I (re)joined the Classics Club!
Goal date: March 2025 2026
Currently reading: Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
North America | Latin America | Britain and Ireland | Europe
Africa | West Asia | East Asia | South Asia | Oceania
North America
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery (Canada) 1
The lives of girls and women by Alice Munro (Canada)
Neuromancer by William Gibson (Canada)
Obasan by Joy Kogawa (Canada)
The shipping news by Annie Proulx (Canada)
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (Caribbean) 1
New England States
The bell jar by Sylvia Plath (Massachusetts)
Call of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft (Rhode Island)
The chocolate war by Robert Cormier (Massachusetts)
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s court by Mark Twain (Connecticut)
Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey (Massachusetts) 1
Evangeline by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Massachusetts)
The haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (Vermont)
The house of mirth by Edith Wharton (Massachusetts)
How the Grinch stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss (Massachusetts)
The living is easy by Dorothy West (Massachusetts)
Peyton Place by Grace Metalious (New Hampshire)
Uncle Tom’s cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (Connecticut)
Wizard’s first rule by Terry Goodkind (Maine) 1
The yellow wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Rhode Island) 1
Mid-Atlantic States
Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote (New York)
Cane by Jean Toomer (Washington, D.C.)
Common sense by Thomas Paine (Pennsylvania)
A contract with God and other tenement stories by Will Eisner (New York)
Cosmos by Carl Sagan (New York)
Foundation by Isaac Asimov (New York) 1
Go tell it on the mountain by James Baldwin (New York)
The group by Mary McCarthy (New York)
The guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman (New York)
The hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy (Maryland)
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton (New York)
Leaves of grass by Walt Whitman (New York)
The legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving (New York)
The life and adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum (New York) 1
Manufacturing consent by Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman (Pennsylvania)
Moby Dick by Herman Melville (New York)
Passing by Nella Larsen (New York)
The phantom tollbooth by Norton Juster (New York)
The postman always rings twice by James M. Cain (Maryland)
The price of salt by Patricia Highsmith (New York)
Rosemary’s baby by Ira Levin (New York)
The sea around us by Rachel Carson (Maryland)
Ten days in a mad-house by Nellie Bly (Pennsylvania)
A tree grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith (New York)
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller (New York)
Twelve angry men by Reginald Rose (New York)
Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee (New York)
The women’s room by Marilyn French (New York)
Midwest States
Beloved by Toni Morrison (Ohio)
Cat on a hot tin roof by Tennessee Williams (Missouri)
Cat’s cradle by Kurt Vonnegut (Indiana)
Cimarron by Edna Ferber (Wisconsin)
Crocodile on the sandbank by Elizabeth Peters (Illinois)
Death comes for the archbishop by Willa Cather (Nebraska)
Jubilee by Margaret Walker (Illinois)
Morte d’Urban by J.F. Powers (Minnesota)
Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs (Illinois)
A raisin in the sun by Lorraine Hansberry (Illinois)
The rise and fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer (Illinois)
Snow crash by Neal Stephenson (Iowa)
Southern States
Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner (Mississippi)
The awakening by Kate Chopin (Louisiana) 1
The birds of America by John James Audubon (Kentucky)
Bury my heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown (Arkansas)
Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr. (Florida)
Cold Sassy tree by Olive Ann Burns (Georgia)
The color purple by Alice Walker (Georgia) 1
A confederacy of dunces by John Kennedy Toole (Louisiana)
Gentlemen prefer blondes by Anita Loos (Arkansas)
Gone with the wind by Margaret Mitchell (Georgia) 1
I know why the caged bird sings by Maya Angelou (Arkansas)
Incidents in the life of a slave girl by Harriet Jacobs (North Carolina)
Interview with the vampire by Anne Rice (Louisiana)
The journals of Lewis and Clark by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark (Virginia)
Letter from the Birmingham jail by Martin Luther King, Jr. (Alabama)
Naturalist by Edward O. Wilson (Alabama)
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard (Virginia)
The robber bridegroom by Eudora Welty (Mississippi)
