The Classics Club.

In March 2012, Jillian launched The Classics Club. Basically, the club is a place for classics readers and bloggers to find each other and discuss reading the classics.

For me, this seems like the perfect place to transition to as I near the end of my own list of 250 classics. The Club allows me support as I make new goals for my classics reading, as well as helping me find other bloggers with similar interests and tastes in old books. :)

Since I am still a little over 100 books away from completing my first list, those titles will be rolled into this challenge. Those books will be my first priority to read and finish. The rest of my challenge list will include other classics I want to get to in the next five years.


Before I show you the list, I want to explain why there are so many titles. Since working on my 250 list, I have become incredibly inspired by the classics, and I want to continue exploring authors I love as well as new ones. I think that at least for the near future, I will remain on a classics heavy "diet." Because of this, I went crazy making this list. This is a far off goal to finish all of these, so I'm not putting a date on it. But I will read all the books on this list.

First up is the list with the remaining 114 books on my 250 list. The second list contains the books I will transition to after. That list contains more than 300 titles. I will be balancing both lists, and while the first list (my original project list) will remain a priority, I will be including titles from both lists in my reading selections. Yes, I know that I'm insane. But I love my classics, and I am going to keep exploring.

(I reserve the right to change titles on the second list at any time).

Books from the Original 250 List (unfinished at launch of The Classics Club-114 titles left):

