A few weeks ago I ran across something called the – you probably guessed already — The Unread Books Project. I read about it on The Unread Shelf and was instantly inspired to do it as well!
Because of the size of my library, I decided to make separate lists. This one, as you’ve already deduced, is the Classics.
(Now, picture me with a pad of paper and pen going around my house where I’ve been able to stack a few (or more) books in odd places, writing title and author down) I do hope to add the published date of these books when I come back through and mark that I’ve read them. (that’s a reminder for future Laura)
by Author, A to D:
A Lantern in Her Hand by Bess Streeter Aldrich (read Aug 2020)
Reluctant Pioneer by Mary Vowell Adams
Books by Jane Austen:
Pride and Prejudice (read Jan 2021)
Mansfield Park
Sense and Sensibility
Lady Susan/The Watsons/Sanditon
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (read Nov 2020)
Little Men by Louisa May Alcott (read Nov 2020)
The Fighting Preacher by Rev. John H. Aughey
Lives of Girls Who Became Famous by Sarah Knowles Bolton
The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
Lorna Doone by R.D. Blackmoore (read May 2017)
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
The Unannointed by Laurene Chinn
Eliza by Patricia Campbell
Streams in the Desert by Lettie Cowman
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (read Dec 2020)
The Robe by Lloyd D. Douglas
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas
The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas
The Princess Aline by Richard Harding Davis
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Dufoe
by Author, E to H:
An Important Family by Dorothy Eden
The Great Brain Series by John D. Fitzgerald
Lord Hornblower by C.S. Forester (printed in 1946)
Man O’ War by Walter Farley
Anne Frank : Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Mrs. Mike by Benedict and Nancy Freedman
Man to Man by Jackson Gregory
A Last Lamp Burning by Gywn Griffin
A Falcon for a Queen by Catherine Gaskin (read Jan 2019)
Our Friend the Charlatan by George Gissing
Princess Bride by William Goldman
Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
The Twelve Dancing Princesses by the Grimm Brothers
She: A History of Adventure by H. Rider Haggard ( read in June 2020)
Passionate Pilgrim : The Life of Vincent Van Gogh by Lawrence and Elisabeth Hanson (read April 2021)
Cloud Jewel by Grace Livingston Hill
Betty Grable and the House of Cobwebs by Kathryn Heisenfelt
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo (read in June 2020)
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (finished Jan 2021)
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
Best Known Works of Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Grandison Mather by Henry Harland
by Author, I to M:
Pillar of Fire by J.H. Ingraham (read Aug 2020)
Kim by Rudyard Kipling
Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling
Story of My Life by Helen Keller
Rachel by Agnes Scott Kent
The Long Chance by Peter B. Kyne (printed in 1914)
White Fang by Jack London
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
Silver Nutmeg by Norah Lofts
An Iceland Fisherman by Pierre Loti (printed in 1902)
Thankful’s Inheritance by Joseph C. Lincoln
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Road Back to Paris by A.J. Liebling
The Second Chance by Nellie L. McClung
Lalla Rookh by Thomas Moore
Beverly of Graustark by George Barr McCutcheon
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
by Author, N to R:
The Pit by Frank Norris
The Runaway by Kathleen Norris
Ralph Marlow by James Bell Naylor
The Merchant of Prato by Iris Origo
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emma Orczy
Moonraker’s Bride by Peter O’donnell
The Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle
Freckles by Gene Stratton Porter
A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton Porter
Lavender and Old Lace by Myrtle Reed
by Author, S to W:
Books by Robert Louis Stevenson:
Treasure Island
Kidnapped
The Black Arrow
The Burnished Blade by Lawrence Schooner (printed in 1948)
Saint Joan by Bernard Shaw
Paris Underground by Etta Shiber (printed in 1943)
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
Who Could Ask for Anything More? by Kay Swift (printed in 1943)
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Rudin by Ivan Turgenev
Alice of Old Vincennes by Maurice Thompson
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
The Gilded Age by Mark Twain
The Lord of the Rings Series by J.R.R. Tolkien
Candide by Voltaire
Looking for a Bluebird by Joseph Wechsberg (printed in 1944)
Common School Literature by Westlake
A New England Nun and Other Stories by M.E. Wilkins
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
The Nine Brides and Granny Hite by Neil Compton Wilson
The Blazed Trail by Stewart Edward White
You Can’t Go Home Again by Thomas Wolfe
Bumper the White Rabbit in the Woods (Twilight Animals #1) by George Ethelbert Walsh
Bobby Gray Squirrel’s Adventures (Twilight Animals #6) by George Ethelbert Walsh
The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss
Abigail Adams by Evelyn Witter
Best Known Works of Oscar Wilde
A History of the Jews in the U.S.
And that’s it! I hope to have my Unread list of ‘regular’ books up soon as well! Have you ever made it a point to read through your library? Did you make it all the way through?
I don’t have an end goal for this – I figure it’ll take me quite a while to read ALL of these – a few years perhaps?
~Laura
the start of a good life 
WELL! I knew you had alot of books, but I had no idea! No wonder they are stashed all over! Hmmm, come to think of it, I had a whole lot too, before moving from Oregon. I gave away quite few banana boxes full of books! And I am still sorting to pare them down some more!
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Haha, oh yes! Books are everywhere in our house! I feel like it’s a constant thing though, making sure that you’re only keeping ones that you want to, you know?
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I spy some amazing books on there!!! You’re in for a treat! And I’m totally stealing this idea. 😀
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You should!!! It’s such a fun idea!
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I love the classics. These are the ones I have read. These are referring to the classics from the 1800s and earlier
1. Les Misérables
2. Hunchback of Notre Dame
3. A Christmas Carol
4. Tale of Two Cities
5. Great Expectations
6. David Copperfield
7. Oliver Twist
8. Nicholas Nickleby
9. Don Quixote
10. Illiad
11. Odyssey
12. Pride and Prejudice
Of all of those, the only one I didn’t like was Pride and Prejudice
Right now, in the middle of Anna Karenina. What are the others I own?
1. Bleak House
2. Hard Times
3. Kidnapped
4. Gulliver’s Travels
5. War and Peace
Part of these classics were given to me: War and Peace, Kidnapped, Gulliver’s Travels, Anna Karenina, and the intimidating War and Peace
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What a great list of books that you’ve already read! wow! I read Kidnapped a few years ago and really enjoyed it.
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I was raised on the George S Scott. movie of A Christmas Carol. It become family tradition to watch it over the holidays every year.
Then later, once Les Mis entered my life—that is when I truly became a classic fan. I read classics in between semesters at college: as in summer break and Christmas break. That is part of why I read so much.
Only a few I have read after graduating: Nicholas Nickleby, David Copperfield, Pride and Prejudice, and now Anna Karenina. I have a lot more control over the pacing now that I don’t have a quick deadline.
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I love that family tradition! I can see that, being able to read them a bit slower without school looming around the corner! It’s been fun getting into the classics more these past few years
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With the classics, I read a non-classic in between.
Just a couple years ago- a church family friend gave me a couple of classics: Illiad, Odyssey, Kidnapped, Gulliver’s Travels, Anna Karenina, and the most surprising I was given was War and Peace.
My two most recent classics I own are Bleak House and Hard Times.
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This applies to that idea even further:
https://megsdailymusings.wordpress.com/2018/01/14/why-it-is-hard-to-enjoy-required-reading/
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