Strange fruit by Lillian E. Smith (Georgia)
Their eyes were watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (Florida)
Up from slavery by Booker T. Washington (Alabama)
Wise blood by Flannery O’Connor (Georgia)
Western States
All the pretty horses by Cormac McCarthy (Texas)
And the band played on by Randy Shilts (California)
Bless me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya (New Mexico)
East of Eden by John Steinbeck (California) 1
The egg and I by Betty MacDonald (Washington)
The good old boys by Elmer Kelton (Texas)
Helter skelter: The true story of the Manson murders by Vincent Bugliosi (California)
The joy luck club by Amy Tan (California)
Kindred by Octavia Butler (California)
The left hand of darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (California)
Letters of a woman homesteader by Elinore Pruitt Stewart (Wyoming)
Lonesome dove by Larry McMurtry (Texas)
The Maltese falcon by Dashiell Hammett (California)
The mark of Zorro by Johnston McCulley (California)
The Martian chronicles by Ray Bradbury (California) 1
One flew over the cuckoo’s nest by Ken Kesey (Oregon)
The outsiders by S.E. Hinton (Oklahoma)
Slouching towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion (California)
Stranger in a strange land by Robert A. Heinlein (California)
Ubik by Philip K. Dick (California)
A wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin (California) 1
Native American
Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko (Native American, Pueblo)
Fools Crow by James Welch (Native American, Blackfoot)
Waterlily by Ella Cara Deloria (Native American, Sioux)
Latin America
The aleph by Jorge Luis Borges (Argentina)
The house of spirits by Isabel Allende (Chile)
Twenty love poems and a song of despair by Pablo Neruda (Chile)
Britain and Ireland
The death of the heart by Elizabeth Bowen (Ireland)
Fairy and folk tales of the Irish peasantry by W. B. Yeats (Ireland)
Good behaviour by Mary Keane (Ireland)
How green was my valley by Richard Llewellyn (Wales)
The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman by Laurence Sterne (Ireland)
The Mabinogion (Wales)
The owl service by Alan Garner (Wales)
Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie (Scotland)
The picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (Ireland) 1
The prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark (Scotland)
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (Scotland)
Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas (Wales)
Northern England and the Midlands
Alice’s adventures in wonderland by Lewis Carroll (Yorkshire)
All creatures great and small by James Herriot (Yorkshire)
A clockwork orange by Anthony Burgess (Greater Manchester)
I capture the castle by Dodie Smith (Greater Manchester)
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (Yorkshire)
A lady’s life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella L. Bird (Yorkshire)
The lord of the rings by J. R. R. Tolkien (West Midlands)
The merry adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle (Nottinghamshire) 1
North and south by Elizabeth Gaskell (Greater Manchester) 1
A single man by Christopher Isherwood (Cheshire)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Cheshire)
Sonnets by William Shakespeare (Warwickshire)
Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Herefordshire)
Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome (Yorkshire)
The tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë (Yorkshire)
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (Yorkshire)
Southern England and East Anglia
The adventures and memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle (London) 1
And then there were none by Agatha Christie (Devon)
Animal Farm by George Orwell (London)
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell (Norfolk)
A brief history of time by Stephen Hawking (Oxfordshire)
Casino Royale by Ian Fleming (London)
Cluny Brown by Margery Sharp (Wiltshire)
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons (London)
The enchanted castle by E. Nesbit (London)
Essays by Francis Bacon (London)
Evelina by Fanny Burney (London)
Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott (London)
The French lieutenant’s woman by John Fowles (Dorset)
Goblin market by Christina Rossetti (London)
The golden compass by Philip Pullman (Norfolk)
Howl’s moving castle by Diana Wynne Jones (Bristol)
A little princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett (Kent)
Lorna Doone by R.D. Blackmore (Somerset) 1
The Midwich cuckoos by John Wyndham (Hampshire)
The naked civil servant by Quentin Crisp (London)
Old Possum’s book of practical cats by T. S. Eliot (London)
The once and future king by T.H. White (Cambridgeshire) 1
