#2023 Classic Club Reading List

- It is time for some some classic reading starting 01.01.2023.
- I hope to complete this list by 01.01.2026.
- I have selected 50 books for third classic list!
READ: 50/50
- The Quiet American – G. Greene – REVIEW
- The Charterhouse of Parma – Stendahl – REVIEW
- Salammbô – G. Flaubert – REVIEW
- Tartuffe – Molière – REVIEW
- Rue des Boutiques Obscures – P. Modiano – REVIEW
- Max Havelaar – Multatuli – REVIEW
- Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand – REVIEW
- Dossier Nr 113 – E. Gaboriau – REVIEW
- Les Grandes Meaulnes – Fournier, Henri-Alban (aka Alain-Fournier) – REVIEW
- The Chouans – H. de Balzac – REVIEW
- Animal Farm – G. Orwell – REVIEW
- Go Tell It On The Mountain – J. Baldwin – REVIEW
- On Living and Dying Well – Cicero (179 pg) – REVIEW
- Macbeth – Shakespeare – REVIEW
- Barnaby Rudge – C. Dickens (752 pg) (novel) – REVIEW
- Crito – Plato NF (dialogue) – REVIEW
- The Spy That Came In From the Cold – J. Le Carré – REVIEW
- Call For the Dead – John Le Carré – REVIEW (#1 George Smiley)
- A Murder of Quality – John Le Carré – (#2 George Smiley) – REVIEW
- If Beale Street Could Talk (novella) – J. Baldwin – REVIEW
- Surfeit of Suspects (1974) – G. Bellairs (CF) – REVIEW
- Elias Portolu (1903) – Grazia Deledda – Nobel Prize 1926 – REVIEW
- Hester – Mrs. Oliphant (518 pg) (novel) – REVIEW
- Prometheus Bound (play) -Aeschylus – REVIEW
- City of God – St. Augstine (1143 pg) Books X-XXII – REVIEW
- City of God – St. Augustine (1143 pg) Books I-IX – REVIEW
- The Iron Heel – Jack London – REVIEW
- Lolly Willowes – S. T. Warner – REVIEW
- Taming of the Shrew – W. Shakespeare – REVIEW
- The Moviegoer – Walker Percy – REVIEW
- Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee – Dee Brown – REVIEW
- Death Comes for the Archbishop – W. Cather – REVIEW
- The Jungle – Upton Sinclair – REVIEW
- A Passage to India – E.M. Forster – REVIEW
- Revolutionary Road – R. Yates – REVIEW
- The Stranger – Albert Camus – REVIEW
- Things Fall Apart – C. Achebe – REVIEW
- We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1962) – Shirley Jackson – REVIEW
- The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins – REVIEW
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith – REVIEW
- To the Lighthouse – V. Woolf – REVIEW
- Darkness at Noon – Arthur Koestler – REVIEW
- Tobacco Road – Erskine Caldwell – REVIEW
- A Study in Scarlet – Arthur Conan Doyle – REVIEW
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark – REVIEW
- The Caine Mutiny – Herman Wouk – REVIEW
- The Lonely Londoners S. Selvon (139 pg) REVIEW
- Giovanni’s Room – J. Baldwin – (178 pg) – REVIEW
- Romola – G. Eliot 1863 (633 pg) – REVIEW
- Cyrano de Bergerac – E. Rostand – REVIEW
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Some gtreat books on your list Nancy plus some I don’t know. It’s always fascinating to see what books and authors are still out there for me/us to read!!
The unfamiliar books are Pulitzer Prize winners in the 1940s-1950s.
Forgotten…I want to see if they are worth reading in 21st C!
I’ve just woken up after a big week at work & socially to see Netherlands still fighting on!!
OMG what a close game!!
How are you holding up?
Go Netherlands !!!
We did our best….lost with penalty shots….again.
Time for our boys to come home…we are so proud of them!
Mr Books was with you all the way!
Now that Australia is out I cannot do the early starts every day. But the extra time and penalty shot outs were dramatic!! And nail biting. An adrenaline boosting way to start my day!
Brona, this was the best World Cup in years….with all the upsets.
Smaller countries really gave us some great games with a lot of “never give up” spirit.
Yassssssssssssssss!!! The Jungle!!!! One of my favorite books of ALL TIME and one of maybe a handful of books that I’ve ever read more than once…more than twice…more than three times. I LOVE THAT BOOK SO MUCH!
Are all these books new to you, Nancy?
I have read and loved:
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
We Have Always LIved in the Castle
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (I’ve read that at least 3 times as well…love it!)
Sister Carrie
And I THINK I’ve read Augie March and A Death In The Family. Sometimes books are on my list(s) for so long I don’t know if I’ve read them or not!
I look forward to your reviews…especially The Jungle.