Classics Club

To join in with the Classics Club, the parameters are easy: make a master list of 50 (or more) classic titles you mean to read within the next 5 years. Then, if you like, you can play along with many of their challenges and events, and share your reviews, all optional.

I've been following along at their blog and via twitter for some time now, and officially joined in in early 2017. It's great to read classics alongside all the new books, and this will be a good way to remind myself to keep that variety in my own reading! But I finished my first list -- and now my second as well, so now it's time to make another...

So, here is my Master List for the upcoming 5 years, from books almost entirely already on my shelves. 

Classics Club Master List #3

1. Introduction to Sally / Elizabeth von Arnim

2. Jasmine Farm / Elizabeth von Arnim 

3. Expiation / Elizabeth von Arnim

4. The Pastor's Wife / Elizabeth von Arnim

5. The Waves / Virginia Woolf

6. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall / Anne Bronte

7. Kristin Lavransdotter / Sigrid Undset 

8. Alberta & Jacob / Cora Sandel

9, Alberta & Freedom / Cora Sandel

10. Alberta Alone / Cora Sandel 

11. House of Spirits / Isabel Allende 

12. Ship of Fools / Katherine Anne Porter

13. Hangsaman / Shirley Jackson

14. The Gate to Women's Country / Sheri S. Tepper 

15. Child of All Nations / Irmgard Keun

16. Someone at a Distance / Dorothy Whipple 

17. Miss Mole / E.H. Young

18. Not At Home / Doris Langley Moore 

19. Marion / Winifred Eaton 

20. Cattle / Winifred Eaton 

21. Blencarrow / Isabel Ecclestone Mackay 

22. South Riding / Winifred Holtby

23. The Misses Mallett / E.H. Young

24. The Life and Death of Harriet Frean / May Sinclair

25. Gardens in the Dunes / Leslie Marmon Silko

26. Almanac of the Dead / Leslie Marmon Silko

27. He, She and It / Marge Piercy

28. Woman on the Edge of Time / Marge Piercy 

29. Den of Thieves / Katharine Stall 

30. Fire Will Freeze / Margaret Millar 

31. How Like an Angel / Margaret Millar

32. Vanish in an Instant / Margaret Millar 

33. A Stranger in my Grave / Margaret Millar 

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35. Howl's Moving Castle / Diana Wynne Jones 

36. During the Reign of the Queen of Persia / Joan Chase

37. The Sorceress and the Cygnet / Patricia McKillip

38. The Cygnet and the Firebird / Patricia McKillip

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Classics Club Master List #2

