Hello!
So for quite a while now I thought about joining The Classics Club and this year I have decided to join up. I have chosen 50 books all published before 1900 and plan to complete the list in five years, so my deadline is 11th January 2027. I used to read a lot of classics so it will be good to get reading them again and tick off quite a few books on my TBR pile.
The list has mostly new reads for me but there are a few favourites on the list and ones that I can’t quite remember all the storyline of and would like to read again.
All books that I read and review will be linked back to this list.
In no particular order, here is the list…
- Mansfield Park by Jane Austen – Goodreads Monday
- The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas – Goodreads Monday
Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens– Goodreads Monday- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky – Goodreads Monday
- The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot – Goodreads Monday
- Silas Marner by George Eliot – Goodreads Monday
- North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell – Goodreads Monday
- Tom Jones by Henry Fielding – Goodreads Monday
- Clarissa by Samuel Richardson – Goodreads Monday
- Villette by Charlotte Brontë – Goodreads Monday
- The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas – Goodreads Monday
- Shirley by Charlotte Brontë – Goodreads Monday
- The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy – Goodreads Monday
- The Red Sphinx by Alexandre Dumas – Goodreads Monday
- The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas
- Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas
- Louise de La Valliere by Alexandre Dumas
Lady Susan and other works by Jane Austen– Goodreads Monday- Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray – Goodreads Monday
- Evelina by Frances Burney – Goodreads Monday
- The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins – Goodreads Monday
- Rob Roy by Sir Walter Scott – Goodreads Monday
- Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
- Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe – Goodreads Monday
- Love in Excess by Eliza Haywood – Goodreads Monday
- Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift – Goodreads Monday
- Candide by Voltaire – Goodreads Monday
- Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Scenes of Clerical Life by George Eliot– Goodreads MondayThe Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne– Goodreads Monday- Lorna Doone by R. D. Blackmore – Goodreads Monday
- The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope – Goodreads Monday
The New Magdalen by Wilkie Collins– Goodreads Monday- The Runaway by Elizabeth Anna Hart – Goodreads Monday
- Tom Brown’s School Days by Thomas Hughes
- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
- Middlemarch by George Eliot – Goodreads Monday
- Meditations by Marcus Aurelius – Goodreads Monday
- Moby Dick by Herman Melville – Goodreads Monday
Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
- Bleak House by Charles Dickens – Goodreads Monday
- Cecilia by Frances Burney – Goodreads Monday
- Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan – Goodreads Monday
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe– Goodreads Monday- Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome – Goodreads Monday
- The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith – Goodreads Monday
- Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne – Goodreads Monday
- Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte
- Persuasion by Jane Austen
Wish me luck!
Happy Reading

Good luck! That’s an admirable list. There’s some I love, some I’d love to read and some I’ll have to look into!
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Thank you. I’m looking forward to starting.
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