Classics Club Reading List

Wow, I am soo excited that I found this club. I came across it as I was searching for classic reading list suggestions. Their site blew me away with the idea of a classics reading challenge/community. I had to sign up!!

For my list, I plan to read 50 book in the next 5 years, so the end date is set to 06/01/2023. Wow that is sooo long but it does average to about 10 books per year! Sweee! I’m so excited.

My original search was trying to get list ideas, so the actual making of the list was sort of hard. I wanted to be sure to have a mix of dates and languages. My main problem was that I was gravitating towards English books from 1700-1920…and I really wanted to diversify. Here’s my list and reading plans for the next few months, hope you enjoy. Also, I added some list stats at the bottom!

10 of 50 books

20%

Last Updated: September 16

CLASSICS I’M READING SOON

THE READING LIST

Read	Author Name	Title	Year	Pages	Translated
06/07/18	Plato	The Republic	380 BC	416	Greek
07/27/18	Plato	Apology	380 BC	127	Greek
06/20/18	Sir Thomas Moore	Utopia	1516	135	Latin
	Charles Darwin	The Origin of Species	1859	703	No
	Hendrik Willem Van Loon	The Story of Mankind	1921	280	No
	Lois Lowry	The Giver	1993	208	No
	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	1813	279	No
	Jane Austen	Emma	1815	474	No
	Jane Austen	Persuasion	1817	249	No
	Jules Verne	Around the World In 80 Days	1872	252	French
	Margaret Mitchell	Gone With The Wind	1936	1037	No
	Antoine de Saint-Exupery	The Little Prince	1943	93	French
	Murasaki Shikibu	The Tale on Genji	1008	1182	Japanese
	Louisa May Alcott	Little Women	1868	449	No
	L. M. Montgomery	Anne of Green Gables	1908	320	No
	Ovid	Metamorphoses	8 AD	723	Greek
	Voltaire	Candide	1759	129	French
01/31/19	Gustave Flaubert	Madame Bovary	1856	329	French
	Gabriel Garcia Marquez	One Hundred Years of Solitude	1967	417	Spanish
06/24/18	Herman Melville	Moby Dick	1851	890	No
	Hermann Hesse	Siddhartha	1922	152	German
	Ayn Rand	Atlas Shrugged	1957	1168	No
	Virgil	Aeneid	19 BC	442	Roman
	Dante Alighieri	The Divine Comedy	1304	798	Italian
	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	Faust	1832	503	German
02/22/19	Fyodor Dostoyvesky	Crime and Punishment	1866	671	Russian
	Leo Tolstoy	Anna Karenina	1878	964	Russian
	Lucretius	On the Nature of Things	55 BC	664	Roman
07/18/18	Jack London	The Call of the Wild	1903	172	No
	Madeleine L’Engle	A Wrinkle in Time	1962	218	No
	Anne Bronte	Tenant of Wildfell Hall	1848	542	No
	Emily Bronte	Wuthering Heights	1847	464	No
	Charlotte Bronte	Jane Eyre	1847	507	No
	Mark Haddon	The Curious Incident Of the Dog In the Nighttime	2003	226	No
	Daphane Du Maurier	Rebecca	1938	449	No
	Frank Herbert	Dune	1965	604	No
	Carlos Ruiz Zafon	The Shadow of the Wind	2001	487	Spanish
	H. G. Wells	The Invisible Man	1897	192	No
07/14/18	H. G. Wells	The War of the Worlds	1898	192	No
07/27/18	H. G. Wells	The Time Machine	1895	118	No
	Jonathan Swift	Gulliver’s Travels	1726	306	No
	Homer	Odyssey	720 BC	541	Greek
	Isaac Asimov	Foundation	1951	244	No
	Arthur Conan Doyle	A Study in Scarlet	1887	123	No
	William Faulkner	The Sound and the Fury	1929	326	No
	Edwin A. Abbott	Flatland	1884	96	No
	Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa	Bhagavad Gita	400 BC	160	Sanskrit
	Confucius	Analects	429 BC	249	Chinese
03/01/19	Sun Tzu	The Art of War	500 BC	273	Chinese
	Alexis de Tocqueville	Democracy In America	1840	992	French

List Stats

# of Authors: 45

     # of Languages: 12

Total Pages: 21,535

   Most Pages: 1182 - The Tale of Genji

    Least Pages: 93 - The Little Prince

Average Pages: 430.7

Oldest Date: 720 BC - The Odyssey

    Newest Date: 2003 - The Curious Incident Of the Dog in the Night-time

Check the archive if you are interested in past Classic Club posts. Also, if you want more info on the club, check out the Official Club Blog.

Are you part of the Classic Club? Id so, how’s your listing coming along?

5 Comments

Jillian

June 2, 2018 at 6:57 am Reply

WELCOME to the club!! 💕

Books In Bloom

June 2, 2018 at 5:21 pm Reply

Thank you! 😀

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Jillian

November 2, 2018 at 9:46 am Reply

Hi Margaret! I can’t figure out how to comment over at the club site, but I know you run the Twitter feed for the club. I just came across this really cool “club” on Twitter, which lets people share their blog posts if they comment on two others. I thought you might find it inspiring as you plan how to stir up excitement for the club on Twitter? It could be fun to have an hour of spontaneous sharing off & on, on Twitter, to encourage clubbers to check out one another’s posts, and meet each other.

Only sharing, if it’s of use: https://twitter.com/TeacupClub_

Cheers I hope you’re well. 🙂

– jillian

Books In Bloom

November 22, 2018 at 12:34 am Reply

WOW! This is an Ingenious Idea!! I am so going to do it!! Woot. Going to work on setting it up this week and next week! 😀 Thanks so much for the idea!!

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