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Gaslight Classics Book List

Books Read by the Gaslight Classics Book Group

READAuthor First NameAuthor Last NameTITLEMONTH
2024SigridUndsetThe Bridal Wreath: Kristin Lavransdatter, Vol.1APR
2024JohnSteinbeckEast of EdenMAR
2024WilliamFaulknerAs I Lay DyingFEB
2024Victor HugoLes MisérablesJAN
     
2023Mary ShelleyFrankensteinNOV
2023EudoraWeltyThe Optimist's DaughterOCT
2023Thomas HardyThe Mayor of CasterbridgeSEP
2023Isaac BashevisSingerGimpel the FoolAUG
2023BramStokerDraculaJULY
2023E. M. ForsterA Passage to IndiaJUNE
2023EmilyBronteAgnes GreyMAY
2023EdithWhartonThe Age of InnocenceAPR
2023JohnSteinbeckThe PearlMAR
2023JohnSteinbeckCannery RowMAR
2023Edgar AllanPoeSelected writings and poemsFEB
2023Ole E. RolvaagGiants in the EarthJAN
     
2022LewisCarrollAlice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass 
2022CharlesChesnuttThe House Behind the Cedars 
2022CharlesDickensMystery of Edwin Drood 
2022FyodorDostoyevskyThe Brothers Karamazov 
2022George EliotSilas Marner 
2022BenjaminFranklinAutobiography of Benjamin Franklin 
2022GrahamGreeneThe Power and the Glory 
2022DashiellHammettThe Thin Man 
2022FranzKafkaThe Metamorphosis 
2022CliveLewisOut of the Silent Planet 
2022Thomas MannDeath in Venice 
     
2021ChinuaAchebeThings Fall Apart 
2021WalterClarkThe Ox-Bow Incident 
2021CharlesDickensThe Pickwick Papers 
2021ArthurDoyleThe Hound of the Baskervilles 
2021Nikolai GogolDead Souls 
2021ErnestHemingwayA Farewell to Arms 
2021KazuoIshiguroWhen We Were Orphans 
2021ShirleyJacksonWe Have Always Lived in the Castle 
2021TimO'BrienThe Things They Carried (stories) 
2021J.R.R.TolkienThe Hobbit 
2021EdithWhartonThe Reef 
     
2020KateChopinThe Awakening 
2020WalterClarkThe Ox-Bow Incident 
2020Daniel DefoeA Journal of the Plague Year 
2020CharlesDickensGreat Expectations 
2020Henry FieldingJoseph Andrews 
2020Flannery O'ConnorWise Blood 
2020Anthony TrollopeBarchester Towers 
2020RichardWrightNative Son 
2020XXSeason shortened by COVID 
     
2019PearlBuckThe Good Earth 
2019James F. CooperLast of the Mohicans 
2019DanielDefoeMoll Flanders 
2019DashiellHammettThe Maltese Falcon 
2019Carson McCullersThe Heart is a Lonely Hunter 
2019Marcel ProustRemembrance of Things Past (Combray & Swans Way only)
2019AynRandWe the Living 
2019PhilipRothAmerican Pastoral 
2019Harriet BeecherStoweUncle Tom's Cabin 
2019H. G.WellsWar of the Worlds 
2019VirginiaWoolfMrs. Dalloway 
     
2018CharlesDickensHard Times 
2018Katherine AnnePorterShip of Fools 
2016Robert PennWarrenAll the Kings's Men 
     
