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