1. Anaya, Rudolfo: Bless Me, Ultima
2. Angelou, Maya: I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
3. Aristophanes: The Frogs
4. Atwood, Margaret: Handmaid's Tale
5. Austen, Jane: Mansfield Park FINISHED 8/28/12
6. Bunyon, John: Pilgrim's Progress
7. Burns, Olive: Cold Sassy Tree FINISHED 1/9/13
8. Burgess, Anthony: A Clockwork Orange FINISHED 3/16/12
9. Camus, Albert: The Fall
10. Cather, Willa: My Antonia FINISHED 1/6/13
11. Chaucer, Geoffrey: The Canterbury Tales
12. Collins, Wilkie: The Moonstone
13. Conrad, Joseph: Lord Jim
14. Crane, Stephen: The Red Badge of Courage
15. deCervantes, Miguel: Don Quixote
16. deCrevecoeur, J. Hector St. John: Letters from an American Farmer
17. Defoe, Daniel: Moll Flanders
18. Dickens, Charles: Nicholas Nickleby FINISHED 7/23/12
19. Dickens, Charles: A Tale of Two Cities
20. Dreiser, Theodore: Sister Carrie FINISHED 1/24/14
21. Dumas, Alexandre: The Man in the Iron Mask
22. Eliot, George: Middlemarch FINISHED 7/4/12
23. Eliot, T.S.: Murder in the Cathedral FINISHED 4/26/12
24. Ellison, Ralph: The Invisible Man
25. Euripedes: Medea
26. Faulkner, William: Absalom, Absalom!
27. Faulkner, William: Light in August
28. Faulkner, William: The Sound and the Fury
29. Fielding, Henry: Tom Jones
30. Fitzgerald, F. Scott: Tender is the Night
31. Fitzgerald, F. Scott: The Beautiful and the Damned
32. Forster, E.M.: A Passage to India
33. Gaskell, Elizabeth: Wives and Daughters
34. Goethe, Johann: Faust
35. Greene, Graham: Brighton Rock
36. Greene, Graham: The Power and the Glory
37. Hardy, Thomas: Far From the Madding Crowd FINISHED 7/6/12
38. Hardy, Thomas: The Return of the Native FINISHED 7/9/13
39. Hardy, Thomas: Tess of D'Urbervilles
40. Hawthorne, Nathaniel: The House of Seven Gables
41. Hawthorne, Nathaniel: The Scarlet Letter
42. Heller, Joseph: Catch-22 FINISHED 6/7/12
43. Hellman, Lillian: The Little Foxes FINISHED 4/21/12
44. Hemingway, Ernest: A Farewell to Arms
45. Hesse, Hermann: Steppenwolf
46. Hugo, Victor: Les Miserables
47. Hugo, Victor: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
48. Ibsen, Henrick: A Doll's House
49. Ibsen, Henrick: Enemy of the People
50. Ishiguro, Kazuo: The Remains of the Day
51. James, Henry: The Turn of the Screw
52. Jonson, Ben: Volpone
53. Joyce, James: Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man
54. Joyce, James: Ulysses
55. Kafka, Franz: The Trial 
56. Kerouac, Jack: On the Road
57. Kesey, Ken: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
58. Kingsolver, Barbara: The Poisonwood Bible
59. Kipling, Rudyard: Kim
60. Laurence, Margaret: The Stone Angel
61. Lewis, Sinclair: Babbitt
62. Lewis, Sinclair: Main Street
63. London, Jack: White Fang
64. Machiavelli, Niccolo: The Prince
65. Mann, Thomas: Death in Venice
66. Marlowe, Christopher: Doctor Faustus
67. Melville, Herman: Billy Budd
68. Milton, John: Paradise Lost
69. Morrison, Toni: Beloved
70. Morrison, Toni: Song of Solomon 
71. Nabokov, Vladimir: Pnin
72. O'Brien, Tim: Going After Cacciato
73. Orczy, Baroness: The Scarlet Pimpernel
74. Orwell, George: 1984
75. Paine, Thomas: Common Sense
76. Pasternak, Boris: Doctor Zhivago
77. Paton, Alan: Cry, the Beloved Country
78. Plath, Sylvia: The Bell Jar FINISHED 7/11/13
79. Plato: The Trial and Death of Socrates
80. Pope, Alexander: The Rape of the Lock
81. Rand, Ayn: The Fountainhead
82. Remarque: All Quiet on the Western Front
83. Richardson, Samuel: Clarissa
84. Richardson, Samuel: Pamela
85. Rostand, Edmond: Cyrano de Bergerac
86. Scott, Sir Walter: Ivanhoe
87. Scott, Sir Walter: Lady of the Lake 
88. Shaw, George Bernard: Mrs. Warren’s Profession
89. Sinclair, Upton: The Jungle
90. Solzhenitsyn, Alexander: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
91. Sophocles: Antigone FINISHED 5/4/12
92. Sophocles: Oedipus Rex
93. Steinbeck, John: The Grapes of Wrath FINISHED 7/17/13
94. Stoppard, Tom: Rosencratz and Guildenstern are Dead
95. Stowe, Harriet Beecher: Uncle Tom’s Cabin 
96. Thackeray, William Makepeace: Vanity Fair
97. Tolkein, J.R.R.: The Hobbit FINISHED 11/12/12
98. Tolstoy, Leo: Anna Karenina 
99. Trollope, Anthony: Barchester Towers
100. Twain, Mark: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
101. Verne, Jules: Journey to the Center of the Earth FINISHED 3/30/12
102. Virgil: The Aeneid
103. Voltaire: Candide
104. Wells, H.G.: The Time Machine
105. Wells, H.G.: The War of the Worlds
106. Wharton, Edith: The House of Mirth
107. White, T.H.: The Once and Future King
108. Wilder, Thornton: Our Town
109. Williams, Tennessee: A Streetcar Named Desire
110. Williams, Tennessee: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof FINISHED 1/5/13
111. Woolf, Virginia: Night and Day
112. Woolf, Virginia: To the Lighthouse
113. Woolf, Virginia: The Voyage Out
114. Wright, Richard: Native Son

Remaining Titles: 

