I (re)joined the Classics Club!
Goal date: March 2025
Currently reading: Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
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Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner (1936) ‡
The adventures and memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle (1892) 1
The aleph by Jorge Luis Borges (1949)
Alice’s adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (1865) †
All creatures great and small by James Herriot (1972)
All the pretty horses by Cormac McCarthy (1992)
And the band played on by Randy Shilts (1987)
And then there were none by Agatha Christie (1939) ‡
Animal Farm by George Orwell (1945) †
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (1878)
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery (1908) †1
The Arabian nights (circa 900) †
Around the world in 80 days by Jules Verne (1873)
The awakening by Kate Chopin (1899) 1
B
The bell jar by Sylvia Plath (1963)
Beloved by Toni Morrison (1987)
The birds of America by John James Audubon (1827) ‡
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell (1877) †
Bless me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya (1972)
The blind owl by Sadegh Hedayat (1937) ‡
The book of tea by Okakura Kakuzo (1906)
The book of the city of ladies by Christine de Pizan (1405)
Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote (1958)
A brief history of time by Stephen Hawking (1988)
Bury my heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown (1970)
C
Call of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft (1928) ‡
Cane by Jean Toomer (1923)
Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr. (1960)
Casino Royale by Ian Fleming (1953)
Cat on a hot tin roof by Tennessee Williams (1955)
Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut (1963)
Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko (1977)
The chocolate war by Robert Cormier (1974) ‡
Chronicle of the Narváez expedition by Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (1542)
Cimarron by Edna Ferber (1929)
Clockwork orange by Anthony Burgess (1962)
Cluny Brown by Margery Sharp (1944)
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons (1932)
Cold Sassy tree by Olive Ann Burns (1984)
The color purple by Alice Walker (1982) 1
Common sense by Thomas Paine (1776)
The complete Brothers Grimm fairy tales by Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm (1815)
A confederacy of dunces by John Kennedy Toole (1980)
The conference of the birds by Attar of Nishapur (1177)
Confessions by Augustine of Hippo (397)
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s court by Mark Twain (1889)
The conservationist by Nadine Gordimer (1974)
A contract with God and other tenement stories by Will Eisner (1978) ‡
Coolie by Mulk Raj Anand (1936)
Cosmos by Carl Sagan (1980)
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (1846) 1
Crocodile on the sandbank by Elizabeth Peters (1975)
D
Death comes for the archbishop by Willa Cather (1927)
The death of the heart by Elizabeth Bowen (1938)
A doll’s house by Henrik Ibsen (1879)
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (1605)
Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)
Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey (1968) †1
E
East of Eden by John Steinbeck (1952) 1
The egg and I by Betty MacDonald (1945)
The enchanted castle by E. Nesbit (1907)
The epic of Gilgamesh (circa 2100 BCE) †
Essays by Francis Bacon (1597)
Eugénie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac (1833)
Evangeline by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1847)
Evelina by Fanny Burney (1778)
F
Fairy and folk tales of the Irish peasantry by W. B. Yeats (1899)
Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott (1884)
The flowers of evil by Charles Baudelaire (1857)
Fools Crow by James Welch (1986)
Foundation by Isaac Asimov (1951) 1
The French lieutenant’s woman by John Fowles (1969)
G
The garden party and other stories by Katherine Mansfield (1922)
Gentlemen prefer blondes by Anita Loos (1924)
Gigi by Colette (1942)
Go tell it on the mountain by James Baldwin (1953)
Goblin market by Christina Rossetti (1862)
The golden ass by Apuleius (158)
The golden compass by Philip Pullman (1995) ‡
Gone with the wind by Margaret Mitchell (1936) †1
Good behaviour by Molly Keane (1981)
The good earth by Pearl S. Buck (1931) †
The good old boys by Elmer Kelton (1982)
The group by Mary McCarthy (1963)
The guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman (1962) ‡
H
The haunting of hill house by Shirley Jackson (1959)
Hawaii’s story by Hawaii’s queen by Lil’uokalani (1898) ‡
Helter skelter: The true story of the Manson murders by Vincent Bugliosi (1974)
The home and the world by Rabindranath Tagore (1916)
The house of mirth by Edith Wharton (1905)
The house of spirits by Isabel Allende (1982)
How green was my valley by Richard Llewellyn (1939)
How the Grinch stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss (1957) †
Howl’s moving castle by Diana Wynne Jones (1986)
The hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo (1831) †
The hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy (1984)
I
I capture the castle by Dodie Smith (1948)
I know why the caged bird sings by Maya Angelou (1969) ‡
In the shadow of Man by Jane Goodall (1971) 1
Incidents in the life of a slave girl by Harriet Jacobs (1861) ‡
Interview with the vampire by Anne Rice (1976) †
J
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (1847) †
The journals of Lewis and Clark by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark (1806)
The joy luck club by Amy Tan (1989)
Jubilee by Margaret Walker (1966)
The jungle book by Rudyard Kipling (1894) †
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton (1991) ‡
Justine by the Marquis de Sade (1787)
K
Kindred by Octavia Butler (1979)
The king of the wind by Marguerite Henry †
Kokoro by Natsume Soseki (1914)
L
A lady’s life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella L. Bird (1879)
Lais by Marie de France (circa 1150)
Leaves of grass by Walt Whitman (1855)
The left hand of darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (1969)
The legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving (1820)
Letter from the Birmingham jail by Martin Luther King, Jr. (1963)
Letters of a woman homesteader by Elinore Pruitt Stewart (1914)
The life and adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum (1902) †1
The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman by Laurence Sterne (1767)
The little mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen (1836)
A little princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1902)
