Book Club

On July 31, 2018, I joined my first club, but ended up being the organizer. That's fine - I was able to focus the club specifically on classic novels. How were those classics determined? Well, by the list of "The Top 100 Works of Fiction" as posted here on the Writ by Whit blog. If you're interested in the group, you can check out the Classic Novels Book Club at Meetup.

Links of interest:

Here's the books we've tackled so far (click on titles for more info):

    2018:

  1. Fyodor Dostoyevsky Crime and Punishment (August 2018)
  2. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote (September/October 2018)
  3. Gabriel García Márquez One Hundred Years of Solitude (November 2018)

    2019:

  4. John Irving A Prayer for Owen Meany (January 2019)
  5. F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby (February 2019)
  6. J. D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye (March 2019)
  7. Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (April 2019)
  8. Evelyn Waugh Brideshead Revisited (May 2019)
  9. George Orwell 1984 (June 2019)
  10. James Joyce Ulysses (July 2019)
  11. Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (August 2019)
  12. Margaret Atwood The Handmaid’s Tale (September 2019)
  13. Joseph Heller Catch-22 (October 2019)
  14. Mary Shelley Frankenstein (November 2019)
  15. Toni Morrison Beloved (December 2019)

    2020:

  16. J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (aka Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone) (January 2020)
  17. Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre (February 2020)
  18. Louisa May Alcott Little Women (March 2020)
  19. Jack Kerouac On the Road (April 2020)
  20. Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness (May 2020)
  21. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (June 2020)
  22. Sylvia Plath The Bell Jar (July 2020)
  23. Richard Wright Native Son (August 2020)
  24. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince) (September 2020)
  25. Stephen King The Stand (October 2020)
  26. A.A. Milne Winnie-the-Pooh (November 2020)
  27. John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath (December 2020)

    2021:

  28. Charles Dickens Great Expectations (January 2021)
  29. James Baldwin Go Tell It on the Mountain (February 2021)
  30. Vladimir Nabokov Lolita (March 2021)
  31. Ernest Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea (April 2021)
  32. Fyodor M. Dostoyevsky The Brothers Karamazov (May 2021)
  33. Ken Kesey One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (June 2021)
  34. Richard Adams Watership Down (July 2021)
  35. Aldous Huxley Brave New World (August 2021)
  36. Franz Kafka The Trial (September 2021)
  37. Frank Herbert Dune (October 2021)
  38. Anthony Burgess A Clockwork Orange (November 2021)
  39. Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird (December 2021)

    2022:

  40. George Orwell Animal Farm (January 2022)
  41. Thomas Pynchon Gravity’s Rainbow (February 2022)
  42. Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse-Five (March 2022)
  43. Alexandre Dumas The Count of Monte Cristo (April 2022)
  44. Virginia Woolf To the Lighthouse (May 2022)
  45. Daphne Du Maurier Rebecca (June 2022)
  46. E.B. White Charlotte’s Web (July 2022)
  47. Victor Hugo Les Misérables (August 2022)
  48. Jack London The Call of the Wild (September 2022)
  49. Chinua Achebe Things Fall Apart (October 2022)
  50. Salman Rushdie Midnight’s Children (November 2022)
  51. Ernest Hemingway The Sun Also Rises (December 2022)

    2023:

  52. Alice Walker The Color Purple (January 2023)
  53. Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary (February 2023)
  54. Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice (March 2023)
  55. Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter (April 2023)
  56. Albert Camus L’Etranger (The Stranger, aka The Outsider) (May 2023)
  57. Herman Melville Moby-Dick (June 2023)
  58. Zora Neale Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God (July 2023)
  59. Robert Louis Stevenson Treasure Island (August 2023)
  60. Charles Dickens David Copperfield (September 2023)
  61. Francois-Marie de Voltaire Candide (October 2023)
  62. Mark Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (November 2023)
  63. Margaret Mitchell Gone with the Wind (December 2023)

    2024:

  64. C.S. Lewis The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (January 2024)
  65. William Faulkner As I Lay Dying (February 2024)
  66. Jane Austen Emma (March 2024)
  67. Ralph Ellison Invisible Man (April 2024)
  68. William Makepeace Thackeray Vanity Fair (May 2024)
  69. John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men (June 2024)
  70. Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities (July 2024)
  71. Ernest Hemingway For Whom the Bell Tolls (August 2024)
  72. L.M. Montgomery Anne of Green Gables (September 2024)
  73. Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina (October 2024)
  74. Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray (November 2024)
  75. Laurence Sterne The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy (December 2024)

    2025:

  76. J.R.R. Tolkien The Hobbit (January 2025)
  77. Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence (February 2025)
  78. George Eliot Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life (March 2025)
  79. E.M. Forster A Passage to India (April 2025)
  80. Homer The Iliad (May 2025)
  81. Paulo Coelho The Alchemist (O Alquimista) (June 2025)
  82. J.R.R. Tolkien The Lord of the Rings (July 2025)
  83. William Golding Lord of the Flies (August 2025)
  84. Kenneth Grahame The Wind in the Willows (September 2025)
  85. Thomas Hardy Tess of the d’Urbervilles (October 2025)
  86. Jonathan Swift Gulliver’s Travels (November 2025)
  87. William Faulkner The Sound and the Fury (December 2025)

    2026:

  88. Lewis Carroll Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (January 2026)
  89. Leo Tolstoy War and Peace (March 2026)

Last updated 11/11/2025.

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