Updated list from May 2019
I am 3 years into this challenge and seemingly I’ve scarcely begun, not because I’ve not been reading but because I’ve not been posting reviews. I hope to redress that this year. The original list – which remains at the bottom of this page – has been cut down and modified significantly although I still plan to read most of those titles on the original list eventually. Here is my current list.
1 1816 Emma Jane Austen
2 1818 Frankenstein Mary Shelley
3 1837 The Pickwick Papers Charles Dickens
4 1838 Oliver Twist Charles Dickens
5 1838 Nicholas Nickleby Charles Dickens
6 1840 The Old Curiosity Shop Charles Dickens
7 1840 Barnaby Rudge Charles Dickens
8 1844 Martin Chuzzlewit Charles Dickens
9 1848 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Anne Bronte
10 1869 An Old-Fashioned Girl Louisa M Alcott
11 1876 Old Christmas Washington Irving
12 1877 Black Beauty Anna Sewell
13 1889 Three Men in a Boat Jerome K Jerome
14 1903 The Call of the Wild Jack London
15 1908 The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Graham
16 1908+ The Anne of Green Gables Series Lucy M Montgomery
17 1908 Autobiography of a Supertramp W H Davies
18 1918 The Return of the Soldier Rebecca West
19 1920 The Mysterious Affair at Styles Agatha Christie
20 1920 Bliss & Other Stories Katherine Mansfield
21 1922 The Velveteen Rabbit Margery Williams
22 1923 The Prophet Kahlil Gibran
23 1925 Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf
24 1926 The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway
25 1926 Lolly Willowes Sylvia Townsend Warner
26 1928 Journey’s End R C Sherriff
27 1929 The Good Companions J B Priestley
28 1931 The Loving Spirit Daphne du Maurier
29 1931 The Fortnight in September R C Sherriff
30 1932 Greenbanks Dorothy Whipple
31 1932 Jenny Wren E H Young
32 1933 Winter Holiday Arthur Ransome
33 1933 Flush Virginia Woolf
34 1937 Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck
35 1938 Rebecca Daphne du Maurier
36 1939 Christmas Holiday W Somerset Maugham
37 1940 The Provincial Lady in Wartime E M Delafield
38 1940 The Cat’s Cradle Book Sylvia Townsend Warner
39 1940 Happy Christmas Daphne du Maurier
40 1945 Cannery Row John Steinbeck
41 1947 Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank
42 1949 I Capture the Castle Dodie Smith
43 1952 The Birds & other Short Stories Daphne du Maurier
44 1952 East of Eden John Steinbeck
45 1953 The Go-Between L P Hartley
46 1954 Under Milkwood Dylan Thomas
47 1955 The Winds of Heaven Monica Dickens
48 1956 A Christmas Memory Truman Capote
49 1956 The Valley, the City, the Village Glyn Jones
50 1957 Dandelion Wine Ray Bradbury
51 1961 One Moonlit Night Caradoc Prichard
52 1963 The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath
53 1965+ The Dark is Rising Sequence Susan Cooper
54 1966+ A Horseman Riding By Trilogy R F Delderfield
55 1967 The Owl Service Alan Garner
56 1971 Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont Elizabeth Taylor
57 1972 The Summer Book Tove Jansson
46 1973 The Tree of Man Patrick White
58 1977 Myself When Young Daphne du Maurier
59 1980 A Month in the Country J L Carr
50 1986+ The Snow Spider Trilogy Jenny Nimmo
51 1989 Enchanted Cornwall Daphne du Maurier
52 1990+ The Cazalet Chronicles Elizabeth Jane Howard
53 1993 The Shipping News Annie Proulx
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Original Post June 2016
Here is my list for The Classics Club Challenge. It currently stands at 103 titles – an arbitrary number. It will inevitably look very different by the end of the challenge. I intend to read a minimum of 50 titles from this list and a maximum of 110. (There’s space for a few more to be added.)
I began this challenge on 1st April 2016 and it will finish on 31st March 2021.
Titles in blue: currently reading
Titles in green: upcoming reads
Titles in sky blue: read and awaiting reviews
There’s a little more about the selection here.
