Classics Club


Classics Club Book List


Completion Date: March 4, 2024 (hopefully...)

Alright, I'm going to try this again. Somebody (maybe) might remember me from last year when I almost joined the Classics Club?? I had to remove my blog, but decided to start over again, and I do believe it's turning out much better this time, if I do say so myself... and so I'm going to join for real this time! I'm organizing my list by author, since I intend to read scads of books, by particular authors. (Yes, I am extremely picky with my authors...) And some of these are re-reads, by the way. My community library is (unfortunately) pathetic... and I don't have the means to replenish my personal library very lavishly. Some are new, I promise, just not all.

L. M. Montgomery
  • The Blue Castle
  • Jane of Lantern Hill
  • Kilmeny of the Orchard
  • The Story Girl
  • The Golden Road
  • Mistress Pat
  • A Tangled Web
  • Magic for Marigold

Jane Austen
  • Emma
  • Mansfield Park
  • Persuasion
  • Pride and Prejudice
  • Sanditon

Charles Dickens
  • Great Expectations
  • Bleak House
  • Our Mutual Friend
  • A Tale of Two Cities
  • David Copperfield

Baroness Orczy
  • The Scarlet Pimpernel
  • The Elusive Pimpernel
  • El Dorado
  • I Will Repay
  • A Child of the Revolution
  • The Laughing Cavalier
  • The First Sir Percy
  • Lord Tony's Wife
  • A Bride of the Plains
  • Pimpernel and Rosemary
  • Sir Percy Leads the Band

Louisa May Alcott
  • An Old-Fashioned Girl
  • Little Women
  • Rose in Bloom
  • Work: A Story of Experience
  • Jack and Jill: A Village Story

Arthur Conan Doyle
  • A Study in Scarlet
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles

Cornelia Otis Skinner and Emily Kimbrough
  • Our Hearts Were Young and Gay 
  • How Dear to My Heart
  • Forty Plus and Fancy Free
  • It Gives Me Great Pleasure...
  • The Innocents from Indiana
  • So Near and Yet So Far

Richard Matheson
  • Bid Time Return

MacKinlay Kantor
  • God and My Country
  • The Romance of Rosy Ridge
  • The Good Family
  • Happy Land
  • One Wild Oat
  • Frontier: Tales of the American Adventure
  • Valley Forge






 

3 comments:

  1. You know you’ve met a true Kindred Spirit when nearly all of the books you just mentioned are much-read favourites of mine!
    Not sure if they count as classics, but may I suggest
    Pixie O-Shaugnessy by George DeHorne Vaizey,
    and Miss Billy, by Eleanor Hodgeman Porter.

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    1. I'm willing to trust any recommendation you give! I'll definitely check those books out, thanks!!

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  2. This is a lovely list! Have you ever read anything by Elizabeth Goudge? I really think she'd very much suit your taste.

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