Classics Club ~50 books list

Completion date: March, 2017

I chose titles that I can read on my kindle, because it's lightweight and I can increase the font. I may have to substitute #29 for The Clever Woman of the Family by Charlotte Mary Yonge, because I haven't found The Magic Mountain as an ebook yet... but in five years, who knows?

Alhabetical order:

  1. Emma - Jane Austen [1816]
  2. Persuasion - Jane Austen [1818]
  3. Old Goriot - Honore de Balzac [1835]
  4. In Cold Blood - Truman Capote [1966]
  5. My Antonia - Willa Cather [1918]
  6. The Return of Don Quixote - G. K. Chesterton [1926]
  7. The Awakening - Kate Chopin [1899]
  8. On the Origin of Species - Charles Darwin  [1859]
  9. Bleak House - Charles Dickens [1852/53]
  10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens [1860/61]
  11. The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky [1880]
  12. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky [1866]
  13. The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoyevsky [1869]
  14. An American Tragedy - Theodore Dreiser [1925]
  15. Middlemarch - George Eliot [1874]
  16. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert [1856]
  17. Dead Souls - Nikolai Gogol [1842]
  18. Hunger - Knut Hamsun [1890]
  19. The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne [1850] (currently reading)
  20. The Odyssey - Homer [8th Century BC], translated by Robert Fagles [1997]
  21. The Portrait of A Lady - Henry James [1881]
  22. Ulysses - James Joyce [1922]
  23. The Female Quixote; or, The Adventures of Arabella - Charlotte Lennox [1752]
  24. Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka [1915]
  25. The Princess of Cleves - Madame de La Fayette [1678]
  26. Sons and Lovers - D H Lawrence [1913]
  27. The Monk - Matthew Lewis [1796]
  28. Buddenbrooks - Thomas Mann [1901]
  29. The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann[1924]
  30. Moby-Dick - Herman Melville [1851]
  31. 1984 - George Orwell [1949]
  32. Animal Farm - George Orwell [1945]
  33. Clarissa - Samuel Richardson [1748]
  34. Pamela - Samuel Richardson [1740]
  35. Sir Charles Grandison - Samuel Richardson [1753]
  36. Rob Roy - Sir Walter Scott [1817]
  37. Waverley - Sir Walter Scott [1814]
  38. The Tale of Genji - Murasaki Shikibu; Translated by Royall Tyler (currently reading) [early 11th Century]
  39. The Charterhouse of Parma - Stendhal [1839] translated by C. K. Scott-Moncrieff
  40. The Red and the Black - Stendhal [1830] translated by C. K. Scott-Moncrieff
  41. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman - Laurence Sterne [1758-67]
  42. Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift [1726/35]
  43. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray [1847/48]
  44. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy [1878]
  45. Last 8 chapters of War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy [1869]
  46. Fathers and Sons, by Ivan Turgenev [1862]
  47. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain [1884]
  48. Candide - Voltaire [1759]; translated by William F. Fleming
  49. Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf [1925]
  50. To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf [1927]
  51. The Waves - Virginia Woolf [1931]
  52. Dream of the Red Chamber - Cao Xueqin; Translated by Gladys Yang [~1750]
  53. Germinal - Emile Zola [1885]

Chronological order:

  1. The Odyssey - Homer [8th Century BC], translated by Robert Fagles [1997]  (currently reading)
  2. The Tale of Genji - Murasaki Shikibu; Translated by Royall Tyler (currently reading) [early 11th Century]
  3. The Princess of Cleves - Madame de La Fayette [1678]
  4. Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift [1726/35]
  5. Pamela - Samuel Richardson [1740]
  6. Clarissa - Samuel Richardson [1748]
  7. Dream of the Red Chamber - Cao Xueqin; Translated by Gladys Yang [~1750]
  8. The Female Quixote; or, The Adventures of Arabella - Charlotte Lennox [1752]
  9. Sir Charles Grandison - Samuel Richardson [1753]
  10. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman - Laurence Sterne [1758-67]
  11. Candide - Voltaire [1759]; translated by William F. Fleming
  12. The Monk - Matthew Lewis [1796]
  13. Waverley - Sir Walter Scott [1814]
  14. Emma - Jane Austen [1816]
  15. Rob Roy - Sir Walter Scott [1817]
  16. Persuasion - Jane Austen [1818]
  17. The Red and the Black - Stendhal [1830] translated by C. K. Scott-Moncrieff
  18. Old Goriot - Honore de Balzac [1835]
  19. The Charterhouse of Parma - Stendhal [1839] translated by C. K. Scott-Moncrieff
  20. Dead Souls - Nikolai Gogol [1842]
  21. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray [1847/48]
  22. The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne [1850]
  23. Moby-Dick - Herman Melville [1851]
  24. Bleak House - Charles Dickens [1852/53]
  25. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert [1856]
  26. On the Origin of Species - Charles Darwin  [1859]
  27. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens [1860/61]
  28. Fathers and Sons, by Ivan Turgenev [1862]
  29. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky [1866]
  30. The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoyevsky [1869]
  31. Last 8 chapters of War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy [1869]
  32. Middlemarch - George Eliot [1874]
  33. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy [1878]
  34. The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky [1880]
  35. The Portrait of A Lady - Henry James [1881]
  36. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain [1884]
  37. Germinal - Emile Zola [1885]
  38. Hunger - Knut Hamsun [1890]
  39. The Awakening - Kate Chopin [1899]
  40. Buddenbrooks - Thomas Mann [1901]
  41. Sons and Lovers - D H Lawrence [1913]
  42. Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka [1915]
  43. My Antonia - Willa Cather [1918]
  44. Ulysses - James Joyce [1922]
  45. The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann[1924]
  46. An American Tragedy - Theodore Dreiser [1925]
  47. Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf [1925]
  48. The Return of Don Quixote - G. K. Chesterton [1926]
  49. To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf [1927]
  50. The Waves - Virginia Woolf [1931]
  51. Animal Farm - George Orwell [1945]
  52. 1984 - George Orwell [1949]
  53. In Cold Blood - Truman Capote [1966]

 

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