Revised my list again. My prerogative. As I approach 60, I've decided I do what I want in all things. It's a refreshing reality (original challenge post). The Classics Club blog.
Yet another revision. Starting over. Still carried over some of the books that I did not get to. Honestly, the list needed a refresh.
My new start date: May 16, 2026
Finish date goal: May 16, 2031
- Read dates are linked to my star rating or review on Goodreads.
- There's a list of completed titles since originally starting in 2012 at the bottom of this page
(I reserve the right to switch out titles and/or add/remove titles)
Anthologies (fiction)
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary - M.R. James
The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales - Chris Baldick (Editor)Aristophanes
The Wasps, The Poet and the Women, The Frogs (Three plays)
Peter S. Beagle
The Last Unicorn
Algernon Blackwood
The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories
The Centaur
The Human Chord
Paul Bowles
The Sheltering Sky
Ray Bradbury
The October Country
Ray Bradbury
The October Country
George Brewer
The Witch of Ravensworth
John Gardner
Roger Lancelyn Green
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The House of the Seven Gables
Shirley Jackson
Come Along With Me
Raymond T. McNally, Radu R. FlorescuIn Search of Dracula: The History of Dracula and Vampires
James Cain
Mildred Pierce
Albert Camus
The Plague
Willa Cather
My Antonia
Arthur C. Clarke
2001: A Space Odyssey
Daniel Defoe
Roxana
Charles Dickens
Hard Times
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Lost World
Daphne du Maurier
The Doll: The Lost Short Stories
George Eliot
Silas Marner
Esther Forbes
A Mirror for Witches
John Gardner
Grendel
Gawain Poet (Translator - Simon Armitage)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Nikolai Gogol
Dead Souls
Taras Bulba
Roger Lancelyn Green
King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The House of the Seven Gables
Robert A. Heinlein
Starship Troopers
Aldous Huxley
The Devils of Loudun
Shirley Jackson
Come Along With Me
Let Me Tell You
Henry James
Henry James
Washington Square
Nikos Kazantzakis
The Last Temptation of Christ
Gaston Leroux
The Phantom of the Opera
Gaston Leroux
The Phantom of the Opera
Matthew Lewis
The Monk
William March
The Bad Seed
Barbara Mertz
Temples, Tombs, and Hieroglyphs
Solomon Northrup
Twelve Years a Slave
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Cross Creek
Mary Renault
The Mask of Apollo
Anya Seton
Dragonwyck
Bernard Shaw
Saint Joan
Sophocles
The Theban Plays
John Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men
Montague Summers
Vampires and Vampirism
Werewolf
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Silmarillon
Edith Wharton
The Age of Innocence
The Age of Innocence
Marguerite Yourcenar
Memoirs of Hadrian
Completed Titles since 2012
Goodreads list here (Ratings and reviews)
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
Persuasion, Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen
Something Wicked This Way Comes, Ray Bradbury
The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, Lewis Carroll
The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins
The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins
Nicholas Nickleby, Charles Dickens
The Writing Life, Annie Dillard
Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky
Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
My Cousin Rachel, Daphne du Maurier
The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
Middlemarch, George Eliot
Murder in the Cathedral, T.S. Eliot
As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner
Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
Howard's End, E.M. Forster
Where Angels Fear to Tread, E.M. Forster
A Room with a View, E.M. Forster
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
On Becoming a Novelist, John Gardner
Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
Viy, Nikolai Gogol
Thunder and Lightning, Natalie Goldberg
The Marble Faun, Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Histories, Herodotus
The House on the Borderland, William Hodgson Hope
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson
The Princess of Cleves, Madame de La Fayette
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
The Four Feathers, A.E.W. Mason
The Painted Veil, W. Somerset Maugham
Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
Gilead, Marilynne Robinson
The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
The Secret History, Donna Tartt
The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
