Now: Why on earth did I choose these books?

As a kid I loved those Friday night midnight monster movies.When I got a little  older I was amazed to find out that many of these movies began as books! Yay! Now I didn't have to wait for Friday night to get my fix. It took quite some time to track down the books. This was before Amazon, the Internet, and certainly before most of these were available in an elementary school library. If the book was there, I'll bet most of you haven't used a card catalog. But since I'm as old as dirt, you will hear from  me often about my treacherous, villainous  laptop.  

 I stuffed my list with books I have access to, then seasoned it  with several fun books in the Juvenile range, & a few door-stopper, elbow-cracking tomes. I've read perhaps a third of the titles here. Most of those were pre-college, so before 1973. I've only returned to a few of them. Here I'm going back to those neglected volumes to pick up where I left off and continue on through the "Complete Works of _________."

Thanks to Kindle Books I should be able to start accumulating more.  :^)   I might be able to add to my paperless library for a second 50 Classics. You'll notice a few religious works. As I've aged, I've become deeply interested in world religion and world mythology. After I see what sort of interest there is in a ~pleasant~ exchange of ideas and values, I would love to host a blog for that.
KELDA

REVISED READING LIST FOR CLASSICS CLUB

01. SHANE - Schaefer

02. RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE - Zane  Grey 

03. THE MAN IN THE FOREST - Zane Grey

04. JANE EYRE - Charlotte Bronte

05. AGNES GREY - Emily Bronte

06.THE  TENANT OF WILDFALL HALL - Anne Bronte

07. PRIDE AND PREJUDICE - Jane Austen

08. EMMA - Jane Austin

09. THE SECRET GARDEN -Burrnet

10. 5 CHILDREN AND IT -Nesbit

11. HEIDI - Spryi

12. ANDREW LANG'S COLOR FAIRY BOOKS -(Color TBA :^)

13. THE PEARL OF ORR'S ISLAND - Harriet Beecher Stowe

14. UNCLE TOM'S CABIN - Harriet Beecher Stowe

15. SHORT STORIES - O. Henry

16. RAISING DEMONS -Shirley Jackson

17. LIFE AMONG THE SAVAGES -Shirley Jackson

18. THE SUNDIAL- Shirley Jackson

19. WE HAVE ALWAYS LIVED IN THE CASTLE - Shirley Jackson

20. THE INVISIBLE MAN - HG Wells

21. WAR OF THE WORLDS -HG Wells

22. THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU  HG Wells

23. THE STRANGE CASE OF DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE -Stevenson

24. FRANKENSTEIN -Mary Shelley

25. DRACULA - Bram Stoker

26. A JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR -DeFoe

27.  I AM LEGEND -Matheson

28. 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA - HG Wells

29.KING LEAR- Shakespeare

30.MACBETH -Shakespeare
31. JULIUS CAESAR -Shakespeare

 32. GENESIS (HEBREW BIBLE, BOOK 1)

30. THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES -Darwin

31. THE SUNFLOWER: ON THE POSSIBILITIES AND LIMITS OF FORGIVENESS -Wisenthal

32. THE PURSUIT OF GOD - AW Tozer

33. THE SOURCE -Michner

34. THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING

35.                                                THE TWO TOWERS 

36.                                                 THE RETURN OF THE KING

37. - 43 CHRONICLES OF NARDIA

44. DON QUIXOTE - Cervantes

45. A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT - Mark Twain

46. HUCKLEBERRY FINN - Mark Twain

47. TOM SAWYER - Mark Twain

48. (12A)  THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASSING GLASS- Carroll

49. (24 A) THE TIME  MACHINE-Wells

50. THE THREE MUSKETEERS - Dumas