1. Alcott, Louisa May: Hospital Sketches
2. Alcott, Louisa May: Jo's Boys
3. Alcott, Louisa May: Little Men
4. Alcott, Louisa May: Little Women
5. Anderson, Sherwood: Winesburg, Ohio
6. Austen, Jane: Complete Juvenilia
7. Austen, Jane: Lady Susan
8. Austen, Jane: Northanger Abbey FINISHED 1/5/13
9. Austen, Jane: Sanditon
10. Austen, Jane: Selected Letters
11. Austen, Jane: The Watsons
12. Azuela, Mariano: The Underdogs
13. Baldwin, James: Giovanni's Room
14. Baldwin, James: Go Tell it on the Mountain
15. Baum, L. Frank: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
16. Bellamy, Edward: Looking Backward
17. Bernstein, Hilda: The World that was Ours
18. Borges, Jorge Luis: The Aleph
19. Borges, Jorge Luis: Ficciones
20. Bradbury, Ray: Fahrenheit 451
21. Bradbury, Ray: The Illustrated Man
22. Bradbury, Ray: The Martian Chronicles
23. Braddon, Mary Elizabeth: Lady Audley's Secret
24. Buck, Pearl: The Good Earth
25. Burke, Edmund: A Philosophical Enquiry
26. Burnett, Frances Hodgson: A Little Princess FINISHED 8/28/12
27. Burnett, Frances Hodgson: The Making of a Marchioness
28. Burnett, Frances Hodgson: The Secret Garden FINISHED 5/8/12
29. Burnett, Frances Hodgson: The Shuttle
30. Burney, Frances: Evelina 
31. Burroughs, Edgar Rice: Tarzan of the Apes
32. Butler, Samuel: Erewhon
33. Butler, Samuel: The Way of All Flesh
34. Bronte, Anne: Agnes Grey FINISHED 7/8/12
35. Bronte, Anne: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
36. Bronte, Charlotte: Jane Eyre
37. Bronte, Charlotte: The Professor
38. Bronte, Charlotte: Shirley
39. Bronte, Charlotte: Villette
40. Bronte, Emily: Wuthering Heights
41. Carroll, Lewis: Alice in Wonderland
42. Cather, Willa: A Lost Lady
43. Cather, Willa: Alexander's Bridge
44. Cather, Willa: April Twilights poetry FINISHED 1/15/13
45. Cather, Willa: Death Comes for the Archbishop
46. Cather, Willa: Lucy Gayheart
47. Cather, Willa: My Mortal Enemy
48. Cather, Willa: O Pioneers!
49. Cather, Willa: One of Ours
50. Cather, Willa: The Professor's House
51. Cather, Willa: Sapphira and the Slave Girl
52. Cather, Willa: Shadows on the Rock
53. Cather, Willa: The Song of the Lark
54. Cather, Willa: The Troll Garden FINISHED 1/27/13
55. Chekhov, Anton: The Duel
56. Chekhov, Anton: The Major Plays 
57. Chekhov, Anton: Three Sisters
58. Chopin, Kate: Desiree's Baby
59. Chopin, Kate: The Storm
60. Chopin, Kate: The Story of and Hour
61. Colette: My Mother's House
62. Colette: Sido 
63. Collins, Wilkie: Armadale
64. Collins, Wilkie: No Name
65. Cooper, James Fenimore: The Deerslayer
66. Cooper, James Fenimore: The Pathfinder
67. Cooper, James Fenimore: The Pioneers
68. Cooper, James Fenimore: The Prairie
69. Crane, Stephen: Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
70. Defoe, Daniel: Roxana
71. Dickens, Charles: A Child's History of England
72. Dickens, Charles: American Notes
73. Dickens, Charles: Barnaby Rudge
    
