Once upon a time, in 2012, I wrote a list of books. A list of 50+ classic books I would read over the course of 5 years. I posted that list on my then-blog and thus became a member of the Classics Club.
The Classics Club is an online community where readers all over the world participate in challenges, memes and events revolving around reading the classics as well as share their reviews of the books they read As a nerdy book lover, I thoroughly enjoyed it!
Now, a few blogs later, I’ve passed my five year deadline while not having completed my list. So one of my goals on my 101 In 1001 list is to write a new Classics Club list and start a new 5 year term.
This list is quite a bit different from my first one. I decided to be a bit easier on myself this go ’round. I have several re-reads, particularly children’s classics. I am craving visits to some of my favorite reads from childhood. A good dose of nostalgia is wonderful for the soul <3.
The rest of the books on the list are varied – chunky, short, landmark, obscure, highbrow, foreign, older, newer, etc.. I’m looking forward to cracking open new-to-me books as well as pulling titles off my shelves (and out of boxes lol) that have been hanging around for a while.
Alright, enough with the preamble. Here we go!
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- Little Women//Louisa May Alcott
- Little Men//Louisa May Alcott
- Jo’s Boys//Louisa May Alcott
- An Old Fashioned Girl//Louisa May Alcott
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings//Maya Angelou
- Lady Susan//Jane Austen
- Persuasion//Jane Austen
- Fahrenheit 451//Ray Bradbury
- Jane Eyre//Charlotte Bronte
- The Pilgrim’s Progress//John Bunyan
- What Katy Did//Susan Coolidge
- Crime and Punishment//Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- The Count of Monte Cristo//Alexandre Dumas
- Middlemarch//George Eliot
- As I Lay Dying//William Faulkner
- Madame Bovary//Gustave Flaubert
- Room with a View//E.M. Forster
- A Raisin in the Sun//Lorraine Hansberry
- For Whom the Bell Tolls//Ernest Hemingway
- Les Miserables//Victor Hugo
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame//Victor Hugo
- Their Eyes Were Watching God//Zora Neale Hurston
- Portrait of a Lady//Henry James
- The Poisonwood Bible//Barbara Kingsolver
- Gone with the Wind//Margaret Mitchell
- Anne of Green Gables//Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Anne of Avonlea//Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Anne of the Island//Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Anne of Windy Poplars//Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Anne’s of House of Dreams//Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Anne of Ingleside//Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Rainbow Valley//Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Rilla of Ingleside//Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Emily of New Moon//Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Emily Climbs//Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Emily’s Quest//Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Common Sense//Thomas Paine
- Pygmalion//George Bernard Shaw
- The Jungle//Upton Sinclair
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn//Betty Smith
- All-of-a-Kind Family//Sydney Taylor
- All-of-a-Kind Family Downtown//Sydney Taylor
- More All-of-a-Kind Family//Sydney Taylor
- All-of-a-Kind Family Uptown//Sydney Taylor
- Ella of All-of-a-Kind Family//Sydney Taylor
- Civil Disobedience//Henry David Thoreau
- Anna Karenina//Leo Tolstoy
- War & Peace//Leo Tolstoy
- The Color Purple//Alice Walker
- Ben Hur//Lew Wallace
- Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm//Kate Douglas Wiggin
- Little House in the Big Woods//Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Little House on the Prairie//Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Farmer Boy//Laura Ingalls Wilder
- On the Banks of Plum Creek//Laura Ingalls Wilder
- By the Shores of Silver Lake//Laura Ingalls Wilder
- The Long Winter//Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Little Town on the Prairie//Laura Ingalls Wilder
- These Happy Golden Years//Laura Ingalls Wilder
- The First Four Years//Laura Ingalls Wilder
- A Room of One’s Own//Virginia Woolf
- Mrs. Dalloway//Virginia Woolf
If you’re interested in looking into any of these titles further, I’ve compiled a list on Amazon that you can check out. And if you want to find out more about the Classics Club and how the challenge works, checkout the details here.
Happy Reading!