I have decided to take up the Classics Club Challenge. The idea is, to read and write about 50 classic texts by a set completion date. Some of these will be rereads for me, which is allowed. For the purposes of the challenge, a classic can be any book which is more than 25 years old. So, by March 2029, I will hopefully have read the following:

• 1. Louisa Alcott, Work: A Story of Experience
• 2. Jane Austen, Persuasion
• 3. Jane Austen, Emma
• 4. Jane Austen, Lady Susan
• 5. Dorothy Bowers, Fear for Miss Betony
• 6. Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley’s Secret
• 7. Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Vixen
• 8. Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Wyllard’s Weird
• 9. Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Henry Dunbar
• 10. Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Beyond These Voices
• 11. Christianna Brand, Green for Danger
• 12. Anne Bronte, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
• 13. Agatha Christie, Dead Man’s Folly
• 14. Agatha Christie, N or M?
• 15. Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone
• 16. Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
• 17. Arthur Conan Doyle, His Last Bow
• 18. Arthur Conan Doyle, The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes
• 19. George Eliot, Middlemarch
• 20. J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Through a Glass Darkly
• 21. Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
• 22. John Galsworthy, The Man of Property
• 23. Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Barton
• 24. Elizabeth Gaskell, Ruth
• 25. Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
• 26. Elizabeth Gaskell, Gothic Tales
• 27. Anna Katherine Green, The Circular Study
• 28. Elizabeth Goudge, The Bird in the Tree
• 29. Frances Hodgeson Burnett, The Making of a Marchioness
• 30. Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
• 31. E.C.R. Lorac, Checkmate to Murder
• 32. E.C.R. Lorac, Fell Murder
• 33. Gladys Mitchell, Laurels are Poison
• 34. Gladys Mitchell, Tom Brown’s Body
• 35. L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Windy Poplars
• 36. L.M. Montgomery, Anne’s House of Dreams
• 37. L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Ingleside
• 38. L.M. Montgomery, Rainbow Valley
• 39. L.M. Montgomery, Rilla of Ingleside
• 40. Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
• 41. Edith Nesbit, The Railway Children
• 42. Edith Nesbit, The Lark
• 43. May Sinclair, Mary Olivier: A Life
• 44. Bram Stoker, Dracula
• 45. Josephine Tey, The Daughter of Time
• 46. Josephine Tey, The Franchise Affair
• 47. Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers
• 48. Patricia Wentworth, Ladies Bane
• 49. Patricia Wentworth, Latter End
• 50. Mary Westmacott, Absent in the Spring