Classics Club

I've decided to join the Classics Club, which is a good reason to read some of the many books I've bought, many of which I've started, then gotten distracted and never finished, through no fault of their own (that I'm aware of). Plus a few this gives me an excuse to pick up.

My goal is to finish them by December 31, 2018. I'd say it would easily go much faster, but it depends on how distracted I continue to get, so I'm playing it safe.

Postscript: I have changed this list many times, which I feel guilty about, even though it's perfectly fair according to the rules. I had barely begun when fascinating classics began throwing themselves at me, and I could neither pass them up, nor resist reviewing them. There are so many amazing books! Rest assured that what I've bumped off the original list is now hovering on the follow-up list, just waiting for me to finish this one.

My List:

1. Grant Allen: The Type-Writer Girl
2. Asser: Life of King Alfred 
3. William Baldwin: Beware the Cat (etext link) (link to modern paraphrase)
4. James Boswell: Boswell's London Journal, 1762-1763
5. Hall Caine: The Manxman
   
6.  Ernest Cline: Ready Player One
7. Jeanne Delavigne: Ghost Stories of Old New Orleans 
8. Maitreya Devi: It Does Not Die  
9. Charles Dickens: Dombey and Son 
10. Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist
11. John Donne: Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions 
12. Arthur Conan Doyle: The Lost World 
13. Lord Dunsany: The Curse of the Wise Woman
14. Mircea Eliade: Bengali Nights 
15. Henry Fielding: Shamela 
16. Masanobu Fukuoka: The One-Straw Revolution
17. Elizabeth Gaskell: Cranford
18. George Gissing: New Grub Street 
19. Francis Godwin: The Man in the Moone 
20. Eliza Haywood: Adventures of Eovaii 
21. Eliza Haywood: Anti-Pamela
22. Frank Herbert: Dune  
23. Yoshido Kenko: Essays in Idleness
24. Frances Parkinson Keyes: Crescent Carnival 
25. Rudyard Kipling: Kim 
26. Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird 
27. The Letters of Abelard and Heloise 
28. J. Sheridan Le Fanu: The Cock and Anchor 
29. J. Sheridan Le Fanu: Willing to Die 
30. Gaston Leroux: The Phantom of the Opera
31. Arthur Machen and A.E. Waite: The House of the Hidden Light
32. Claude McKay: Amiable with Big Teeth
    
33. Florence Nightingale: Her Diary and "Visions"
34. L'Abbe du Prat: Venus in the Cloisters
35. J.B. Priestley, Benighted 
36. Pu Songling: Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio
37. Samuel Richardson: Pamela 
38. The Saga of Grettir the Strong
39. Charlotte Smith: Celestina 
40. Dodie Smith: I Capture the Castle 
41. Tobias Smollett: The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
42. Riccardo Stephens: The Mummy
43. Bram Stoker and Valdimar Ásmundsson: Powers of Darkness: The Lost Version of Dracula
44. Snorri Sturluson: The Prose Edda
    
45. Johannes Trithemius: In Praise of Scribes 
46. Anthony Trollope: Can You Forgive Her?
47. Henrik Wergeland: The Army of Truth: Selected Poems 
48. Edith Wharton: The Buccaneers 
49. Ellen Wood: East Lynne 
50. Emile Zola: The Ladies' Paradise