Orlando by Virginia Woolf (London)
A passage to India by E. M. Forster (London)
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (Cornwall)
Rime of the ancient mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Somerset)
The story of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting (Berkshire)
Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (Dorset) 1
Testament of youth by Vera Brittain (Oxfordshire)
The time machine by H.G. Wells (London) 1
The turn of the screw by Henry James (London)
A vindication of the rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft (London)
Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin (Kent) 1
Watership Down by Richard Adams (Hampshire)
The wood beyond the world by William Morris (Oxfordshire)
The worst journey in the world by Apsley Cherry-Garrard (Berkshire)
Europe
Northern Europe
A doll’s house by Henrik Ibsen (Norway)
The little mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen (Denmark)
The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson (Iceland)
Western Europe
Around the world in 80 days by Jules Verne (France)
The book of the city of ladies by Christine de Pizan (France)
The complete Brothers Grimm fairy tales by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm (Germany)
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (France) 1
Eugénie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac (France)
The flowers of evil by Charles Baudelaire (France)
Gigi by Colette (France)
The hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo (France)
Justine by the Marquis de Sade (France)
Lais by Marie de France (France)
Man’s search for meaning by Viktor E. Frankl (Austria)
A moveable feast by Ernest Hemingway (France)
The Nibelungenlied (Germany)
The ninety-five theses by Martin Luther (Germany)
The nun by Denis Diderot (France)
Le petit prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (France) 1
The romance of Tristan and Iseult by Joseph Bédier (France)
The silent world by Jacques-Yves Cousteau (France)
Tartuffe by Molière (France)
The three musketeers by Alexandre Dumas (France)
Eastern Europe
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (Russia)
Dracula by Bram Stoker (Romania)
Night by Elie Wiesel (Romania)
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy (Hungary)
Tevye the dairyman by Sholem Aleichem (Ukraine)
The trial by Franz Kafka (Czech)
The unbearable lightness of being by Milan Kundera (Czech)
The wine of solitude by Irène Némirovsky (Ukraine)
Mediterranean
Chronicle of the Narváez expedition by Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (Spain)
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (Spain)
Lysistrata by Aristophanes (Greece)
Medea by Euripides (Greece)
The name of the rose by Umberto Eco (Italy)
Poems and fragments by Sappho (Greece)
The southern gates of Arabia by Freya Stark (Italy)
The time of the doves by Mercè Rodoreda (Spain)
Africa
Confessions by Augustine of Hippo (Roman Numidia)
The conservationist by Nadine Gordimer (South Africa)
The golden ass by Apuleius (Roman Numidia)
In the shadow of Man by Jane Goodall (Tanzania) 1
The king of the wind by Marguerite Henry (Morocco)
The story of an African farm by Olive Schreiner (South Africa)
Season of migration to the north by Tayeb Salih (Sudan)
Sundiata Keita (Mali)
Things fall apart by Chinua Achebe (Nigeria)
West with the night by Beryl Markham (Kenya)
West Asia
Arabian nights (Persia)
The blind owl by Sadegh Hedayat (Iran)
The conference of the birds by Attar of Nishapur (Persia)
The epic of Gilgamesh (Sumer)
Mission to the Volga by Ibn Fadlan (Iraq)
Sumerian temple hymns by Enheduanna (Sumer)
East Asia
The book of tea by Okakura Kakuzo (Japan)
The good earth by Pearl S. Buck (China)
Kokoro by Natsume Soseki (Japan)
The Makioka sisters by Juni’chiro Tanizaki (Japan)
Monkey: The journey to the West by Wu Cheng’en (China)
The narrow road to the deep north by Basho Matsuo (Japan)
Norwegian wood by Haruki Murakami (Japan)
The pillow book by Sei Shonagon (Japan)
The tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu (Japan)
Wild swans: Three daughters of China by Chang Jung (China)
South Asia
Coolie by Mulk Raj Anand (India)
The home and the world by Rabindranath Tagore (India)
The jungle book by Rudyard Kipling (India)
Nectar in a sieve by Kamala Markandaya (India)
The recognition of Sakuntala by Kalidasa (India)
The story of my experiments with truth by Gandhi (India)
Train to Pakistan by Khushwant Singh (Pakistan)
Upanishads (India)
Oceania
The garden party and other stories by Katherine Mansfield (New Zealand)
Hawaii’s story by Hawaii’s queen by Lili’uokalani (Hawaii)
Seven little Australians by Ethel Turner (Australia)
We of the never-never by Jeannie Gunn (Australia)
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