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 Little Sister* by Raymond Chandler
27. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
28. Lost Horizon by James Hilton
29. Magic for Marigold by L. M. Montgomery (Finished 5-15-26)
30. Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
31. Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis
32. The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
33. Mistress Pat by L. M. Montgomery
34. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
35. Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
36. My Lost City by F. Scott Fitzgerald
37. The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe
38. The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie (Finished 3-18-26)
39. The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne
40. The Mysterious Mr. Quin by Agatha Christie
41. The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens
42. The Once and Future King by T. H. White
43. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
44. On Stories by C. S. Lewis
45. Parker Pyne, Detective by Agatha Christie
46. Parnassus on Wheels by Christopher Morley
47. A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
48. Passing by Nella Larsen
49. The Pat Hobby Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald
50. The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
51. Pigeon Post by Arthur Ransome (Finished 6-23-26)
52. Playback* by Raymond Chandler
53. Rob Roy by Sir Walter Scott
54. Sitka by Louis L'Amour (Finished 3-19-26)
55. The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. DuBois
56. Tales of India by Rudyard Kipling
57. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
58. Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
59. The Third Man and Other Stories by Graham Greene
60. Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
61. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
62. Trouble is My Business* by Raymond Chandler
63. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
64. Under the Deodars by Rudyard Kipling
65. Villette by Charlotte Bronte
66. We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea by Arthur Ransome
67. Young Pioneers by Rose Wilder Lane