Classics Club List #2

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
• 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)
• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas                    (24)

• A Dance to the Music of Time: Spring by Anthony Powell
• Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes                              (18)
• The Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin
• (A) The Dyehouse by Mena Calthorpe                    (27)

• 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)

• Gentlemen at Gyang Gyang by Brent of Bin Bin aka Miles Franklin                    (36)

• Hiroshima by John Hersey
• How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn                  (17)

• (A) In the Mist of the Mountain by Ethel Turner                  (15)

• 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

• (A) A Mere Chance by Ada Cambridge
• Moby-Dick by Herman Melville                      (28)
• (A) My Love Must Wait by Ernestine Hill                     (39)

• Narrow Road to the Interior by Basho                 (14)
• The Nice and the Good by Iris Murdoch                 (9)
• Night and Day by Virginia Woolf

• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez          (30)

• (A) The Pea Pickers by Eve Langley (43)
• The Plague by Albert Camus        (33)

• Red Sky at Sunrise trilogy by Laurie Lee
• 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
• 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

• 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)

• 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)    

44/65 August 2017 – August 2022