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