Classics Club List

I have decided to participate in The Classics Club challenge so as to read more classics. The challenge consists in listing more than 50+ classic books on one’s blog and trying to read them in the course of some years (maximum 5). Below, I have listed 60 classic book that I want to read in the course of the next three years (2026- 2029). That’s a long time so, hopefully, this challenge will not prove difficult and would prompt me to read more classics, especially translated classics. Many of the so-called “standard” classics I have already read (see my page Favourite Books), so I specifically listed many classics from world literature to diversify my reading and to push myself to discovering hidden treasures and overlooked gems.

  1. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
  2. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
  3. The Illustrious House of Ramires by Eça de Queirós
  4. The Wild Ass’s Skin by Honoré de Balzac
  5. The Unknown Masterpiece by Honoré de Balzac
  6. The Village of Stepanchikovo by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  7. The Issa Valley by Czesław Miłosz
  8. Redburn by Herman Melville
  9. The Tragedy of the Street of Flowers by Eça de Queirós
  10. Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset
  11. Elective Affinities by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  12. Doña Bárbara by Rómulo Gallegos
  13. Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
  14. Bomarzo by Manuel Mujica Lainez
  15. The Awkward Age by Henry James
  16. Beneath the Wheel by Hermann Hesse
  17. Roderick Hudson by Henry James
  18. The Wayfarer by Natsume Sōseki
  19. And Then by Natsume Sōseki
  20. Home of the Gentry by Ivan Turgenev
  21. Knulp: Three Tales from the Life of Knulp by Hermann Hesse
  22. The Lake by Yasunari Kawabata
  23. Theatre by W. Somerset Maugham
  24. Captains of the Sands by Jorge Amado
  25. Jezebel’s Daughter by Wilkie Collins
  26. The Earth by Émile Zola
  27. A House for Mr Biswas by V.S. Naipaul
  28. The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim
  29. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
  30. Embers by Sándor Márai
  1. The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch
  2. As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams by Lady Sarashina
  3. The Insulted and Humiliated by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  4. New Grub Street by George Gissing
  5. Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon by Jorge Amado
  6. Petersburg by Andrei Bely
  7. The Lost Estate by Henri Alain-Fournier
  8. To the Spring Equinox and Beyond by Natsume Sōseki
  9. A Time to Love and a Time to Die by Erich Maria Remarque
  10. Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis
  11. The Village by Ivan Bunin
  12. The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal
  13. The Song of the World by Jean Giono
  14. The Golden Bowl by Henry James
  15. Virgin Soil by Ivan Turgenev
  16. The Lily of the Valley by Honoré de Balzac
  17. The Comedians by Graham Greene
  18. The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andrić
  19. In Dubious Battle by John Steinbeck
  20. Bel-Ami by Guy de Maupassant
  21. Absolom, Absolom! by William Faulkner
  22. Heaven Has No Favorites by Erich Maria Remarque
  23. Peter Camenzind by Hermann Hesse
  24. The Violent Land by Jorge Amado
  25. Three Comrades by Erich Maria Remarque
  26. Twilight Sleep by Edith Wharton
  27. Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin
  28. Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
  29. The Family Moskat by Isaac Bashevis Singer
  30. The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather