I completed my first Classics Club list in April 2018 – 7 months behind schedule.
Part of the reason for the time lag was my impatience to start CC List #2 before I had finished the first!
CC List #2 is a healthy mix of Australian, Asian, non-fiction, biographies of classic authors as well as the usual European & American contenders.
- (A) 1788 by Watkin Tench
- Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
- Alexander’s Bridge by Willa Cather
- The Annotated Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen & David M Shapard (45)
- The Annotated Persuasion by Jane Austen & David M Shapard (8)
- The Annotated Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen & David M Shapard
- Basil by Wilkie Collins
- The Book and the Brotherhood by Iris Murdoch (25)
- The Book of Tea by Kakuzo Okakura
- Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote (3)
- (A) The Cardboard Crown by Martin Boyd (32)
- A Cat, A Man, and Two Women by Junichiro Tanizaki (23)
- (A) Cockatoos by Miles Franklin
- The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (24)
- Eden’s Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father by John Matteson (13)
- Elizabeth and Her German Garden by Elizabeth von Armin (37)
- Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy (6)
- The Flight From the Enchanter by Iris Murdoch (5)
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (10)
- Hiroshima by John Hersey
- How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn (17)
- Jacob’s Room by Virginia Woolf
- Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier (21)
- A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe (35)
- The Key by Junichiro Tanizaki
- La Conquête de Plassans by Emile Zola (31)
- La Faute de l’Abbé Mouret (The Sin of Father Mouret) by Emile Zola (41)
- Laura: A Journey into the Crystal by George Sand (42)
- Le Ventre de Paris (The Belly of Paris) by Emile Zola (19)
- Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (12)
- Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
- Meditations by Marcus Aurelius | translator Gregory Hays (47)
- Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (28)
- (A) My Love Must Wait by Ernestine Hill (39)
- (A) Myself When Young by Henry Handel Richardson
- Narrow Road to the Interior by Basho (14)
- The Nice and the Good by Iris Murdoch (9)
- Night and Day by Virginia Woolf
- (A) The Pea Pickers by Eve Langley (43)
- The Plague by Albert Camus (33)
- Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft & Mary Shelley by Charlotte Gordon (11)
- (A) The Salzburg Tales by Christina Stead (2)
- The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch (22)
- Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle
- Son Excellence Eugène Rougon (His Excellency) by Emile Zola (50)
- The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather
- (A) The Story of a Baby by Ethel Turner (16)
- A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle (34)
- The Tempest by William Shakespeare (27)
- Testament of Friendship by Vera Brittain
- The Tortoise and the Hare by Elizabeth Jenkins (49)
- Two Stories by Leonard & Virginia Woolf (46)
- Under the Net by Iris Murdoch (4)
- Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas (29)
- The Unicorn by Iris Murdoch (7)
- A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft (20)
- Virginia Woolf by Nigel Nigelson (48)
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (38)
- The Watsons by Jane Austen (1)
- (A) The Wild Oats of Han by Katharine Susannah Prichard (40)
- Women by Mihail Sebastian (44)
- (A) The Wonder Child: An Australian Story by Ethel Turner (26)
50/65 August 2017 – August 2022
Allons-y ! (Let's get going!)
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Have you included some Nobel Winners?
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Not consciously – I forgot…I'll make a point of reading some of the more recent/modern Nobel winners instead 🙂
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Fabulous. It's an excellent combination of old and new(ish), long works and short works, with the heady inclusion of both well known and (somewhat) obscure books.
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My \”Nobel reads\”……low on my priority list.Better luck next year…
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\”Edith Wharton by Virginia Lee\” – LOL. Do you mean Hermione Lee? :)I spy Testament of Friendship! EXCELLENT book.
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Whooops! Thanks for picking that up Jillian – for some reason I always struggle with that one 🙂
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I love the Annotated Jane Austen series, I've read three of them and they're wonderful. I own a lot of these books! The Makioka Sisters is wonderful, also all the Willa Cathers. Also a fan of Wilkie Collins and I haven't read any of those yet, so I look forward to your posts about those! And so much Zola, I'm verklempt.
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I completely understand your impatience at wanting to get on with a new list, I’m itching to get started on the next!
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I can feel the same thing happening with list 2 now that’s it’s drawing to a close. I’ve learnt from list 1 though. Now if I read a classic not on the list, I just swap it out.
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