Classics Club

I decided to join Jill’s The Classics Club. Yay classics! The rules?

• choose 50+ classics
• list them at your blog
• choose a reading completion goal date up to five years in the future and note that date on your classics list of 50+ titles
• write about each title on your list as you finish reading it, and link it to your main list when you’ve written about every single title, come back here and reply to your initial comment when you joined, to let us know you won
• (instructions when you achieve your challenge)!
• Read the extended cut here

My books?

1. Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
2. Emma by Jane Austen
3. Sons and Lovers by DH Lawrence
4. A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton Porter
5. The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy
6. Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
7. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
8. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
9. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
10. King Solomon’s Mines by H. Rider Haggard
11. The Trail of the Serpent by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
12. The Law and the Lady by Wilkie Collins
13. Man and Wife by Wilkie Collins
14. Persuasion by Jane Austen
15. Evelina  by Fanny Burney
16. The Female Quixote by Charlotte Lennox
17. Silas Marner by George Eliot
18. Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
19. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
20. The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton
21. Miss Marjoriebanks by Mrs Oliphant
22. The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
23. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
24. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
25. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
26. The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
27. Aurora Floyd by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
28. Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
29. The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
30. Enchanted Castle by Edith Nesbit
31. Five Children and It by Edith Nesbit
32. Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
33. Kim by Rudyard Kipling
34. The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
35. Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
36. Far from the Maddening Crowd by Thomas Hardy
37. O Pioneers by Willa Cather
38. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
39. Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
40. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
41. This Side of Paradise
42. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
43. A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O’Connor
44. Losing Battles by Eudora Welty
45. The Robber Bridegroom by Eudora Welty
46. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
47. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
48. Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
49. Villette by Charlotte Bronte
50. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
51. Who’s Body? by Dorothy Sayers
52. The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rugen by Elizabeth von Arnim
53. Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
54. Elizabeth and her German Garden by Elizabeth von Arnim
55. To Have and to Hold by Mary Johnston
56. A Voyage in the Sunbeam by Anna Brassey
57. A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter
58. The Sylph by Georgiana Cavendish
59. Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte
60. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
61. Howard’s End by EM Forester
62. The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham
63. Katherine by Anya Seton
64. Middlemarch by George Eliot
65. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
66. Heidi by H. A. Melcon
67. Old Yeller by Fred Gipson
68. Joy in the Morning by Betty Smith
69. Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
70. if on a winter’s night a traveler by Italo Calvino
71. Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
72. The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
73. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
74. A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
75. The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allen Poe
76. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
77. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
78. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
79. Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
80. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
81. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy  by Laurence Sterne
82. Watership Down by Richard Adams
83. North & South by Elizabeth Gaskell
84. My Man Jeeves by PG Wodehouse
85. Paradise Lost by John Milton
86. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
87. Their Eyes Were Watching God  by Zora Neale Hurston
88. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
89. On the Road  by Jack Kerouac
90. Black Beauty by Anna Sewel
91. Fighting Angel: Portrait of a Soul by Pearl S. Buck
92. Imperial Woman: A Novel by Pearl S. Buck
93. Where Angels Fear to Tread by E M Forster
94. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
95. The Distance Between Us by Dorothy Whipple
96. The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles
97. The Wizard of Oz by Frank Baum
98. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
99. The Unicorn by Iris Murdoch
100. Kindred by Octavia Butler

Of course, this is subject to change with whim and caprice. What classic would you recommend?