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

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