The Classics Club


"When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before."
 ― Cliff Fadiman

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Carissa's Classics Reading List

  1. Alcott, Louisa May: Little Women (1868)
  2. Austen, Jane: Mansfield Park (1814)
  3. Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice (1813)* 👍
  4. Austen: Jane: Sense and Sensibility (1811)*
  5. Bradbury, Ray: Fahrenheit 451 (1953)*
  6. Brontë, Anne: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)*
  7. Brontë, Charlotte: Jane Eyre (1847)
  8. Brontë, Emily: Wuthering Heights (1847)* 👍
  9. Burnett, Frances Hodgson: A Little Princess (1905)*
  10. Burnett, Frances Hodgson: The Secret Garden (1911)*
  11. Carroll, Lewis: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865)* 👍
  12. Carroll, Lewis: Through the Looking Glass (1871)
  13. Christie, Agatha: They Do It with Mirrors (1952)👍
  14. Christie: Agatha: The Pale Horse (1961) 👍
  15. Christie: Agatha: And Then There Were None (1939) 👍
  16. Conrad, Joseph: Heart of Darkness (1899)
  17. Dickens, Charles: Bleak House (1853) 
  18. Dickens, Charles: Little Dorrit (1857)
  19. Du Maurier, Daphne: Rebecca (1938)
  20. Du Maurier, Daphne: My Cousin Rachel (1951)
  21. Dumas, Alexandre: The Count of Monte Cristo (1844)
  22. Eliot, George: Middlemarch (1871)
  23. Forester: C. S.: The African Queen (1935)
  24. Graham, Winston: Ross Poldark (1945) 
  25. Jackson, Shirley: The Haunting of Hill House (1959)
  26. James, Henry: The Turn of the Screw (1898)*
  27. Lewis: C. S.: Till We Have Faces (1956)*
  28. MacDonald, George: Phantastes: A Faerie Romance (1858) 👍
  29. MacDonald, George: The Princess and the Goblin (1872)*
  30. MacDonald, George: The Princess and Curdie (1883)*
  31. Milne, A. A.: The Red House Mystery (1922)
  32. Montgomery, L.M.: Anne of Green Gables (1908)
  33. Orczy, Baroness: The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905)*
  34. Orwell, George: 1984 (1949)
  35. Pyle, Howard: The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (1883)* 👎
  36. Salinger, J.D.: The Catcher in the Rye (1951)
  37. Scott, Sir Walter: Ivanhoe (1892)
  38. Stevenson, Robert Louis: Treasure Island (1882)*
  39. Stevenson, Robert Louis: The Black Arrow (1888) 
  40. Stoker, Bram: Dracula (1897)*
  41. Thompson, Flora: Lark Rise (1939)
  42. Thompson, Flora: Over to Candleford (1941)
  43. Thompson, Flora: Candleford Green (1943)
  44. Trollope, Anthony: Doctor Thorne (1858)
  45. Twain, Mark: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) 👍
  46. Twain, Mark: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)
  47. Wells, H. G.:The Time Machine (1895)
  48. West, Nathanael: Miss Lonelyhearts (1933)
  49. Wilde, Oscar: The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)* 
  50. Woolf, Virginia: A Room of One’s Own (1929) 

* Indicates a re-read

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