74. Dickens, Charles: The Battle of Life
75. Dickens, Charles: Bleak House
76. Dickens, Charles: The Chimes
77. Dickens, Charles: The Cricket on the Hearth
78. Dickens, Charles: Dombey and Son
79. Dickens, Charles: Great Expectations
80. Dickens, Charles: The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain
81. Dickens, Charles: Little Dorrit
82. Dickens, Charles: Martin Chuzzlewit
83. Dickens, Charles: The Mystery of Edwin Drood
84. Dickens, Charles: The Old Curiousity Shop
85. Dickens, Charles: Our Mutual Friend
86. Dickens, Charles: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
87. Dickens, Monica: The Winds of Heaven
88. Dorr, David: Colored Man Round the World
89. Dostoevsky, Fyodor: The Adolescent
90. Dostoevsky, Fyodor: Crime and Punishment
91. Dostoevsky, Fyodor: Demons
92. Dostoevsky, Fyodor: The Double
93. Dostoevsky, Fyodor: The Eternal Husband
94. Dostoevsky, Fyodor: The Gambler
95. Dostoevsky, Fyodor: Notes from Underground
96. Douglass, Frederick: A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
97. Douglass, Frederick: My Bondage and My Freedom
98. Du Maurier, Daphne: Echoes from the Macabre
99. Dumas, Alexandre: The Black Tulip
100. Dumas, Alexandre: Twenty Years After
101. Dumas, Alexandre: The Vicomte de Bragelonne
102. Edgeworth, Maria: Belinda
103. Edgeworth, Maria: Castle Rackrent
104. Eliot, George: Adam Bede
105. Eliot, George: Brother Jacob
106. Eliot, George: Daniel Deronda
107. Eliot, George: Felix Holt, the Radical
108. Eliot, George: The Lifted Veil FINISHED 6/10/12
109. Eliot, George: The Mill on the Floss
110. Eliot, George: Romola
111. Eliot, George: Scenes of Clerical Life
112. Emerson, Ralph Waldo: Essays
113. Equiano, Olaudah: Narrative of a Slave
114. Euripedes: Four Tragedies
115. Faulkner, William: Sanctuary
116. Faulkner, William: The Unvanquished
117. Fielding, Henry: Joseph Andrews
118. Fielding, Henry: Shamela  
119. Fitzgerald, F. Scott: Flappers and Philosophers
120. Fitzgerald, F. Scott: Tales of the Jazz Age
121. Fitzgerald, F. Scott: The Love of the Last Tycoon
122. Fitzgerald, F. Scott: This Side of Paradise
123. Forster, E.M.: Howard's End
124. Forster, E.M.: Where Angels Fear to Tread
125. Fowles, John: The Collector
126. Frank, Anne: The Diary of Anne Frank
127. Franklin, Benjamin: 1726 Journal
128. Franklin, Benjamin: Autobiography
129. Gaskell, Elizabeth: Cousin Phillis and Other Stories
130. Gaskell, Elizabeth: Cranford
131. Gaskell, Elizabeth: North and South
132. Gaskell, Elizabeth: Ruth
133. Gaskell, Elizabeth: Sylvia's Lovers
134. Gaskell, Elizabeth: The Life of Charlotte Bronte
135. Ginsberg, Allen: Howl and Other Poems
136. Glaspell, Susan: Fidelity
137. Goethe:  The Sorrows of Young Werther and Selected Writings
138. Hamsun, Knut: Hunger
139. Hardy, Thomas: A Pair of Blue Eyes
140. Hardy, Thomas: Complete Poems (poetry)
141. Hardy, Thomas: Desperate Remedies
142. Hardy, Thomas: Life's Little Ironies (short stories)
143. Hardy, Thomas: Under the Greenwood Tree
144. Hardy, Thomas: Wessex Tales (short stories)
145. Hardy, Thomas: The Woodlanders
146. Hawthorne, Nathaniel: The Blithedale Romance
147. Hawthorne, Nathaniel: Selected Stories
148. Hemingway, Ernest: A Moveable Feast FINISHED 1/14/14
149. Hemingway, Ernest: For Whom the Bell Tolls
150. Hemingway, Ernest: The Garden of Eden
151. Hemingway, Ernest: Islands in the Stream
152. Hemingway, Ernest: To Have and to Have Not
153. Hemingway, Ernest: True at First Light
154. Homer: The Odyssey
155. Huxley, Aldous: Island
156. Ibsen, Henrick: Ghosts
157. Imlay, Gilbert: The Emigrants
158. Irving, Washington: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
159. James, Henry: The Ambassadors
160. James, Henry: The American
161. James, Henry: The Aspern Papers
