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Classics Club TBR

I have a problem.

I keep accumulating classic books!
I can't help it.
I'm attracted by lovely covers, serendipitous finds in second hand book stores and impulse purchases.

This is a place for me to keep track of these new additions to my TBR pile.


Absalom, Absalom by William Faulkner
The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen by Elizabeth von Arnim (eReader)
Aeneid by Virgil
Agnes Grey by Bronte
Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington 
And Quiet Flows the Don by Mikhail Sholokhov
The Annals by Tacitus
The Annotated Mansfield Park by Jane Austen & David M Shapard
The Annotated Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen & David M Shapard
The Annotated Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen & David M Shapard
The April Baby's Book of Tunes by Elizabeth von Arnim (eReader)
Armadale by Wilkie Collins
Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis  
L'Assommoir by Emile Zola
(A) An Australian Girl by Catherine Martin
(A) An Australian Lassie by Lilian Turner
(A) At Midnight & Other Stories by Ada Cambridge
(A) Australian LIfe, Black and White by Rosa Praed


Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Benefactress by Elizabeth von Arnim (eReader)
The Berlin Novels by Christopher Isherwood
Best Short Stories by Guy du Maupassant
La Bete Humaine by Emile Zola
The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni
The Birds & other short stories by Daphne Du Maurier
The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas
The Bright Side of Life by Emile Zola
The Buccaneers by Edith Wharton
(A) Bush Studies by Barbara Baynton
Butterfield 8 by John O'Hara


Camilla by Frances Burney
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
Christine by Elizabeth von Arnim (eReader)
Christopher and Columbus by Elizabeth von Arnim (eReader)
Cimarron by Edna Ferber
Civil to Strangers by Barbara Pym
The Children by Edith Wharton
Colonel Chabert by Honore de Balzac
The Complete Short Stories of Saki by H.H. Munro
Conquest of Plassans by Emile Zola
The Constant Nymph by Margaret Kennedy
Consuelo by George Sand
Corinne, or Italy by Staël
The Countess von Rudolstadt by George Sand
Cousin Bette by Honore de Balzac
Crampton Hodnet by Barbara Pym
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell


A Dance to the Music of Time: Spring by Anthony Powell
A Dance to the Music of Time: Summer by Anthony Powell
A Dance to the Music of Time: Autumn by Anthony Powell
A Dance to the Music of Time: Winter by Anthony Powell
(A) DeadMan's by Mary Gaunt
Dead Men Tell No Tales by Emile Zola
The Dead Secret by Wilkie Collins
Death Comes to the Archbishop by Willa Cather
Death in Venice by Thomas Mann 
Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen
Death of Ivan Ilyvich by Leo Tolstoy
The Debacle by Emile Zola
The Devil's Pool by George Sand
Dialogues and Essays by Seneca
The Diary of a Mad Old Man by Junichiro Tanisaki
Diary of a Nobody by George & Weedon Grossmith
Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope
Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens
Don't Look Now and other short stories by Daphne Du Maurier
Don't Tell Alfred by Nancy Mitford
(A) Down in the World by Mary Gaunt
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Dream by Emile Zola


The Earth by Emile Zola
The Easter Parade by Richard Yates
Edith Wharton by Hermione Lee
Eleven Kinds of Loneliness by Richard Yates
Elizabeth Gaskell by Jenny Uglow
(A) End of the Earth (short stories) by Mary Gaunt
Evelina by Frances Burney


The Female Quixote by Charlotte Lennox
The Forgotten Smile by Margaret Kennedy
The Forsyte Sage Vol 2 by John Galsworthy
Framley Parsonage by Anthony Trollope
Fräuline Schmidt and Mr Anstruther by Elizabeth von Arnim (eReader)
Frederick the Great by Nancy Mitford
Frenchman's Creek by Daphne Du Maurier
(A) Fugitive Anne, A Romance of the Unexplored Bush by Rosa Praed


A Game of Hide and Seek by Elizabeth Taylor
A Glass of Blessings by Barbara Pym
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
The Good Earth by Pearl S Buck
A Good School by Richard Yates
The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford


Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Hellenistic Lives by Plutarch
Hide and Seek by Wilkie Collins
His Excellency Eugene Rougon by Emile Zola
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
The House in Paris by Elizabeth Bowen
(A) A Humble Enterprise by Ada Cambridge
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo


I Am a Cat by Soseki Natsume
In Europe: Travels Through the Twentieth Century by Geert Mak
In the Mountains by Elizabeth von Arnim (eReader)
Independent People by Halldor Laxness
Indiana by George Sand
(A) The Insane Root by Rosa Praed
(A) It's Raining in Mango by Thea Astley


Jane Austen's Letters
The Jew's Beech by Annette Von Droste-Hulshoff


Kokoro by Natsume Soseki
Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset
Kusamakura by Natsume Soseki


