I am excited to be joining the Classics Club challenge. Thank you to The Classics Club blog for promoting the challenge and for encouraging others to read these books. The challenge involves listing 50 classic books (I'm still perfecting this total!) I want to read in the next five years and as I post a review I link it to the listed title. It is a fun way to interact with other classic lovers and bloggers.
My list has changed over time as I see what I like and don't like. Participating in the Read Christie challenge each year means I have a lot of her books but won't necessarily list them all. Maybe just my favorites. I hope to work on more challenging ones as well but will see how it goes. Some books are removed and added over time as I work my way through the list. I hope it will inspire others to read some Classics!
Goal: read and review 50 classic books from January 1, 2022 to January 1, 2028 (I'm considering this to be books published before 1980)
My list:
1. A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
2. The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
3. Sleeping Murder by Agatha Christie
4. The Man in the Brown Suit by Agatha Christie
5. Hercule Poirot's Christmas by Agatha Christie
6. The Spiral Staircase by Ethel Lina White
7. Saint Peter's Fair (Cadfael Chronicles Book 4) by Ellis Peters
8. Appointment With Death by Agatha Christie
9. Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier
10. The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
11. Strangers On a Train by Patricia Highsmith
12. Endless Night by Agatha Christie
13. Black Coffee by Agatha Christie
14. The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
15. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
16. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
17. The Hollow by Agatha Christie
18. The Leper of Saint Giles by Ellis Peters
19. The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart
20. This Side of Glory by Gwen Bristow
21. Towards Zero by Agatha Christie
22. Now, Voyager by Olive Higgins Prouty
23. Katherine by Anya Seton
24. Devil Water by Anya Seton
25. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
26. Mr. Midshipman Hornblower (Book One) by C.S. Forester
27. The Innocence of Father Brown by G.K. Chesterton
28. They Do It With Mirrors by Agatha Christie
29. Murder On the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
30. Third Girl by Agatha Christie
31. Ordeal By Innocence by Agatha Chrisite
32. The Mirror Crack'd by Agatha Christie
33. The Santa Claus Murder by Mavis Doriel
34. The Wintringham Mystery by Anthony Berkeley
35. For a Queen's Love by Jean Plaidy
36. Elephants Can Remember by Agatha Christie
37. A Christmas Party by Georgette Heyer
38. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
39. Within the Hollow Crown by Margaret Campbell Barnes
40. Isabel the Fair by Margaret Campbell Barnes
41. Emma by Jane Austen
42. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
43. Taken at the Flood by Agatha Christie
44. The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
45. Serpents in Eden (Countryside Crimes) Various authors
46. My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier
47. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
48. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
49. An Infamous Army by Georgette Heyer
50. My Lord John by Georgette Heyer
What a great list! Love to see lots of classic mysteries on there as well as the heavier weight fiction. Austen, Christie and Conan Doyle are three of my favourite authors, and of the others that I've read, Vanity Fair would be my highlight. Hope you enjoy reading your way through your list!
ReplyDeleteThanks! I have not read anything by Conan Doyle yet so I knew that had to on there. I am glad you liked Vanity Fair and recommend it :)
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