162. James, Henry: The Beast in the Jungle
163. James, Henry: The Bostonians
164. James, Henry: The Europeans
165. James, Henry: The Golden Bowl
166. James, Henry: The Ivory Tower
167. James, Henry: The Jolly Corner
168. James, Henry: The Portrait of a Lady
169. James, Henry: Roderick Hudson
170. James, Henry: Washington Square
171. James, Henry: What Maisie Knew
172. James, Henry: The Wings of the Dove 
173. Jenkins, Robin: The Cone Gatherers FINISHED 7/30/12
174. Johnson, Samuel: The Idler
175. Johnson, Samuel: Rasselas
176. Johnson, Samuel: The Rambler
177. Jonson, Ben: The Alchemist
178. Jonson, Ben: Bartholomew Fair
179. Keats, John: Poems
180. Keller, Helen: The Story of My Life
181. Kempe, Margery: The Book of Margery Kempe
182. Laski, Marghanita: Little Boy Lost
183. Lawrence, D.H.: Collected Short Stories
184. Lawrence, D.H.: Women in Love
185. Lee, Harper: To Kill a Mockingbird
186. Leroux, Gaston: The Phantom of Opera
187. Lewis, Sinclair: Arrowsmith
188. Lewis, Sinclair: Elmer Gantry
189. London, Jack: Collected Stories
190. London, Jack: The Sea Wolf
191. Mackail, Denis: Greenery Street
192. Mailer, Norman: An American Dream
193. Mailer, Norman: The Deer Park
194. Malory, Sir Thomas: Le Morte d'Arthur
195. Mansfield, Katherine: Selected Stories
196. Markandaya, Kamala: Nectar in a Sieve
197. Maugham, W. Somerset: Of Human Bondage
198. Maugham, W. Somerset: The Razor's Edge 
199. Maupassant, Guy de: Bel-Ami
200. Maupassant, Guy de: Selected Stories
201. McCullers, Carson: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
202. Melville, Herman: Bartleby the Scrivener
203. Melville, Herman: The Piazza Tales
204. Melville, Herman: Typee
205. Millay, Edna St. Vincent: Collected Poems
206. Miller, Arthur: A View from the Bridge
207. Miller, Arthur: All My Sons
208. Miller, Arthur: Elegy for a Lady
209. Mitchell, Margaret: Gone with the Wind
210. Montaigne, Michel de: Selected Essays
211. Montgomery, L.M.: Anne of Green Gables (I will probably read the series and add them)
212. Morrison, Toni: A Mercy
213. Morrison, Toni: Home
214. Morrison, Toni: Jazz
215. Morrison, Toni: Love
216. Morrison, Toni: Paradise
217. Morrison, Toni: Tar Baby
218. Muir, John: Writings on nature
219. Nabokov, Vladimir: Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
220. Nabokov, Vladimir: Pale Fire
221. O Henry: Collected Stories
222. O'Connor, Flannery: A Good Man is Hard to Find
223. O'Connor, Flannery: The Complete Stories
224. O'Connor, Flannery: Everything that Rises must Converge
225. Orwell, George: Burmese Days
226. Orwell, George: Homage to Catalonia
227. Pepys, Samuel: Diary of Samuel Pepys
228. Plath, Sylvia: Ariel
229. Plath, Sylvia: The Colossus and Other Poems
230. Plath, Sylvia: The Journals of Sylvia Plath
231. Plutarch: Moralia
232. Plutarch: Parallel Lives
233. Poe, Edgar Allan: Collected Stories and Poems
234. Proust, Marcel: Swann's Way
235. Pushkin, Alexander: Tales of Belkin
236. Pyle, Howard: The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
237. Pyle, Howard: The Story of King Arthur and His Knights 
238. Rand, Ayn: Anthem
239. Rand, Ayn: The Early Ayn Rand
240. Rand, Ayn: Three Plays
241. Rand, Ayn: We the Living
242. Richardson, Samuel: The History of Sir Charles Grandison
243. Rossetti, Christina: Maude: A Story for Girls
244. Rushdie, Salman: Midnight's Children
245. Rushdie, Salman: The Satanic Verses
246. Salinger, J.D.: The Catcher in the Rye
247. Salinger, J.D: Franny and Zooey
248. Salinger, J.D.: Nine Stories
249. Salinder, J.D.: Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction
250. Sappho: Poems
251. Schreiner, Olive: The Story of an African Farm
252. Scott, Sir Walter: The Bride of Lammermoor
253. Scott, Sir Walter: Waverly
254. Sewell, Anna: Black Beauty FINISHED 8/27/12
     
