Classics Club 5-Year list

January 2014 - January 2019

1 Balzac, Honore Lost Illusions 2 Bronte, Charlotte Jane Eyre 3 Bunyan, John Pilgrim's Progress 4 Defoe, Daniel Moll Flanders 5 Dostoevsky, Fyodor Demons 6 Flaubert, Gustave Madame Bovary 7 Hardy, Thomas Tess of the D'urbervilles 8 James, Henry Sacred Fount 9 Mahfouz, Naguib Palace Walk 10 Mahfouz, Naguib Sugar Street 11 Mahfouz, Naguib Palace of Desire 12 Mann, Thomas Magic Mountain 13 Nabokov, Vladimir Pale Fire 14 Tolkien, J. R. R. The Two Towers 15 Tolkien, J. R. R. Return of the King 16 Balzac, Honore Louis Lambert 17 Balzac, Honore Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau 18 Boswell, James The Life of Samuel Johnson 19 Bronte, Anne Agnes Grey 20 Cather, Willa O Pioneers! 21 Cervantes, Miguel Don Quixote 22 Conrad, Joseph The Secret Agent 23 Conrad, Joseph Under Western Eyes 24 Darwin, Charles The Origin of Species 25 Dickens, Charles Great Expectations 26 Dos Passos, John Manhattan Transfer 27 Dumas, Alexandre The Count of Monte Cristo 28 Eliot, George Adam Bede 29 Eliot, George Romola 30 Eliot, George Felix Holt 31 Eliot, George Mill on the Floss 32 Faulkner, William Absalom! Absalom! 33 Faulkner, William Go Down, Moses 34 Fielding, Henry Tom Jones 35 Forster, E. M.  A Passage to India 36 Gaddis, William The Recognitions 37 Gissing, George New Grub Street 38 Goethe, Johann Sorrows of Young Werther 39 Gogol, Nikolai Dead Souls 40 Greene, Graham The Quiet American 41 Hardy, Thomas Jude the Obscure 42 Hardy, Thomas Return of the Native 43 Hawthorne, Nathaniel The Marble Faun 44 Heller, Joseph Catch-22 45 Jerome, Jerome K. Three Men in a Boat 46 Lessing, Doris The Golden Notebook 47 Melville, Herman The Confidence Man 48 Musil, Robert The Man without Qualities 49 Richardson, Samuel Clarissa 50 Roth, Joseph The Radetzky March 51 Scott, Walter Ivanhoe 52 Scott, Walter Bride of Lammermoor 53 Scott, Walter Heart of Midlothian 54 Steinbeck, John The Grapes of Wrath 55 Stendhal Charterhouse of Parma 56 Stevenson, R. L. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hide 57 Stevenson, R. L. Kidnapped 58 Stoker, Bram Dracula 59 Thackeray, William Pendennis 60 Thackeray, William The Luck of Barry Lyndon 61 Trollope, Anthony Barchester Towers 62 Trollope, Anthony Doctor Thorne 63 Trollope, Anthony Framley Parsonage 64 Trollope, Anthony The Small House at Allington 65 Trollope, Anthony The Last Chronicle of Barset 66 Turgenev, Ivan Virgin Soil 67 Twain, Mark Innocents Abroad 68 Verne, Jules Around the World in Eighty Days 69 Waugh, Evelyn Brideshead Revisited 70 Woolf, Virginia Mrs. Dalloway 71 Zamiatin, Yevgeny We 72 Zola, Emile Therese Raquin 73 Zola, Emile Fortunes of the Rougons 74 Zola, Emile La Curee 75 Zola, Emile The Belly of Paris