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
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
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
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
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
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: For Whom the Bell Tolls
149. Hemingway, Ernest: The Garden of Eden
150. Hemingway, Ernest: Islands in the Stream
151. Hemingway, Ernest: To Have and to Have Not
152. Hemingway, Ernest: True at First Light
153. Homer: The Odyssey
154. Huxley, Aldous: Island
155. Ibsen, Henrick: Ghosts
156. Imlay, Gilbert: The Emigrants
157. Irving, Washington: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
158. James, Henry: The Ambassadors
159. James, Henry: The American
160. James, Henry: The Aspern Papers
161. James, Henry: The Beast in the Jungle
162. James, Henry: The Bostonians
163. James, Henry: The Europeans
164. James, Henry: The Golden Bowl
165. James, Henry: The Ivory Tower
166. James, Henry: The Jolly Corner
167. James, Henry: The Portrait of a Lady
168. James, Henry: Roderick Hudson
169. James, Henry: Washington Square
170. James, Henry: What Maisie Knew
171. James, Henry: The Wings of the Dove 
172. Jenkins, Robin: The Cone Gatherers FINISHED 7/30/12
173. Johnson, Samuel: The Idler
174. Johnson, Samuel: Rasselas
175. Johnson, Samuel: The Rambler
176. Jonson, Ben: The Alchemist
177. Jonson, Ben: Bartholomew Fair
178. Keats, John: Poems
179. Keller, Helen: The Story of My Life
180. Kempe, Margery: The Book of Margery Kempe
181. Laski, Marghanita: Little Boy Lost
182. Lawrence, D.H.: Collected Short Stories
183. Lawrence, D.H.: Women in Love
184. Lee, Harper: To Kill a Mockingbird
185. Leroux, Gaston: The Phantom of Opera
186. Lewis, Sinclair: Arrowsmith
187. Lewis, Sinclair: Elmer Gantry
188. London, Jack: Collected Stories
189. London, Jack: The Sea Wolf
190. Mackail, Denis: Greenery Street
191. Mailer, Norman: An American Dream
192. Mailer, Norman: The Deer Park
193. Malory, Sir Thomas: Le Morte d'Arthur
194. Mansfield, Katherine: Selected Stories
195. Markandaya, Kamala: Nectar in a Sieve
196. Maugham, W. Somerset: Of Human Bondage
197. Maugham, W. Somerset: The Razor's Edge 
198. Maupassant, Guy de: Bel-Ami
199. Maupassant, Guy de: Selected Stories
200. McCullers, Carson: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
201. Melville, Herman: Bartleby the Scrivener
202. Melville, Herman: The Piazza Tales
203. Melville, Herman: Typee
204. Millay, Edna St. Vincent: Collected Poems
205. Miller, Arthur: A View from the Bridge
206. Miller, Arthur: All My Sons
207. Miller, Arthur: Elegy for a Lady
208. Mitchell, Margaret: Gone with the Wind
209. Montaigne, Michel de: Selected Essays
210. Montgomery, L.M.: Anne of Green Gables (I will probably read the series and add them)
211. Morrison, Toni: A Mercy
212. Morrison, Toni: Home
213. Morrison, Toni: Jazz
214. Morrison, Toni: Love
215. Morrison, Toni: Paradise
216. Morrison, Toni: Tar Baby
217. Muir, John: Writings on nature
218. Nabokov, Vladimir: Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
219. Nabokov, Vladimir: Pale Fire
220. O Henry: Collected Stories
221. O'Connor, Flannery: A Good Man is Hard to Find
222. O'Connor, Flannery: The Complete Stories
223. O'Connor, Flannery: Everything that Rises must Converge
224. Orwell, George: Burmese Days
225. Orwell, George: Homage to Catalonia
226. Pepys, Samuel: Diary of Samuel Pepys
227. Plath, Sylvia: Ariel
228. Plath, Sylvia: The Colossus and Other Poems
229. Plath, Sylvia: The Journals of Sylvia Plath
230. Plutarch: Moralia
231. Plutarch: Parallel Lives
232. Poe, Edgar Allan: Collected Stories and Poems
233. Proust, Marcel: Swann's Way
234. Pushkin, Alexander: Tales of Belkin
235. Pyle, Howard: The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
236. Pyle, Howard: The Story of King Arthur and His Knights 
237. Rand, Ayn: Anthem
238. Rand, Ayn: The Early Ayn Rand
239. Rand, Ayn: Three Plays
240. Rand, Ayn: We the Living
241. Richardson, Samuel: The History of Sir Charles Grandison
242. Rossetti, Christina: Maude: A Story for Girls
243. Rushdie, Salman: Midnight's Children
