I (re)joined the Classics Club!
Goal date: March 2025
Currently reading: Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
BCE | Pre-printing press | Pre-19th century | 19th century | 20th century
BCE
c. 2250 BCE — Sumerian temple hymns by Enheduanna
c. 2100 BCE — The epic of Gilgamesh
c. 600 BCE — Poems and fragments by Sappho
c. 600 BCE — Upanishads
431 BCE — Medea by Euripides
411 BCE — Lysistrata by Aristophanes
Pre-printing press
158 — The golden ass by Apuleius
397 — Confessions by Augustine of Hippo
c. 400 — The recognition of Sakuntala by Kalidasa
c. 900 — The Arabian nights
c. 920 — Mission to the Volga by Ibn Fadlan
1002 — The pillow book by Sei Shonagon
1008 — The tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
c. 1150 — Lais by Marie de France
1177 — The conference of the birds by Attar of Nishapur
c. 1200 — The Nibelungenlied
c. 1220 — The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson
c. 1300 — Sundiata Keita
c. 1350 — The Mabinogion
c. 1390 — Sir Gawain and the green knight
1405 — The book of the city of ladies by Christine de Pizan
Pre-19th century
1505 — Monkey: The journey to the West by Wu Cheng’en
1517 — The ninety-five theses by Martin Luther
1542 — Chronicle of the Narváez expedition by Cabeza de Vaca
1597 — Essays by Francis Bacon
1605 — Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
1609 — Sonnets by William Shakespeare
1664 — Tartuffe by Molière
1689 — The narrow road to the deep north by Basho Matsuo
1767 — The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman by Laurence Sterne
1776 — Common sense by Thomas Paine
1778 — Evelina by Fanny Burney
1787 — Justine by the Marquis de Sade
1790 — A vindication of the rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
1792 — The nun by Denis Diderot
1798 — Rime of the ancyent marinere by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
19th century
Early 19th century
1806 — The journals of Lewis and Clark by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
1815 — The complete Brothers Grimm fairy tales by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
1820 — The legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
1827 — The birds of America by John James Audubon
1831 — The hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
1833 — Eugénie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac
1836 — The little mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen
1839 — Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin 1
Middle 19th century
1844 — The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 1
1844 — The three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
1847 — Evangeline by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1847 — Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
1847 — Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
1848 — The tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
1850 — Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
1851 — Moby Dick by Herman Melville
1852 — Uncle Tom’s cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
1855 — Leaves of grass by Walt Whitman
1855 — North and south by Elizabeth Gaskell 1
1857 — The flowers of evil by Charles Baudelaire
1861 — Incidents in the life of a slave girl by Harriet Jacobs
1862 — Goblin market by Christina Rossetti
1865 — Alice’s adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
1869 — Lorna Doone by R.D. Blackmore 1
Late 19th century
1873 — Around the world in 80 days by Jules Verne
1877 — Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
1878 — Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
1879 — A doll’s house by Henrik Ibsen
1879 — A lady’s life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella L. Bird
1883 — The merry adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle 1
1883 — The story of an African farm by Olive Schreiner
1883 — Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
1884 — Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott
1887 — Ten days in a mad-house by Nellie Bly
1889 — A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s court by Mark Twain
1890 — The picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 1
1891 — Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy 1
1892 — The adventures and memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle 1
1892 — The yellow wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1
1894 — The jungle book by Rudyard Kipling
1894 — Seven little Australians by Ethel Turner
1894 — Tevye the dairyman by Sholem Aleichem
1894 — The wood beyond the world by William Morris
1895 — The time machine by H.G. Wells 1
1897 — Dracula by Bram Stoker
1898 — Hawaii’s story by Hawaii’s queen by Lili’uokalani
1898 — The turn of the screw by Henry James
1899 — The awakening by Kate Chopin 1
1899 — Fairy and folk tales of the Irish peasantry by W. B. Yeats
20th century
1900’s
1900 — The romance of Tristan and Iseult by Joseph Bédier
1900 — Up from slavery by Booker T. Washington
1902 — The life and adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum 1
1902 — A little princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
1905 — The house of mirth by Edith Wharton
1905 — The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy
1906 — The book of tea by Okakura Kakuzo
1907 — The enchanted castle by E. Nesbit
1907 — We of the never-never by Jeannie Gunn
1908 — Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery 1
1910’s
1911 — Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie
1912 — A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
1914 — Kokoro by Natsume Soseki
1914 — Letters of a woman homesteader by Elinore Pruitt Stewart
1915 — The trial by Franz Kafka
1916 — The home and the world by Rabindranath Tagore
1919 — The mark of Zorro by Johnston McCulley
1920’s
1920 — The story of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
1922 — The garden party and other stories by Katherine Mansfield
1922 — The worst journey in the world by Apsley Cherry-Garrard
1923 — Cane by Jean Toomer
1924 — Gentlemen prefer blondes by Anita Loos
1924 — A passage to India by E. M. Forster
1924 — Twenty love poems and a song of despair by Pablo Neruda
1927 — Death comes for the archbishop by Willa Cather
1928 — Call of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft
1928 — Orlando by Virginia Woolf
1929 — Cimarron by Edna Ferber
1929 — Passing by Nella Larsen
1930’s
1930 — The Maltese falcon by Dashiell Hammett
1930 — Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
1931 — The good earth by Pearl S. Buck
1932 — Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
