Showing posts with label Modern Classics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Modern Classics. Show all posts

Friday, 1 February 2019

The Classics Club: A New List




I joined The Classics Club five years ago with the intention of reading 50 books in five years. I managed to read and review 71 books in that time so now I'm starting again.
So here we go with some of the books I'd like to read in the next five years. I'm adding some 'modern classics' in - books that were written in the last 25 years and including some that I've already read years ago and want to re-visit.

Novels

Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Sayers (1927)
Strong Poison (1930) re-read
Have His Carcase (1932)
Gaudy Night (1935) re-read
The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (1928)
The Nine Tailors (1934)
Busman's Honeymoon (1937)

Sparkling Cyanide by Agatha Christie (1945)
The Murder at the Vicarage (1930)

Miss Pym Disposes by Josephine Tey (1946)

A Mind to Murder by P.D. James (1963)
Shroud for a Nightingale (1971)

In This House of Brede by Rumer Godden (1969)

The Dean's Watch by Elizabeth Goudge (1960)
The Scent of Water  (1963)
Pilgrim's Inn (1948)
Gentian Hill (1949)
The White Witch (1958)

The Home-Maker by Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1924)

Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis (1956)
Out of the Silent Planet (1938)
Perelandra (1943)
That Hideous Strength
(1945)

Chocky by John Wyndham (1968)

The Lord of the Rings by J.R. Tolkien (1937-1949)

War & Peace
by Leo Tolstoy (1869)
The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1866)

Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak (1957-8)

The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy (1878) 

Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell (1848)
Ruth (1853)
North & South  (1855) 
The Life of Charlotte Bronte (1857)
Wives & Daughters (1864)

Bleak House by Charles Dickens (1852) re-read
Hard Times (1854) re-read
Martin Chuzzlewit (1843-4)

The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton (1922)

Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)

The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells (1896)

The Fortunes of Richard Mahony by Henry Handel Richardson (1917-1929)

The Mystery of a Hansom Cab by Fergus Hume (1886)

Sense & Sensibility by Jane Austen (1811) re-read

John Macnab by John Buchan (1924)

Germinal by Emile Zola (1885)

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton (1967)

The Makioka Sisters by Junichiro Tanizaki (1943)


The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1938)

Under the Yoke by Ivan Vazov (1888)

Michael Strogoff: The Courier of the Czar by Jules Verne (1876)

The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope (1875)

Middlemarch by George Eliot (1871-1872)
Daniel Deronda (1876)
The Mill on the Floss (1860)

Villette by Charlotte Bronte (1853)

Requiem for a Wren by Nevil Shute (1955)
What Happened to the Corbetts (1939)
No Highway (1948)

The Home-Maker by Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1924)

Saplings by Noel Streatfeild (1945)

The Making of a Marchioness by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1901)

William - An Englishman by Cicely Hamilton (1919)

All the Green Year by Don Charlwood (1965)


 Non-Fiction

In the Steps of the Master by H.V. Morton (1934)

Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis (1952)
The Four Loves (1960)

The God Who is There by Francis Schaeffer (1968)

Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton (1908)

Come, tell me How You Live by Agatha Mallowan Christie (1946)


Modern Classics

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré (1974)

A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth (1993)


Educational Classics


Towards a Philosophy of  Education by Charlotte Mason (1925) re-read
Ourselves (in progress)

For the Children's Sake by Susan Schaeffer Macaulay (1984)