My Second Classics Club List

In the Classics Club, you select your own list of classics to read by a stated date. The following is my second list, which I originally posted on June 30, 2017, and planned to finish by June 29, 2021. I was a little late, posting my last review July 6, 2021 (although I actually read all of the books by the deadline).

15th Century

• Le Morte D’Arthur by Thomas Malory (1485)

16th Century

• The Prince by Machiavelli (1532)
• Edward II by Christopher Marlowe (1592)
• Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare (1588-1593)

17th Century

• Oroonoko by Aphra Behn (1688)
• The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster (1612-13)

18^th Century

• Evelina by Frances Burney (1778)
• The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by Tobias Smollett (1771)

19^th Century

• Mansfield Park by Jane Austen (1814)
• Aurora Floyd by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1863)
• The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë (1848)
• The Haunted Hotel by Wilkie Collins (1879)
• The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1880)
• The Viscounte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas (1848)
• Letters from Egypt by Lucie Duff Gordon (1865)
• The Mystery of Mrs. Blencarrow by Mrs. Oliphant (1890)
• Kenilworth by Sir Walter Scott (1821)
• The Heir of Redclyff by Charlotte M. Yonge (1853)

20^th Century

• The Shuttle by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1907)
• My Mortal Enemy by Willa Cather (1926)
• The Old Man’s Birthday by Richmal Crompton (1934)
• Consequences by E. M. Delafield (1930)
• Vanishing Cornwall by Daphne du Maurier (1967)
• This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1920)
• The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford (1915)
• Owls Do Cry by Janet Frame (1957)
• The Winged Horse by Pamela Frankau (1953)
• My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin (1901)
• Three Weeks by Elinor Glyn (1907)
• Coromandel Sea Change by Rumer Godden (1937)
• Harriet by Elizabeth Jenkins (1934)
• Joanna Godden by Sheila Kaye-Smith (1921)
• The Victorian Chaise-Longue by Marghanita Laski (1953)
• Greenery Street by Denis MacKail (1925)
• West with the Night by Beryl Markham (1942)
• Anne of Avonlea by L. M. Montgomery (1909)
• The Lark by E. Nesbit (1902)
• Mary Lavelle by Kate O’Brien (1936)
• The Last of the Wine by Mary Renault (1956)
• The Sea Hawk by Rafael Sabatini (1915)
• Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea by Teffi (2016, but written around 1920)
• Challenge by Vita Sackville-West (1923)
• Miss Buncle’s Book by D. E. Stevenson (1934)
• August Folly by Angela Thirkell (1936)
• I Go by Sea, I Go by Land by P. L. Travers (1941)
• Madame de Treymes by Edith Wharton (1907)
• Because of the Lockwoods by Dorothy Whipple (1949)
• The Priory by Dorothy Whipple (1939)
• The Wise Virgins by Leonard Woolf (1913)
• To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (1927)