1933 — Testament of youth by Vera Brittain
1934 — The postman always rings twice by James M. Cain
1934 — Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
1935 — The wine of solitude by Irène Némirovsky
1936 — Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
1936 — Coolie by Mulk Raj Anand
1936 — Gone with the wind by Margaret Mitchell 1
1936 — The southern gates of Arabia by Freya Stark
1937 — The blind owl by Sadegh Hedayat
1937 — Their eyes were watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
1938 — The death of the heart by Elizabeth Bowen
1938 — Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
1939 — And then there were none by Agatha Christie
1939 — How green was my valley by Richard Llewellyn
1939 — Old Possum’s book of practical cats by T. S. Eliot
1940’s
1940 — The story of my experiments with truth by Gandhi
1940 — A tree grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
1942 — Gigi by Colette
1942 — The robber bridegroom by Eudora Welty
1942 — West with the night by Beryl Markham
1943 — The Makioka sisters by Juni’chiro Tanizaki
1943 — Le petit prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1
1944 — Cluny Brown by Margery Sharp
1944 — Strange fruit by Lillian E. Smith
1945 — Animal Farm by George Orwell
1945 — The egg and I by Betty MacDonald
1946 — Man’s search for meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
1948 — I capture the castle by Dodie Smith
1948 — The king of the wind by Marguerite Henry
1948 — The living is easy by Dorothy West
1949 — The aleph by Jorge Luis Borges
1950’s
1950 — The Martian chronicles by Ray Bradbury 1
1951 — Foundation by Isaac Asimov 1
1951 — The sea around us by Rachel Carson
1952 — East of Eden by John Steinbeck 1
1952 — The price of salt by Patricia Highsmith
1952 — Wise blood by Flannery O’Connor
1953 — Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
1953 — Go tell it on the mountain by James Baldwin
1953 — The silent world by Jacques-Yves Cousteau
1953 — Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas
1954 — The lord of the rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
1954 — Nectar in a sieve by Kamala Markandaya
1954 — Twelve angry men by Reginald Rose
1955 — Cat on a hot tin roof by Tennessee Williams
1956 — Peyton Place by Grace Metalious
1956 — Train to Pakistan by Khushwant Singh
1957 — How the Grinch stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss
1957 — The Midwich cuckoos by John Wyndham
1958 — Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote
1958 — Night by Elie Wiesel
1958 — The once and future king by T.H. White 1
1958 — Things falls apart by Chinua Achebe
1959 — The haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
1959 — A raisin in the sun by Lorraine Hansberry
1960’s
1960 — Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
1960 — The rise and fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer
1961 — The phantom tollbooth by Norton Juster
1961 — The prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
1961 — Stranger in a strange land by Robert A. Heinlein
1962 — Clockwork orange by Anthony Burgess
1962 — The guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman
1962 — Morte d’Urban by J.F. Powers
1962 — One flew over the cuckoo’s nest by Ken Kesey
1962 — The time of the doves by Mercè Rodoreda
1962 — Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee
1963 — The bell jar by Sylvia Plath
1963 — Cat’s cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
1963 — The group by Mary McCarthy
1963 — Letter from the Birmingham jail by Martin Luther King, Jr.
1964 — A moveable feast by Ernest Hemingway
1964 — A single man by Christopher Isherwood
1966 — Jubilee by Margaret Walker
1966 — Season of migration to the north by Tayeb Salih
1966 — Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys 1
1967 — The outsiders by S.E. Hinton
1967 — The owl service by Alan Garner
1967 — Rosemary’s baby by Ira Levin
1968 — Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey 1
1968 — The naked civil servant by Quentin Crisp
1968 — Slouching towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
1968 — A wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin 1
1969 — The French lieutenant’s woman by John Fowles
1969 — I know why the caged bird sings by Maya Angelou
1969 — The left hand of darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
1969 — Ubik by Philip K. Dick
1970’s
1970 — Bury my heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
1971 — In the shadow of Man by Jane Goodall 1
1972 — All creatures great and small by James Herriot
1972 — Bless me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
1972 — Watership Down by Richard Adams
1974 — The chocolate war by Robert Cormier
1974 — The conservationist by Nadine Gordimer
1974 — Helter skelter: The true story of the Manson murders by Vincent Bugliosi
1974 — The lives of girls and women by Alice Munro
1974 — Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
1975 — Crocodile on the sandbank by Elizabeth Peters
1976 — Interview with the vampire by Anne Rice
1977 — Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
1977 — The women’s room by Marilyn French
1978 — A contract with God and other tenement stories by Will Eisner
1979 — Kindred by Octavia Butler
1980’s
1980 — A confederacy of dunces by John Kennedy Toole
1980 — Cosmos by Carl Sagan
1980 — The name of the rose by Umberto Eco
1981 — Good behaviour by Mary Keane
1981 — Obasan by Joy Kogawa
1982 — The color purple by Alice Walker 1
1982 — The good old boys by Elmer Kelton
1982 — The house of spirits by Isabel Allende
1984 — Cold Sassy tree by Olive Ann Burns
1984 — The hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy
1984 — Neuromancer by William Gibson
1984 — The unbearable lightness of being by Milan Kundera
1985 — Lonesome dove by Larry McMurtry
1986 — Fools Crow by James Welch
1986 — Howl’s moving castle by Diana Wynne Jones
1987 — And the band played on by Randy Shilts
1987 — Beloved by Toni Morrison
1987 — Norwegian wood by Haruki Murakami
1988 — A brief history of time by Stephen Hawking
1988 — Manufacturing consent by Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman
1988 — Waterlily by Ella Cara Deloria
1989 — The joy luck club by Amy Tan
1990’s
1990 — Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
1991 — Wild swans: Three daughters of China by Chang Jung
1992 — All the pretty horses by Cormac McCarthy
1992 — Snow crash by Neal Stephenson
1993 — The shipping news by Annie Proulx
1994 — Naturalist by Edward O. Wilson
1994 — Wizard’s first rule by Terry Goodkind 1
1995 — The golden compass by Philip Pullman
1 From v. 1