The Classics Club Reading Challenge

My aim to read 50 classic books over the next five years! 📚

Hello, hello to the members of my “Confirmed Bookworms” Club!

In this post to you all, I will be sharing my list of the 50 Classic books for my Classics Club List.

I found out about this reading challenge from a book blogger I follow,

Helen

from She Reads Novels and as I love reading classic books I thought I would take part. The event is organised over at The Classics Club and I am so excited to start reading my chosen books! I am planning on trying to read 50 classics over the next five years…. let’s see if I can do it!? 🫣

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My 50 Classics…

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I have enjoyed looking at some of the books I have at the moment on my shelves and also books from my TBR list. Here are the grand 50! 😊

1. Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy - linked to my review 👈

2. Emma by Jane Austen

3. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

4. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

5. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

6. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

7. Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

8. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott - review coming soon 👈

9. Good Wives by Louisa May Alcott

10. Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

11. Heidi by Johanna Spyri

12. The Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde

13. Charlotte's Web by E. B. White

14. Middlemarch by George Eliot - currently reading 👈

15. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

16. North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

17. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

18. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

19. 1984 by George Orwell

20. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

21. Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

22. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

23. Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie - linked to my review 👈

24. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

25. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James

26. Walden by Henry David Thoreau

27. Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf - review coming soon 👈

28. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

29. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

30. Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell

31. Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss

32. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

33. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

34. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

35. Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery

36. The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

37. A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett

38. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

39. Animal Farm by George Orwell

40. Villette by Charlotte Brontë

41. Elizabeth and Her German Garden by Elizabeth von Arnim

42. The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim

43. Howards End by E. M. Forster

44. My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell - currently reading 👈

45. The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit

46. A Room with a View by E. M. Forster

47. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

48. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

49. Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll - review coming soon 👈

50. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis

Some Extras I Couldn’t Leave at the Library…

1. Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy - review coming soon 👈

2. Mr Harrison’s Confessions (Prelude to Cranford) by Elizabeth Gaskell - review coming soon 👈

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My date to finish all of these books is the 1st of January 2030. Wow, that seems so far away!! 🫣

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If you would like to take part in The Classics Club, feel free to check out this post about the challenge and how to join here. ♡

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Happy reading,

Isabella Ann x