmas by J. R. R. Tolkien (Finished 12-19-16)
- The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum (Finished 12-23-19)
- The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe* by C. S. Lewis (Finished 10-24-18)
- The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery (Finished 9-15-19)
- Lord of the Flies* by William Golding (Finished 3-5-19)
- Montana Rides! by Evan Evans (Max Brand) (Finished 2-25-17)
- Murder on the Orient Express* by Agatha Christie (Finished 6-18-18)
- Northanger Abbey* by Jane Austen (Finished 4-9-18)
- Nutcracker and Mouse King/The Tale of the Nutcracker by E.T.A. Hoffmann/Alexandre Dumas (Finished 11-22-19)
- Old Ramon by Jack Schaefer (Finished 1-31-20)
- The Phantom of the Opera* by Gaston Leroux (Finished 3-12-17)
- Pride and Prejudice* by Jane Austen (Finished 5-25-20)
- The Racketty-Packetty House by Frances Hodgson Burnett (Finished 7-22-19)
- The Railway Children* by E. Nesbit (Finished 5-20-20)
- A Room with a View* by E. M. Forster (Finished 5-14-19)
- The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis (Finished 11-21-17)
- The Secret Garden* by Frances Hodgson Burnett (Finished 6-18-20)
- "Smith of Wootton Major" and "Farmer Giles of Ham" by J.R.R. Tolkien (Finished 4-2-18)
- Till We Have Faces by C. S. Lewis (Finished 1-31-20)
- The Torrents of Spring by Ernest Hemingway (Finished 1-12-18)
- Treasure Island* by Robert Louis Stevenson (Finished 1-16-19)
- True Grit* by Charles Portis (Finished 12-18-16)
- Twenty and Ten by Claire Huchet Bishop (Finished 12-1-18)
- Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington (Finished 1-20-20)
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (Finished 9-4-19)
- The Wind in the Willows* by Kenneth Grahame (Finished 5-5-19)
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