Classics Club List #5

Yup, I'm doing it again.  Here we go.

Here is the newest list of at least 50 classics I vow to read and review by March 1st, 2031.  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 four completed lists of 50 books each for the Classics Club, click here.

1. The Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Thief by Maurice Leblanc (Finished 4-2-26)
2. Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte
3. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
4. Bleak House by Charles Dickens
5. By-Line:  Ernest Hemingway
6. Camille by Alexandre Dumas fils
7. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
8. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
9. The Dead Secret by Wilkie Collins
10. Death in the Afternoon by Ernest Hemingway
11. The Deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper
12. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
13. The Door into Summer by Robert Heinlein
14. Essays by Elia by Charles Lamb
15. Farewell, My Lovely* by Raymond Chandler (Finished 7-22-26)
16. Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
17. Freckles by Gene Stratton Porter
18. A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton Porter
19. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
20. The Haunted Bookshop by Christopher Morley
21. The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
22. Hospital Sketches by Louisa May Alcott
23. Klondike Tales by Jack London
24. The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott
25. The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
26. The Leavenworth Case by Anna Katherine Green (Finished 8-12-26)
27. The Little Sister* by Raymond Chandler
28. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
29. Lost Horizon by James Hilton
30. Magic for Marigold by L. M. Montgomery (Finished 5-15-26)
31. Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
32. Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis
33. The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
34. Mistress Pat by L. M. Montgomery
35. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
36. Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
37. My Lost City by F. Scott Fitzgerald
38. The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe
39. The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie (Finished 3-18-26)
40. The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne
41. The Mysterious Mr. Quin by Agatha Christie
42. The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens
43. The Once and Future King by T. H. White
44. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
45. On Stories by C. S. Lewis
46. Parker Pyne, Detective by Agatha Christie
47. Parnassus on Wheels by Christopher Morley
48. A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
49. Passing by Nella Larsen
50. The Pat Hobby Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald
51. The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
52. Pigeon Post by Arthur Ransome (Finished 6-23-26)
53. Playback* by Raymond Chandler
54. Rob Roy by Sir Walter Scott
55. Sitka by Louis L'Amour (Finished 3-19-26)
56. The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. DuBois
57. Tales of India by Rudyard Kipling
58. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
59. Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
60. The Third Man and Other Stories by Graham Greene
61. Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
62. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
63. Trouble is My Business* by Raymond Chandler
64. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
65. Under the Deodars by Rudyard Kipling
66. Villette by Charlotte Bronte
67. We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea by Arthur Ransome
68. Young Pioneers by Rose Wilder Lane