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Last updated: 01/10/17

CLASSICS FOR BEGINNERS GROUP READS
(Alphabetical by author surname)

A
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women (Aug 2012)
Jane Austen, Emma (May 2011)
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (Jun 2011)
Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey (Nov 2014)
Jane Austen, Persuassion (Oct 2015)

B
J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan (Mar 2014)
L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (May 2013)
R.D. Blackmore, Lorna Doone (Jan-Mar 2016)
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (May 2012)
Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Apr 2016)
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (Jun 2012)
Charlotte Brontë, Villette (Oct-Dec 2015)
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights (Mar 2011)
Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and the Margarita (Feb 2015)
Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange (Oct 2014)

C
Albert Camus, The Plague (Mar 2015)
Albert Camus, The Stranger (Nov 2016)
Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s (Jul 2013)
Truman Capote, In Cold Blood (Jul 2016)
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote (Dec 2013)
Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None (Aug 2017)
Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone (Aug 2014)
Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White (Apr-Jun 2016)

D
Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (Dec 2016)
Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol (Dec 2011)
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (Apr 2012)
Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities (Dec 2012)
Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist (Sept 2013)
Charles Dickens, Bleak House (Jan-Mar 2015)
Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers (Oct-Dec 2016)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (Mar-Jun 2014)
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Mar 2012)
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles (Jan 2014)
Theodore Dreiser, An American Tragedy (Jan-Feb 2017)
Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo (Feb 2013)
Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers (Apr-Jun 2015)
Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca (Oct 2012)
Daphne du Maurier, Jamaica Inn (Dec 2015)
Daphne du Maurier, My Cousin Rachel (Mar 2018)

E
George Eliot, Middlemarch (Oct-Dec 2014)

F
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (Nov 2012)
Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary (Aug 2013)
E.M. Forster, A Passage to India (Jan 2015)
E.M. Forster, A Room With a View (May 2018)

G
Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Barton (Nov 2017)
Kenneth Grahame, the Wind in the Willows (Apr 2018)
Graham Greene, The End of the Affair (Oct 2017)

H
Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd (Jun 2015)
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter (Jun 2013)
Joseph Heller, Catch 22 (Feb 2014)
Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Jun 2014)
Ernest Hemingway A Farewell to Arms (Jan 2018)
Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden (Feb 2011)
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables (Jan 2013)
Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Mar-Apr 2017)
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (Apr 2013)

I

J
Henry James, What Maisie Knew (Jun 2018)
M.R. James, Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (Oct 2016)
James Joyce, Ulysses (Jul-Sep 2016)

K
Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis (Feb 2016)
Ken Kesey, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (Apr 2015)

L
D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers (Sep 2015)
Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird (Oct 2011)
Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time (Sep 2017)
Gaston Leroux, The Mystery of the Yellow Room (Feb 2018)
Jack London, The Call of the Wild (Sep 2016)

M
Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude (Apr 2014)
Henry Miller, The Tropic of Cancer (Jun 2016)
Margaret Mitchell, Gone With the Wind (Jul-Sep 2014)
L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables (Jul 2017)

N
Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (Sep 2014)

O
George Orwell, Nineteen-Eighty-Four (Nov 2011)

P
Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (Jul 2014)

Q
R

S
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince (Dec 2014)
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (Oct 2013)
Nevil Shute, A Town Like Alice (Jan 2016)
Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Jan 2012)
John Steinbeck, East of Eden (May 2014)
John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath (May 2015)
Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island (Mar 2016)
Bram Stoker, Dracula (Aug 2011)

T
William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair (Jul-Sep 2015)
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit (Sep 2011)
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring (Jul 2012)
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (Sep 2012)
Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace (Dec-Feb 2013/14)
Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Aug 2016)

U

V
Jules Verne, Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Nov 2013)
Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five (Feb 2012)

W
H.G. Wells, The Island of Dr. Moreau (Aug 2015)
Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier (May 2016)
Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence (Dec 2017)
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (Jul 2011)
Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost (Nov 2015)
Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (Mar 2013)
Virginia Woolf, The Waves (Jul 2015)

X
Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Jun 2017)

Y

Z
Yevgeny Zamyatin, We (May 2017)

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Last updated: 01/10/17

CLASSICS FOR BEGINNERS GROUP READS
(By date read)


2018
What Maisie Knew, Henry James (June)
A Room With a View, E.M. Forster (May)
The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame (April)
My Cousin Rachel, Daphne du Maurier (March)
The Mystery of the Yellow Room, Gaston Leroux (February)
A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway (January)

