Classics Club TBR

I have a problem.

I keep accumulating classic books!
I can’t help it.
I’m attracted by lovely covers, serendipitous finds in second hand book stores and impulse purchases.

This is a place for me to keep track of these new additions to my TBR pile.

• Absalom, Absalom by William Faulkner
• Adam Bede | George Eliot
• The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen by Elizabeth von Arnim (eReader)
• Aeneid by Virgil
• Agnes Grey by Bronte
• Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington 
• All Passion Spent | Vita Sackville West
• And Quiet Flows the Don by Mikhail Sholokhov
• The Annals by Tacitus
• The Annotated Mrs Dalloway | Virginia Woolf
• The April Baby’s Book of Tunes by Elizabeth von Arnim (eReader)
• Armadale by Wilkie Collins
• Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis 
• (A) At Midnight & Other Stories by Ada Cambridge

• Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
• Beloved by Toni Morrison
• Beowulf
• La Bete Humaine by Emile Zola
• The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni
• Between the Acts | Virginia Woolf
• Billy Budd, Bartleby & other stories | Melville
• The Black Robe | Wilkie Collins
• The Bright Side of Life by Emile Zola
• Buddenbrooks | Thomas Mann

• Camilla by Frances Burney
• The Children by Edith Wharton
• (A) Christina Stead | Hazel Rowley (bio)
• The Collected Novellas | Stefan Zweig
• Colonel Chabert by Honore de Balzac
• The Common Reader: Volume 1 | Virginia Woolf
• The Common Reader: Volume 2 | Virginia Woolf
• The Complete Short Stories of Saki by H.H. Munro
• (A) Coonaroo by Katharine Susannah Prichard
• The Constant Nymph by Margaret Kennedy
• Consuelo by George Sand
• Corinne, or Italy by Staël
• The Countess von Rudolstadt by George Sand
• Cousin Bette by Honore de Balzac
• Crampton Hodnet by Barbara Pym
• Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell

• A Dance to the Music of Time: Spring by Anthony Powell
• A Dance to the Music of Time: Summer by Anthony Powell
• A Dance to the Music of Time: Autumn by Anthony Powell
• A Dance to the Music of Time: Winter by Anthony Powell
• The Debacle by Emile Zola
• Delta of Venus | Anais Nin
• The Devil’s Pool by George Sand
• Dialogues and Essays by Seneca
• The Diary of a Mad Old Man by Junichiro Tanisaki
• Diary of a Nobody by George & Weedon Grossmith
• A Difficult Young Man | Martin Boyd
• Doctor Faustus | Thomas Mann
• Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope
• Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens
• Don’t Look Now and other short stories by Daphne Du Maurier
• Don’t Tell Alfred by Nancy Mitford
• (A) Down in the World by Mary Gaunt (eReader)
• Dracula by Bram Stoker
• The Dream by Emile Zola
• The Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin
• Dust Tracks on a Road | Zora Neale Hurston

• The Earth by Emile Zola
• The Easter Parade by Richard Yates
• Edith Wharton by Hermione Lee
• Eleven Kinds of Loneliness by Richard Yates
• Elizabeth Gaskell by Jenny Uglow

• The Feast | Margaret Kennedy
• The Female Quixote by Charlotte Lennox
• Fifty Two Stories | Anton Chekhov
• Flush | Virginia Woolf
• The Forgotten Smile by Margaret Kennedy
• The Forsyte Sage Vol 2 by John Galsworthy
• Framley Parsonage by Anthony Trollope
• Frederick the Great by Nancy Mitford
• (A) Fugitive Anne, A Romance of the Unexplored Bush by Rosa Praed

• A Game of Hide and Seek by Elizabeth Taylor
• Genius and Ink | Virginia Woolf
• A Glass of Blessings by Barbara Pym
• The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
• The Good Earth by Pearl S Buck
• A Good School by Richard Yates
• The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford

• Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
• Hellenistic Lives by Plutarch
• Hide and Seek by Wilkie Collins
• The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo

• I Am a Cat by Soseki Natsume
• In the Castle of My Skin | George Lamming
• In Europe: Travels Through the Twentieth Century by Geert Mak
• Independent People by Halldor Laxness

• Jane Austen’s Letters
• The Jew’s Beech by Annette Von Droste-Hulshoff

• Katherine Mansfield Short Stories | Katherine Mansfield
• Kokoro by Natsume Soseki
• Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset
• Kusamakura by Natsume Soseki

• (A) Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land by Rosa Praed
• The Last Chronicles of Barset by Anthony Trollope
• The Last Days of Socrates by Plato
• The Last September by Elizabeth Bowen
• The Law and the Lady by Wilkie Collins
• Letters on Life by Rainer Maria Rilke
• (A) Letty Fox: Her Luck | Christina Stead
• Lives of the Caesars by Suetonius
• Lost Illusions by Balzac
• A Lost Lady by Willa Cather
• Louise de la Valliere by Alexandre Dumas
• Love in the Time of Cholera | Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• Lucy Gayheart by Willa Cather
• Lucy Maud Montgomery by Mary Henley Rubio
• Lust, Caution by Eileen Chang

• The Mabinogion translated by Sioned Davies
• Madame de Pompadour by Nancy Mitford
• Magic Island: The Fictions of L M Montgomery by Elizabeth Waterson
• The Makioka Sisters by Junichiro Tanizaki
• The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas
• Man and Wife by Wilkie Collins
• Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
• The Marquis de Villimer | George Sand
• Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens
• Marianne by George Sand
• Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
• The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
• The Masterpiece by Emile Zola
• Maud Martha | Gwendelyn Brooks
• A Memoir of Jane Austen by J E Austen-Leigh
• Memories From Moscow to the Black Sea | Teffi
• Money by Emile Zola
• The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck
• (A) Mr Hogarth’s Will by Catherine Helen Spence
• Mr Skeffington by Elizabeth von Arnim (eReader)
• Mrs Dalloway | Virginia Woolf
• The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens

• Ninety Three by Victor Hugo
• No Fond Return of Love by Barbara Pym
• The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria Rilke
• Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

• O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
• Old New York by Edith Wharton
• (A) On the Wallaby by Elinor Mordaunt (eReader)
• One of Ours by Willa Cather
• Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
• Orlando | Virginia Woolf
• Outbreak of Love | Martin Boyd
• The Outsider | Albert Camus

• A Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz
• Pamela by Samuel Richardson
• Parade’s End by Ford Madox Ford
• The Pastor’s Wife by Elizabeth von Arnim (eReader)
• Peking Picnic by Ann Bridge
• (A) The Penance of Portia James by Tasma (iPad Reading List)
• The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories selected by Micahel Newton
• The Pillow Book by Sei Shonagon
• (A) The Pioneers by Katherine Susannah Prichard         
• Plan for Chaos by John Wyndham
• (A) Policy and Passion by Rosa Praed (eReader)
• Poor Miss Finch by Wilkie Collins 
• (A) ‘Possum by Mary Grant Bruce (eReader)
• The Princess de Cleves by Madame de Lafayette
• The Professor’s House by Willa Cather
• The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford

• Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym

• The Red and the Black by Stendhal
• Red Sky at Sunrise (trilogy) by Laurie Lee
• Le Reine Margot by Alexandre Dumas
• The Republic and Other Works by Plato
• (A) The Retrospect by Ada Cambridge
• Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
• The Rise of Rome by Plutarch
• Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
• (A) The Romance of a Station by Rosa Praed (eReader)
• Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell

• Sapphira and the Slave Girl by Willa Cather
• The Secret People by John Wyndham
• Seldom Seen by Sarah Ridgard
• Selected Diaries | Virginia Woolf
• Shadows on the Rock by Willa Cather
• Silas Marner | George Eliot
• Silence by Shusaku Endo
• A Small House at Arlington by Anthony Trollope
• The Solitary Summer by Elizabeth von Arnim (eReader)
• Some Tame Gazelle by Barbara Pym
• The Song of the Lark | Willa Cather
• Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
• The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima
• A Special Providence by Richard Yates
• Stoner by John Williams
• The Stones of Venice by John Ruskin  
• The Sun King by Nancy Mitford
• Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
• (A) A Sydney Sovereign & Other Tales by Tasma (eReader))

• The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
• Tales From the Arabian Nights
• Thérèse Raquin by Émile Zola
• They Went to Portugal: A Travellers’ Portrait | Mary Macaulay
• (A) Thirty Years in Australia by Ada Cambridge (eReader)
• (A) The Three Miss Kings by Ada Cambridge
• The Time Machine by H G Wells
• (A) The Timeless Land by Elenor Dark
• The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
• This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• To the Lighthouse | Virginia Woolf
• Twilight Sleep by Edith Wharton

• Ulysses: Annotated Student Edition by James Joyce (yeah, I know, I’ll never read this one, but it’s been sitting on my bookshelf for years and I live in hope!)
• (A) Uncle Piper of Piper’s Hill by Tasma (eReader)

• Valentine by George Sand
• The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle
• Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackery
• The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas
• Views of Nature by Alexander Von Humboldt
• Villette by Charlotte Bronte
• Voltaire in Love by Nancy Mitford

• War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
• The Warden by Anthony Trollope
• Washington Square by Henry James
• Waves | Virginia Woolf
• The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
• A Woman | Sibilla Alermo
• (A) A Woman in China by Mary Gaunt (eReader)
• The Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe
• (A) A Woman’s Experiences in the Great War by Louise Mack (eReader)

• The Years | Virginia Woolf

Yes!
I have a problem.