New, Improved Classics Club List 2022 – 2027

My Classics Club list got kind of old when I got married and had a kid and couldn’t read as much. Here’s a shiny new one.

1. Mahabharata, by Anonymous
2. Darkness Visible, by William Styron
3. In Search of Lost Time, by Marcel Proust
4. Sorrows of Young Werther, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
5. The Return of the Native, by Thomas Hardy
6. Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison
7. The Souls of Black Folk, by W E B Du Bois
8. Breakfast of Champions, by Kurt Vonnegut
9. A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens
10. Master and Commander (series), by Patrick O’Brien
11. The Divine Comedy, by Dante
12. The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair
13. Far From the Madding Crowd, by Thomas Hardy
14. The Witches of Eastwick, by John Updike
15. The Complete Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle
16. Uncle Tom’s Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe
17. Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert
18. Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
19. Red Badge of Courage, by Stephen Crane
20. The Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad
21. The House of Mirth, by Edith Wharton
22. Native Son, by Richard Wright
23. Seize the Day, by Saul Bellow
24. The Apocrypha, by Anonymous
25. The Bible, by Anonymous
26. The Merry Adventures of Robinhood, by Howard Pyle
27. Bleak House, by Charles Dickons
28. Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte
29. The Woman in White, by Wilkie Collins
30. Middlemarch, by George Elliot
31. Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson
32. Complete works of Edgar Allan Poe
33. Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott
34. Faust, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
35. Catcher in the Rye, J D Salinger
36. Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov
37. Their Eyes were watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston
38. The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
39. The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway
40. Sound and the Fury, by William Faulkner
41. The Deptford Trilogy, by Robertson Davies
42. Midnight’s Children, by Salman Rushdie
43. Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe
44. A bend in the River, by V S Naipaul
45. War with the Newts, Karel Kapek
46. Gulag Archipelago, Alexander Solzhenitsyn
47. Doctor Zhivago, by Boris Johnson
48. The Master and Margarita, by Mikhail Bulgakov
49. The Glass Bead Game, by Hermann Hesse
50. Doctor Faustus, by Thomas Mann