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