The Classics Club

Here is my ongoing list for the Classics Club, hosted at The Classics Club Blog.  See my original post here.  I will also be linking my reviews as these fine books are read:

Classic Novellas:
Mary Shelley, Mathilda
Elie Wiesel, Night
Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilyich

Classics in Translation:
Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths
Herman Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund
Emile Zola, Nana

 British Classics:
Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre (reread)
Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone
Charles Dickens, Hard Times
John Fowles,  The French Lieutenant's Woman
George Orwell, Burmese Days
Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
Virginia Woolf, Orlando


Pre-1945 American Classics:
Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio
Theodore Dreiser, An American Tragedy
William Faulkner, Absalom Absalom
F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
Helen Hunt Jackson, Ramona
John Steinbeck, Pastures of Heaven
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin
Booth Tarkington, The Magnificent Ambersons
Jean Toomer, Cane

Modern/Contemporary (Post-1945) American Classics:
Sherman Alexie, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (short stories)
Saul Bellow, Herzog
Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's
Truman Capote, In Cold Blood
Don DeLillo, Libra
Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast  (Review)
Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian (partial reread)
Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
Vladimir Nabokov, Pnin
Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood (Review)
Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
Phillip Roth, The Human Stain
Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano
John Updike, The Rabbit Trilogy
David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

Children's/YA Classics:
Louisa Mae Alcott, Little Women (partial reread)
Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (reread)
Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lois Lowry, The Giver
Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

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