 SherwoodAndersonWinesburg, Ohio 
 JaneAustenEmma 
 JaneAustenPride & Prejudice 
 Jane AustenSense & Sensibility 
 Honore deBalzacCousin Bette 
 Karen BlixenOut of Africa 
 AnneBronteThe Tenant of Wildfell Hill 
 CharlotteBronteJane Eyre 
 EmilyBronteWuthering Heights 
 A. S.ByattThe Portrait of a Lady 
 LewisCarrollAlice in Wonderland 
 Willa CatherMy Antonia 
 JosephConradHeart of Darkness 
 JosephConradLord Jim 
 Stephen CraneThe Red Badge of Courage 
 CharlesDickensA Tale of Two Cities 
 CharlesDickensDavid Copperfield 
 CharlesDickensGreat Expectations 
 FyodorDostoyevskyCrime & Punishment 
 FyodorDostoyevskyPossession 
 TheodoreDreiserAn American Tragedy 
 TheodoreDreiserSister Carrie 
 Alexandre DumasThe Count of Monte Cristo 
 Alexandre DumasThe Three Musketeers 
 GeorgeEliotMiddlemarch 
 RalphEllisonInvisible Man 
 William FaulknerThe Sound and the Fury 
 Edna FerberSo Big 
 HenryFieldingTom Jones 
 F. ScottFitzgeraldThe Great Gatsby 
 GustaveFlaubertMadame Bovary 
 Ford MadoxFordThe Good Soldier 
 E. M.ForsterA Passage to India 
 E. M.ForsterA Room with a View 
 E. M. ForsterHowards End 
 WilliamGoldingLord of the Flies 
 ThomasHardyJude the Obscure 
 ThomasHardyTess of the D'urbervilles 
 ThomasHardyThe Mayor of Casterbridge 
 NathanielHawthorneShort Stories (not recommended) 
 NathanielHawthorneThe Scarlet Letter 
 Nathaniel HawthorneThe House of Seven Gables 
 JosephHellerCatch 22 
 ErnestHemingwayFor Whom the Bell Tolls 
 ErnestHemingwayThe Sun Also Rises 
 JohnHerseyA Bell for Adano 
 William DeanHowellsThe Rise of Silas Lapham 
 W. H.HudsonGreen Mansions 
 VictorHugoThe Hunchback of Notre Dame 
 Zora NealeHurstonTheir Eyes Were Watching God 
 AldousHuxleyBrave New World 
 HenryJamesTurn of the Screw / Daisy Miller 
 ArthurKoestlerDarkness At Noon 
 HarperLeeTo Kill a Mockingbird 
 SinclairLewisMain Street 
 Jack LondonCall of the Wild 
 NormanMailerThe Naked and the Dead 
 BerylMarkhamWest with the Night 
 John P.MarquandThe Late George Apley 
 SomersetMaughamOf Human Bondage 
 Daphne deMaurierMy Cousin Rachel 
 HermanMelvilleMoby Dick 
 Toni MorrisonThe Bluest Eye 
 Daphne duMaurierRebecca 
 VladimirNabokovLolita 
 JohnO'haraAppointment in Samarra 
 EmmaOrczyThe Scarlet Pimpernel 
 GeorgeOrwell1984 
 GeorgeOrwellAnimal Farm 
 AlanPatonCry the Beloved Country 
 Edgar AllenPoeStories 
 Erich MariaRemarqueAll Quiet on the Western Front 
 MarilynneRobinsonGilead 
 WalterScottIvanhoe 
 WilliamShakespeareHamlet 
 MaryShelleyFrankenstein 
 JohnSteinbeckEast of Eden 
 JohnSteinbeckThe Grapes of Wrath 
 LaurenceSterneThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 
 Robert LouisStevensonDr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde 
 Jonathan SwiftGulliver's Travels 
 BoothTarkingtonThe Magnificent Ambersons 
 LeoTolstoyAnna Karenina 
 AnthonyTrollopeThe Warder 
 Anthony TrollopeAn Eye of an Eye 
 Anthony TrollopeThe Eustace Diamonds 
 IvanTurgenevFathers & Sons 
 Mark TwainHuckleberry Finn 
 Evelyn WaughBrideshead Revisited 
 EdithWhartonEthan Frome 
 Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray 
 Thornton WilderThe Bridge of San Luis Rey 
 ThomasWolfeLook Homeward Angel