L'Assommoir (The Dram Shop) by Emile Zola
The Ladies Delight by Emile Zola
(A) Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land by Rosa Praed
The Last Chronicles of Barset by Anthony Trollope
The Last Days of Socrates by Plato
The Last September by Elizabeth Bowen
Laura: A Journey into the Crystal by George Sand
The Law and the Lady by Wilkie Collins
Less Than Angels by Barbara Pym
Letters on Life by Rainer Maria Rilke
Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman
(A) A Little Bush Maid by Mary Grant Bruce (eReader)
Lost Illusions by Balzac
A Lost Lady by Willa Cather
Louise de la Valliere by Alexandre Dumas
A Love Story by Emile Zola
Lucy Gayheart by Willa Cather
Lucy Maud Montgomery by Mary Henley Rubio
Lust, Caution by Eileen Chang


The Mabinogion translated by Sioned Davies
Madame de Pompadour by Nancy Mitford
Magic Island: The Fictions of L M Montgomery by Elizabeth Waterson
The Makioka Sisters by Junichiro Tanizaki
The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas
Man and Wife by Wilkie Collins
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens
Marianne by George Sand
Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
The Masterpiece by Emile Zola
(A) Maurice Guest by Henry Handel Richardson
A Memoir of Jane Austen by J E Austen-Leigh
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
(A) A Mere Chance by Ada Cambridge (eReader)
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
Monday or Tuesday by Virginia Woolf
Money by Emile Zola
The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck
(A) Mr Hogarth's Will by Catherine Helen Spence
Mr Skeffington by Elizabeth von Arnim (eReader)
The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens


Ninety Three by Victor Hugo
No Fond Return of Love by Barbara Pym
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria Rilke
Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo


O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
Old New York by Edith Wharton
(A) On the Wallaby by Elinor Mordaunt
One of Ours by Willa Cather
Origin of Species by Charles Darwin


A Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz
Pamela by Samuel Richardson
Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford
The Pastor's Wife by Elizabeth von Arnim (eReader)
Peking Picnic by Ann Bridge
(A) The Penance of Portia James by Tasma (iPad Reading List)
The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories selected by Micahel Newton
Pere Goriot (Old Man) by Honre de Balzac
(A) The Perversity of Human Nature by Ada Cambridge
Petersburg by Andrei Bely
Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde  
The Pillow Book by Sei Shonagon
(A) The Pioneers by Katherine Susannah Prichard         
Plan for Chaos by John Wyndham
(A) Policy and Passion by Rosa Praed
Poor Miss Finch by Wilkie Collins 
(A) 'Possum by Mary Grant Bruce (eReader)
Pot Luck by Emile Zola
The Princess de Cleves by Madame de Lafayette
The Professor's House by Willa Cather
The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford


Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym


The Red and the Black by Stendhal
Le Reine Margot by Alexandre Dumas
The Republic and Other Works by Plato
(A) The Retrospect by Ada Cambridge
Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
The Rise of Rome by Plutarch
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
(A) The Romance of a Station by Rosa Praed
Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell


Sapphira and the Slave Girl by Willa Cather
The Secret People by John Wyndham
Seldom Seen by Sarah Ridgard
Shadows on the Rock by Willa Cather
Silence by Shusaku Endo
Simone de Beauvoir: Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut
(A) The Slow Natives by Thea Astley
A Small House at Arlington by Anthony Trollope
The Solitary Summer by Elizabeth von Arnim (eReader)
Some Tame Gazelle by Barbara Pym
Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima
A Special Providence by Richard Yates
Stoner by John Williams
The Stones of Venice by John Ruskin  
The Sun King by Nancy Mitford
Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
(A) A Sydney Sovereign & Other Tales by Tasma (iPad Reading List)


The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
Tales From the Arabian Nights
The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Thérèse Raquin by Émile Zola
(A) Thirty Years in Australia by Ada Cambridge (eReader)
(A) The Three Miss Kings by Ada Cambridge
The Time Machine by H G Wells
(A) The Timeless Land by Elenor Dark
The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Together and Apart by Margaret Kennedy
The Tortoises by Veza Canetti
Troy Chimneys by Margaret Kennedy
Twilight Sleep by Edith Wharton


Ulysses: Annotated Student Edition by James Joyce (yeah, I know, I'll never read this one, but it's been sitting on my bookshelf for years and I live in hope!)
(A) Uncle Piper of Piper's Hill by Tasma (iPad Reading List)


Valentine by George Sand
The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackery
Vera by Elizabeth von Arnim (eReader)
The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas
Views of Nature by Alexander Von Humboldt
Villette by Charlotte Bronte
Voltaire in Love by Nancy Mitford


War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
The Warden by Anthony Trollope
Washington Square by Henry James
The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
(A) We of the Never Never by Jeannie Gunn
The White Guard by Mikhail Bulgakov
The Wild Ass's Skin by Honore de Balzac
(A) A Wind from the Wilderness by Mary Gaunt
(A) A Woman in China by Mary Gaunt
The Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe
(A) A Woman's Experiences in the Great War by Louise Mack
The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig


Yes!
I have a problem.

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