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My Classics Club List


  1. Braithwaite, E.R. - To Sir with Love
  2. Brittain, Vera - Testament of Youth (nonfiction) ✔
  3. Bronte, Anne - Agnes Grey
  4. Bronte, Charlotte - Villette
  5. Bronte, Emily - Wuthering Heights
  6. Brookner, Anita - Hotel Du Lac
  7. Capote, Truman - Breakfast at Tiffany's 
  8. Christie, Agatha - And Then there Were None
  9. Collins, Wilkie - The Woman in White 
  10. Conrad, Joseph - The Heart of Darkness
  11. Du Maurier, Daphne - Scapegoat
  12. Fielding, Henry -Tom Jones
  13. Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Great Gatsby
  14. Ford Madox Ford - The Good Soldier  DNF
  15. Forster, E.M. - Howards End 
  16. Fowles, John - The Collector
  17. Frank, Anne - The Diary of a Young Girl
  18. Gaarder, Jostein - Sophie's World
  19. Gallico, Paul -The Snow Goose ✔
  20. Greene, Bette - The Summer of my German Soldier
  21. Greene, Graham - The Quiet American ✔
  22. Hardy, Thomas - Tess of the D'urbervilles
  23. Heller, Joseph - Catch 22
  24. Heller, Joseph - Closing Time
  25. Hemingway, Ernest - A Moveable Feast (nonfiction) ✔
  26. Hemingway, Ernest - Farewell to Arms
  27. Hilton, James  - Lost Horizon
  28. Ishiguro, Kazuo -The Remains of the Day ✔
  29. James, Henry - Daisy Miller
  30. Kerouac, Jack - On the Road
  31. Lewis, Sinclair - It Can't Happen Here 
  32. Lindsay, Joan - Picnic at Hanging Rock ✔
  33. Magorian, Michelle - Goodnight, Mr. Tom
  34. Maugham, W. Somerset - Of Human Bondage
  35. McCullough, Colleen - The Thorn Birds ✔
  36. Michener, James - Chesapeake
  37. Michener, James - The Covenant
  38. Orwell, George - The Road to Wigan Pier (nonfiction)
  39. Plath, Sylvia - The Bell Jar ✔
  40. Remarque, Erich - All Quiet on the Western Front
  41. Shute, Nevil - A Town Like Alice
  42. Spark, Muriel - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 
  43. Steinbeck, John - East of Eden
  44. Steinbeck, John - The Pearl
  45. Styron, William - Sophie's Choice 
  46. Tolstoy, Leo - The Death of Ivan Ilyich
  47. Vonnegut, Kurt - Slaughterhouse Five
  48. Waugh, Evelyn - Brideshead Revisited ✔
  49. Wharton, Edith - Ethan Frome
  50. Woolf, Virginia - Mrs. Dalloway
My projected goal to complete this list will be December 30, 2029 but I hope to finish sooner.  

2 comments:

  1. Deb Nance at ReaderbuzzJanuary 18, 2025 at 9:42 AM

    I have The Thorn Birds on my list to read, Good luck with your list. I never feel bad about taking a book off my list that isn't working for me and trying something else.

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    1. TinaJanuary 18, 2025 at 9:48 AM

      Deb, I would read that with you. Or any others that overlap your list. February I am doing a buddy read with JoAnn for Testament of Youth. Maybe we can plan something :-)

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