Friday, April 26, 2013

The Classics Club


Classics Club Event Call – May & June

      I just joined the Classics Club. This means that I have pledged to read 50 new classic books within the next five years. I plan on having them finished before then, but I don't want to rush it with all the other books out there. This makes my end date April 26, 2018.
      I stumbled across this challenge when I was visiting Love at First Book. I then found some other people who had joined and thought that it would be a good challenge, and a way for me to write more book reviews.
      I will try to review most of the books on the list. Below is the list of books arranged in alphabetical order by author.




~~~~~~~~~~~~~~The List~~~~~~~~~~~

  • Alcott, Louisa May ~ Little Women
  • Austen, Jane ~ Emma
  • Austen, Jane ~ Northanger Abbey
  • Austen, Jane ~ Persuasion
  • Austen, Jane ~ Sense and Sensibility
  • Austen, Jane ~ Mansfield Park
  • Bronte, Anne ~ The Tennant of Wildfell Hall
  • Bronte, Charlotte ~ Villette
  • Bronte, Charlotte ~ Jane Eyre
  • Bronte, Charlotte ~ The Professor
  • Cervantes ~ Don Quixote
  • Defoe, Daniel ~ Robinson Crusoe
  • Dickens, Charles ~ Oliver Twist
  • Dickens, Charles ~ Great Expectations
  • Dickens, Charles ~ David Copperfield
  • Dickens, Charles ~ The Pickwick Papers
  • Dickens, Charles ~ Bleak House
  • Dostoevsky, Fyodor ~ Crime and Punishment
  • Dostoevsky, Fyodor ~ The Brothers Karamazov
  • Dumas, Alexander ~ The  Man in the Iron Mask
  • Dumas, Alexander ~ The Count of Monte Cristo (I found an unabridged version! Woohoo!)
  • Eliot, George ~ Middlemarch
  • Eliot, George ~ The Mill on the Floss
  • Fitzgerald, F. Scott ~ The Great Gatsby
  • Frank, Anne ~The Diary of a Young Girl
  • Gaskell, Elizabeth ~ North and South
  • Hawthorne, Nathaniel ~ The Scarlet Letter
  • Leroux, Gaston ~ The Phantom of the Opera
  • Pyle, Howard ~ The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
  • Shakespeare, William ~ Hamlet
  • Shakespeare, William ~ Romeo and Juliet
  • Shelley, Mary ~ The Last Man
  • Shelley, Mary ~ Frankenstein
  • Spyri, Johanna ~ Heidi
  • Stevenson, Robert Louis ~ Treasure Island
  • Stoker, Bram ~ Dracula
  • Stratton-Porter, Gene ~ A Girl of the Limberlost
  • Twain, Mark~ The Prince and the Pauper
  • Twain, Mark ~ A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court 
  • Verne, Jules ~ 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
  • Verne, Jules ~ From the Earth to the Moon
  • Verne, Jules ~ The Mysterious Island

6 comments:

  1. Welcome to the club! We share some similar titles. Great choices!

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  2. Sense and Sensibility!! Little Women!! Jane Eyre!!!

    Are my favorites off your list, so far. :) Welcome!

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  3. We share a number of titles on our lists - welcome!
    PS I love your blog design!!!! Great choice.

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  4. Thanks for the warm welcome! This is the first blog group that I have joined, so this is exciting. Glad you like the design Brona :)

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  5. That list will be great for my summer reading ... love the blog, by the way!!! :)

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  6. Oh wow those are a lot of amazing titles- I can specifically recommend Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, as those are my two favourite Austen novels, and also North and South - another one of my favourites! It's also Kind of similar to Pride and Prejudice, but a bit more serious. :)

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