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…

1. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
2. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
3. Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens
4. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
5. The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
6. Silas Marner by George Eliot
7. North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
8. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
9. Clarissa by Samuel Richardson
10. Villette by Charlotte Brontë
11. The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas
12. Shirley by Charlotte Brontë
13. The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy
14. The Red Sphinx by Alexandre Dumas
15. The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas
16. Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas
17. Louise de La Valliere by Alexandre Dumas
18. Lady Susan and other works by Jane Austen
19. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
20. Evelina by Frances Burney
21. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
22. Rob Roy by Sir Walter Scott
23. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
24. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
25. Love in Excess by Eliza Haywood
26. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
27. Candide by Voltaire
28. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
29. Scenes of Clerical Life by George Eliot
30. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne 
31. Lorna Doone by R. D. Blackmore
32. The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
33. The New Magdalen by Wilkie Collins
34. The Runaway by Elizabeth Anna hart
35. Tom Brown’s School Days by Thomas Hughes
36. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne 
37. Middlemarch by George Eliot
38. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
39. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
40. Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy 
41. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
42. Bleak House by Charles Dickens
43. Cecilia by Frances Burney
44. Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
45. Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
46. Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
47. The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
48. Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
49. Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte
50. Persuasion by Jane Austen

Wish me luck!

Happy Reading