Classics Club Update

Deadline: October 23, 2022
Time Elapsed: 2/5 years (40%)
Books Read: 32/50 (64%)

I have continued to be kind of the worst Classics Club member you can imagine. As of this posting, I'm once again way behind on actually submitting my reviews for inclusion in the main club index. This is on my to do list, but I obviously haven't gotten to it yet.

I've been so focussed on getting my reading done for the Top 100 books that this has taken a back seat, unfortunately!

My list of classics, has had even further revisions since the previous update.

I've maintained the alphabetical order that I started with. In addition:

• (*) means an item has been added since the original
  
• Strike means I've finished reading the book, although it might not have a review posted yet
  
• Bold is for Top 100 books

Here you go:

1. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
   
2. Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson (NB: Review to come!)
   
3. The End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov
   
4. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
   
5. (*) The House With a Clock in Its Walls by John Bellairs
   
6. Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow (NB: Review to come!)
   
7. The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester
   
8. A Woman of Substance by Barbara Taylor Bradford
   
9. (*) Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë (NB: Review to come!)
   
10. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
    
11. Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
    
12. The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler
    
13. (*) If on a winter's night a traveller by Italo Calvino
    
14. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
    
15. U.S.A. (trilogy) by John Dos Passos (NB: Review to come!)
    
16. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    
17. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser (NB: Review to come!)
    
18. Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
    
19. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (NB: Review to come!)
    
20. The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
    
21. Studs Lonigan (trilogy) by James T. Farrell
    
22. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
    
23. Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
    
24. The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
    
25. Thursday's Children by Rumer Godden
    
26. The Princess Bride by William Goldman
    
27. I, Claudius by Robert Graves (NB: Review to come!)
    
28. Roots by Alex Haley
    
29. (*) Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock
    
30. Bridge of Birds by Barry Hughart
    
31. Three Cheers for Me by Donald Jack
    
32. (*) The Sheik by E.M. Hull
    
33. The Ambassadors by Henry James (NB: Review should be posted by the time you see this!)
    
34. The Golden Bowl by Henry James
    
35. The Wings of the Dove by Henry James (NB: Review to come!)
    
36. The Star Diaries by Stanislaw Lem
    
37. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers (NB: Review to come!)
    
38. (*) Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor
    
39. Appointment in Samarra by John O'Hara (NB: Review to come!)
    
40. 1984 by George Orwell
    
41. Animal Farm by George Orwell
    
42. (*) The Gormenghast trilogy by Mervyn Peake
    
43. (*) The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett
    
44. (*) Earth Abides by George R. Stewart (NB: Review to come!)
    
45. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (NB: Review to come!)
    
46. All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
    
47. A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
    
48. The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
    
49. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (NB: Review to come!)
    
50. Native Son by Richard Wright (NB: Review to come!)

Discarded items:

1. The Stream of Life by Clarice Lispector
   
2. The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
   
3. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien
   
4. Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins
   
5. The Big Rock Candy Mountain by Wallace Stegner
   
6. The Doomed City by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
   
7. Hard to Be a God by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
   
8. My Man Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
   
9. Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny

If you're noticing that I'm way behind on posting reviews of books, you are not mistaken! Rest assured, however, that I do have reviews written for all of these books, they just haven't made their way onto the blog yet.