50 Classics I intend to read between Feb1, 2021 and Feb 1, 2026.

1. The Scarlet Pimpernel / Baroness Orczy
2. The Home Maker / Dorothy Canfield Fisher 
3. Latchkey Ladies / Marjorie Grant
4. Ballet Shoes / Noel Streatfeild
5. The Circular Staircase / Mary Roberts Reinhart
6. The Lark / E. Nesbit
7. Roman Fever & Other Stories / Edith Wharton
8. The Four Graces / D.E. Stevenson
9. The Nutmeg Tree / Margery Sharp
10. The Enchanted April / Elizabeth von Arnim
11. Fraulein Schmidt & Mr. Anstruther / Elizabeth von Arnim
12. The Benefactress / Elizabeth von Arnim
13. Harriet Hume / Rebecca West
14. Fair Play / Tove Jansson
15. Vera / Elizabeth von Arnim
16. Father / Elizabeth von Arnim
17. The Word for World is Forest / Ursula LeGuin
18. Breakfast with the Nikolides / Rumer Godden
19. A Note In Music / Rosamond Lehmann
20. Linnets & Valerians / Elizabeth Goudge
21. In a Summer Season / Elizabeth Taylor
22. Totto-Chan / Tetsuko Kuroyanagi
23. The Frenchman & the Lady / Elizabeth Cadell
24. Thank Heaven Fasting / E.M. Delafield
25. Mr. Wrong / Elizabeth Jane Howard
26. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day / Winifred Watson
27. Civil to Strangers / Barbara Pym
28. The Dressmaker / Beryl Bainbridge
29. The Well / Elizabeth Jolley
30. Inseperable / Simone de Beauvoir
31. Dora, Doralina / Rachel de Queiroz
32. The Two Mrs. Abbotts / D.E. Stevenson
33. The Clock Strikes Twelve / Patricia Wentworth
34. Something Light / Margery Sharp
35. The Iron Gates / Margaret Millar
36. Quicksand / Nella Larsen
37. Passing / Nella Larsen
38. Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex / Oksana Zabuzhko
39. Cluny Brown / Margery Sharp
40. Four Gardens / Margery Sharp
41. Britannia Mews / Margery Sharp 
42. Green Water, Green Sky / Mavis Gallant 
43. A View of the Harbour / Elizabeth Taylor
44. Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont / Elizabeth Taylor
45. The Getting of Wisdom / Henry Handel Richardson
46. The Story Girl / L.M. Montgomery
47. Miss Pym Disposes / Josephine Tey
48. Wigs on the Green / Nancy Mitford
49. Why Shoot a Butler? / Georgette Heyer
50. The Railway Children / E. Nesbit

Classics Club Master List #1

50 Classics I intend to read between March 15, 2017 and March 15, 2022. 


1. My Brilliant Career / Miles Franklin
2. My Career Goes Bung / Miles Franklin
3. But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes / Anita Loos
4. Sofia Petrovna / Lydia Chukovskaya
5. Children of my Heart / Gabrielle Roy
6. The Road Past Altamont / Gabrielle Roy
7. Garden in the Wind / Gabrielle Roy
8. Les Belles Images / Simone de Beauvoir
9. Mrs Caliban / Rachel Ingalls
10. The Voyage Out / Virginia Woolf
11. Cold Comfort Farm / Stella Gibbons
12. House of Mirth / Edith Wharton
13. Age Of Innocence / Edith Wharton
14. I, Mary Maclane / Mary Maclane
15. Up the Hill & Over / Isabel Ecclestone Mackay
16. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn / Betty Smith
17. The House of Windows / Isabel Ecclestone Mackay
18. The Custom of the Country / Edith Wharton
19. The Heart is A Lonely Hunter / Carson McCullers
20. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes / Anita Loos
21. The Rector's Daughter / FM Mayor
22. The Ten Thousand Things / Maria Dermout
23. The Garden Party / Katherine Mansfield
24. Mrs. Dalloway / Virginia Woolf 
25. The Diviners / Margaret Laurence
26. The Tin Flute / Gabrielle Roy
27. The Return of the Soldier / Rebecca West
28. The Visits of Elizabeth / Elinor Glyn
29. The Summer Book / Tove Jansson
30. Jenny / Sigrid Undset  
31. Jane & Prudence / Barbara Pym
32. An Avenue of Stone / Pamela Hansford Johnson
33. Offshore / Penelope Fitzgerald
34. House on Mango Street / Sandra Cisneros
35. A Favourite of the Gods / Sybille Bedford 
36. Olivia / by Olivia 
37. A Game of Hide and Seek / Elizabeth Taylor
38. Territory of Light / Yuko Tsushima
39. The Victorian Chaise Longue / Marghanita Laski
40. The Innocents / Margery Sharp
41. The Years / Virginia Woolf
42. What's It Like Out? / Penelope Gilliatt
43. The Master Key / Masako Togawa
44. Night & Day / Virginia Woolf
45. To The Lighthouse / Virginia Woolf 
46. Bear / Marian Engel
47. The Winds of Heaven / Monica Dickens
48. The Women of Brewster Place / Gloria Naylor
49. Ceremony / Leslie Marmon Silko
50. Glimspes of the Moon / Edith Wharton