Classics Club List #4

Here is the newest list of at least 50 classics I vow to read and review by October 1st, 2027.  It is a fluid list, and will very likely change over the next five years, but it will always have at least 50 books on it.  Most of these are novels, but there are a few plays and one or two books of nonfiction.  Rereads are marked with an asterisk.  As I read and post reviews on my blog, I will link these titles to those posts.

I define "classic" as being written before 1970, being well-known (or by a well-known author), and/or being influential on society or other writers.

If you want to see my first three completed lists of 50 books each for the Classics Club, click here.
  1. The Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman Thief by Maurice Leblanc
  2. Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte
  3. Among the Shadows by L. M. Montgomery (Finished 10-27-22)
  4. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie (Finished 10-7-23)
  5. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
  6. The Bell Family by Noel Streatfeild (Finished 5-31-23)
  7. Bleak House by Charles Dickens
  8. By-Line:  Ernest Hemingway
  9. Camille by Alexandre Dumas fils
  10. Carry On, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse (Finished 8-30-23)
  11. The Christmas Hirelings by M. E. Braddon (Finished 11-30-22)
  12. Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell (Finished 10-30-22)
  13. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  14. The Deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper
  15. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
  16. The Door into Summer by Robert Heinlein
  17. Emily of New Moon* by L. M. Montgomery (Finished 4-15-23)
  18. Emma* by Jane Austen (Finished 10-30-24)
  19. Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
  20. The Golden Road by L. M. Montgomery
  21. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
  22. The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
  23. High Lonesome by Louis L'Amour (Finished 6-17-23)
  24. Howard's End by E.M. Forster
  25. King of the Wind* by Marguerite Henry (Finished 9-15-24)
  26. The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott
  27. The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
  28. The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
  29. Les Miserables* by Victor Hugo (Finished 8-20-23)
  30. The Lilies of the Field by William E. Barrett (Finished 1-31-23)
  31. The Long Goodbye* by Raymond Chandler (Finished 10-1-22)
  32. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
  33. Lost Horizon by James Hilton
  34. Magic for Marigold by L. M. Montgomery
  35. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen (Finished 9-9-24)
  36. Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
  37. Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis
  38. The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
  39. Mistress Pat by L. M. Montgomery
  40. Misty of Chincoteague* by Marguerite Henry (Finished 9-22-24)
  41. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
  42. Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
  43. Moonfleet by John Meade Falkner (Finished 4-9-23)
  44. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie (Finished 10-17-22)
  45. The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe
  46. The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne
  47. Noel Streatfeild's Christmas Stories by Noel Streatfeild (Finished 12-4-23)
  48. The Once and Future King by T. H. White
  49. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
  50. Peter Duck by Arthur Ransome (Finished 9-23-23)
  51. Peter Pan* by J. M. Barrie (Finished 12-18-22)
  52. The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
  53. Prince of Thieves by Alexandre Dumas (Finished 10-8-22)
  54. The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald (Finished 4-27-23)
  55. Sense and Sensibility* by Jane Austen (Finished 2-27-24)
  56. The Snow Storm: A Christmas Story by Catherine Gore (Finished 12-10-22)
  57. The Solitary Summer by Elizabeth von Arnim (Finished 9-21-24)
  58. The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. DuBois
  59. Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse (Finished 6-30-24)
  60. The Story Girl by Lucy Maud Montgomery (Finished 9-4-24)
  61. Swamp Water by Vareen Bell (Finished 3-1-23)
  62. Tales of India by Rudyard Kipling
  63. A Tangled Web by L. M. Montgomery (Finished 2-13-23)
  64. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
  65. Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  66. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
  67. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
  68. Under the Deodars by Rudyard Kipling
  69. Villette by Charlotte Bronte
  70. Winter Holiday by Arthur Ransome (Finished 4-10-23)
  71. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins (Finished 10-22-23)

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