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ANNOUNCEMENT: THE CLASSICS CLUB 2025-2030 FIRST LIST

The idea of this club is to pick 50 or more classics and read them within five years at most.All the details if you are interested and would like to join in too can be found @ The Classic Club Blog This book club was kindly brought to my attention by Emma @ Words and…

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The idea of this club is to pick 50 or more classics and read them within five years at most.
All the details if you are interested and would like to join in too can be found @ The Classic Club Blog

This book club was kindly brought to my attention by Emma @ Words and Peace, once again thank you for this and I am so happy to be making this announcement and sharing with you my first list!

I will start my journey on the 1st of May, this will give me enough time to finish my ARCs and Author’s requests and start with a clear head. In the meantime here are the classics I cannot wait to dive into!

The 50 classics I will read by 1st May 2030:

  1. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
  2. Emma by Jane Austen
  3. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
  4. Persuasion by Jane Austen
  5. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
  6. The Watsons by Jane Austen
  7. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
  8. Little Men by Louisa May Alcott
  9. Jo’s Boys by Louisa May Alcott
  10. Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott
  11. The Waves by Virginia Woolf
  12. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
  13. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
  14. Jacob’s Room by Virginia Woolf
  15. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
  16. Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
  17. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
  18. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
  19. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
  20. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
  21. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
  22. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
  23. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
  24. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
  25. The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
  26. The Mill on the Floss by Geroge Eliot
  27. Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
  28. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
  29. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
  30. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
  31. A Room With a View by E.M. Forster
  32. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
  33. Howards End by E.M. Forster
  34. The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss
  35. Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
  36. Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
  37. Anne of Avonlea by L.M. Montgomery
  38. Anne of the Island by L.M. Montgomery
  39. Anne of Windy Poplars by L.M. Montgomery
  40. Anne’s House of Dreams by L.M. Montgomery
  41. Anne of Ingleside by L.M. Montgomery
  42. Rainbow Valley by L.M. Montgomery
  43. Rilla, ma Rilla by L.M. Montgomery
  44. The Blythes Are Quoted by L.M. Montgomery
  45. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
  46. A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
  47. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
  48. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
  49. Macbeth by William Shakespeare
  50. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (I will be reading this one in Italian)

For the purpose of this challenge, I will not be providing links to the books, instead once I am done reading a book I will come back here and link my review and tick that book as complete.

16 responses to “ANNOUNCEMENT: THE CLASSICS CLUB 2025-2030 FIRST LIST”

  1. WordsAndPeace avatar
    WordsAndPeace

    woohoo, congratulations!
    I have read 28 here. Your list has a lot of my favorites: Steinbeck, Hugo, Tolstoy, Borges, Kafka, Dante, and more!
    I didn’t know you read Italian!
    I recently taught myself to read Italian – to read Italo Calvino.

    I think I read somewhere that Dante’s Italian can be a challenge, even for Italians! Good luck on that one. But for sure, it’s so much better to read in the original language, especially poetry.
    The challenge for me (I read it in English), was to understand all the political references – I’m good at Biblical and theological references, but I know nothing of the politics of Dante’s time, so I needed an edition with lots of notes to expalin to me who was who!

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      smellincoffee

      Anthony Esolen’s translation of Dante might be of interested to you. It’s annotated and Esolen includes an essay with each book introducing it.

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      1. Lin's Perspective avatar
        Lin’s Perspective

        This is great to know, thank you for sharing!

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    2. Lin's Perspective avatar
      Lin’s Perspective

      Thank you, Emma! This is great, I hope to read all of them on this list. I lived in Italy and finished school there. Hence, I wanted to read it in Italian. Also, I use Italian for my job as well, so I will have a helping hand in decoding some of the passages if not most of them for sure! But it will be an adventure nonetheless!

      There are some amazing free student resources in Italian that I will be using for it 🙂

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        WordsAndPeace

        Stupendo!

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  2. smellincoffee avatar
    smellincoffee

    Welcome to the Classics Club! I’m working on my second list. Wonderful list — you’ve got a lot of fun (and challenge) ahead. 😀

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    1. Lin's Perspective avatar
      Lin’s Perspective

      Ahh, thank you! I was just looking through yours, too, and I might take some of your books to add to my list, haha

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  3. Kimberly @ Caffeinated Reviewer avatar
    Kimberly @ Caffeinated Reviewer

    I have read many of these and hope you enjoy your journey!

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    1. Lin's Perspective avatar
      Lin’s Perspective

      Thank you!! I am looking forward to all of these 🙂

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  4. Literary Feline avatar
    Literary Feline

    I tried this once and just wasn’t dedicated enough. I do enjoy reading the Classics from time to time though. I think you will do great. I have read quite a few of the Classics on your list and hope you enjoy them as much as I did! I really enjoy Austen’s novels. I haven’t read Mansfield Park yet though. Her books always take me a moment to get into, but once I do, I’m all in. Jane Eyre is one of my favorites. The Count of Monte Cristo was such fun! And I love Les Misérables. Anna Karenina was a surprising favorite the year I read it. And I really liked David Copperfield and A Christmas Carol. It’s been so many years since I read Madame Bovary (barely remember) and The Metamorphosis (I should re-read this one). I admit I wasn’t a fan of The Picture of Dorian Gray or Wuthering Heights but you may love them. Many do. And Shakespeare. I hated having to read his plays in high school. LOL I confess I like the movies more. I think it is awesome that you are going to read The Divine Comedy in Italian.

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    1. Lin's Perspective avatar
      Lin’s Perspective

      Still, you did try! I have no idea how well/bad I will do haha, but I am motivated and I really want to read more classics, not because it is trendy but because they feel and hit differently than books nowadays, and I really want to immerse myself in time lost and forgotten where everything was so simple no internet, no smartphones no hectic life as we know it now and such. I guess I am craving the olden times, and had I been able to choose in what century to be born, I would have chosen the 19th century, haha. Glad to hear you enjoyed these books! The Count of Monte Cristo was my granny’s favourite, so I want to honour her by reading it. Looking forward to all of these, really. We never read Shakespeare in school so it would be interesting to see how i get along with it I do have read along with annotations to help me through, but we did study Dante’s since I lived and studied in Italy, so it would be nice to read The Divine Comedy with mature eyes and a more developed brain lol

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  5. Marianne @ Let's Read avatar
    Marianne @ Let’s Read

    What a great list. I wish you all the best!
    If you’re interested, here is the list of my first books from the Classics Club.
    But you can always check under Classic on my page, if you want to get more ideas. LOL

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    1. Lin's Perspective avatar
      Lin’s Perspective

      Thank you! Ohh nice to know you are part of it too and I will absolutely check them out! Thank you for sharing 🙂

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      1. Marianne @ Let's Read avatar
        Marianne @ Let’s Read

        You’re welcome. I love classics and am always happy to see other readers doing, as well.

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      2. Lin's Perspective avatar
        Lin’s Perspective

        I have been meaning to get to read classics for as long as I can remember, but never got around it. So I’m happy I’m doing this challenge now!

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