The classic book club meets once a month to discuss classic literature, with the exception of the month of December. Since August 2007, here are the books we have read:
1. Watership Down by Richard Adams
2. The Last Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
4. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
5. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
6. Tess of D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
7. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
8. Vanity Fair by William Thackeray
9. The Red and the Black by Stendhal
10. True at First Light by Ernest Hemingway
11. The Return by Joseph Conrad
12. Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
13. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
14. The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
15. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
16. The Trial by Franz Kafka
17. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
18. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
19. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
20. Utopia by Sir Thomas More
21. A Disobedient Girl by Ru Freeman [non-classic pre-screen]
22. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
23. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
24. The Mill on the Floss by George Elliot
25. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
26. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
27. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
28. Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen
29. Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
30. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
31. The Human Factor by Graham Greene
32. Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
33. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
34. Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
35. Death in the Afternoon by Ernest Hemingway
36. The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler
37. A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne
38. Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck
39. Washington Square by Henry James
40. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
41. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
42. The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
43. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
44. The Iliad by Homer
45. The Odyssey by Homer
46. The Oresteia by Aeschylus
47. The Analects by Confucius
48. The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
49. The Republic by Plato
50. The Aeneid by Virgil
51. Oedipus the King by Sophocles
52. Medea, Hippolytus and The Bacchae by Euripides
53. Beowulf
54. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyam
55. The Divine Comedy: Inferno by Dante Alighieri
56. The Divine Comedy: Purgatory by Dante Alighieri
57. The Divine Comedy: Paradise by Dante Alighieri
58. Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
[Jan]
59. The
Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli [Feb]
