Currently working on my list of 50+ classics to read between November 1, 2021 to November 1, 2026… stay tuned! This list is subject to changes or additions as I find other things I want to add or take away. These are also all from my personal bookshelves. I will try to read what I own first and give away what I don’t want to reread.
- Watership Down by Richard Adams
- An Old Fashioned Girl and/or reread Little Women– Louisa May Alcott
- Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen – READ
- Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
- Lilies of the Field by William Edmund Barrett – READ
- Lucia and Mapp – E. F. Benson
- Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry
- Scarlet Feather by Maeve Binchy
- Lady Audley’s Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and/or Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte
- Shirley and the Professor and/or Villette by Charlotte Bronte
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
- The Professor’s House by Willa Cather
- Sparkling Cyanide by Agatha Christie – READ (also anything from my Christie stack)
- The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
- The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
- Ireland by Frank Delaney
- Bleak House by Charles Dickens
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- Hard Times by Charles Dickens
- Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
- Howard’s End by E. M. Forster
- Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
- Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
- A Child from the Sea by Elizabeth Goudge
- Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
- The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot
- Old Christmas by Washington Irving
- Christy by Catherine Marshall
- Paradise Lost by John Milton
- Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
- The Story Girl by L. M. Montgomery
- The Blue Castle by L. M. Montgomery – READ
- Animal Farm by George Orwell- READ
- Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
- Coming Home by Rosamunde Pilcher
- Winter Solstice by Rosamunde Pilcher – READ
- Anything from my Miss Read stack
- The Kitchen Congregation by Nora Seton
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- Cane River by Lalita Tademy
- The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
- The Kitchen God’s Wife by Amy Tan
- The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy – READ
- Anything from my P. G. Wodehouse stack – Thank You, Jeeves – READ
- The Ginger Tree by Oswald Wynd
This challenge comes from The Classics Club – A Community of Classics Lovers