Classics Club


The Classics Club requires you to choose a finish date within five years of joining. My goal finish date is January 1, 2022.

Each title links to the book's Goodreads page. Links to my reviews will be added after the title.
  1. Maurice by EM Forster
  2. Faggots by Larry Kramer
  3. The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
  4. The Pure and the Impure by Colette
  5. The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
  6. Dancer from the Dance by Andrew Holleran
  7. Blue Heaven by Joe Keenan
  8. The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
  9. Regeneration by Pat Barker: Discussion 9/23/18
  10. The Company She Keeps by Mary McCarthy
  11. The Odyssey by Homer (trans. Emily Wilson)
  12. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
  13. Almanac of the Dead by Leslie Marmon Silko
  14. Don Quixote by Kathy Acker
  15. The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford
  16. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
  17. Journey to the End of the Night by Céline
  18. Summer Will Show by Sylvia Townsend Warner
  19. When Fox is a Thousand by Larissa Lai
  20. La Bâtarde by Violette Leduc
  21. The Time of Man by Elizabeth Madox Roberts
  22. Maud’s Line by Margaret Verble
  23. The Beans of Egypt, Maine by Carolyn Chute
  24. Swastika Night by Katharine Burdekin
  25. Women Lovers, or The Third Woman by Natalie Clifford Barney
  26. Maud Martha by Gwendolyn Brooks
  27. Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing by May Sarton
  28. Two Women of London by Emma Tennant
  29. Eva Trout by Elizabeth Bowen
  30. This Child’s Gonna Live by Sarah E. Wright
  31. The Salt Eaters by Toni Cade Bambara
  32. Ernesto by Umberto Saba
  33. The Brick Foxhole by Richard Brooks
  34. Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein
  35. Border Country by Raymond Williams
  36. The Green Carnation by Robert Smythe Hichens
  37. The Palm-Wine Drinkard by Amos Tutuola
  38. Abeng by Michelle Cliff
  39. Miss Peabody’s Inheritance by Elizabeth Jolley
  40. Kipps by HG Wells
  41. The Letter Killers Club by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
  42. The Crux by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  43. A Time to Be Born by Dawn Powell
  44. Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
  45. The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born by Ayi Kwei Armah
  46. Homer’s Daughter by Robert Graves
  47. Life in the Iron Mills by Rebecca Harding Davis
  48. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
  49. Wuthering Heights by by Emily Brontë
  50. Two Serious Ladies by Jane Bowles 
  51. Summer Will Show by Sylvia Townsend Warner 
  52. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver
  53. Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany
  54. Changing Places by David Lodge
  55. The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination by Sandra M. Gilbert & Susan Gubar
  56. Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration by David Wojnarowicz
  57. Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation by Eli Clare
  58. Epistemology of the Closet by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
  59. Queer and Loathing: Rants and Raves of a Raging AIDS Clone by David B. Feinberg
  60. Genet by Edmund White
  61. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens added 11/25/18
  62. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith added 11/25/18
  63. East of Eden by John Steinbeck added 11/25/18
  64. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison added 11/25/18
  65. The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen added 11/25/18
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