2017
The Age of Innocence,, Edith Wharton (December)
Mary Barton, Elizabeth Gaskell (November)
the End of the Affair, Graham Greene (October)
A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle (September)
And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie (August)
Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery (July)
The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Malcolm X (June)
We, Yevgeny Zamyatin (May)
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Victor Hugo (March-April)
An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser (January-February)

2016
Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe (December)
The Stranger, Albert Camus (November)
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, M.R. James (October)
The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens (October-December)
The Call of the Wild, Jack London (September)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain (August)
In Cold Blood, Truman Capote (July)
Ulysses, James Joyce (July-September)
The Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller (June)
The Return of the Soldier, Rebecca West (May)
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Brönte (April)
The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins (April-June)
Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson (March)
Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka (February)
A Town Like Alice, Neville Shute (January)
Lorna Doone, R.D Blackmore (January-March)

2015
Jamaica Inn, Daphne Du Maurier (December)
The Canterville Ghost, Oscar Wilde (November)
Persuasion, Jane Austen (October)
Villette, Charlotte Brontë (October-December)
Sons and Lovers, D.H. Lawrence (September)
The Island of Dr. Moreau, H.G. Wells (August)
The Waves, Virginia Woolf (July)
Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackery (July-September)
Far from the Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy (June)
The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck (May)
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey (April)
The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas (April-June)
The Plague, Albert Camus (March)
The Master and the Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov (February)
A Passage to India, E.M. Forster (January)
Bleak House, Charles Dickens (January-March)

2014
The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (December)
Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen (November)
A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess (October)
Middlemarch, George Eliot (October-December)
Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov (September)
The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins (August)
The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath (July)
Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell (July-September)
The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway (June)
East of Eden, John Steinbeck (May)
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez (April)
Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie (March)
The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky (March-June)
Catch 22, Joseph Heller (Febrary)
The Hound of the Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle (January)

2013
Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (December)
War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy (December-February 2014)
Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Jules Verne (November)
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley (October)
Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens (September)
Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert (August)
Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Truman Capote (July)
The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne (June)
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum (May)
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley (April)
Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf (March)
The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas (February)
Les Misérables, Victor Hugo (January)

2012
A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens (December)
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald (November)
Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier (October)
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy (September)
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott (August)
The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien (July)
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë (June)
Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury (May)
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens (April)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle (March)
Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut (February)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith (January)

2011
A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens (December)
Nineteen-Eighty-Four, George Orwell (November)
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee (October)
The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien (September)
Dracula, Bram Stoker (August)
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde (July)
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen (June)
Emma, Jane Austen (May)
Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë (March)
The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett (February)

Great Louise :)

I might be a good time to update each of these categories.

Thanks for the reminder. I keep the bottom two lists updated each month, so have now added December's read to those lists.

Sorry! I noticed the first sections said last updated May 18, 2015 and I couldn't edit.

Last updated: 01/10/17

CLASSICS FOR BEGINNERS GROUP READS
(Alphabetical by title)

A
(The) Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
(The) Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
(The) Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
(The) Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X

B
(The) Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
(The) Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

C
(The) Call of the Wild by Jack London
(The) Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
(A) Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
(A) Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
(The) Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

D
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Dracula by Bram Stoker

E
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Emma by Jane Austen
(The) End of the Affair by Graham Greene

F
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
(A) Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
(The) Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

G
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M.R. James
(The) Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
(The) Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

H
(The) Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
(The) Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
(The) Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo

I
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
(The) Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells

J
Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

K

L
(The) Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Lorna Doone by R.D. Blackmore

M
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
(The) Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
(The) Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Middlemarch by George Eliot
(Les) Misérables by Victor Hugo
(The) Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier
(The) Mystery of the Yellow Room by Gaston Leroux

N
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

O
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

P
(A) Passage to India by E.M. Forster
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
(The) Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
(The) Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Plague, The by Albert Camus
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Q

R
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
(The) Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
(A) Room with a View by E.M. Forster

S
(The) Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
(The) Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
(The) Stranger by Albert Camus
(The) Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

T
(A) Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
(The) Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
(The) Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
(A) Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
(A) Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

U
Ulysses by James Joyce

V
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Villette by Charlotte Brontë

W
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
(The) Waves by Virginia Woolf
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
What Maisie Knew by Henry James
(The) Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
(The) Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
(The) Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
(A) Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

X
Y
Z