1 1774 The Sorrows of Young Werther Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
2 1814 Mansfield Park Jane Austen
3 1816 Emma Jane Austen
4 1818 Persuasion Jane Austen
5 1837 The Pickwick Papers Charles Dickens
5 1838 Oliver Twist Charles Dickens
6 1838 Nicholas Nickleby Charles Dickens
7 1840 The Old Curiosity Shop Charles Dickens
8 1848 White Nights Fyodor Dostoevsky
9 1848 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Anne Bronte
10 1849 Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray
11 1849 Shirley Charlotte Bronte
12 1853 Villette Charlotte Bronte
13 1866 Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky
14 1870 An Old-Fashioned Girl Louisa M Alcott
15 1871 Little Men Louisa M Alcott
16 1871 Middlemarch George Eliot
17 1871 Lady Susan Jane Austen
18 1875 Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy
19 1876 Christmas at Thompson Hall & Other Christmas Stories
Anthony Trollope
20 1877 Black Beauty Anna Sewell
21 1888 The Astonishing History of Troy Town Arthur Quiller-Couch
22 1894 The Awakening Kate Chopin
23 1886 Jo’s Boys Louisa M Alcott
24 1886 Old Christmas Washington Irving
25 1899 Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
26 1902 The Story of my Life Helen Keller
27 1903 The Call of the Wild Jack London
28 1905 The House of Mirth Edith Wharton
29 1908 The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Graham
30 1913 Pollyanna Eleanor H Porter
31 1916 On the Art of Writing Arthur Quiller-Couch
32 1918 His Family Ernest Poole
33 1919 Rainbow Valley Lucy M Montgomery
34 1920 The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton
35 1920 The Lost Girl D H Lawrence
36 1920 On the Art of Reading Arthur Quiller-Couch
37 1921 Rilla of Ingleside Lucy M Montgomery
38 1921 The Death of Society Romer Wilson
39 1922 Lady into Fox David Garnett
40 1923 Riceyman Steps Arnold Bennett
41 1923 The Prophet Kahil Gibran
42 1924 A Passage to India E M Forster
43 1926 The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway
44 1927 Tarka the Otter Henry Williamson
45 1928 Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man Siegfried Sassoon
46 1929 The Good Companions J B Priestley
47 1929 A Room of One’s Own Virginia Woolf
48 1931 The Loving Spirit Daphne du Maurier
49 1932 Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons
50 1933 Testament of Youth Vera Brittain
51 1933 Winter Holiday Arthur Ransome
52 1937 Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck
53 1939 Anne of Ingleside Lucy M Montgomery
54 1939 Christmas Holiday W Somerset Maugham
55 1939 The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
56 1930/40s Christmas at High Rising Angela Thirkell
57 1940 The Fires of Autumn Irene Nemirovsky
58 1940 Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons
59 1940 Happy Christmas Daphne du Maurier
60 1943 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith
61 1943 The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupery
62 1945 Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh
63 1945 Ross Poldark Winston Graham
64 1945 Cannery Row John Steinbeck
65 1946 The King’s General Daphne du Maurier
66 1946 Animal Farm George Orwell
67 1946 The Outsider Albert Camus
68 1947 Alone in Berlin Hans Fallada
69 1947 The Pearl John Steinbeck
70 1948 I Capture the Castle Dodie Smith
71 1952 Charlotte’s Web E B White
72 1952 The Birds & other Short Stories Daphne du Maurier
73 1953 A Writer’s Diary Virginia Woolf
74 1953 Kingfishers Catch Fire Rumer Godden
75 1953 The Go-Between L P Hartley
76 1956 My Family and other Animals Gerald Durrell
77 1956 Seize the Day Saul Bellow
78 1956 A Christmas Memory Truman Capote
79 1957 On the Road Jack Kerouac
80 1957 Doctor Zhivago Boris Pasternak
81 1958 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe
82 1958 Breakfast at Tiffany’s Truman Capote
83 1959 A Woman of Letters March Cost
84 1960 Night Elie Weisel
85 1960 The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding Agatha Christie
86 1961 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Muriel Spark
87 1963 The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath
88 1964 A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway
89 1969 As I Walked out one Midsummer Morning Laurie Lee
90 1970 84 Charing Cross Road Helene Hanff
91 1975 The Periodic Table Primo Levi
92 1976 Letters from Father Christmas J R R Tolkien
93 1977 A Time of Gifts Patrick Leigh Fermor
94 1979 Sophie’s Choice William Styron
95 1980 If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller Italo Calvino
96 1980 A Month in the Country J L Carr
97 1981 Goodnight Mr Tom Michelle Magorian
98 1981 Midnight’s Children Salman Rushdie
99 1987 A Time to Dance, No Time to Weep Rumer Godden
100 1989 Enchanted Cornwall Daphne du Maurier
101 1993 The Shipping News Annie Proulx
102 1993 Confusion Elizabeth Jane Howard
103 1995 Casting Off Elizabeth Jane Howard
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A Corner of Cornwall 
Hi Sandra! I noticed you followed me a while ago, but I couldn’t figure out how to find your blog. (Your name isn’t hyperlinked, and your blog isn’t shown on your gravatar profile. I finally found it in my notification bar, but now I can’t remember how, ha ha.)
I’m excited to find another person doing the Classics Club challenge!
You have SO MANY excellent titles on your list. TESTAMENT OF YOUTH!! 84, Charing Cross Road. Charlotte’s Web (my favorite book as a child!) THE HOUSE OF MIRTH! Little Men, Villette, Mansfield Park!
So many good titles waiting for you! Best wishes with this! 🙂
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Hi Jillian, thanks for persevering and finally finding me! Sorry about the difficulties. I think I’ve sorted out a few glitches; I’ll work on the others 🙂
And thank you for your kind words re my rather long list. Yes, there are so many titles there that I’m really looking forward to – and a few that I’m a little scared of! It’ll be great to have your thoughts as I work through them all.
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What a great list! So many fantastic books on there – the Dickens, of course, but also The Go-Between, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Wind in the Willows, etc. So much variety and I like that you’ve included some more recent books in there – always fun to try to work out what contemporary books will be classics of the future…
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Yup, those 3 you’ve highlighted are all books I’m mad keen to read (or re-read in the case of WitW). As for the more recent titles I’ve included – in part it’s because I hope to end up with my own personal list of classics but also because I’m keen to try to distill just what it is that makes a book a classic and thus get a clearer idea of what contemporary titles may be headed down that path.
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