The lives of girls and women by Alice Munro (1974)
The living is easy by Dorothy West (1948)
Lonesome dove by Larry McMurtry (1985)
The lord of the rings by J. R. R. Tolkien (1954) †
Lorna Doone by R.D. Blackmore (1869) 1
Lysistrata by Aristophanes (411 BCE) †
M
The Mabinogion (circa 1350)
The Makioka sisters by Jun’ichiro Tanizaki (1943)
The Maltese falcon by Dashiell Hammett (1930)
Man’s search for meaning by Viktor E. Frankl (1946)
Manufacturing consent by Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman (1988)
The mark of Zorro by Johnston McCulley (1919)
The Martian chronicles by Ray Bradbury (1950) 1
Medea by Euripides (431 BC)
The merry adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle (1883) †1
The Midwich cuckoos by John Wyndham (1957)
Mission to Volga by Ibn Fadlan (circa 920)
Moby Dick by Herman Melville (1851)
Monkey: The journey to the West by Wu Cheng’en (1505)
Morte d’Urban by J.F. Powers (1962)
A moveable feast by Ernest Hemingway (1964) †
N
The naked civil servant by Quentin Crisp (1968)
The name of the rose by Umberto Eco (1980)
The narrow road to the deep north by Basho Matsuo (1689)
Naturalist by Edward O. Wilson (1994)
Nectar in a sieve by Kamala Markandaya (1954)
Neuromancer by William Gibson (1984)
The Nibelungenlied (circa 1200)
Night by Elie Wiesel (1958)
The ninety-five theses by Martin Luther (1517)
North and south by Elizabeth Gaskell (1855) †1
Norwegian wood by Haruki Murakami (1987)
The nun by Denis Diderot (1792)
O
Obasan by Joy Kogawa (1981)
Old Possum’s book of practical cats by T. S. Eliot (1939)
The once and future king by T.H. White (1958) †1
One flew over the cuckoo’s nest by Ken Kesey (1962) †
Orlando by Virginia Woolf (1928)
The outsiders by S.E. Hinton (1967)
The owl service by Alan Garner (1967) ‡
P
A passage to India by E. M. Forster (1924)
Passing by Nella Larsen (1929)
Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie (1911) †
Le petit prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1943) 1
Peyton Place by Grace Metalious (1956)
The phantom tollbooth by Norton Juster (1961) †
The picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (1890) 1
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard (1974)
The pillow book by Sei Shonagon (1002)
Poems and fragments by Sappho (circa 600 BCE)
The postman always rings twice by James M. Cain (1934)
The price of salt by Patricia Highsmith (1952)
The prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark (1961)
A princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1912)
The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson (circa 1220)
R
A raisin in the sun by Lorraine Hansberry (1959)
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (1938)
The recognition of Śakuntalā by Kālidāsa (circa 400)
Rime of the ancyent marinere by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1798) ‡
The rise and fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer (1960)
The robber bridegroom by Eudora Welty (1942)
The romance of Tristan and Iseult by Joseph Bédier (1900)
Rosemary’s baby by Ira Levin (1967)
S
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy (1905)
The sea around us by Rachel Carson (1951)
Season of migration to the north by Tayeb Salih (1966)
Seven little Australians by Ethel Turner (1894)
The shipping news by Annie Proulx (1993) ‡
The silent world by Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1953)
A single man by Christopher Isherwood (1964)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (circa 1390)
Slouching towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion (1968)
Snow crash by Neal Stephenson (1992)
Sonnets by William Shakespeare (1609) † ‡
Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1850)
The southern gates of Arabia by Freya Stark (1936)
The story of an African farm by Olive Schreiner (1883)
The story of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting (1920) †
The story of my experiments with truth by Gandhi (1940) ‡
Strange fruit by Lillian E. Smith (1944)
Stranger in a strange land by Robert A. Heinlein (1961)
Sumerian temple hymns by Enheduanna (circa 2250 BCE)
Sundiata Keita (circa 1300)
Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome (1930)
T
The tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu (1008)
Tartuffe by Molière (1664)
Ten days in a mad-house by Nellie Bly (1887)
The tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë (1848) †
Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (1891) 1
Testament of youth by Vera Brittain (1933)
Tevye the dairyman by Sholem Aleichem (1894)
Their eyes were watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (1937) ‡
Things fall apart by Chinua Achebe (1958)
The three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas (1844)
The time machine by H.G. Wells (1891) 1
The time of the doves by Mercè Rodoreda (1962)
Train to Pakistan by Khushwant Singh (1956)
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (1883) ‡
A tree grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith (1940) ‡
The trial by Franz Kafka (1915)
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller (1934)
The turn of the screw by Henry James (1898) ‡
Twelve angry men by Reginald Rose (1954)
Twenty love poems and a song of despair by Pablo Neruda (1924)
U
Ubik by Philip K. Dick (1969) ‡
The unbearable lightness of being by Milan Kundera (1984)
Uncle Tom’s cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852)
Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas (1953)
Up from slavery by Booker T. Washington (1900)
Upanishads (circa 600)
V
A vindication of the rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft (1790)
Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin (1839) 1
W
Waterlily by Ella Cara Deloria (1988)
Watership Down by Richard Adams (1972) †
We of the never-never by Jeannie Gunn (1907)
West with the night by Beryl Markham (1942)
Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee (1962)
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (1966) 1
Wild swans: Three daughters of China by Chang Jung (1991)
The wine of solitude by Irène Némirovsky (1935)
Wise blood by Flannery O’Connor (1952)
A wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin (1968) 1
Wizard’s first rule by Terry Goodkind (1994) 1
The women’s room by Marilyn French (1977)
The wood beyond the world by William Morris (1894)
The worst journey in the world by Apsley Cherry-Garrard (1922)
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (1847) †
Y
The yellow wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1892) 1
† Re-read | ‡ Read, awaiting review | 1 From v. 1
See my previous Classics Club list HERE.