Past Books

Some of the books we've already discussed

Here are some of the books we discussed in the last few years

With new members joining all the time, we’ll be sure to revisit some of these books for more discusions. If you’re particularly interested in a specific book, email kate at classicsbookclub dot online and we may able to schedule another discussion.

18th Century

 

Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe 

Published in 1722 in the United Kingdom

Dangerous Liaisons by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos 

Published in 1798 in France

19th Century

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

Published in 1817 in the United Kingdom

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte

Published in 1848 in the United Kingdom

Villette by Charlotte Bronte

Published in 1853 in the United Kingdom

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Published in 1859 in the United Kingdom

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Published in 1847 in the United Kingdom

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Published in 1859 in the United Kingdom

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Published in 1849 in the United Kingdom

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Published in 1861 in the United Kingdom

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Published in 1866 in Russia

Middlemarch by George Eliot

Published in 1872 in the United Kingdom

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Published in 1856 in France

Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell

Published in 1853 in the United Kingdom

North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

Published in 1854 in the United Kingdom

Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol

Published in 1842 in Russia

Oblomov by Ivan Gonchorov

Published in 1859 in Russia

Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

Published in 1891 in the United Kingdom

Daisy Miller by Henry James

Published in 1878 in the USA

The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

Published in 1898 in the USA

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Published in 1818 in the United Kingdom

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Published in 1897 in the United Kingdom

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Published in 1848 in the United Kingdom

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Published in 1877 in Russia

The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy

Published in 1886 in Russia

Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope

Published in 1857 in the United Kingdom

The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope

Published in 1875 in the United Kingdom

Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev

Published in 1862 in Russia

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Published in 1890 in England

Germinal by Emile Zola

Published in 1885 in France

Money by Emile Zola

Published in 1891 in France

20th Century

 

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Published in 1958 in Nigeria

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Published in 1954 in the USA

The Good Earth by Pearl Buck

Published in 1954 in the USA

The Plague by Albert Camus

Published in 1947 in France

My Antonia by Willa Cather

Published in 1918 in the USA

The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather

Published in 1915 in the USA

Gigi by Colette

Published in 1944 in France

Tender is the Night by F Scott Fitzgerald

Published in 1934 in the USA

Howard’s End by EM Forster

Published in 1910 in the United Kingdom

A Room with a View by EM Forster

Published in 1908 in the United Kingdom

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

Published in 1929 in the USA

Sons and Lovers by DH Lawrence

Published in 1913 in the United Kingdom

Martin Eden by Jack London

Published in 1909 in the USA

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

Published in 1940 in the USA

The Bell by Iris Murdoch 

Published in 1911 in the United Kingdom

The Getting of Wisdom by Henry Handel Richardson

Published in 1910 in Australia

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark 

Published in 1961 in the United Kingdom

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

Published in 1952 in the USA

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Published in 1939 in the USA

Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut

Published in 1962 in the USA

A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh

Published in 1934 in the United Kingdom

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

Published in 1921 in the USA

Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

Published in 1911 in the USA

The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

Published in 1905 in the USA

Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

Published in 1925 in England

To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

Published in 1927 in the United Kingdom 

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