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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
  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. Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
  16. Freckles by Gene Stratton Porter
  17. A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton Porter
  18. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
  19. The Haunted Bookshop by Christopher Morley
  20. The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
  21. Hospital Sketches by Louisa May Alcott
  22. Klondike Tales by Jack London
  23. The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott
  24. The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
  25. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
  26. Lost Horizon by James Hilton
  27. Magic for Marigold by L. M. Montgomery
  28. Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
  29. Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis
  30. The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
  31. Mistress Pat by L. M. Montgomery
  32. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
  33. Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
  34. My Lost City by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  35. The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe
  36. The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
  37. The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne
  38. The Mysterious Mr. Quin by Agatha Christie
  39. The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens
  40. The Once and Future King by T. H. White
  41. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
  42. On Stories by C. S. Lewis
  43. Parker Pyne, Detective by Agatha Christie
  44. Parnassus on Wheels by Christopher Morley
  45. A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
  46. The Pat Hobby Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  47. The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
  48. Pigeon Post by Arthur Ransome
  49. Rob Roy by Sir Walter Scott
  50. The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. DuBois
  51. Tales of India by Rudyard Kipling
  52. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
  53. Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  54. The Third Man and Other Stories by Graham Greene
  55. Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
  56. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
  57. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
  58. Under the Deodars by Rudyard Kipling
  59. Villette by Charlotte Bronte
  60. We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea by Arthur Ransome
  61. Young Pioneers by Rose Wilder Lane

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