244. Rushdie, Salman: The Satanic Verses
245. Salinger, J.D.: The Catcher in the Rye
246. Salinger, J.D: Franny and Zooey
247. Salinger, J.D.: Nine Stories
248. Salinder, J.D.: Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction
249. Sappho: Poems
250. Schreiner, Olive: The Story of an African Farm
251. Scott, Sir Walter: The Bride of Lammermoor
252. Scott, Sir Walter: Waverly
253. Sewell, Anna: Black Beauty FINISHED 8/27/12
     
254. Shakespeare, William: All's Well That Ends Well
255. Shakespeare, William: The Comedy of Errors
256. Shakespeare, William: Coriolanus
257. Shakespeare, William: Cymbeline
258. Shakespeare, William: Henry V
259. Shakespeare, William: Henry VI Part I
260. Shakespeare, William: Henry VI Part II
261. Shakespeare, William: Henry VI Part III
262. Shakespeare, William: Henry VIII
263. Shakespeare, William: King John
264. Shakespeare, William: Love's Labor's Lost
265. Shakespeare, William: Measure for Measure
266. Shakespeare, William: The Merry Wives of Windsor
267. Shakespeare, William: Pericles
268. Shakespeare, William: Richard II
269. Shakespeare, William: The Taming of the Shrew
270. Shakespeare, William: Timon of Athens
271. Shakespeare, William: Titus Andronicus
272. Shakespeare, William: Trolius and Cressida
273. Shakespeare, William: Two Gentlemen of Verona
274. Shelley, Mary: Frankenstein
275. Shelley, Percy: Collected Poems
276. Strachey, Julia: Cheerful Weather for the Wedding
277. Steinbeck, John: America and Americans
278. Steinbeck, John: Cannery Row
279. Steinbeck, John: East of Eden
280. Steinbeck, John: The Pastures of Heaven
281. Steinbeck, John: The Pearl FINISHED 5/15/12
282. Steinbeck, John: The Red Pony 
283. Steinbeck, John: Sweet Thursday
284. Steinbeck, John: Tortilla Flat
285. Stendhal: The Red and the Black
286. Stevenson, Robert Louis: The Black Arrow
287. Stevenson, Robert Louis: Kidnapped
288. Streatfield, Noel: Saplings
289. Trollope, Anthony: The Warden FINISHED 6/16/12
290. Trollope, Anthony: The Way We Live Now
291. Turgenev, Ivan: First Love
292. Twain, Mark: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
293. Twain, Mark: A Tramp Abroad
294. Twain, Mark: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
295. Twain, Mark: The Complete Humorous Sketches 
296. Twain, Mark: The Complete Short Stories
297. Twain, Mark: The Prince and the Pauper
298. Twain, Mark: Pudd'nhead Wilson
299. Tyler, Royall: The Algerine Captive
300. Verne, Jules: A Floating City
301. Verne, Jules: Around the Moon
302. Verne, Jules: Around the World in Eighty Days
303. Verne, Jules: From the Earth to the Moon
304. Verne, Jules: The Mysterious Island
305. Watson, Winifred: Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
306. Waugh, Evelyn: Brideshead Revisited
307. Wharton, Edith: A Backward Glance-Autobiography
308. Wharton, Edith: The Buccaneers
309. Wharton, Edith: Ghost Stories 
310. Wharton, Edith: Madame de Treymes
311. Wharton, Edith: Old New York 
312. Wharton, Edith: The Reef
313. Wharton, Edith: Roman Fever
314. Wharton, Edith: Sanctuary
315. Wharton, Edith: Summer
316. Wharton, Edith: The Touchstone
317. Whipple, Dorothy: Greenbanks
318. Whipple, Dorothy: Someone at a Distance
319. Whipple, Dorothy: They Knew Mr. Knight
320. Whitman, Walt: Leaves of Grass
321. Whittier, John Greenleaf: Snow-Bound
322. Wilde, Oscar: The Importance of Being Earnest
323. Wollstonecraft, Mary: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
324. Woolf, Virginia: A Haunted House: The Complete Shorter Fiction
325. Woolf, Virginia: Between the Acts
326. Woolf, Virginia: The Common Reader 1st Series
327. Woolf, Virginia: The Common Reader 2nd Series
328. Woolf, Virginia: Flush
329. Woolf, Virginia: Jacob's Room
330. Woolf, Virginia: Melymbrosia
331. Woolf, Virginia: Orlando
332. Woolf, Virginia: Three Guineas
333. Woolf, Virginia: The Waves
334. Woolf, Virginia: The Year
335. Yeats, William Butler: Collected Poems
336. Yeats, William Butler: Irish Faerie Tales
337. Zamyatin, Yevgeny: We
338. Zola, Emile: The Earth
339. Zola, Emile: Germinal
340. Zola, Emile: The Kill
341. Zola, Emile: Nana
342. Zola, Emile: Therese Raquin