The Classics Club: Round 2

The Classics Club asks you to pledge a list of at least 50 books to read in a maximum of 5 years. You can find out more via their FAQ!

I recently finished my first Classics Club list so this is my second list!

Start date: 25th April 2020
End date: 24th April 2025

A few stats about this list:

• 25 texts by men
• 25 texts by women
• Most texts are available online for free (because I’m a broke bitch)

The list is just sorted by the date each text was first written/published (or as close as I can get it) but there’s a mixture of novels, novellas, short story collections, plays, poetry, fiction, non-fiction, etc.

• On the Soul by Aristotle (c.350 BC)
• Constellation Myths with Aratus’s Phaenomena by Eratosthenes, Hyginus, and Aratus (c.200 BC)
• The Nature of Gods by Cicero (c.45 BC)
• The Diary of Lady Murasaki by Murasaki Shikibu (c.1010)
• La Vita Nuova by Dante Alighieri (1295)
• The Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong (c.1300s)
• Heptaméron by Marguerite de Navarre (1549)
• Pericles, Prince of Tyre by William Shakespeare (c.1607)
• Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes (1651)
• The Rover by Aphra Behn (1677)
• The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches by Matsuo Basho (1702)
• Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe (1722)
• An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume (1748)
• The Female Quixote by Charlotte Lennox (1752)
• Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime by Immanuel Kant (1764)
• The Old English Baron by Clara Reeve (1778)
• Evelina by Fanny Burney (1778)
• Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne (1781)
• A Simple Story by Elizabeth Inchbald (1791)
• Justine, or The Misfortunes of Virtue by Marquis de Sade (1791)
• The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria by Mary Wollstonecraft (1798)
• Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth (1800)
• Corinne, ou l’Italie by Madame de Staël (1807)
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1813)
• Indiana by George Sand (1832)
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (1847)
• The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas (1844)
• London Labour and the London Poor by Henry Mayhew (1851)
• Bleak House by Charles Dickens (1853)
• Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1856)
• The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot (1860)
• East Lynne by Ellen Wood (1861)
• The House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1862)
• Lady Audley’s Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1862)
• Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell (1866)
• The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins (1868)
• The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen (1894)
• Women and Economics: A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1898)
• Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy (1899)
• Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (1899)
• The Call of the Wild by Jack London (1903)
• Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton (1911)
• The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle (1912)
• The Trial by Franz Kafka (1915)
• A Thin Ghost and Others by M. R. James (1919)
• The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield (1922)
• A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf (1929)
• A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh (1934)
• Frenchman’s Creek by Daphne du Maurier (1941)
• The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson (1949)

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This page will be updated whenever I review one of these books!