255. Shakespeare, William: All's Well That Ends Well
256. Shakespeare, William: The Comedy of Errors
257. Shakespeare, William: Coriolanus
258. Shakespeare, William: Cymbeline
259. Shakespeare, William: Henry V
260. Shakespeare, William: Henry VI Part I
261. Shakespeare, William: Henry VI Part II
262. Shakespeare, William: Henry VI Part III
263. Shakespeare, William: Henry VIII
264. Shakespeare, William: King John
265. Shakespeare, William: Love's Labor's Lost
266. Shakespeare, William: Measure for Measure
267. Shakespeare, William: The Merry Wives of Windsor
268. Shakespeare, William: Pericles
269. Shakespeare, William: Richard II
270. Shakespeare, William: The Taming of the Shrew
271. Shakespeare, William: Timon of Athens
272. Shakespeare, William: Titus Andronicus
273. Shakespeare, William: Trolius and Cressida
274. Shakespeare, William: Two Gentlemen of Verona
275. Shelley, Mary: Frankenstein
276. Shelley, Percy: Collected Poems
277. Strachey, Julia: Cheerful Weather for the Wedding
278. Steinbeck, John: America and Americans
279. Steinbeck, John: Cannery Row
280. Steinbeck, John: East of Eden
281. Steinbeck, John: The Pastures of Heaven
282. Steinbeck, John: The Pearl FINISHED 5/15/12
283. Steinbeck, John: The Red Pony 
284. Steinbeck, John: Sweet Thursday
285. Steinbeck, John: Tortilla Flat
286. Stendhal: The Red and the Black
287. Stevenson, Robert Louis: The Black Arrow
288. Stevenson, Robert Louis: Kidnapped
289. Streatfield, Noel: Saplings
290. Trollope, Anthony: The Warden FINISHED 6/16/12
291. Trollope, Anthony: The Way We Live Now
292. Turgenev, Ivan: First Love
293. Twain, Mark: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
294. Twain, Mark: A Tramp Abroad
295. Twain, Mark: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
296. Twain, Mark: The Complete Humorous Sketches 
297. Twain, Mark: The Complete Short Stories
298. Twain, Mark: The Prince and the Pauper
299. Twain, Mark: Pudd'nhead Wilson
300. Tyler, Royall: The Algerine Captive
301. Verne, Jules: A Floating City
302. Verne, Jules: Around the Moon
303. Verne, Jules: Around the World in Eighty Days
304. Verne, Jules: From the Earth to the Moon
305. Verne, Jules: The Mysterious Island
306. Watson, Winifred: Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
307. Waugh, Evelyn: Brideshead Revisited
308. Wharton, Edith: A Backward Glance-Autobiography
309. Wharton, Edith: The Buccaneers
310. Wharton, Edith: Ghost Stories 
311. Wharton, Edith: Madame de Treymes
312. Wharton, Edith: Old New York 
313. Wharton, Edith: The Reef
314. Wharton, Edith: Roman Fever
315. Wharton, Edith: Sanctuary
316. Wharton, Edith: Summer
317. Wharton, Edith: The Touchstone
318. Whipple, Dorothy: Greenbanks
319. Whipple, Dorothy: Someone at a Distance
320. Whipple, Dorothy: They Knew Mr. Knight
321. Whitman, Walt: Leaves of Grass
322. Whittier, John Greenleaf: Snow-Bound
323. Wilde, Oscar: The Importance of Being Earnest
324. Wollstonecraft, Mary: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
325. Woolf, Virginia: A Haunted House: The Complete Shorter Fiction
326. Woolf, Virginia: Between the Acts
327. Woolf, Virginia: The Common Reader 1st Series
328. Woolf, Virginia: The Common Reader 2nd Series
329. Woolf, Virginia: Flush
330. Woolf, Virginia: Jacob's Room
331. Woolf, Virginia: Melymbrosia
332. Woolf, Virginia: Orlando
333. Woolf, Virginia: Three Guineas
334. Woolf, Virginia: The Waves
335. Woolf, Virginia: The Year
336. Yeats, William Butler: Collected Poems
337. Yeats, William Butler: Irish Faerie Tales
338. Zamyatin, Yevgeny: We
339. Zola, Emile: The Earth
340. Zola, Emile: Germinal
341. Zola, Emile: The Kill
342. Zola, Emile: Nana
343. Zola, Emile: Therese Raquin